Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

4 ~ ftO-OVOrOOO.
Gen. E. E. Spinner-he of the
meandering autograph-ran ahead of
his ticket in New York.
Alexander II. Stephens now weighs
two more pounds than he did. He
weighs only about 100 all told.
/ "A kentuckian thinks he has at
tanned the height of human happiness
in the possession of a wife feet
inches tall.
The Titusville Courier thinks the
daily production of petroleum this year
will fall at least 1900 barrels below
that of last year.
Political success is not without its
penalties. A Pennsylvania Senator
elect had to kiss 1859 babies during
the recent canvas.
The wife of Des Moines editor
has run away with beautiful Chicago
halter. So much for the vaunted in
fluence of the press.
The Gazette, Kansas paper, has
been sued for libel by the office devil.
who says that $40, 900 won't make his
character shine as it did before.
"A Cincinnati merchant has a pair
of shoes made in 1716, during the times
that tried mems souls, and he proposes
to exhibit them at the Cedtenniai.
1t is estimated that the Government
will recover 81 800 900 OF the amount of
loss involved in the St. Louis Whisky
frauds. This is about one-half of the
total loss.
There is bullfrog farm in South
eastern Wisconsin, 30 acres of swamp
fenced in, and the proprietor sends
thousands of these featherless birds to
New York.
AT the annual hunt of the Ne
braska City Sportsmen club, held re-
Gently, there were |, ,l35 animals slaugh-
tered, consisting of ducks, hares, quail,
snipe, plover, etc.
Maggie Davis, daughter of the ex-
President of the confederate states, is,
it is reported, about to marry A. j.
Hayes, Jr., cashier of the National
Bank of Memphis.
"A sea turtle captured on the Mary
land coast recently, measured 10 feet i'm
length and 8 feet from tip to tip of fins.
It took II men with 3 sets of halyards
to haul him ahore.
Auburn, n. ", claims more bach
elors and old maids than any other
place of its size in the country But
then, you know Auburn has well-pOp-
ulated states prison.
General Meredith, who died lately
in Indiana, was six feet seven inches
high, and Presi lent Lincoln used to say
that the General was one of the few
men he looked up to.
The Palmetto Guard, Of Charleston
South Carolina, has determined to cele-
brate the centennial of the battle of
Fort Moultrie, fought on June 2S, 1716,
by erecting sl2 900 monument.
The bones of over | 200 Cinnamon
have been gathered together at Sacra-
mentO, Cal, from all parts of the state,
preparatory to their being forwarded 70
China, in few days, by clipper ship.
/ Sixteen beds of camel coal, aggre-
eating 400 feet i'm thickness, the largest
being seventy feet thick, and fully
equal to the English article, have just
been discovered in Uintah, Wyoming.
"A black duck flew against the
lighthouse at Sankaty, Nantucket. the
other day, with such force as to break
i'm large plate glass window almost
half an inch thick, killing itself in
stantly.
A new baseball organization for
the season of 1876 has been perfected in
st. Paul under the name of the Gopher
club. They expect to gopher every
thing i'm the state and visitors from out
side regions.
The old bell which called together
the Virginia Convention of l775, in
Richmond, when Patrick Henry ut
tered his stirring sentence, ''Give me
liberty or give me DEATH" is still in
use in Martinsville, in that State.
The annual production of leather
gloves in France is estimated at about
=, SOC, 900 dozens of pairs of first second
and third sorts, the average price being
thirty-five francs per dozen. There are
$4,000 persons employed in this in
dustry.
"A colored woman of Lairtonville,
Ca, lately died at the advanced age of
r 1l2 years. She was supposed to have
been the oldest person i'm that State.
, She was born on Roanoke Island, and
! was twenty years old when the war of
1716 commenced.
Deserves success. A new steam
|, ship company is organizing in New
| Il VI n WiiCu W III ilOI d-h tDtl0Tt-S lDI
, any aid whatever. The steamers are
: to ply between New York, st. Thomas
, and Venezuela, and are to depend
wholly upon the Legitimate profits of
| commerce for support.
"A Wyoming paper prints a state
ment to the effect that Mexican mus
tang fell down a shaft, a distance Of
eighty feet, and was rescued without
bruise. The succeeding paragraph
very properly consists of a denuncia-
ton of liars, especially those of the
newspaper fraternity.
The California Pacific railroad peo-
pie are pushing their end Of the South
ern Pacific with great vigOr, and prom
ise to have railroad communication be-
tween san Francisco and Los Angeles,
next summer. This will open the de-
lightful climate and tropical fruits Of
southern California to easy access.
st. Louis has just figured up its hog
packing for this year, and finds that
between March ] and October 81, the
number packed was l02, Ia averaging
220 ibs. each, against 159 1862 ,209 bs.
last year. The product of these hogs,
together with 1900 head slaughtered
Nv Nsi- lD,f'VYDDV VI
cut meats and 3,6l9, s62 pounds of lard.
One of the bronze medals presented
by Congress to the heroes of the battle
of Lake Erie is i'm possession of gen.
tleman CT Toledo, Ohio. On one side
is likeness of Commodore Perry in
naval uniform, and on the reverse is 4
representation of the fleet in the line of
battle, engaging the enemy. The
owner intends to send the medal to the
Centennial Exposition.
A farmer in Seymour, Ind, while
examining his corn crib the other day,
came across a small jug whose mouth
was stopped by the body OF a rat which
had tried to get in but had stuck fast.
On breaking the jug he found four
other rats inside, all alive. The latter
had evidently crawled in, eaten till
their sides were stuffed out, and then
found it impossible to crawl out again.