Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-07-23
SHORT ITEMS.

A daring youth last week swan across
the Niagara river below the falls.
Itis said the Shah scratches his head
with the corner Of salt cellar.
The travelling expenses of the Shah
of Persia are said to be $3.50, 900 a
month.
Washington journalist sailed in the
Tigriss, on her polar expedition, as
common sea man.
No man improves in a company fol
which be has not enough respect to be
under some degree of restraint.
Miss Alice johnson, of Kansas, has
opened barber shop, and gives her per.
sonal attention to the shaving of gen.
tlemen.
Ifa Persian turn Christian his head
is chopped off if they catch him. All
sort of wickedness are cured by decapi-
tating.
A Pittsburg cabinet maker has gone
crazy trying to invent a rocking chair
with self-acting fan and shoo Fly at
tachment
Judge John Robertson. a Virginian by
"birth education and thought" and a
descendant of Pocahontas, died on the
5th instant, at Mount A thol, at the ripe
old age of eighty eight.
Mr. Benjamin Longenecker, Of Wood
bury. Bedford county. fell dead on Mon
day evening week, while walking
through pasture to which he had gone
for his cows. lie was 70 years of age.
When a crowd Of jayhawkers arted
a disturbance in a Texas church, the
other day. the preacher raised shot
gun aud said; William Dello, sit down
or III make it painful for you. "Wil-
lam sat down and was quiet as a lamb
Mrs. Macarthur of Los Angeles, Texas
because her husband scolded her about
the character of their breakfast. took a
large dose of strychnine, and died soon
after. An official investigation into the
conduct of the husband is demanded
Mayor Havemeyer, of New York, has
made a requisition on Governor Dix for
800 breech loading rifles and other ne
cessary equipments for arming the police
of that city. who are to be drilled and
used as military in suppressing disor
ders.
When the Shah met Queen Victoria,
he kissed her with perfect delicacy and
grace, and said that hitherto he had reck-
oned his years from the day of his birth,
but in future he would reckon them from
the day of his meeting the Queen of
England.
Soup for the poor in Boston cost about
$1,000 last year, and Refreshments for
the city government s4l,OOO. This was
about $3.50 day for each member of
The City Council Wouldn't it be cheap
er to get the whole crowd boarded at
first class hotell
Of the 35.l7O, ,2O4 passengers carried
over the railroads in Pennsylvania last
year, only thirty three were killed-less
than one in a million The chances
against death by railroad travelling are.
more than million to one in
this State.-RitsburgA Commercial.
Some robbers recently seized and
bound man and hrs wife near Sahna,
Cal and tortured them by pulling their
finger-nails out with pincers. to make
them disclose the hiding place Of their
money. They remained silent in spite
Of their torture, and the robbers got
nothing.
A few weeks ago Pacini's opera,
"Sappho," was being played at Rome
At the end of the last act, when Sappho
throws herself into the sea, the singers
substitute had 80 badly arranged his
classical robes that the last thing seen of
The Greek poetess was large pair of
mems boots The curtain fell amid the
most uproarious laughter.
At Moscow lady, renowned for her
beauty, ventured to call on the Shah
with an enormous boquet The "LigAt
of the World accepted the floral pres
ent, examined the fair visitor carefully
and leasurely for considerably period
with his eye glass, and then probably
overcome by admiration, turned his back
upon her and refreated to his apartments
without deigning to utter even a royal
liable.
The Titusville Herald Gays Intelli-
,ence reaches us from Parkers of the
discovery Of secret organization formed
Eor the purpose of destroying the nitro
,lycerine magazines of the Roberts Tor
pedo Company. and to feloniously ap
their contents to the putting in
'f what are called moonlight torpedoes.
'r torpedoes clandestinely exploded by
parties obtaining the means and appli
,nces by theft.
They have practical way of righting
things up in Canterbury, N. H. A
man who had unfairly OBJ
aimed farm of a dying man, to the |!