Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-01-17

A Tennessee farmer has raised pound
of tea 1t cost him Is dollars to do it.
Al Euglishman in Iowa recently sent:
half dozen prairie hens to Queen
Victoria
The village Of O-ap, Brazil, has been
ruined by nine successive earthquakes;
but few lives were lost.
Only twenty-si1 out Of one thousand
samples of London milk were found gen.
uine on analysis.
A passenger on one of the New York
ferry boats lately sneeSed himself over
board.
Pennsylvania gains two Representa-
iives in Congress blythe late apportion-
ment.
The latest computations show that the
number of lives lost by the Chicago FIRE
was over 1000.
While the collection was being taken
up in ChappaqHe church. felonious
worshipper grabbed a handful of money.
sent the plate flying, and escaped during
the confusion.
The Steam Irishman,' levellihg
and cutting machine for roadmaking and
ditching, does the work of 100 men, and
is doing it in good style for the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company in Ohio.
Joseph Fiester, of Laporte township,
Sullivan county. recently killed thirteen
deer, four porcupines. two wild turkeys
and one wild hog. all in eleven days.
lie has been feasting ever since.
Several families in and about Clinton,
ILL.,, have been poisoned recently by eat
ing buckwheat cakes. 1t is supposed
that the seed of the jimson weed had
been mixed with the buckwheat.
Mrs Dorcas Rice, of New Hampshire,
is aged lO2, and her particular achieve,
meut Gall old people must necessarily ex-
eel in something,) is said to be that she
eats lO2 buckwheat caks daily.
There is snuff mill now in operation
at Bristol, Bucks county. doing so large
business as to require the use of nearly
S4, 900 worth of United States revenue
stamps per month. The business has
increased very much during the last year.
The products, of course, find a marke.
iu tho large cities, and probably find
their way to distant parts of the world.
Very little snuff is consumed in Bucks
county.
There is great salt lake in Texas
called the Sal Dee Ray. which is an i'm
mense bed of salt about FIVE miles in
circumference. The salt is formed nat.
urally, ard only TO be shoveled up and
taken to market. For table use it must
be washed and ground. The income
derived from this natural salt manufac-
tory is said to be only $4,000 year;
but the Mexican government formerly
collect a revenue Of 100000 in taxes
on the product of the lake,
Jacob Canister. a worthy young mar
RED man of Reading. met with a singular
death on Saturday evening. A horse
attached to buggy in which were seat
ed raan, woman and child, was becom-
ing unmangable on the street, when Mr..
Canister went to the assistance oG the
occupants and took the horse by the
head. The horse reared and jerked NJ.
g., from his feet, when he fell back dead.
Tile doctor said that the main artery of
the heart was severed.
Dayton, Chic, is inclined to laugh
over a sham duel which occurred there
recently between a white man and ne
gro, the latter being the only one who
was in earnest. Blank cartridges we're
provided, and, at the fourth fire, the
white man fell, apparently :hortally
woutded. The coldred person aed dis
mayed, surrendered himself, was released
On sham bail, and soon afterwards was
astonished and overjoyed to meet his an-'
tagonist alive and perfectly we'll.
The other night London policeman,
suspecting that something was wrong at
house through seeing the kitchen
window open, knocked at the door,
which was opened by man, to whom
the constable communicated his suspic-
ions. The man, saying he would see,
went down stairs, aud soon afterwards
returned, remarked that il was all right,
the window was broken the day before.
and would be mendcd on the morrow
The two then bade each other good
night. the policeman going away on his
rounds, and the burglar, for such he
proved to be, going on with his work.
At Newberry, England, gentleman
recently made wager Of $4,000 that at
eight o'clock on particular evening he
would sit down to dinner in a well-wo-
ven, well dyed. well-made suit of clothes,
the wool Of which formed the fleece on
sleeps backs at FIVE o'clock that same
morning, Two sheep were shorn the
wool was washed, carded, stubbed, roved.
spun and woven the cloth was secured,
fulled, tented, raised, sheared, dyed and