Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-18

Mis- Lzsie Merchant. q Gan Fran
cisco, carries d email whalsboue cane
concealed shoot her dress Which she Wig
orously applies to the heads and f,ces
Of insOlent young men. She OCCASION
ally canes throc an evening.
Miss Woods was thrown from a car
riage at EldetoD, on Sunday a week.
and had her neck broken. Mr.. Woods
and Miss Martin thrown out at the same
time, were 30 badly injured that Mr..
Woods subsequently died, and the
young lady is not expected to live.
At Williamsport. recently, a man
while suffering fro m typhoid fever, left
his eel. and going to neigLbor's premi-
ses. jumped into well. He remained
standing in the water, which reached to
his chin, for twenty minutes. when hs
was discovered and taken ont.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
passed law against the defacemeu: Of
natural scenery, which applies to the
painting of advertisements upon rocks.
mailing them on boards upon trees. and
the general bsirution of the notices of
quack medicine venders all along the.
lines Of railways.
Lord Chief Justice Cock burn has Just
made joke. A Mrs. Jury being exam
ined as a witness in the Tichborne case-
stated that she had eleven children.
whereupon his Honor observed he had.
always understood it took twelve to make
jury. England is still echoing the
laugh which convulsed the court.
Cook St. John, of Walton, Delaware
county, was 100 years old on the lst of.
June. He is in good health. With mind
and memory unimpaired. The centen-
arian has one hundred and three living
descendants and thirty three dead. He
has a son aged rs years. a grandson. 81
years old, great grand con ~ years
old, and great srea: grandson aged T.
years.
The Missouri; editors, at their late
convention, formally resolved that man
has the same right to walk into grocery
store and order barrel of floor or q
sack of coffee, or into law office and i
demand legal opinion from its occupant
or into an undertaker's and request a
coffin, without expecting to pay for their
respective wares or services, as into a.
newspaper office and demand the use of
its brains and mucle and type. without
a thought of recompense.
E. B. Prime, of Portsmouth, has for
nearly nine years carried bullet in his
head as a memento of the battle of Fair
Oaks The bullet struck him in the left
temple and lodged near the angle of the
jaws. the effect being to deprive him Of
all use Of his jaws, and compel him to
subsist entirely Oh chopped or liquid
food All efforts to find the bullet failed,
until recently, when Surgeon +. f. Pot
ter, U. S n, succeeded in extracting the
ball from its nine years resting place,
accomplishing the operation without any
cutting. The eutire use Of the jaws will
be restored.
The real object for which the mosquito
was created has been discovered a, last.
His appropriate destiny is to furnish fsod
for young trout. Fish breeders have
been troubled to find suitable diet for
the young fry up to the age of four
months, the various suhstanees tried aIr
having proved faulty. Now it is found
that the larv:e of the mosquito are just
the thing The FISH eat them greedily
and thrive finely on them. Two barrels
of rain water left handy for the adult
mosquitoes will yield larvs enough foE
a thousand trout. The "wigglers' are
strained out from time to time, as they
develop. and thrown into the 6sh pond.
When riding in the cars one is often
forced to listen to conversations upon
personal matters. On one of our East
ern trains, the other day, newly mar,
ried couple. starting on their wedding
tour, after comfortably arranging them
selves in their seats, gave vent to their
emotions as follows Husband {leaning
over very tenderly toward the partner of
his joys and sorrows( -" Dose little pet
lamb is our Wife with responsive
tenderness)-" Gus" Husband -" 'Oe-
does 'ou love r. Wife-"'Ou." G.,
being single man, was completely over
come at this point Of the conversation.
and joined the euchre playing crowd in
the smoking car. ..r