Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-26

"a SCHENECTADY ylri 81 spclilnx-
bee sat down on "pantaloons."
1 Harvard has accepted Yale's chsl-
lenge for an eight Dared coxswsin four
mile race.
II Chauncey Filley of st. Louis has paid
81 ,000, 900 worth of notes which he en-
dorsed for friend.
i Richmond has two pressing wants
the improvement of James river and
q statue of Gen. Lee.
-Fiorida is progressing in populs-
ton and wealth more rapidly than any
of the southern states.
Among the California exhibits at
the Centennial will be building con-
structed of pine cones
The proposed new Constitution of
Texas permi nine jurors in panel of
twelve to reCurn a verdict.
The California love books. Only
20, 900 books have been stolen fro m the
Mercantile library in one year. ..
1t is proposed by the legislature of
California to punish illegal wife-whip-
ping by legal husband-whipping.
/ MIR. John B. Trevor, of New York,
has given 81 500 TO Rochester Univer-
sity for the purchase of telescope.
In Cincinnati every other street
lamp is to be extinguished, thereby ef-
fecting an annual saving of So, 900.
The Virginia Senate is composed of
nineteen attorneys, five physicians,
thirteen farmers, and the balance mer-
chants.
Gen. Sutter, famous as the man on
whose land in California gold was first
discovered, is poor, and 80 and living at
Litiz, Pa.
bridge over the Mississippi at st. Louis
will not pay interest on cost during this
generation.
-Ship-building in Maine this year
aggregates a tonnage of 15,06O, ,+5,
against l22, ,54S, "a In 1874, decrease of
over one-third.
Mount Casa, the residence of the
late Mrs. John c. Calhoun, near PEN
dleton, South Carolina, was sold re-
Gently for $1,000.
The Dabolls, of Groton, Connect
cut, have manufactured almanacs for
over century. Ii runs i'm the family.
No. lO4 is just issued.
Mark Twain says the charges of the
Niagara Falls haekmen are so much
higher than the Falls, that the latter
appear quite Insignificant.
Bret Harte commenced life as
child, and was clerk, a schoolmaster,
| a gold miner, a printer, an editor and a
poet before he became of age.
4 a. =
shipped 81, 900 bushels of castor beans
last year, but it frankly admits itself TO
be poor town for rhubarb.
The President has signed the bill
further extending the time of the dura-
ton of the court of commissioners of
Alabama claims to the 22d of July
next.
The Episcopal church at Williams
burg, Va. has a very heavy communion
service, which was a present from
George Ill. 1t will be exhibited at the
Centennial
"A Brooklyn gas company wouldn't
come down, and 1900 of its patrons
went to burning kerosene. When the
company wanted TO come down people
told it TO go up.
The students of the Art College at
Syracuse have prepared and framed
wreath of finely-tinted autumn leaves
to be sent as a present to the Crown
Princess of Prussia.
st. Louis is 429 feet above tide:
Cincinnati, 40 feet; Pittsburg, 695
feet; Omaha, 1860 feet; Atlanta, 1889
feet; Denver, 5l96 feet; Cheyenne, 6O14
feet, and Pixies Peak, II l4S.
"A Tennessee court has just decided
that 4 teacher has the same right to en-
force obedience from a child that
parent has, and can therefore inhict
corporal punishment when necessary.
"A petrified man, with gold orna-
| nents, has been found in the vicinity
of Indianoia, Texas, and the scientists
are puzzled to know what age he be-
longed to. The golden age we should
say.
"A colony of bees have been allowed
for several years to inhabit the attic of
Ebenezer Southard's house at Wincas-
sett, Me-, and a few days ago a portion
of the roof was removed and over 100
pounds of honey obtained.
A huge rock, which appears to be
formed almost entirely of serpents in
various positions, but making a solid
mass, has been found on the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and will
| be sent East for exhibition.
| Gen. Fremont, who 90 years ago
had ga glorious moustache" and parted
his hair i'm the middle, is now, accord
ing to correspondent, "a little, wea-
zen-faced, dried up old man, who can
not write as well as his wife,"
The well known Hudson river
steamers, Drew, St. John, and Dean
Richmond, are now being overhauled
from stem TO stern for Centennial year.
They will have new boilers, machinery
and fifty additional staterooms each, all
at an expense of nearly half a million
dollars.
The Washington Elm at Cambridge
under which Washington stood when
he took command of the Continental
armies, is decaying rapidly. The ex-
cavatiOns of the municipal government
for sewer buildings have so cut and un-
dermined its roots that the famous tree
is in danger Of falling at any time.
"A workman at Columbus, Ohio,
tried to pass over the Scioto river hand
| over hand on wire OF an unnDlshed
bridge, but shortly the wire began to
cut his hands, and though he made des-
perate attempt to return, the pain COM
PEELED him to let go and he was dashed
to pieces on the rocks, fifty feet below
There will be four eclipses in 1876,
two of the sun and two q the moon.
Only two of them will be visible in this
country, namely, a partial eclipse of
the moon at midnight, March Q, and an
annual eclipse of the sun March %.
September Is, total eclipse of the sun
will be visible in Australia and the
Southern Pacific region.
Only eight Indiana editors hold
postmaster-ships. The enumeration of
these able and loyal journalists is as
follows Holloway, Indianapolis; Hard
ing, of the Cambridge City Tribune;