Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-04-24

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"Rtaav maid bridal costumes are ap-
proprately advertised in New Jersey
paper
Some 5000 herrings were recently Ia
ken from the canal locks at Delaware
City at one haul.
Australian preserved meats are now
very largely imported aud used through
out England.
Forty six thousand persons in Iowa
can neither read nor write, and one-th!rd
of them a.e voters.
Clesrfield has school boy Is years
old stands 6 feet 2. He stands very high
| in his class.
1t is reported that there are seventy
five counties in Texas in which there is
not single Sunday school.
There is snow drift on Mount Pros
pect, in Holderness, N. H., which is eigh
| ty rods in length and fifty feet deep.
They say the sun shines only once in
forty seven days in Portland, Oregon.
and that happy occasion is used as gem
eral washing day.
Ear lrumpets of wonderful construc-
ton, by which sounds can be heaid at
distance of mile, are to be shown at
the Vienna Exposition.
A widow of Liverpool, England. has
recovered $500 from the owner of
mad dog, through whose bite her hus'
band died.
An Indiana man has instituted pro-
| cecdiugs to restrain his wife from put
ting up a tomb stone over the grave of
her first husband.
A Memphis dueling party were driven
into a cemetery by facetious hackman,
so that they might be buried without
unnecessary expense"
Eighty-seven public balls were recent
Is advertised at one time in Paris. Two
hundred and sixty policemen were de
tailed to attend them.
A man named Wells. while wading a
river at Brownsville, Texas, not long
since, stepped into quicksand and van
ished from sight in an instant.
There are but two or three Indians
left morg the everglades of Florida,
and they are killing themselves as fast
as possible with whiskey.
The Pennsylvania railroad company is
building depot at Altoona 81 Il feet long
and 40 wide. 1t will have ventilator
336 feet in length and 20 in width.
A dead man being fonnd at l." Crosse,
Wis. with seven stabs in the back,
the coroner's jury brought in verdict of
probable murder" A very cautious
jury.
Fifty seven persons are recorded as
having disappeared mysteriously" from
New York city during the last year.
What a record of crime ia probably hid
den under this announcement.
The Legislature Of Minnesota, at its
recent session appropriated 100000 for
the distribution of seed wheat, and appli-
cations have already been made for $3.50
coo worth.
1t is reported that the traditional long
pipe is going out Of fashion in Turkey.
and that the Turkish aristocracy now al
most exclusively use cigaretts when smo-
king.
Until lately the BARRIERS in German
cities have received one and half cents
for shaving, and three and halt for hair
cutting. They Lately struck for FIVE
cents respectively.
An aurora borealis, visible in Havana
the other evening. frightened the hava-
nese into prayeriul cenvulSions They
hadn't had one in thirty seven years, and
thought it portended the wind up of the
world.
A painter, b-ing asked to estimate the
cost Of painting certain house. drew
forth pencil and paper and made the
following calculation: "A naught is a
nanght; three into five twice you can't
III paint your house for fifty dollars.
The fires which devastated Wisconsin
last fall are not yet wholly extinguished
The smoke is still issuing through the
snow from the low gro ,nds near Green
Bay, where the ground is swampy and
filled with roots.
George IIearn, young man of Del
mar, Sussex county, Delaware. recently
assaulted and severely pummelled an old
man named Isaac Hcarn because the old
gentleman opposed the young man in
courting his daughter.
Mrs. Louisa Sander, of earl township,
Lancaster county. patched quilt con-
tanning $4,000 pieces. its dimensions
being three yards square. This exceeds
the one made by the lady of East Cain,
Chester county, by over 10000 pieces.
A Maine sheriff, who had writ to
serve. ascertained that the defendant
was dead, and tossing the paper over the
wall of the cemetery, he made return
upon the writ that he had left the sum-
cons at his last and permanent place of
abode.
A camel Gatlin gun. proposed to be
mounted on the backs Of camels for use
III India, is in course of trial by select
committee at Woolwich. 1t has ten bar
rels, each AZ inch bore, and is sufficiently
light to be fired from tripod fixed on
the back of the camel, without in con-
venience.
The police in Japan are very vigilan,