Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-02-19

miles west of Delaware Gap. Pennsylva
mia. He was born at Mount Bethel
Pennsylvania, in November, 1853, ant
is, therefore, now one hundred and four
teen years Of age. His youngest daugh
ter, aged seventy-six, keeps house fol
him.
This melancholy epistle, written Oh
the fyleaf of an old Bible. just unearth
ed in Biddeford hotel, tells the story O
a talented lawyer who died few yearl
ago, after squandering a handsome for
tune "From Il. G. Thornton. l los
the last solitary dollar had on earth a,
the gaming table this night. Novembe,
&c, '53 Miserable vice -
A school girl in one of the rural dis.
tricts of Pitts6eld, was overheard trying
to convince schoolfellow that she liked
him better than che did some other ur.
chin of whom he seemed jealous "Oi
course like You better than do Bill, y
said she, "for don't miss words in my
spelling lesson on purpose, so as to be
down at the foot.Of the class where you
are 7"
Now, my young friends. suppose
twelve men buy twenty -four bushels Of
wheat to be divided equally. how many
bushels i. that for each 7" Boldest of
the boys-"Pleas, sir we've not gone
that far" "Uow i. that Your teacher
told me You had learned all the FIST four
rules !" Boy-"Yes, sir but we have
always done our Gums in potatoes and
turnips-ws have never had wheat
nOn Juan Forster, the great land own
er Of San Diego county, California, has
sent an agent to Europe to induce emf
grants to settle on bis vast tract. To
each be gives eighty acres of land, the
sole condition being the guarantee of the
emigrant that he will expend at least
$1,000 in improvements the first year
Each alternate section of eighty acres the
don reserves for himself.
The Wilmington Gazette thinks that
Dividing the county would prove an
injury to the whole State 1t would
add to the expenses the salary of two
more judges, and produce bad results in
a political view" The real cause of the
Ga=ett's anxiety is shown in the follow
ing sentence "In all probability. if the
county should be divided by the Chris
tiana and White Clay Creeks, the Radi-
cal politicians would carry both coun
ties"
Forest county docs large business in
lumber. At Lacytown, on Tionerta
Greek, there are thirteen million feet. of
lumber piled so as to be RATED at the
spring flood. and there are about two mil
lion feet in the back country ready to be
hauled down to the creek The lumber
is piled for half mile up Coon Greek.
and for a quarter Of mile along Tones
ia. making continuous pile three quar-
ters of mile long and twenty feet
high.
A careful estimate has been made OF
the area of the timber lands of Pennsyl
vania, aud the average yield of lumber
PER acre, and the alarming conclusion is
reached that three years stocking at the
present rate of five million feet per year
would entirely exhaust all the pine tim
Der now standing These statements art
made after very careful estimates, and
with such endorsements on the part Of
the most experienced lumbermen in the
State, that their truth is beyo yond doubt.
On last Sunday afternoon the roof Of
the New York Presbyterian Church at
Houston and Thompson streets, New
York citk, was crushed by the weight of
snow and rain The walls were forced
out and completely demolished. together
with the furniture and the new organ.-
In the basement, at the time, where
Je,eph Greer, the sexton, with four
of his family also John Todd
with his wife and two children and six
scholars of the Sabbath school. all of
whom were unharmed. The loss is es
timated at $4,000.
In France the roasting of coffee is
quite science, the roaster being required
to study the properties of the different
kinds of berry, since each sort must be
roasted for certain period of time. The
operation is conducted in a hollow iron
sphere, by the rotation of which all the
berries are equally exposed to the heat
During the roasting the ball is closed and
the gasses confined, but at the close of
the operation the valve is opened and the
gases allowed to escape The roasted
berries are then quickly transferred to
closed vessels.
A recently married man in franklin
county, Massachusetts, coming home
rather late the other night. took an um-
brel!a from the rack in the hall and pro-
ceeded to his room. The grieved aud in
dignant wife opened her eyes, and seeing
her husband supporting himself by the