Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-02-19
SHORT ITEMS.
Switzerland is overrun with mice.

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Kansas raised 100000 bushels Of
potatoes last year.
The street lamps Of Des Moines are
lighted by women.
Homely servant girls are in demand in
Topeka. Kansas.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad has 45
miles of snow fence.
Elks take the places of draft horses in
some portions of Nebraska.
Flour is $50 barrel in Texas, but the
stuff of life is only ten cents drink.
The late editor of the Pittsburs Com
merciul has gone to farming in Florida
The horse disease has again broken
out in some portions Of Washington coun-
ty.
The poisonous snakes of India are
said to find 10000 human victims q
year.
Wages are eleven cents per day and
board in Brazil, aud workmen are scarce
at that.
An old woman died lately at La Sale
Ill, aged 73 years, who had survived ten
husbands.
A Minnesota farmer had his stables
covered to the depth of some twenty feet
:; the late snow storm.
= Brooklyn man kicked bis son to
death for refusing togo for a quart of
beer without money.
A Pittsburgh father presented lis
daughter with two loaded coal barges for
her wedding present.
The Erie knitting mill, at Cohoes, was
burned on the l4th. The loss is estima.
ted at $4,000, partially insured.
Licensed vendsrs in New York are
selling fine lemons in the streets at the
low rate of twenty-five for 25 cents.
Governor Geary had $4,000 policy
on his life in the Penn Mutual Insurance
Company Of Philadelphia.
A California wife has applied for d.
vorcc on the plea that che accepted and
married her husband while under the in
Auence of liquor.
A Montreal dentist has recovered s4OO
in suit for breach of promise of MARI.
age, against the fair aud false daughter
of well-to do farmer.
Miss Mary j. johnson, Of Richland
county, Ill.,, recently gotjudgment against
John McMurty for $1,000 damages in a
case Of breach of promise of marriage.
A clergyman at Des Moines was a lit.
tie annoyed the other Sunday to find
that some one had taken the Bible away
and left copy of Dick Turpin" on the
pulpit
The sundower plant is being used in
Minnesota for fuel and is said to make
excellent fuel. When dry the woody
stalks buru admirably, and the oil of the
seeds afford an intense heat
The Fairview Reporter says there is a
couple living in Cranberry township who
now,in the eleventh year Of their married
life. are the happy father and mother of
twelve children.
A Chinawoman committed suicide in
Reno, Nevada, few days since, by tax
ing opium. Her excuse was that she
was tirei of her life of shame and sla
very.
Miss +. j. Beers has been elected
county school superintendent Of Grundy
county, Iowa, over two worthy mascu-
line competitors. She is graduate Of
the Pennsylvania Normal school.
Among the articles from America to
be exhibited at the Vienn Exhibition is
a log of black walnut. the largest ever
grown, six feet in diameter and weighs
seven tons.
principles, not men," used to be a
popular political motto But the New
York Eoening Post thinks it has not
been successful. Men without principles
appear to be ahead.
An Arkansas widow has inscribed on
he headstones of five departed lords.
We will meet in heaven, husband DEAR
II so the resulting matrimonial embarras-
nent will be worse than tha: of the Sad
1cee brothers.
In the Stokes case at New York Judge
Boardman on Friday last declined to al
ow a new trial The decision is to be
aiken up to the High Court Of Appeals
md Pardons for review. 1t is now be-
'ore the High Court Of Appeals.
The Wisconsin Legislature has passed
. law providing that hotelkeepers may
not collect their bills from boarders who
ire billeted above the second floor, un-
ess their rooms be provided with fire
escapes.
The postofice at Smith6eld, Jefferson
county, Ohio, was burglariously entered
IN the night of the 18th inst, and all
he letters and a small cum of money