Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-07-16
SHORT ITEMS.
Reading will soon have public baths

Reading will soon have public baths
An Austrian astronomer discovered O
new comet at noon on the 9th inst.
There is remarkable lameuess among
some of the horses Of Schuylkill county
The farmers oranges in Iowa will
hold State convention in Des Moines
ON Wednesday, Aug 13.
A Norristown young man was shot in
the temple with sky.rocket on The 4th,
and had his scnll fractured.
An oil chap at Oil City, lately, likely
to die burned up sixteen thousand dol
lars, that there may be no quarreling
over his will.
A Michigan woman who was jealous
of her husband. made light Of her troub-
les by saturatins his cloths with kero-
sene and setting him ON fi.c.
A man who bought new pair of boots
says a ship may stand On one tack all
night if it wants to, but he finds an hour
and half to be an elegant suficiency.
Some colored thieves in Harrisburg.
who are in the habit of knocking coal
off passing trains with poles, knocked a
brakeman off the other day by mistake.
He proved bet coal iu their hands.
The Princess Dagmer. of St. Peters
bnrg, told the Shah that his diamonds
were exceedingly beautiful. Not near
ly SO beautiful as your neck, "was his
reply, as be patted her on the shoulder.
There is something in dreams after
all. A Western man dreamed that his
brothers head was cut off without losing
a drop of blood, and the next day be
learned that his brother had bee re-
moved from postmastership.
Cannot something be done to prevent
young ladies from beng insulted on our
streets at nightl' asks Cincinnati paper.
There can. just have the girls mother
tuck her "in her little bed about eight
o clock in the evening
Rufus Gill, President of the Second
Branch of the City Council of Baltimore.
was arrested on the eight and fined by
Justice Haggarty, for displaying fire.
works and shooting 6recrackers OH the
street on the 4th of July.
Mrs. Avery d. Putnam. wife of the
victim of Foster, the Few York car
hook murderer, has recovered $4,000
from the passenger railway company
owning the line on which her husband
was killed.
An Englise butcher assaulted sheep
with intent to kill, the other day, but
just as he thrust the knife into the ami
mails vitals, it gathered its strength for
4 last effort and kibked its butcher in
The stomach, and he died in two hours
from the effects of The kick.
On Thursday week a married wo-
man named Mary Loudon. threw her.
'elf under train on the Northern Cen
raj Railroad, near Cleo Rock, and in
,tantly killed. She arranged herfelf
with great care on the the track with
the evident intention of committing sui |
Tide effectively.
An Iowa journal Gays, respecting the
Patrons of Husbandry. at is plain to
zee that that in several townships petty
lemagogues. disappointed Office seekers,
md Ak grinders have crept into the
,lubs and oranges, and by the use Of
means with which they are familiar,
hey are endeavoring to run the popular
for selfish and personnel ends
People who are foolish enough to risk
heir money in betting on horses should
,e taught caution by witness at a re-
ent trial Of horse case, in Springfield,
dass. The witness was well known
lorse trainer, and edited the Court with
description of how the best horses are
made to co me in last, and quoted num-
yer of instances in whibh this method
# cheating had been practiced.
1t used to be stated in ld-fashioned
,ooks of natural history that "the horse
vas the gift of the old world to the new"
3ut whole races of horses lived and per
shed in America ages before men went
lown into the sea.in ships. There are
q Yale Museum the fossil remains of
wenty-one different species belonging to
he horse family. These animals varied
rom sizes that are larger than any now
xisting. down to delicate creatures not
'igger than fox.