Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-01
SHORT ITEMS.

year.
York county boasts Of sheep weighing
four hundred pounds.
The smallest circular saws are those used
in aking gold pens.
The Dunkards talk of establishing ssm-
mary, either at Martin,burs or Berlin.
The Pythisns of Ricnmond have resolved
to build PythiIn temple, to cost ss0,c00.
s.The battle against the bottle is the
way western exchange styles the crusade.
A sewing school is soen te be opened in
Scranton Under the patronage of the Y. VI.
c. A.
A five year old boy in Pittsfeld got hold
Of the family bottle of whisky unseen, and
drank 30 much that he died.
The smallpox i, on the increase in Non
treal, Canada, deaths being reported daily.
1t is estimated there are over 300 cases at
present.
A very touchy husband told his wife they
could not agree, and must divide the house.
avery we'll" said she, s'you can take the
outside"
Rev. Meili, Catholic priest Of Crcstline,
Ohio, has renounced Catholicism, and de-
clared his intention of uniting with the
PRESBYTERIAN Church.
The Iowa Senate, by a majority of one
vote, has refused TO prohibit the sale of wine
and beer in that State. Stronger drinks
are already prohibited by law.
On Thursday a week, near Beech Creek,
panther sprsng from tree toward man
named Rupert, but misc,icula,ed the dis
tance, and Rupert, barring the fright, was
none the worse for il.
The insane game was played on Frank
Dodge, OF Erie, by his wife. He claims to
be as sane a, anybody, and says lie has been
incarceIated on account of jealousy. The
jsilor says he is not crazy.
An English genius has invented a fuse TO
be used as fire alarm in private houses. A
New Yorker, experimenting the other day
with this protective fuse, burned his house
up.
Chignons are really of service to the
wearer, in Virginia. II was only the other
day tha. an eagle pounc-d down upon a
young lady there and fixed his tslons in her
head. All the noble bird got was hair.
Twenty-onc years ago, Hosea Fletcher, Of
Miifred, Mass, left town with a yoke of
oxen, and had rot been heard of until last
We sk, when he was kind enough to write
from Kansas, and inquire abou, his family.
A mother and three children were burned
to death at Mott Haven, y. Y, on Tuesday
n light a week, in fire which destroyed two
tenement houses. The father escaped with
two children BY jumring on an adjoining
roof.
4 Yale student writes twelve-verse
poem which is entitled, awe Kissed each
otfer by the sea- We'll, what of it 20
asks western journalist; Z" the seaside is
no better for such practices than any other
locality"
The special election in wayne county, to
fill the place of Wm. II. Dimmick, Demo-
cr.t, who resigned his seat as Incmber ef
the Legislature, has resulted in the election
Of Thomas T. BOYD, Republican The dis
trict has been Democratic for many years.
Mrs a. Harkins, Reilly and Two-and-a
Half streets, Harrisburg, fell deal in the
arms Of her daughter on Thursday evening
aweek, while in the performance of her
household duties. A few years ago her
husband met his death suddenly.
On Friday morning week, while VIM.
Hartman, of Franklin township, York coun-
", was delivering a PRAYER, during the OK
ercises of the family worship, he was sud-
denly taken i'll and almost Immediately e.-
pired. He was in the 52nd year Of his age.
A sewing circle was quickly broken up at
G Gardncr, Me-. the other day, b. tic Inuo-
cent remark of a lady present: g | always
mad a great desire to know how case Of
small po1 looked, SO called ON a sick lady
this afternoon Just before coming 10 the
circle"
An EDgishman suggests that the ocean
telegraph cables should be provided with
, branches al intervals, the end of each
branch being brought 10 the surface and
held there by buoy. By means of these
| floating stations ships in distress near the
! line of the cable could communicate with
the shore.
The Raleigh IN. C.) Dariy Ner, has re-
ceived the following despatch from its re-
I porter at Marion, dated March 9Th: ''News
ha. Just reached here that the shocks on
Stone Mountain were more violent last
nigh. that at any time since the commence
ment Of the volcanic disturbance"
/ A Maryland lady, Mrs. b. II. Conway, OF
/ Frederick county, who has established
reputation AZ a contractor for ellis and
.scuts," has filed several contracts In Penn
svlyania. She has been awarded . $780,
900 Job on the Western Maryland Railroad,
aud now takes the work Of excayating .
J tract in Baltimore for building sites
/ One day last week man by the nanie OF
Brown. living at Sainevill-, Ohio, in
drunken fit, cut, with = razor, pieces of
7 flesh out of the arms of his SICK son, boy
/ aged about fifteen years. The lad had been
sick for some Time and sores came on his
back from being confined TO his bed. The
father said he would cut the proud flesh,
! and Gu: he did.
DIR. Reid, the celebrated medical writer,
was requested BY Lady OF literary eIui-
nsnce to call at her house. :. Be sure you
recolleci the address," said she, as she
Quilted tie room :. No. Chesterfield
street." "Madam," said the doctor, 81 am
| too great an sdmirer of poiiteness not to
remember Chesterfield, and, fear, too sell
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