Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-17
Il caught in it. His cries for help

Owens eyed 10. who IN his attempt to
eItricate him gut caugh: himself. and
before the machine could be stopped
both boys we're crushed to death.
One of the greatest pedestrian fea,s
ever undertaken, probably, Is an
nounced to- begin on April 8. Mark
Grayson, somewhat known as an actor,
a-thor and pedestrian, will under take
to ~aik round the world in 600 days.
The wsger is $4,000, between Leon
Mscarte and Louis VI. Grayson for, and
John T. Wilkinson and Thomas L. MUIR
dock against a successful termination.
Under the ,efms cf the agreement,
Ora, son is to start from the City Hall
in New York city on Saturday, April
3, 1875, and return to the same place
on Thursday, November %, 1876. The
distance included in che entire route is
1920 miles, which will require from
him daily walk of little over thirty-
two miles. A large part of the trip of
course will be on ocean steamers, during
which be will make up bis daily average
fon shipboard. Should be fall short of
making his daily average on shipbosrd,
for any reason, be will make it up on
land The route of bis walk is as fol-
lows: From New York to Liverpool
BY water thence to Havre, passing
through Manchester, Sheffield and Lon
dol; from Havre he will walk through
France to Lyons; then, passing through
Genoa, Florence, Rome and Naples, be
will 60 to Constautinople from there,
crossing the Bosphorus, he will walk
through the intervening countries to
India; then to Canton and Hong Kong,
China; at Hong Kong be will take ship
to the Philippine Isles; thence to New
Guinea, Australia, the Sandwich Islands,
San Francisco. The walk across the
continent will finish the undertaking.
The total number of miles he is to walk
BY land Is computed at 1912 miles,
and oy water 1885 miles Grayson
is twenty-eight gears of age, FIVE feet
seven inches high, and weighs l39
pounds. He has been in active train
ing since February Is at Wilmington:
Delaware.
The members of the Indiana Legis-
lature will hereafter have to content
themselves with S. day and mileage,
aud no stationery.
Women who take babies to kill are
to be looked after IN France. Every
child under ten years Of age put out to
nurse is now by law made . special OBJ |
jsct Of police surveillance, and the
nurses must, under severe penalties,
keep the authorities informed Of their
whereabouts.
Every species of snake may be per
manenrly driven away from an infested
place by planting geraniums. tits we'll
known that the whole geranium genus
is highly redcIent of volatile oils
lemon scented, musk-scented, and pep |
permint-scented. What, therefore, is
very pleasant nosegay for man Is re-
pugnant to the serpent tribe.
Transmission Of money BY post in
Russia is expressly forbidden, and the
money is liable to con6scation.
A Brazilian lady is creating great
sensation in Paris. She has yellow
carriage. and the wheel hubs are Of
solid gold. The servants connected
with the turnout number four-two in
the box and two in the rumble. The
harness is gold tipped, and the horses
are thoroughbreds.
Two years ago q Mrs. Bathens, re
siding in Dundee, Scotland, attempted
to take her life by cutting her throat.
The wound, however, healed up, a sill
yer tube was inserted, by which res
pirstion was carried on. Recently the
woman removed this tube to clean it,
but she forgo: to replace it, and sitting
down by the fire fell asleep, and died
from suffocation.
Several persons have been arrested
in Washington for cruel treatment to
infants
A "A and y year old couple are in
an Ohio court on an application for
divorce. Charge, adultery.
A tunnel is really to be built under
the Hudson river from jersey City TO
New York by the railroad companies as
soon as some legal distractions are re-
moved.
In Fredonia. New York, several gen.
tlemen, desiring to assist the needy
poor, obtained quantity of dre-wood,
and every able bodied man whose fam
lily needed wood was given one cord for
every two sawed by the applicant
Msny improved the opportunity, al
though a few who applied for assistance
we're unwilling to submit to the condi
tions.
The bodies Of over forty persons who
died at st. Johns, n. F., this winter
were temporarily Inferred in the snow,
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