Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-25
News Items.
Muffs will match the drees.

Muffs will match the drees.
Vanderbilt has eleven children.
Toombs has joined the Methodist
church.
Nothing is prosperous in England ex-
cept the building trades.
Very young ladies continue to wear
basques buttoned behind.
Round toed, high heeled shoes are to
be revived Fashion writer.
The mass OF hair on the back of the
feminine head vii! be discontinued.
Paris bellies are wearing their hair
cropped off and curled into rings.
\ Georgian reports that teaspoon
ful OF kerosene internally, cures snake
bite.
In case at BoDgor, for divorce, the
cause is desertion the day after the
marriage.
The habit of being always employed
is great safe guard through life, as
we'll as essential to the culture of every
virtue.
"What would like - said Jones, the
other night, to Miss Smith, as he led
her into the refresbment room. "Pcp,"
was the blushipg answer. Jones didn't
see 1t.
Lo is growing 10 be fond of ladies'
society. At the late Indian council
one of the chiefs said Il would like
to have some female ministers ccme TO
Us, dressed in black clothes"
Sixteen Mollie Maguires we're SEN
fenced at PottsviIle on the 10th inst.
A prominent New York woman clair
yoy ant, who tells sail secrets" and .'re-
veals" the abiding place Of absent
friends for 81, invariably in advance,
lost her own daughter few days since,
and Immediately went weeping aud beg
ging to the police department, asking
that she might be found
Prince Bismarck, writing to his wife
from a watering place, says: "Opposite
me IA, the ta5ie d'hofel sits the old Min
ister -, one of those figures that
appear to US in nightmares, big frog
without legs, who, at every bite, opens
his mouth like carpet bag, from ear
to ear, so that /. in a fainting state,
have to cling TO the table. My other
neighbor is Russian officer, decent
young fellow, built like boot jack,
long, thin body and handy, stumpy
legs"
In Algeria there is river formed by
the union of two streams, one coming
from a region Of ferrugirous soil and
the other draining a peat swamp. The
acid in the latter acting upon the iron in
the former makes a true ink, and the
river is actually stream of good
writing fluid.
A female preacher is said to be writ
ing a documentary on the Life of
Joshua" 1t is reported that she will
observe that Joshua was successful with
the sun, but he never commanded the
daughter to be still.
A new party in Wisconsin proposes
the abolition of the Office of President
of the United States as a measure of
civil service reform, replacing him by
an executive committe, of limited
power, to be chosen from the legislative
body.
A Western judge recently construct
ed the longest sentence on record. He
sentenced murderer for life, and after
ward added two more years to the SEN
tence, because the prisoner called him
"no gentleman"
In Lon don Mr.. Hicks, of New York,
has carriage and four, with riders,
in exact imitation of Queen Victoria's
equipage. Fashionable London has
been stricken dumb with astonishment.
There were 433 births and 436
deaths in New York city last week.
The dead body of Henry Shaffer, a
cattle dealer, aged forty-eight years,
was found i'll the woods, iu West Deer
Greek township, Allegheny county, Pa,
Friday, and the condition of the corpse
gave evidence of dreadful muIder.
The head was crushed out of all shape,
the pockets rifed, and a portion of the
clothing carried away. Henry Leuk-
ner, a partner of the deceased, was ar
rested on Saturday and committed to
Jail on suspicion of having committed
the deed.
Dio Lewis is said to have become so
dyspeptic over his Graham bread that
he has returned to hot biscuits and
mince pies.
Look out for counterfeit $40 bills on
the Lafayett National Bank, Lafayette,
Indiana.
"Wbat these Diggers want" said a
Florida man is 4" is education" Then
he picked up bis shot gun and started.
Barney Hayes was convicted, on the
18th inst, at Mauch Chunk, of per-
jury in connection with the late MolIie
Mcguire trials.