Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-18
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The cultivation Of ginger is to be tri
ed in California.
Hartford, Conn. had al auction o.
cofins the other day.
Texans are talking of $1,000 test
monial to General Mackeusie.
The head waiteress at the Quake,
Dairy, New York, wears diamonds.
There is demand in Chicago for pub.
lie bath houses along the lakes.
A child with frogs head is reported
from Washington county, Vt. Darwin.
1t is proposed in Bedford, Ind. to let
out school teaching to the lowest bidder.
Amber jewelry is becoming very fash
ionable; it looks very well with ligh:
dresses.
Texas is rapidly filling up with people
from the northwestern and eouthern
States. and from Germany.
The trial Of Frank II. Walworth for
the murder of his father is set down for
Monday the 2ird instant.
Berks county complains of being over.
run with tramps. Berks voted for Ii
cense at the late election.
A young widow recently wrote to a
friend: Il am now in the honeymoon of
my widowhood"
The people of Ceater county have dis
covered another large aud wonderful
cave near Center Hall.
The most perfect carpentry to be seen
at the Vienna Exhibition is in the Japa-
nese department.
An experienced un der writer believes
that oiled rags occasion more fires in this
country than any other single cause.
Some fellow Gays that three in every
FIVE matches made at Saratoga 60 to the
courts for divorce.
A recently arrived German girl drown
ed herself in cistern at Cincinnati be-
cause she was home sick.
Several men devote their whole time
to the invention Of mcdaniel toys, and
realize handsome profits from their
works.
sMany people are not aware that
green postage stamp may be used twice.
the first time for three cents, the secoud
time for fifty dollars.
A runaway horse leaped five barred
gate with buggy. in Portland, without
damage to himself or carriage, but to the
destruction of the gate.
Silkman who assaulted Coon, the edi
tor Of the Scranton Free Prcss, and pied
his type. has been made to pay $1,000
for his trouble.
An old gander attacked a two-year
old boy in Montral recently, and so frigh-
tened him that he was thrown into con.
vulsions and died.
A man in Troy is writing biography
of Mathuselah. He has been FIVE years
at it. and is still working on the boyhood
days of his subject.
During the storm which prevailed
some weeks ago in the northern part of
Nebraska many deer and antelope died
from starvation. The elk Jared better
A Fort Wayne girl engaged herself to
a young man "for fun" but she tainted
when she founo that he had procured
the publication Of the engagement in a
newspaper.
There are several cases of small pox at
Cooksburg, Forest county. The number
is said to be eight. Precautions have
been taken to prevent the spread Of the
scourge.
The wife of the late Captain Hall, of
the polaris, is at Washington. 1t is be
lieved that Secetary Robeson will recon-
mend that Congress vote her a pension,
as she is left quite Door.
A Chambersburg married colored man
fred a shot gun at another eolored man
who had aelienated the affections of his
wife, and in return had the contents of
four barrels of revolver discharged at
him.
A Michigan paper boasts of a dentist
who can extract fourteen teeth in fifty-
five seconds. We know IN old lady
who can take out that number of teeth
in half the time, and she isn't much Of a
dentist either.
A young man who prided himself on
his mental qualifications. once, speaking
of the advantages of these, remarked,
"What is better than good education I"
Common sense, you fool, you," quickly
responded one of his bearers.
A man who had his new hat exchang
ed for an old one, in BARRIERS shop,
advertises that unless it is returned, be
will forward to the wife of the perso on
who took it, the letter found concealed
in the lining of the old one.
Mr.. Bass, the famous brewer, who