Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-09-11
SHORT ITEMS.

lie GOT up 10 IooA aI u anu ieh ~"
ttaire.
it took the army worm just two days
TO eat every green blade in a twenty acre
field in Ashton, ILL.,, recently.
Switzerland exports 81 100000 worth
Of cheeec year. that being almost the
only article of export from that country
A girl in Casco Mich, thought it fine
eport to frigh'en her mother with gun
and now she ha- 10 mother 10 tris zen
There are nvoI u hundred girls in ST
Louis normal school, and they are all re.
guired to dispense with false hair and
wear calico dresses
A St. Louis negro, seven feet five
inches high. and described as having a
mouth like canal lock. has received a
princely offer from Barnum.
The highest G.ri and Wilson flag in
Massachusetts, floats from n staff fastened
TO tall pine tree on Wachusett Noun
tain. Ii can be scen for many miles.
The complete ce,sns returns of the
United States shows the total population
10 be IS. SIS. 37I, of which l9.493, ,365
arc males, aud 1905 0O6 females.
Cola wears away in handling. Gov
,rumen. officials state that in the simple
counting aud transfer of one million dol
lars from one vaulI to another ;Le loss By
abrasion amounts 10 Sc.
\ vessel of the National line Of steam
ers Lately took 1SS O00 bushels of wheat
from New York 10 Liverpool the largest
cargo Of wheat that ever left that port in
Il steam vcsscl.
: man and Li- four sons recently tum-
hled of barge at Wheeling. w. Va ,
but he managed 10 hold the boys up I'M
Ill they could be rescued, when he fell
back and was drowned.
The gr at tidal wave, slys the Boston
Traveller, which was to carry Horace
Greeley 10 the White House, bears a
,triking resemblance to Plantamours
comet 1t does not come as advertised
The valley of death. spot almost as
terrible as the prophets valley of dry
boues. lies just north Of the old Mormon
rad to California. a region thirty miles
long by thirty broad, aud surrounded, ex-
cept at two points. by inaccessible moun-
lains.
Mr.. Adam Spanglrr. Of New York,
who has been suffering from rheu uatism
for some time past, was so seriousl Y
shocked by lightning striking a house
opposite to where lie lives, the other day,
aa to be entirely cured, and is now as
lively as a cricket.
Bo,auisfs are endeavoiing to intro
duce and acclilnate a plant of New
Grenada, which will be valuable &C
QUESTION to manufacturers of ink. The
juice or zap is at first of a reddish tint,
but in few hours becomes intensely
black. 1t my be used without prepare
lion.
4 Troy man asserts that not one grain
Of arsenic has been used in the manufac-
tue Of paper collars since the hne am
cry was raised ah"ut it some years aga.
He saws that the gloss on collars is pro
duced in the laundries of that city by the
use of starch, white wax, gum arabic.
blueing. and sometimes spermaceti.
There is man in 10. tland, Maine,
who supports his family in handsome
style by simply tying an able. bodied
cat by the tail to clothes line every
night, and then going out in the morning
to collect the soap, shaving cups, brushes,
etc, thrown into the yard by angry
boarders in adjoining houses.
1t has been the custom for unprincipleG
men to purchase children of their parents
in northern ltal Y, and take the young
sters to England and elsewhere as hurdy-
gurdy players, exhibitors of trained
mice &c. The nefarious business has
had check, the authorities of Genoa
having put stop to the traffic through
that city.
Aaron w Mumford. Smveyor aud
Civil Engineer, recently found a fur
tie in Mercer county, on the back of
which was inscribed, A Wright, 1890"
From the fact that Mr.. Mumfnrd's grand
father. My. Wright, settled in that par,
Of Mercer county about that time, the
Incident Is suggestive Of tie age attained
ty those animals.
The bond system of labor still remains
throughout Mexico and upon the Eio
Grande border of Texas. \ poor man
on account of his own or the necessities
Of his family. once obliged to become the
debtor of one of the weather. classes,
becomes bondman and his servitude is
enforced until, by his labor, he dis
charges the debt.
Advices from Switzerland state that
the heat has been almost unbearable
The cattle retire even at day break to
their stalls. The glaciers have not melt
ed go much for many years. Large
masses as big as churches roll over the
precipices into the valley below with a
noise like thunder. Wild animals OF all
kinds are visible Numerous herds of
chamois are pasturing with the cattle.