Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-09-24
SHORT ITEMS.
Glass bopnets have Appeared.

SHORT ITEMS.
Glass bonnets have appeared.
Eleven sisters in Iowa are waiting for an
eligible opportunity to change the name Of
Bnllgrcen, which is the only thing they N
herited from their father
While a compositor on the Montreal Wit
ness was setting up an advertisement for
lost canary bird few days ago, the bird
flew in al the Office window.
Henry Wenk, the Tidioute barber, who
was arrested short time since charged
with an attempt to fire his own building,
was tried and convicted at Warren week be-
fore last;
A Clay county KY, auctioncer pulled out
revolver and announced: "lf any man
goes frolcking around while the sale is
going on, shall interrupt h1m in his Ca
reer. Put them shotguns over by the fence
an leave 'em thar"
According TO authentic information there
is license for the sale of drink in Russia
for every GAO inhabitants in Siberia, for
every 500 in Prussia, for o6O in Eng
land, for 1873 in Belgium, for 80; in
Holland, for 80, and in France, l for
every 90;
Messrs. f. N. Marks and William Siner,
the latter member of Philadelphia Coun
ellis, who were tried and convicted in the
Court of Quarter Sessions last winter for
! maintaining gaming houses, have been par
doned by Governor lIartranft. What's got
the matter with the Governor.
IL e oc
Cecil county, Nd, fell into well 81 feet
deep, with but few inches of wafer in it.
The child was taken out alive, and hopes of
its recovery are entertained. The accident
occurred whilst Mrs. Adams was putting
down a bucket of butter by a cord
A vault containing the remains of Chan
cellor Livingstone, in the town Of Red Hook,
\. Y, was broken into few nights ago.
Two coffins were destroyed, and the bones
of the dead scattered about the floor. The
silver handles and plates Of the collins were
stolen. The perpetrators of the erimo are
unknown.
H0rc is the classification of babies pre-
miums at the Fair of the New Hampshire
Agricultural Society. For the finest baby
under six months old, gold necklace; for
a golden cup; for the lovliest twins, two
golden mugs for the child with the red
dcst hair, regardless of temper, 80 in gold.
One of the best ways to test a SPIDERS
ability to get himself out of a scrape, is to
fill an ordinary wash-bowl with water, take
a stick and place it in the centre of :he
bowl, and reaching some distance above the
water, put spider on the top Of the stick.
The insect will get himself away from mis-
isolated quarters in less than ten minutes,
if undisturbed, and he won't wet his feet in
the transit. Try and see how it's done.
Here is shack -pay'' item which is rather
pleasant reading: A Mr.. Elmore is one of
the ssold school'' subscribers OF the Kings
ton Journal. He was thirty-Onc years in
arrears Tor his paper. Last week he called
upon the editors of the Journal and paid UP
''like man" and renarking that he might
not be around again very soon, he paid lns
subscription ten years ahead, and another
for twelve years ahead
Extract from Virginian's will: &c will
to my nephew, James Madison M'''', ev-
erything 1 may have after my just debts are
paid, with condition that after am buried
he is to have i marble mead and foOt-stone
put to my grave, to be seven feet long and
four inches thick. want the following in
scription cut upon both ends of each slab
Henry M'''', born December l6, 1905
died -. He was great turkey hunter,
and a toleraby good fiddler. He desired
the above to be placed on this slab. Peace
to his ashes.''' -
Geo. W. Knox, of Cleveland, is consid
cred by his iellOw-townsmen to be the fore
most whittier of all this Republic. lie has
now undertaken piece of work of this
kind that totally eclipses anything ever be-
fore attempted by anybody. 1t is intended
for the great Centennial Exposition to be
held in Philadelphia in 1876. He proposes
to show the world what a s.Yankec" knows
about whiting. He has a plank over -
feet long, twentS-sN inches wide and two
inches thick, which he is engaged during
his leisure hours, in working up, on most
elaborate and ingenious plan.
A young lady who had her scalp torn
off by an accident in New Haven recently
is reported to be doing finely. The Jour
nal and Courier says: 'sThe physic ians have
found thirteen persons willing to part with
small piece of their cuticlc, and the medi-
cal gentlemen have placed the contributions
on the head of the patient with gratify-
ing result. As one after another volun-
teers to let the doctor clip off u piece Of
skin, the number of those willing to do like
wise increases, and it looks as if the girl
would have a head OF hair again. The
younger physician attending first set the
laudable example"
Maria MonicO, young woman of great
beauty and courage, is the leader of band