Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-10-16
SHORT ITEMS.

III IAsulOu.
White hats are now for sale below cost
, at the principal hat stores.
St. Louis has 81 flour mills that use
: 10000 bushels of grain per day.
, An iron girder bridge 1900 feet long.
has been built over the Nile at Cairo.
There are now over fifty women in the
Inebriate Asylum of Ward Island.
A single alifornia plantation has turn
ed out $50 900 worth of cotton this year
All the Western babies baptized Hor-
ace Greeley had spasms on Tuesday a
week
A French court of law is trying to de-
eide whether false teeth are personal
property or not.
Mary Butler, of Jerseyville, III offers
to plough a match with any man in the
country for Sl00.
An old woman at Perido, Florida, was
lately torn in pieces and eaten by pan
ther.
A bank-note machine, worth nearly
SlO0O,000, has gone west, bound for
Japan.
At California pic mic a gentleman fd-
died a den of serpents out OF their lair
They were K illed after the concert
A German biography of the late Jas
Fisk has been con6scated by the Aus
| trian government
In the past three months $1,000 emf
grants have sailed from Liverpool to
America.
The Louisville Exposition has lock
of hair six feet long. cut from the head
of Swiss peasant girl.
The Spanish government has resolved
TO send IA 600 troops to reinforce the ar
my in Cuba
Naomi. daughter of Enoch was five
hundred and eighty years old when she
was married. Courage ladies'.
IS near as can be aseertained. the Re-
pubiicaus of this State have elected q
out of the 27 Congressman.
The kansans, having seen flock of
three hundred swans flying high, predict
beautiful autumn and short winter.
In Kansas lately. two children. while
playing, shut themselves within a chest.
and when discovered both were dead
from suffocation
There is circus rider now in Mon
treal who is an Italian princess Her
father kicked her out of doors because
she married the gardner.
Henry P. Cassiday. while riding along
the canal at Harrisburg, Sunday after
noon. was thrown from the buggy into
the water and drowned.
They have posted up notices on the
outside of the street cars in Pittsbnrg
to the effect that the cars will not wait
for young ladies to kiss good bye.
Ag~arian outrages are reported in the
county of Mayo. ireland. where land
holders in the vicinity of Newport have
been shot. and other outrages committed
The deepes, well in the world is in a
salt mine near Berlin 1t was bored to
the depth of 4,l94 feet when mechanical
difficulties stopped further progres.
Five members of John Robinson's cir
Gus have been arrested in Virginia charg-
ed with numbering and robbing Vim. J.
Davenport, in Charlotte county, in that
State.
Sergeant Bates starts for Europe on
Wednesday. He will endeavor TO carry
the American flag floating above his head
throughout England. Ireland and Scot
land.
In Jersey City the chief of police and
one of his detectives were arrested on
the 9th charged with being implicated in
the robbery of the First National Bank
in that city, in June last
At meeting held on the 5th at the
Union League Club Rooms. in New
York. a committee of twenty nine was
appointed to take measures to have the
products of this country suitably repre-.
sented at the Vienna Exposition,
Tine construction of ovens heated by
gas for the purpose of hatcbing eggs is
now 80 perfect in France, that the gas
flame regulates its own rate of combus
ton. and keeps the variations of temper
ature in the oven within one degree.
A very strange death occurred at St.
Omer. ILL.,, last week young man
commenced bleeding at the nose, then at
the lungs, and finally the blood oozed ont
of the pores of the skin. In this condi
ton he fingered three or four days. when
he died
The Pennsylvania railroad. by re
cent order, is requiring the conductors on
the roads in the State which are under its
control. to give bonds in the sum of three
thousand dollars each for the faithful dis
charge of their respective duties while
connected with the road.
Since it has been demonstrated in Wis
consin that certain marshes by iudicious
cultivation. can he made to Well from
$50 to 800 bushels of cranberries per
acre. the market value of whrh is from
81 to S3 per bushel. the land has riaen in
value from a trihe more than nothing. to,
in some instances. $3.50 an acre. The
cost of putting a marsh into first rate
bearing condition is from S25 to $40 an
aero