Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-11-27
SHORT ITEMS.

have organized a coffee club.
Rocky Mountain coal is to be deliver
ed in Salt Lake City for s. ton
The city of Jeddo. japan, has an area
of thirty-six square miles.
The Philadelphia Daughters Of Ten
perance have $4,000 in the Treasury.
In England there are at least 1000 600
paupers supported by the Government.
ida Greeley new owns Chappaqu,. it
having beer bequaa,hed to her by her
mother.
Wm. NJ. Parks. of Brooklyn, has Civ
ne $4,000 for a three year Ole black colt
named "Prospero.
One thousand dollars fine or imprison-
ment for one year is the penalty for bett-
ing on elections in Illinois
Judge Shilader Lucas or Liberty. Mo.
has been arrested in Kansas City tor
carrying concealed weapons
Within year the consumption of opium
in this country has increarel about
1000, 900 ounces per month.
An old lady in East Saginaw. Mich.
has given bond. in $500 not to scold her
neighbors for an entire year.
Ladies' leather belts are now worn
three inches wide. colored to match the
toilette, with large buckle of o1idized
silver.
The Study of literature nourishes youth
entertains old age. ad"rns prosperity,
soIaces adversely. is delightful at home
and unoblrusive abroad.
A fifty ton snow plow. requiring three
locomotives to prop-l it. is being con-
structed by the Union Pacific R.ilroad
company, at Omaha.
I, i. announced that the Grsnd D"to
Alexis. the Prince of Wal-s AMI the Mix
ado Of Japan will vieit Philadelphia, in
1876, and remain there for some we, ks.
A well known Californian. who made
a princely fortune out OF the Central
Pacific Railway, has purchased in Paris
a tiara of diamonds for his wife, costing
I75. 900 francs.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut has
decioed that towns and cities are liable
for any objects upon their highways that
are calculated to frigh,en horses of ordin,
airy gentleness
The cane with which Preston Brooks
assaulted Charles Sumner-a heavy rbo-
ny weapon. with long dagger-wss re-
Gently exhibited before the State uis,or-
ical Society at Bos,on.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial writes to that journal, that
he has just accomplished a walk from
Ohio to Florida, the journey occupying
ten weeks
A depopulation Of the New York pen
is threatened under the deci-
sion OF Judge Francher, Of the Supreme
Court, discharging a convict on the
ground Of imperfect commitment papers.
The Boston Globe says The clerks
thrown out Of employ ment take a cheer
tul view Of the situation. One was heard
yesterday saying "Oh, there will be
plenty Of work this winter scraping off
bricks"
Horace Hawes. of San Francisco, who
cut off his heirs with shilling and left
81 100000 to found University under
most preposterous conditions. has been
Iudicially pronounced insane. and the
deed of lands tn the Mont Eagle Univer-
sity null and void.
There is now in course Of construction
in " ashington City sewer Of nine feet
interior diameter, through which a six
mule team can be easily driven. Seven
hundred bricks and two barrels Of cement
Are required for each foot of advance
made
A Novel yet pleasant device ha. serv
ID to destroy an unpleasant echo in the
'ew court house at Bloomington, Illinois
Three or four small wires were stretched
'cross the room at proper height: The
heory is that the wires break the sound
waves and prevent reverberatiou.
The West Chester local news of the
'2ud-, says DR.. Morris Russell, owing
o the prevailing horse epidemic. has had
J ret of harness made to fit his bull. and
he Doctor now visits his patients by
neans ef this novel and eccentric mean,
motive power.
Adelaide Spitzedcr. the female banker
Munich. 10 Il good looking lady. about
h'rty i've years old. She has managed
obtain the confidence of the rural pop-
iation Of Aavaria, from which she ha.
scsived deposits Of more than one million
orins. She pays them the enormous
''erest Of ten pst cent. = month, and
'nds in cut at double that rate.