Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-07-17
SHORT ITEMS.

About the commonest social vice ant
the one which is most abhorred. is ad
vice.
Anna Perkins, beautiful blonde, ha;
been appointed liquor agent of Daltor
N. II.
Nine smelling furnaces. costing in the
aggregate 100000 are now in operation
near Salt Lake City.
Beer drinkers are in agony over the
failure of the hop crop. The price o1
lager is destined to go up.
Joseph wore the first Dolly Vardel
coat of which mention is made in pro
fame or sacred history.
Miss Lewis, the colored American
sculptress in Rome, has an order from al
English noblenan said to be worth
100000.
England has finally decided that the
hours for closing up liquor saloons al
night must be uniform throughout the
country.
Researches in Chinese archives show
that the architect who designed and the
engineer who built the great wall were
women.
The absence of many thousands OF
Americans from the country the present
summer has quite an effect upon the
fashionable watering places.
When a couple of young people
strongly devoted to each other COM
mence to eat onions, it is safe to pro-
nounce them engaged.
Not less than eight hundred thousand
head of beef cattle were driven from the
mesquit grass ranges of Western Texas
during the last twelve months.
Ocala, Fla, pays fifteen cents a pound
for ice. The local paper thinks this
rather steep, and asks if arrangements
cannot be made to get it at eight cents.
A live fish has been discovered in one
of the boiling springs of California
which died as soon as transferred to cold
water. Under what conditions might
that fish be cooked
A veteran was relating his exploits to
crowd of boys. and mentioned having
been in five engagements. That s
nothing" broke in little fellow: my
sister Agnes has been engaged eleven
times
A Berlin physician recently tried to
dissever the bodies of two twin giIls
grown together like the Siamese twins.
One of the girls survived the operation
one day, and the other fingered for three
days.
A law has just gone into effect ia In
diana, by which any person who seeks
the position Of juror is to be fined as
guilty Of contempt of court. The law
will do away with the race of profession
al Jurors.
1t is said to be a curious fact that while
foxes, cranes and squirrels are abuud-
ant on the Indiana side of the Ohio
river, they are never seen on the Ken
lucky side and strange enough. the
gray squirrel, to found anywhere on the
Kentucky side, is rarely or never seen on
the Indiana shore.
Washington has handsome hermit of
some forty years, named John Burch,
who has not left his own house and yard
for twenty years, SO intently has he de-
voted his time to the attempt to invent
perpetual motion. The outer world is all
a blank to him. He does not know any
thing about politics or current news, the
telegraph or the railroad.
The Indians have learned the '.emo
tienal insanity" dodge. One James
Lane, living near Trinity Centre, Cali
fornia, was shot recently by treacher
GUS savage who had gained his confidence
and, upon demanding of the Indian the
cause for his act, the latter b ouuded off
with the rifle, crying out, "Me heap era
zy ! Ne too much crazy !"
A party of United States Cavalry in
Arizona, started from their post in pur-
suit of fonr Indian horse thieves. They
rode l2O miles in two days, captured
and shot the thieves. and returned with
the trophies of their victory, reaching the
post on the fifth day after starting. Two
Of the men were wounded in the skir-
mish, and all the horses were nearly
dead with fatigue.
An Indian in Detroit visited an ice
cream saloon. The Free Press saws
The first taste set all his teeth jumping.
and the next one satisfied him that some
'ne had put up a job on him He hand
I'd it to the boy with instructions to
warm it up. The boy melted it on the
'tove, and the Indian siezed the dish
and drank the the sweet milk at one gulp
md then licked the dish"