Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-03-05
SHORT ITEMS.


starch from souring.
A Lafayette Ind. } couple were intro
duced on Sunday, and married the fol.
lowing Wednesday.
Kansas will want 900, 5000 railroad
ties this year, and is asking where the
timber is to GENE from.
Tho difference between ceiling wax
and women, says Reuben, is that one
burns TO keep secret AMI other to tell
it.
\ skeleton was lately found hanging
from "a beam in an attic Of the Albany,
N. Y, post office. No one knew how
long it had been there.
West Liberty, Muscatine county, Iowa
with population of about 1000, has
10, single dram shop or liquor saloon,
and has not had since it was incorpora.
ted.
Joseph Durham, aged twenty two,
committed suicide, on Monday evening
a week by hanging, st Bel Air. Mary
land. 4 love affair is said to have been
the cause.
a Sheriff in Fioii ida, who was called
upon to resign, wrote back Your com
municaton is received, stating that my
resignation will meet the approval of the
Governor. 1t does not meet NINE
An Iowa Falls woman put couple of
dozen eggs into her bed so they shouldn't
freeze while she was absent four or five
days, and cn Ltr return late at night
bounced into Ted and bounced cut again.
Bcnjamin Dovingdon, an oil citizen of
Towauda, committed suicide few days
ago by hanging himself GU a tree in
front Of his house. 1t is supposed he
was lahoring under temporary alteration
of mind
George B. Haywood, a clerk in the
Treasury at Washington. attempted to
commit suicide. Monday week by
pounding his head OF the floor and cut
ing his throat caused by excessive drink
He was sent to the asylum.
4 mare which had reached nearly tlir-
ty-eight years of age died in Indiana
county, Pennsylvania. few days since
Tie animal was held in high esteem be-
cause Of her service in building the Yves
tern end of the Pennsy lyana Railroad.
The late Lord Lytton left written in
junction that after death. or presumed
death, lIis body should be allowed for
three days to lie untouched upon his bed
and then should be examined by medical
pen, who should certify that life was ex
tinct This was obcyed.
a farmer cow in Illinois, who thirteen
years ago sol! load of potatoes in
Maine, and by short measure made twen-
iy-ive bushels out of twenty four. has
just sent lis old customer So so, to re
turn the dishonest gain, with iuteres, at
ten per cent.
Ninety six of the doctors of Montreal
have signed paper designed to "undc
ceive the public mind of the Eiisclievous
error that alcoholic liquors are beneficial
They declare that "Ebstiuence from in
t'xicating liquors woul! greatly promote
the health, morality, and happiness of
the people.
Chief Justice Chase has bought an
old historic homestead farm Of some six
ty acres near Washington. from which
he often walks to the Capitol when the |
morning is fair, distance of mile or
more. He is spending some care and
cost in embellishments, and means to end
his days in this quiet retreat
They are having rat plague in sew
eral of the German provinces. The
fields of clover aud colza are said to be /.
devastated by the vermin, and when ar
senic and phosphorus pills have been
scattered to destroy them, hares and 9TH
er game have been poisoned, aud great
damage done.
A red squirrel made his habitation in
the Reformed Church of Rhinebeck, N.
Y. 1t may be seen almost any time,
on the bell rope or running
abo-st the floor. Last Sunday evening it
listened attentively to the minister's dis
course from an elevated position near the +
organ.
A young man in Detroit, Michigan.
had the misfortune to cut his foot badly
while splitting wood on the morning of
the day set for his marriage but the
bride, learning that he could not leave
the house, came to him, aad they were
married at his home, as he sat comfortab-
Iy in a chair.
An Athol Mass boy, who has long
been sojourning in California, has, after
A courtship.of twenty five years, return
I'd to his native heath to be married Ten
years ago he started homeward for the
same laudable purpose, but was waylaid
and robbed of his all He went back to
.he Golden State, gained another fortune
and this time has reached home safely.