Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-10-01
SHORT ITEMS.

The King Of Ashantee has Sss5 wives. and
still he is not happy.
About 200 of the ladies' shoenlakers of
New You are on strike.
A quilt exhibited at the Central Illinois
Fair contains 2S,5l7 pieces.
Oranges measuring sixteen inches in cir
cumference are raised in California.
Mrs. Young No. IL is going to tell all she
knows of Mormonism on the lecture plat
form.
It is asserted that bracelets are rapidly
going out of ia a-nion, and in few months
will seldom be seen.
On the lsst day of the Vienna Exposition
the gates were thrown open to the public,
and the fair was visited by 1901
An old lady, 80 years Of age, recently
Joined party of Mormon converts, about
to leave England for Salt Lake City.
A sufferer suggests an improvement in
the photography Of the word pan,cs. He
thinks it would be better to spell it psy-nix.
The wedding cake for the marriage of the
Duke of Edinburgh and the daughter of the
Emperor of Russia will be feet 6 inches in
height and weigh $50 pounds.
Horse-hesh is now generally consumed at
Milan, where the cuisine is said to be so
perfect that it is impossi bic to distinguish
it from the first quality of beef.
We often live under cloud, and it is we'll
that We should do so. Uninterrupted sun
shine would parch our hearts; we want
shade and rain to cool and refresh them.
From three castor-beans planted BY DR..
Allen, of Montgomery county, Iowa, in
1871. aud their yield in 1872, their are now
growing in his nIighborhoOd one hundred
acres.
1t is said that in Wales there are 100000
people who still cling to their native tOngu Q,
in spite of all the pressure which has been
exerted to compel them to adopt the Eng
lish language.
Marshall, one of the inmates of the State
Prison at Trenton, NJ j., was shot by an
under keeper, on the 24th nit, while at
tempting 20 kill one Eastlack, who had been
left in charge of the prison shops.
A young man named George W. Leeping
has been arrested at C aldwell Station, W.
Va, for robbing the post office At that place.
Nearly all the stolen money (abOut five hun
dred dollars) was recovered.
The engineers on some of the Pennsy Iva
mia railroads amuse themselves by carrying
tame trout in the water tanks of their loco
motives, where they are said to flourish, in
spite of the constant motion to which the y
are subjected.
A whole family named Walker were az
rested in fremont, New York, on Sunday .
week, on charge Of counterfsiting curren-
cy and stamps. A large quantity was fonud
on the premises and material for the manu-
facture of more.
The patrons of Hus5andry" have been
minded ladies propose to get up an organi-
the main object being to keep husbands from
staying out late at night.
A Brooklyn man has invented life-pre-
server, which consists simply of tive sleeves
of India-rnbber, II be drawn over tine arms
and then iutiated by blowing in them. In
this condition they will sustain the body in
any position the wearer may choose to rs =
sumo on the surface of the water. They
can be fastened on the arms and adjusted in
fifteen minutes.
A new method of preparing coffee is be.
coming popular in France. After roasting
the coffee is ground TO very fine -four, which
rs then slightly moistened, mixed with
twice its weight of powdered sugar, and
pressed inio tablets. COffte prepared for
use in this manner is claimed, pound for
pound, to be susceptible of far more CON-
plcte utilization.
The Barnesville (Ohio) Enterprise says
An old gentleman and lady from Pennsyl-
vania are visiting our fair whose life-hstory
is somewhat singular. 1t appcnrs that a
widow lady took an orphan boy to raise,
and when he arrived 1t the age of eightee n
she married him, she then being in her
fiftieth year. Ten Years ago they took an
orphan girl to raise. This summer the old
lady died, being ninety-six years of age,
and in nine weeks after, the old man mar
ried the girl they had raised, he being sixt v
eight years old and she eighteen.
A daring and extensive plot to rob the
Exposition at indianapolis, Indiana, of dia-
monds and other vauables, has been dis
covered. 1t was arranged that experienced
containing an immense amount of diamonds
jewelry and silverwsre, while confcderates
should cut the gaspipe which supplies the
Exposition and which runs through an open
common. In the darkLess and confusion
the rad was to be made, the cases smashed
and the valuables secured The guards
have been strengthened, calcium lights pro-
vided, and all precautions taken to irus.
trate their design.
A Keokuk (Iowa) lady, while engaged in
the pursuit of her domestic duties, eneoun-
tered mouse in the flour barrel. She sum-
moned the hired man and told him to get
the shotgun call the bulldog, and station
himself at a convenient distance. Then she
climbed halfway up stairs and commenced
to push the barrel vigorously with pole.
Presently the mouse made its appearance
and started across the floor. The bulldog
went in pursuit. The hired man fired and
the Dig dropped dead. The lady tainted
and dropped down the stairs, and the hired
man, thinking she was killed, lit out and has
not been seen since. The mouse escaped.
P. T. Barnum left New York for Europe
on the oath ult., to investigate and arrange
details for his contemplated attempt at s
final solution of the aerial transatlantic
passage question, the scheme to be car
ricd through at any cost, he says. He
had conference with Wise and other
sailing masters on the 23rd, during which he
said ssI have got this matter cut and dried,
and the first thing is to get over, and that
depend on you balloon men to do. I'll at
tend to the rest. II want you, Wise, Tll
cable for you, and wish you had your bal.
loon ready to beat those creeping steamers.
No sea-sickness either, you see. / wish
was younger"
NetC n tiCerttsenaents.