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

When Brigham Young dies, 81 widows
will mourn his loss.
There are 20 900 Presbyterian congre-
CATION, embracing 34,O0O.O0O members,
in the worl1.
Mr.. Hart, of Pilatki, Fla, sold $4,000
worth of oranges from rinc acre patch
the past season.
Small pox is still epidemic in Boston
Deaths last week, Sc.
BLACK as COAL is no lonse a tenable
simile'in Australia They have found a
pure white coal deposit there
The caster oil plant is now cultivated
in California and an average crop of 400
pound. Of oil to the acre is obtained.
1t is the man who determines the dig
nifty of the occupation, not the occupation
which measures the dignity of the man
The editor Of the Eeamiaer at Elk
Falls, Kansas, hung himself lately, and
left note for his foreman telling him to
go and chop wood if he would be happy
The Lebanon Manufacturing Compa
ny's works. at Lebanon were DESTROYED
on the 9TH inst, by what is supposed to
have been all incendiary fire. Loss SIS.
900 insured.
An oil-rcfning still burst at London,
Ontario, on the 9ih, and some of he burn
ing oil falling upon a number of cara of
the Great Western Railway Company,
they were burned. and los. of sl5O.OOO
resulted
a man in ke,kuk undertook to smoke
out the rats from between the floors and
par itions of his house. lie made it very
hot for The rats, bat next time he tries
tile experiment it will be in another
no use
Mr.. George w. Pslmer, disgus,ed
with the number Of his sheeh which have
been killed by dogs, lately Offered two
cents per pound, gross weight, for all the
dogs raised within five miles of Salt
vile, Va, where lie lives.
The California f, b commissioners have
appointed al agent to go east in April,
and bring back lobstere. erls, whitefish
from the western lakes, wall-eyed perch
black bass and other valuable fish from
all over the United States, to be propag-
ated in that State.
Women have rights in Iowa, if they
are wives. The other day an Iowa
women recovered valuable homestead
from the liquor dealer at whose bar her
husband had ruined himself, and now
another wife has obtained $1,000 DANA
ges from man who killed her husband
during a a,quarrel
Nearly seven thousand men and one
thousand horses are gathering ice on the
Hudson. aud it averages eleven inches in
thickness. About ninety FIVE hundred
tons are gathered a day. The crop will
reach fifteen hundred thousand tons, and
will be gathered by February l.
A man named Cannan, residing in
West morcland county, hung himself OH
New Years morning. He was found
with rope around his neck and attached
to bed pos: lie was an Incorporate
man in his early years but had not drank
anything Intoxicating for twenty years
or more. unit! short time ago. He wa=
about eighty years old
A terrible explosion of nitro glyceriue
place at tie lead mines at Hazel Green,
Wis, on the 9th James Rogefs, a min
cr. undertook to ihaw out a can Of the ex-
plO-ive in a blacksmith's shop. The Ell
itice was scattered in every direction, and
Rogers body, terribly mangled. was
found some twenty rods from the forge
A terrible accidents reported to have
occurred at Mor.on's station, Delaware
county. Pa Mrs Carr, wife of Thomas
Carr, undertook to fill lamp with "com
bination fluid" when the can, containing
a gallon of the stuff, exploded, burning
Mrs. Carr to death and three of the ehiI
dren so badly that they died before mid.
night.
THERE are more males than fem;,lea
born by 4 per cent At the age of 20
there are more females than males. At
the age of 40 the preponderance is again
on the other side, and there are more
males than females At 10 the sexas are
again even. Between 20 and 100 years
there are $500 more women than men,
or an excess of per cent. The mortal
ity of women is greatest between the
ages of 20 and 40. After 40 years of
age the probabilities Of longevity, as is
shown. are far greater for females than
far males.
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