Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-01-22
SHORT ITEMS.

Newfoundland best codhsh customer
is Brazil. Portugal ranks next best.
Cows are bringing about $50 at auc.
tions in various parts of Bradford county
Maine has nineteen large Tanneries
which annually turn out about 90,
tons of leather.
Mr.. Harvey was the first man to die.
cover that the blood circulated, and j.
occurred 25O years ago.
A man in Rome, N. Y, recently sued
his wife for $50 he had entrusted to her
care before marriage.
A marriage took place recently at Win
sted, Conn. between a happy couple who
had been counting for sixty years.
1t is said that some of the proprietors
of the large New York hotels are about
te dress all the servants, porters &C., in
a regular uniform.
The hide of the deceased elephant
Romeo has been tanned. 1t contains
2l2 square feet of leather, about three
quarters of an inch thick
Some Yankee blacksmith has introdu
ced setting heel corks lengthwise in the
front shoes ofhorscs as simple preven-
tive of their slipping sidewisc.
Albert T. Piper, aged l6, was sen-
fenced on the l4th inst, at Manchester,
N. 7, to ten years imprisonment for
burning a woolen mill at Peterboro.-
Miss Upton was consumed in the flames.
At Pekin, China, a barber will cut
your hair, shampoon you, cut your
nails, wash your feet and brush your
clothes. all for cent. Bu: you must
make your cent before you 60 to Pekin.
An Iowa country squire concludes
the marital knot ceremony thusly
Them that the court hath joined toge,h-
er let no man bust asundcr but suffer
little children to come unto them 30
help you God.
A Davenport man with three ma1i-
ageable daughters, has posted the follow
ing notice under his bell pull Wood,
SC a cord coal. 80 cents bushel Gas
dear and bad. Parties staying after nine
o'clock will please settle quarterly"
a little colored boy was found wander
ing about in New York lately who sta.
ted that he had been kidnapped from Bar
BADGES in the West Indies, and taken 10
St. JOHNS n. B, from whence, a few
days ago, he was placed On the cars and
sent on to New York
Mr.. Shsrmans bill, providing for free
banking. to take effect from July next
and the resumption of specie payment in
January next, meets with considerable
favor in both Houses of Congress. 1t is
regarded as the only feasible mode of
reaching specie payments
We live very fast in these days, but
are very apt to look only for the main
chance. The wife Of roofer being ask
ed if she was not afraid to have her hus- !
band exposed to such danger ,rustfully
replied, Oh. he's insured We should /
always take matters coolly, and never
lose our equanimity.
Measures are pending at Washington
seeking to secure an international con
age of silver, for the immediate use of
nations in America and Europe, now EN-
bracing population of more than one
hundred and sixty millions, and for the
eventual use of all the civilized coun
.ries Of the world.
A New York lady opened letter ad-
dressed to her husband the other day,
md read, among other soft words. these
Darling John-Come to me again soon
can't bear to think you are at home
with that old rip of wife of yours. y
When John came home that evening he
ound a domestic polar wave in his man
ion that chilled the very beef marrow on
lis hair.
The Geness co Republican of the Sd
'ays ave have recently examined
ample of sugar by Mr.. Giles Porter,
made from corn, which promises to come
nto general use. The sa mple shown us
vas lump of unrefned light colored su-
;ar wilh pleasant flavor differing some
What from our ordinary kinds. possessing
larger per cent of alco hol, and on the
whole really excellent article of sweet
ming"
A recent writer believes there are on
y three things needed to bring about the
millennium. First, a motive power to do
ii the work of steam, but require no
uel second, erial navigation, by which
geographical and political boundaries will
,e obliterated, and the whole world be-
ome one natl on and third, chemical
ood, to be made in the laboratory with
ut either animal or vegetable substances
md produced so cheaply that want will
,e unheard of. g.. -- -., .., ..