Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-17
SHORT ITEMS.

SHORT ITEMS.
Persian ladies call European lady's
dress sstrousers with one leg"
Mrs. Charles Karicher, of Williamsport,
has given birth to five children within one
year.
The Indians of the Grand Traverse, Mich,
region have sold $2500 worth Of buckle
berries this season.
In Pike town ship, Clearfield county, fifty
sheep have been killed by worthless dogs
within the last month.
A Tyrone mans hydrant wouldn't work
until the plumber relieved it Of dead eel,
fifteen inches in length.
Miss Julia A. Garret:son, a farmers
daughter, addressed farmers meeting at
Washington, ON the 9th inst.
By a recent order Turkish ladies in Con-
stantinOple are not allowed to enter the
stores for the purchase Of goods.
Freeport is troubled with young men who
stare ladies out Of countenance when COM
ing out of church on Sundays. The Era
wants this thing stopped.
Highway robbers stopped the stage near
Pleasant Valley, Idaho, coming south, on
the 10th inst, and took the treasure of
Wells, Fargo u Co., and escaped.
A Louisiana sheriff feared that two pris-
oners in his custody would be lynched and
hung in bungling manner, and so ran
them off bridge and gracefully drowned
them.
The Mississippi State Grange assembled in
Jackson on the 9th inst. There are upwards
, Of 200 oranges in the State, and nearly all
were represented, including twenty female
delegates.
Amos Fink, a farmer, residing near Lau-
caster, Pa, raised from seventeen acres Of
wheat, an average of forty five bushels to
the acre. This extraordinary large yield is
hard to beat.
An infant ch,ld of Mrs. Sarah Kline, re-
siding near Pottsvil;e, met very singular
death recently. The child fell between
| the f0ot-board ef the bed and the wall and
| was choked to death.
James Ready has recoved $4,000 dam
| ages from Duluth, Minnesota, because he
broke his leg where there ought to be side
walk instead of cellar. He is ready for
another accident on the same terms.
At funeral at Manchester, Nd, on Mon
day a week, a horse attached to a hearse
| kicked the coffin to pieces and broke three
ribs of the driver OF the hearse. The fu-
neral was postponed until anothercoffin was
made.
| A fancy goods dealer in Albany, N. Y
recently dropped his diamond ring, valued d
| ut $3.50, into parcel he had done up for
q customer in his store A colored W oman /,
who found the ring returned it and rec civ ed
| a reward Of $25.
The New York detectives have arrested
Mrs. Benton, an important witness in the
Stokes case, who they have been looking
for since the killing of Fisk. 1t is said Mrs.
Benton saw stokes throw away his pistol
after the shooting. 1t is believed her evil
dence will he fatal to Stokes.
John Irving, the self-confessed accom-
plice to the Nathan murder, at San Fran
cisco, has made further statement, and
says that with proper guarantees for his
safety in New York he will produce the
Nathan memorandum book and bonds taken
from the safe on the night of the murder.
The Dutch are now taking their turn at
the pilgrimage business. Thousands Of
persons went to Brielle to find relief from
the water of an old well. which is said TO
possess supernatural power to cure incu-
rattle diseases. This month monster pill
grimage is announced to '' the most gra-
cious chapel at Thorn
The reputation of members of the Leg
lslature for sobriety seems to be rather bad
in Kentucky. Two of them were rather
noisily drunk ON II railroad train the other
day, and when the conductor remonstra-
ted. one of them pompously asked, Do
you know, Sir, that l am a member Of the
Legislature The conductor quietly re-
piled, You have got the symptoms"
Among the outside attractions of the cir
Gus exhibition in Baltimore on the S:h in st.
was advertised to be balloon ascension.
Between twelve and one O'Clock the aero
naut took his place in the basket Of the
balloon, and accompanied by the music
from brass band, the rope was cut and
tine balloon shot rapidly upward. Alter
reaching considerable height it was OBJ
served that large rent had been torn in
the upper part OF the canvass. and the bal
loon descended as rapidly as it had ascend
eG. The aerOnaut jumped out on the roof
Of u three-story house, and was uninjured,
reaching terra firma by climbing in an attic
window and descending by the stairs.
1t is proposed to call Congress of Amer
ican women sometime during the present
year. The following very important sub
jects will occupy its attention: Higher ed
ucatiOn for women wOman's work in liter
ature; the relation of woman to dress
woman the promoter OF peace prison re-
form; wOman's work; the inviolate home
stead equal division of the salary between
husband and wife; womah's influence in
promoting temperance; cooperative ind US
tries among women; law as it affects wo-
men; enlightened motherhood, woman in
surgery and medicine. There has been
good deal of talk by leading women as to
politics, but such Congress as this, and
the subjects mentioned are certainly of the
gravest Importance.
A new manner of cat ching rats is exciting
great interest A barrel is filled half full of
water. A layer of powdered cork is laid on
its surface, and over this layer Of corn
meal is sifted. A chair and box or two
are placed unobstrusively in the neighbor-
hood, whereby the rat aims the edge OF the
barrel. He sees nothing but the meal. He |
has no mate ideas which teach him to be- |
ware of the treacherous foundation on |
whicn that tempting surface rests. He |
shifts, he leaps, and goes gently down |
through meal and cork to his watery grave. |
II any Of his friends see him disappear
~