Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-17
SHORT ITEMS.

bria county, while standing on board on
the top Of a pia.pen and in the act Of
reaching for chicken. fell into the pen
aud was instantly killed on last Wednes
day week.
VA gentleman who rather suspected some
one was peeping through the keyhole OF
his Office door, investigated with syr-
inge full of pepper sauce, and went home
to find his wife had been cutting wood,
and chip hit her in the eye
1t is now discovered that the account Of
balloon" being found in tree in north
Africa, and supposed to have travelled
southwark from France during the Fran
CO German war. is founded on typo
graphical error. The word should have
printed "baboon."
A young man in Indiana cues his father
for loaned money. which the father claims
as his own property. The fathers c6un-
sci, in summing up the case of bis client,
remarked, Twice has this prodigal re-
turned to the fathers house twice has
lie been received with open arms twice
for him has the fatted calf been Killed,
and now he comes back and wants the
old COW.
They have a human monstrosity 10
jacksonville. Florida, which is called an
alligator boy. 1t is thus described A
boy thirteen years old, with hands aud
feet shaped like an alligaior's, his back
bone all on que side of his body, his heart
on the right side where the liver ought TO
be. fifteen ribs on one side and four on
the other, the countenance of bright,
intelligent boy, and the movements OF an
alligator.
The sea otter, or Alaska seal, is the
most valuable of all the furs which pass
under the name Of sealskins. The fur is
exceeding fine, soft and velvety, perfectly
black in full season, but at other times OF
shining, deep sepia. or of a rich chest
nut brown. The sea-otter formerly com
manded in China from 500 to 500 the
skin. It.was tradition among sailors,
forty years ago, that all the sea-otter skins
went to China because no other people
could handle fur so fine. Now, how
ever, il is fashionable fur in Europe and
America, and its limitations are even more
fashionable. Other otter skins are also
highly priced.
Horse meat appears to have acquired
a permanent footing in the popular Aus
trian bill of fare. Statistics of the con
sumption of thi. convenient substitute
for beef are carefully kcpt and published
in the Vienna papers. According to the
New Free Press the slaughter Of horses
for food in July last amounted to 203, IN
August to lS4, and in September to 22l
La the entire quarter, therefore, no less
than COS horses were converted into food.
The price at which morse meat is sold is
ceri riainly not exorbitapt The fore quar-
ters" at from IL TO IA kreutZers per
pound, the ''hind-guarters' at IA to l6.
the ribs and loins at from l6 to Is. Fat
sells at from Is to 26 fiorins per hundred
weight, and bones at l form and 80
kreutzers.
The Rev. i. e. Herman, of Douglass
township, Montgomery county, over whose
head sixty winters have passed, eloped on
Saturday last with Maria Barto, a widow
lady of about the same age, who resides
near Mount Pleasant, Washington town
ship, Berks county. About two years ago
Lewis was married to Maria against the
will of her relatives. The marriage was
soon afterwards declared null and void by
the court, owing to the lady not being Of
sound mind, and she was sent to the lu-
ua,ic asylum at Philadel phia, where she
remained some nine months, when she
was again brought home, and close
watch kept over her. After repeated at
tempts she has at last given them the
slip and hied away with her lover. The
lady in question is very wealthy, owning
very nearly all the property around Mount
Pleasant, from which iron ore is being
taken. Mr.. Herman was formerly ib the
ministry (Reformedl, and had charge cf
several congregations in the upper end Of
Montgomery and lower end of Berks
coun.y.-Reading PA } Eagle.
There is queer SANDER suit in Daven-
port. Iowa. A family named knack had
$50 stolen from the house nearly two
years ago. An old housewife suggested
as a means for discovering the thief
trial of the book and the key. An old
prayer book and antiquated key were pro-
cured, the key inserted between tie leaves
of the book, and handkerchief tied
around the centre OF the book. The book
was then held ap by The key while the
names Of the neis shbors were repeated,
the theory being that the book would
drop whenever the thiefs name was yro-
nounced At the mention of two names,
j'arteher and Naumaun, the book inva
riably dropped in repeated trials. This
soon became town talk, AMI was SO un
pleasant to Messrs. Naumaun and Bartch-
er that they brought suit against the
Knack family, for $1,000 damages, on &C.
count of defamation of character. When
the case came to the jury eleven were in
favor of assessing the damages at the 6g,
vres claimed, but the other Juror, who
probably believed in book and KEY, held
out, and verdict was given for the de
PENDANTS.