Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-01-15
SHORT ITEMS.

lars.
A Nebraska farmer is .wintering 5000
head of cattle.
Fourteen debutantes are announced for
Washington society this season.
A Vicksburg hackman charged an en-
igrant sl25 for carrying him across the
city.
Only one person in sixty-six is CON-
Portable in England Comfortable means
5000 a year.
Over 1900 buildings were erected in
St Louis last year, and '6reproof' is
claimed for none of them.
Queen Victoria sent gold spittoon to
the King of Siam wlo u.es it cn State
occasions for an oyster turreen.
Paper money is to be abolished in
Hayti, where dollar gold piece brings
s400 in currency.
The Allentown Iron Works have a
capital of ssOO.Ooo. They comprise a
nest Of five furnaces, and employ 600
mon.
The lemon groves of Corsica are suff-
ering from a curious disease The fruit
dries up and becomes as dusty as the
"smoke balls in our country pastures.
The Boston beaux are devoted!y at
tached to pung riding. as there is nothing
to support the lady's back, and the gen
tlemen is expected to use Lis arm for the
purpose.
Senator H.rlan's paper pronounces the
Modoc Indian war, in Oregon, to have
been caused by the attempts of petty
spectators to crowd the Indians upon
swamp lands.
An excited young men, clad in pair
of slippers, recently rushed into a church
at Walpack Centre, N. j, shouting {:
"Uere | come in the name of Jesus
He was taken ont in the name of the
law.
A San francisco bride is suing for d.
vorce, on the ground that she WAS drunk
when she married her husband For
proof she gives the axiom that any body
mast be drunk that would marry such a
man.
Love is a secondary passion in them
who love most, primary in those who
love least. lie who is inspired by it in
a high degree is inspired by honor in
higher degree it never reaches its plen-
itude of growth aud perfection but in the
most exalted minds.
Another farmer who would not give
up smoking while hauling load of hay
to Springfield, III, was seen prowling
around that town trying to get six month
time on new wagon, and enquirng what
was good to put on scorched horses to
save their lives.
A gang of cattle stealers has been bro
ken up at Corrine. Utah, through the in-
strumen,ality of butcher and his wife
who were engaged in slaushtering the
cattle. Three of the gang are in prison,
and two others were released on bonds of
$4,000 each.
A Springfield family WAS recently
made sick by their coffee at break fast,
and little while afterward there has he'd
upon the housewife the discovery that
she had acciden,ly taken the aromatic
berry," not from the coffee canister, but
from the tobacco can, which was its per
feet duplicate.
Jhc Ontario Government still ownes
500 square miles of timber lands in the
Ottawa region, in which not a single pine
tree had been cut, and containing some
Of the best pine timber this side of the
Rocky Mountains, and estimated to be
worth to the government, for the timber
alone, S25,OOO,OOO.
Evansville, Ind. drug clerks laugh
and grow obese over physicians prescrip
tons Of this style : i gallon turpoutin.
4 botels Nv Paridavis pane ciller, ounce
Nv campor, ono botel Of garglen, 10 cts
Nv asivity to be shaken, and taken in
side or out it don't make any differ UNITS
which"
DIR. Hugo Magnus. assistant physic ian
to the hospital at Breslau, suggests as
The best means of determining the pres
ence of lingering traces of life, that
tight l,gature be tied round one of the
fingers. If life be not extinct, the part
beyond the ligiture soon becomes red.
The depth of the color increasing to dark
red and violet. just above the ligature
The skin remains white.
Abbie Gardner says that Jacob Short.
m old citizen of San Rafael, Cal, prom
ised to marry her awhile ago. However
that may be Mr., Short refused to marry
her and Abbie brought suit for $4,000