Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-07-02
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When people como 10 high words they
ass apt 70 sse low language.
| A ihirty-pound salmon may Be boughs
for City cents In Portland. Oregon.
A Harper's Ferry man owns . whole
mountain and offers 70 trade it foi shot
gun.
Constables all over our county should
post themselves in the provisions of the
new game law.
The army worm is marching through
California. and wherever it appears every
thing green disappears
Two real archdukes of Austria helped
to put out a FIRE in the house of the
United States Minister at Vienna
Olathe, Kansas, has found twenty
eight inches Of good coal underlying that
town at depth of $50 feet
A government mail agent used seven
ty-one postage stamps the second time.
and not a postmaster detected the
fraud.
An Oconto, Wis, chicken was born
with four legs and four wings. but was
killed by the Disguised old hen that
Matched it.
Girard. Erie county. claims to have a
child which weighed but three ounces at
its birth, and seven ounces when four
weeks old.
Miss F. H. Mitchell. of Greenviile the
other evening took a dose of sugar of
lead in mistake for salts. 1t is thought
she will recover.
Forest county claims to have the old
est couple in Pennsylvania. The hus-
band is one hundred and eight, the old
lady one hundred and six.
At Lancaster q wedding party broke
down the floor of the synagogue. and re-
fused to pay for it. The suit went against
them and they finally paid up.
Some Pittsburgh boys made raid on
a clergyman's strawberry bed, and one
of them dropped q gold watch. which
the minister is now wearing.
When old Mr. Russell. of Stevenson,
Ala was told by his physician that he
had cerebrospinal meningitis he took
down his rife and killed himself.
Northwestern Iowa complains Of an
incursion of immense swarms of grass.
hoppers that are destroying wheat and
grass and all other vegetation within
reach.
A society writer in the New York |
Nail reports that the most stylish young
ladies in town have struck against the
tyranny Of the milliners, and make their
own bonnets.
Gfeensburg bad a wedding the other
day. at which the brides ten sisters
Of whom are married and have children
were present. One brother added to the
felicitous company.
1t is raid that Georgia hangs twenty
of her convicts during the present month.
Yet murders are more common than be.
fore, and Atlanta editors are hunting
each other with shotguns.
Hon. j. X. Luttrel, Congressman elect
from the Third California District, in a
letter to the Indian Bureau, says that
the Modoc war was caused by wrongful
treatment by the white men.
Five German families, all related to
each other. and living in one school dis
trict in Wisconsin, have seventy FIVE
children among them, all sound and
Cobra poison has been discovered by
an English chemist to be identical in it's
parts with the composition of beer yeast.
which supports the idea that the poison
is Of the naturs of an animal ferment.
An insane man who had been in the
Franklin County Poorhouse for thirty.
five years and for the last eighteen years
chained to the floor of cell, was last
week unshakled and allowed to hobble
about the yard.
Very large fans continue in fashion.
They are of all patterns and prices.
Cheap ones are most in favor, the ladies
arguing that the rapid changes in fashion
justify them in being economical in keep
ing up with it,"
Tho men of Macon, Ga, are said to
vary the moaotony of existence by catch.
ing rats with hook and line in the rail.
road depot. The amusement is far more
exciting than trout fishing. and causes
less personal discomfort.
A Catholic father of St Louis has
warned hia congregation that he will read
from the alter each Sunday the names of |
all persons belonging to the parish who
may have been found drunk during the
preceding week.
Among the presents received by Miss
Mary Sayre. Of Bethlehem, at her mar.
riage last week. were nineteen dozens
solid silver forks and spoons. The az