Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-06-12
SHORT ITEMS.

Ihey are trying u "ooi''" 80
of IMPRISONMENT for debt entirely from
the civil courts of Great Britain.
A vessel left San Francisco for China,
a short time ago, freighted with the
bones of dead Cinnamon
1t is stated that the damage done by
the late eruption of Mt. Fesuvius ex-
ceeds five hundred thousand dollars.
A Good little boy in Chic gathered
chestnuts enough last fall to by sew
ing machine for bis widowed mother.
A Chinese poem, Li-Sao written 22Oo
years ago. is said to prove that America
was known to the Cinnamon of that day
A Chicago woman has married man
in jail. She brags that she is "the only
Girl in town who knows where her fellow
stays.
Surface manuring the cultivation are
for grain. and in particular for fruit
buried manure and deep culture for veg
etab!es.
Army worms have made their appear
ance in large numbers in the fields near
jacksonville, Illinois. aud are cutting
down young corn.
The Jews of Cincinnati propose to es
tabIl-h great University la that city.
A prominent Israelite of Indiana offers
donation of ten thousand dollars.
DR.. Joseph Lemley, Secretary of the
State Senate, of Mississippi. died on the
7th from an overdose of morphine ad-
ministered by himself.
James NJ Sellers and Company have
the contract for the Philadelphia and
Newton Railroad and the coet of con-
struclion will be about S2S. 900 per mile.
The habit of taking arsenic to beantify
the complexion is on the increase among
both sexes in New York. 1t is unap-
preached for giving a dead white hue to
the face.
Peter Shelly, recently of Snyder
county, died near Marysvile. Perry
county. on the 20 h ult.. Of lock jaw.
brought on by wounds received by be
ing run over by . wagon.
An experienced hop c''l!ivator Gays
tha. Oh mos, soils, barnyard manure once
IN three years. and a4hes and plaster
every year, will best met the require
,,.~ ~f .i-- hop rrou
Ap oil lady who was passing blind
fiddler on the stree: in New York, a day
or two since rewarded him by placing in
his BIZ piece Of paper. with the IN III !:
Be viituous and you will be happy"
The maximum money value Of hum IN
life has been determined by an &C; of the
Ohio Legislature fixing slO0 90 as the
largest .um that may be d.mtnded from
a railway company for killing any body
Ohio has law providing that the
standard weight Of bushel .! stone coal
shall be SO pounds avoirlrpois for BIZ
luminous. and 60 pounds avoilaupois for
for camel, and shall contain SIS cubic
inches
The State Eltom,l,gist Of Missouri
says that the washing of fruit trees with
soap. or the application of any alkaline
solution, is an infallible protection agains,
borers and this is confirmed by the cx
perience of some Of the most extensive
fruit-growers of that section.
The celebrated elephant "Romeo." ore
of the oldest and said to be the largest in
the United States, valued at $4,000
died at Chicago, on the 7h inst The
body was presented to the Chicago Med
ical College. The skeleton will be
mounted and placed in the museum.
1t is suggested by the Rural Carolin.
ian that even "worn. OUT land, with lime
could be made to yield forage for turn.
ing in. The real trouble is that when
people see nice green crop growing
they often think it pity it should be
buried to improve the soil. and thence
they quietly XII the goose that would
have laid golden eggs.
A Berlin medical joarnal has an ac-
count Of the successful TRANSMISSION OF
blood from one person to another The
patient was man who Lad been poison.
ed by phosphorus. Tho physician ef
fected the TRANSMISSION of $50 cubic cent?
metres of blood, just taken from person
in perfect health, into vein in his arm
at the same time taking from an artery
500 centinetres of the patients blood
The experiment was followed by an i'm
mediate Improvement in the patients
condition.
This is one of the "insect years" The
west swarms with potato bugs, chinch
bugs and locusts the Hessian fly and
and clouds of grasshoppers are devastat
ing the fields of Los Angeles county
CAL. the black caterpillars are worse in
Arkansas than ever known before, and
are stripping the leaves of the forest
Virginia planters" complain that never
were the tobacco flies so numerous and