Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-01-29
SHORT ITEMS.

The rinderpest has broken out at
Shanghai. China.
Sealskin parlor mats are the latest
fashionable affectation.
A PittsDurg magistrate kicked law
yer out of the courtroom
Short skirts for street wear are again
becoming fashionable.
Connecticut farmers are disgusted with
tobacco. and will raise beets hereafter.
South Carolina may be oppressed >
but she pays taxes at the rate of only
fifteen mills.
In Indianapolis, last year. there was
one divorce granted for every Elk mar
riage licenses issued.
Salt Laknis said to be seven feet high
er than when the Mormon settlements
were made, and is rising annually.
1t is now fashionable for ladies' and
gentlemen, when walking in the street,
to lock arms, whether they are engaged
or not
1t is said that the Mormons are deter
mined to resist any interference on the
part of the United State authorities with
their epizootic
The English houses of parliament Gov
er eight acres, aud have 100 apartment
and two miles of corridors. The cost of
the building was se2.OOO,O0O.
A Bridgeport, Conn, man lately ate
three and half pounds of eels at sit
ting and his friends have to watch him to
prevent his slipping into the sound.
A man in Indiana county. Pa, won
wager of 81 by walking two miles bare
foot through the snow. lie will wear
boots three sizes larger in future.
Prince Jerome Napoleon and the ex-
Empress Eugen;e are to be the qua, dams
of the Prince imperial, and will direct the
of the Bonapartist party.
4 telegram from Rome says tha: the
Pope told some visitors yesterd.,y that
he believed the bodies of the Apostles
Phillip and James were discovered in the
Church of the Apostles.
At prayer meeting in Washington re-
Gently it was prayed that Providence
would improve the quality of editors and
publishers. There is no blessing more
devoutly to be wished.
The proposition to take census of
all the Indian tribes and bands in the
United States during the present year
meets with much favor from Congress
men, and is regarded as a long needed
The horse Crown Prince has been seiz-
ed by the Treasury officials at New York
on charge of having been entered at the
Custom house at Eastport, Maine, at an
lie is said to be wort:.
about $4,000. .
A gentleman in Lancaster, Pa. has
horse that takes his children to school in
the morning. returning home driverIess,
and at night returns for them in The same
way, rubbing his nose against the win
dow pane to indicate his presence.
The Shah Of Persia wishes TO make his
European trip without ostentation, so he
will take with him only three princes of
the blood, three Ministers of the first
class. seven of the second, and thirty at
tcndants.
A gentleman named Greenleef G.
Wade has sued the Geneva Manufacture
ing Company of Milwaukee for $4,000.
because the latter owned steam kettle,
small boiler, that exploded in 1866 aud
;calded tie aforesaid Wade.
a freight train on the Boston and AL
bany Railroad broke through the bridge,
near MiddleGeld, Mass, on Tuesday
night, and fell into Westfeld river. The
engineer and fireman were killed, and a
brakeman badly injured. Two other
brakeman slightly.
The American eagle is not reverenced
n Huntingdon county. At Spruce Creek
he other DAY, the noble bird "went for
md killed wild turkey for bis dinner,
,ut vandal saw him do it, drove him
.way, and made feast on the represen
ative fowls Legitimate game,
Susan B. Anthony and the other fe-
males who exercised the right of suffrage
1t the late election in Rochester, N. Y,
lave been indicted by the Grand Jury
# the United States District Court, and
will be tried in May next. The inspec-
ors who received the votes have also
,een indicted.
A Williamstown, VT, man wants
wife. She must be short, thick set, with
urly hair and keen, black eyes. Her
&c am not so particular about, say any
,here from thirty five to forty. He
7on't find his wife. There isn't a single
roman in Vermont thirty FIVE years
Id.
In San Francisco Court the other
ay, little dialogue ran thus Counsel
D witness you say YOU were at his