Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-09-18
SHORT ITEMS.

No hoop skirts are now seen in the
streets of Paris.
Binghsmton, NY. is doctored by five
female phyeicians.
Good beef costs less than five cents g
pound in Alabama.
Two thousand farmer. lately par,icipa
ted in picnic in Illinois.
Six inches of snow fell on Mount Wash
ipgton one night last week
Over s2 000,G00 worth of preserved
meat was exported from Australia last
year.
Bolnties have been paid this year or
forty -four bears, killed in the town Of
Wesley, Maine.
Some helpless sort of a man in Pitts
burg advertises for one or two stead y
girls to help on panta'oons.
A rash youth at Yates City, III elan
dered spirited maiden and she chased
him mile, revolver in hand
They are putting on airs in Terre
Haute. Couples are nup,iated, instead Of
married. there.
An owl lately dashed into the head
light Of night train OF the air line rail
road in Connecticut.
A pious young man in Eldorado, Iowa
recently stole horse which he traded
away for $40 in money and two Bibles.
A bach lor of 20, at Loreito, Ky has
never been fifteen miles from the spot
where he was born, and never has been
SEX
Not so had-'o print on wedding cards
"l'lease adapt yorr presents to an income
of 81 ,SG0' or other sum according 20 cir.
cumsiances
Gov. PArker, of New Jersey. has or
dered an investigation into the case of the
whipping of small boy at the Soldiers
Or hans Home.
A convict in California, having served
his time. is engaged in hunting ami
shooting the intelligent Jury that con-
vicied him
Senator Summers wife has been pass.
ing the summer at Venice. Foreign
papers speak of her as highly attractive
woman.
Mrs Darlington writes to her aunt
that the bridal wave, which the papers
talk SO much about, has not touched that
town for six years.
The sulphurous fumes of bolt of light
ming were recently so strong in one of
the Swiss mount aims az to suffOcate a
man and a number of cows.
Lock Haven has big sewer, over 6,
600 fe"t in length. varying in size from
] J to 81 feet in diameter, and 6 manholes
and "a inlets 1t cost Sl4,439.90.
In view of the perishable nature of
iron scientific authority gravely propo-
ses straw paper as a material more dura
ble for the manufacture of car wheels,
One day last week kerosene lamp
fell between the plastering and the wealth
cr boarding of a store in Canton, Ia, and
the fire was extinguished by throw ing
watermelons upon 1t.
A second DIR. Uouard has turned up
in the person of Nathan Peake, a New
Yorker, who suffered ten days imprison.
ment in Spain, and who proposes to make
Amadeus pay for it.
The time for feasting has commenced
in South Carolina The reed birds are eat
ing the rice, and the citizens are getting
even with them by high living on their
well-fattened bodies.
One of the Chinese workmen employ
ed at boot factory in North Adams,
Mass died lately. His funeral was atten-
ded by his count y men. clad in white
garments, their emblem of mourning.
1t is reported that the wome of Nan
tucket have formed club for the pur-
pose of securing husbands for its mem
bers There are ten men in that town
TO one woman, and the idea is to rattle
for The men
A body of Austrian fremen were OBJ
liged to stand still with their apparatus
nd watch the burn ng of a Russian
iiage, just across the line, because they
had no passports, aud soldiers refused to
let then pass.
A servant girl in Minneapolis was re-
Gently badly burned by kerosene, and
her employer charged her for the oil she
spilled and the -four, etc, used to ease
her sutferings. He then turned her adrift.
and she died.
The best definition of scandal ever given
according to Arthur Helps. was that of
the little girl who described it thus No
body does nothing, aud everybody goes
on telling it everywhere. That is better
than dictionary.
Chinese papers report that the tea
crop does not come up to first expectation.
1t had been thought that it would be
largely in excess of last year; instead of
which, the shipments have thus far fallen
considerably below.
Among the things that might be more
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