Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-10-08
Varieties.
The Ohio Agricultural College has
one female student.

next Wyoming Legislature.
Cholera is reported to be depopula-
ting the Harrisburg chicken crops.
Sea anemones are used for food in
certain countries, and are even con-
} sidered delicacies.
An ingenious Boston girl has Taught
q squirrel in his revolving cage to turn
her sewing machine.
The frequency in Switzerland of
criminals committing suicide in their
cells is attracting attention.
Concord, Mass, has a new public
library, erected at a cost of SO, 900, and
the gift of William Munroe.
| A herd of bufaloes recently passed
through Western Kansas, and they were
thirty hours in going by given point.
General Clusters Indian cognomen is
the little devil with much hair" That
is enough to make him commit hari-
kari.
A Texas man recently declined to re-
ceive telegraphic despatch from a
yellow fever locality, for fear he might
catch the disease.
Jean Jaques Rousseau asserted that
man was naturally a quadruped, and
when not taught otherwise, would walk
on his hands and feet.
There is mule owned by sharpers
travelling through Illinois that can trot
q mile IN Dds. Five minutes is con-
sidered good time for this species of
quadruped.
Some farmers in California have es-
tablished bank of their own, and they
run it themselves. Their object is
mutual benefit and independence of
spectators.
A witness in Montreal police court
recently admitted, with great candor,
that he had first accepted bribe of SIS
not to appear, and then made arrange
ments whereby he might be- arrested
and brought into court.
Mention was recently made of the
fall OF large erolite in Indiana. A
farmer of Tippecanoe county, in that
State, has discovered the fragments of
the meteoric stone, which it is esti-
mated weighs upward of 1000 pounds.
Belts, with pockets attached, and
travelling bags made of alligators' skins,
are said to be the caprice of the season
abroad. This leather is light corn
color, with many irregular indentations,
and Is mounted with gilt oxidized silver
or Russian leather.
At the hight of the season in Balti-
more watermelons sold on the wharves
at from to 20 cents each, the latter
price being paid only for small lots of
very fine ones, weighing in some in
stances as high as 80 to 60 pounds.
Fifty thousand people attended
recent exhibition at Bath of the Royal
Horticultural Society, and the receipts
for admission during the five days ag-
gregated $4,000. This argues a devel-
opment of the rural feeling in England
which it is pleasant to contemplate.
A recipe for perpetual youth is to
study Gods book of nature. Never be
idle. See the good in mankind. pass
by the evil. Love yourself least. Strive
to do some good every day of your life.
Speak only kind words. Thus your
heart will ever be young, and your
friends will not notice the wrinkles of
age.
The Boston Transcript wants to know
what made Lots wife go back upon the
men, and if she was discontented with
her Lott At the time we got our big
gold medal for perfect Sunday-school
recitations it was our opinion that she
left him because she was an indepen-
liant
salt.
An old, rough clergyman once took
for his text that passage OF the Psalms,
L said In my haste all men are liars"
Looking up, apparently as if he saw the
Psalmist standing Immediately before
him, he said: "You ssid it in your
haste, David, did you? Well, if you had
been here, you might have said it after
mature reflection"
Often when travelling among the Alps
one sees a small black cross printed
upon the rock or on the brink of tor
rent, or on the verge OF the highway, to
mark the spot where men have met
with sudden death, that others may
shun the danger. So God in His work
has marked the spots where men fell,
and the sins by which they perished,
that those who follow after may know
where peril lies.
"Of all dreary places, deliver me from
the farm-houses which many people
call home. Bars for front gate,
chickens wallowing before the door,
pig-pens elbowing the house liz the
rear, scraggy trees never cared for or
no trees at all, no cheering shrubs, no
neatness, no trimness. And yet lawn
and trees and neat walk and a pleas
ant fence don't cost great deal. ."
A poor German immigrant was
brought before the grand jury in Chi
cago, lately, charged with stealing some
old clothing. His excuse was that he
desired to sell them to obtain food for
his wife and five children, who were
starving. The grand jurors found no
bill, and taxed themselves so cents a
head for the benefit of the family. The
wife and children, during the husbands
Imprisonment, were fed by the iailor.
A certain person had friend who was
miser. One day he said to him, 81
am going on journey; give me your
ring, then shall always have you near
me, for whenever l look upon it you
will come to my remembrance" The
miser made answer, eff you wish to
keep me in remembrance as often as you
look at your naked fingers remember
that you asked certain person for his
ring, and he refused to give it to you p
The Rochester On. " Union relates
the following strange incident: "About
six weeks ago, Miss Croweli, ward of
Mrs. Pruyn, of Albany, mysteriously
disappeared from the residence of that
lady, and for a long time all efforts to
discover her whereabouts were unavail-
ing. An uncle of the young lady as
sisted Mrs. Pruyn in the search. He
came westward, and, on reaching this
city, fell in with Cleveland man, who
told him remarkable story of young
lady who had been found on the stoop
of his residence in a sort of trance, who
had been sheltered, and who displayed
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