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

men.
Maine is establishing cheese factories,
and it isn't considered such Baitey en-
terprise either.
1t costs Richmond, Va, S1S.63 per
annum for every child attending the
public schools.
A woman in an Illinois penitentiary
recently cut off finger to escape being
compelled to sew.
Omaha has opened a Pullman"
hotel; but as it hasn't wheels it isn't
likely to go off well.
Blacksmiths are the only people who
can engage in forgery without danger
of getting into trouble.
A Cherry Valley lady's beau wanted
to borrow five dollars of her, when she
immediately put VITO on his further
visits.
An old bachelor says that women are
like parrots; they are willing to be
Gagged up, if they can only have a ring
to play with.
Pauline Lucca has purchased lot
and will erect handsome residence for
herself on Fifth avenue, near the Cen
tral Park, N. Y.
The Government has seized over
hundred barrels of Bourbon in Ken
tucky, and the inspectors are now busy
looking into the matter
The saloon-keepers all over town are
complaining of the difficulty of making
mllk-punches out of milk-and- water.
The milkmen are quite cowed down
about it.
Long Island presents a fine opening
Tor missionary operations. An enthu-
siastic in search of martyrdom can be
easily accommodated among the Ameri-
can Tar-tars down there.
A patent medicine manufacturer ad-
vertises that persons should "never
trifle with sickness" We don't see how
he is going to sell his medicine if they
take his advice. They can't take both.
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, has a curiosity.
Half mile from shore tree stands
perpendicular in eighty feet of water.
1t projects ten feet above the surface,
and is fastened so firmly to the bottom
that it affords safe moorage to the
largest crafts on the lake.
Mrs. Gersbach, a merry wife of Mar
tinez, California, playfully mixed lau-
danum in his favorite moustache cup,
and also administered soothing Croton
oil. But when even this would not
touch him, she called in friend who
carried concealed weapons, and all was
soon over.
A young lady at Layfayette, Ind,
sings all the popular songs while fast
asleep, and knows nothing about it.
Now, if she were to change her tactics
little, and sing all the popular songs
while her neighbors are asleep, so they
would know nothing about it, we should
consider her success as a singist.
We learn from Nature that the dome
of st. Paul's Cathedral, London, has
recently been rendered secure from
lightning strokes by complete system
of conductors. They consist of eight
half-inch strands of copper wire, octa-
gonal In form and leading from the
cross ball and scroll over the sides of
the dome, and thence down the rain
falls to the sewers.
The new counterfeit fifty-cent stamp
is very dangerous. No difference can
be distinguished between the printing
and engraving of that and the genuine;
so experts decide by the letter ''p" in
Treasurer Spinner's name. III on the
right hand upper corner of the note is
not found the lower half of the loop of
this letter, then there is mo loop or
hinge to hang a doubt on" that the
stamp is counterfeit.
New cattle cars have been invented
and patented which promise to supply
the much needed accommodations re-
quisite for the humane and proper
transportation of cattle. The car is
forty-six feet long, and has accommo-
dation for sixteen head of cattle or
horses. Each animal has a separate
stall and the gates are on slides and
move with the cattle. They stand
eight in row, on each side of the car,
and all look outward. The hips of the
animals come together, and they are
exempt from all hurts or bruises. The
car is so arranged that the stock can be
fed and watered on the way.
Hippophagy is said to be on the in
crease in France, and the artists of the
kitchen are cudgelling their wits to in
vent new styles of serving it up. A sir
lOin of horse, corned-saddle would be
more appropriate term for it, perhaps
is SAID to be superior in succulence
to beef prepared in the same way. Ger
tainly, if the horse is a thoroughbred,
its flesh ought to have a racier gustO
than has that of the slow OK. Com
an1 nj <lfr %hn
is, however, it seems almost like canni-
balism to transfer him from the stable
to the table; and in this country, at
least, it is probable that he will, for
many years yet, continue to enjoy the
privilege of being curried instead of
cooked.
The bystanders who witnessed the
following narrow escape related by
French paper, must have felt extremely
anxious to wake. A child of FIVE and
half years of age was playing at one of
the windows of house in the Rue de
la Trappe, when it leant too far out and
fell. The mother darted to the window
in agony, and saw her child hanging by
its pinafore to an iron hook fastened to
the half-opened shutter of window on
a lower story. In spite of the entrea-
ties of neighbor, the unhappy mother
stood gasping for breath, her hands
clutching the window-sill, and her
whole appearance model for statue
of despair. Suddenly a voice cried:
"Make haste; his pinafore is tearing"
The mother tainted, but the door had
now been broken in, and the porter
drew the shutter gently inwards, and
thus at length succeeded in placing the
child safe and sound on the floor of the
room.
An English paper reports the case of
a Norwich laborer, who, being dissatis-
fed with his wife, placidly gave her in
marriage to one Of his acguaintances,
himself appearing to perform the Gus
tomary ceremony of giving her away at
her wedding. Being promptly taken
before police justice, he was punished
for this little deviation from custom by
imprisonment for two months, with hard
labor. The journal from which we
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