Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-12

of Lawrens, N. T., has pises Of that
bread yet. It is now IS yeafs old, and
| il Mrs. Grover intends to eat it while
it is fresh, it is about time she was At it.
At last 1t has been found out Of what
the celebrated China birds nest is made.
l: is real BIRDS nest. built BY species
of swallow, that gathers for material
for its nest, . certain kind of ses-moss
that floats about the islands and coast
Of the China sea.
Mrs. Lewis died in Bergen county.
n. D., few days since. She was the
widow of a commander in the United
States navy, who won bis rank from the
deck. For many years the old woman
had lived alone, only emerging occa-
sionslly when business required it.
Bent double with age, and making her
way painfully, che had the reputation
among the ignorsnt of being witch,
and she was Stunned accordingly.
At Crescent, New York, there lives
two twins by the name of Lansing, now
in their seventy fourth year, one whom
was born one year and one the next
The former came late on New Years
eve, aud the latter early New. ears
morning
A farmer in Cambria county having
the deed Of bis farm in his vest pocket,
hung the garment on the fence while at
work In bis field, and COW Game along
ate part of the vest and the deed. The
question in that vicinity now is, is that
COW . freeholder, as the title of the
land wss duly vested her.
A plaintiff in . Pittsburg case has
sued . lawyer for slander in calling
the plaintiff liar, and saying that if
certain bonds got into plaintiffs hands
he would steal them. $780, 900 dam
ages are claimed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
can complete 100 cars iu week at
their shops in Altoona.
The citizens Of Muncy are raising 81
subscriptions for the. purpose of erect
ing a monument to Captaio John Bra
dy, who wss killed by the Indians near
that place in April l779.
Five brothers in York county are
the fathers of 6fty-three children.
At Osborne, NO., on the Hannibal
and St. Joseph Railroad, on Thursday
night the 9Th, burglars broke into a
drug store and stole a bottle Of shlo-
roform, with which they drugged the
whole town. They iobbed both hotels
all the stores and many private resi-
dencss. They secured several dollars
and escaped.
A Circassian girl in Reading, Pa,
shows pair of stockings that she says
she made entirely out Of her own hair.
They are thick, heavy, and soft, and
seem to be of pure hair. The upper
edges are secured with scarlet worsted
work. She says her hair grows to
great length and that she is compelled
to have it cut. TIE stockings we're
knit while she was on exhibition at
Barnum's museum.
Christopher Vanslyke, while saluting
the Centennial on New Years morning
at Utica, N. T., shot his daughter EN-
ma, aged seventeen, dead.
The once notorious colored lawyer
of Greenvi.le, Miss, j. D. Werles,
walked aboard boat lying at the
wharf few days ago, and accosted a
couple of cartmen with, "Did you ever
see any one commit suicide 2" They
both answered, ''No," when be rejoin-
ed, "Then watch me-" and leaping in
to the river, was drowned before be
could be reached.
A member of the California Legislature
has bill for the establishment of whipping
posts for the benefit of wife beaters. An
exchange says: s'This is the right move in
the right direction. 1t is hard ON a gen.
tleman to have to whip his wife while she
is united and can squirnl, or to be obliged
to improvise whipping post out of bed
post. A public post for this purpose would
I'LL need long and urgently felt, and we
trust the praiseworthy example Of this CAL
ifornia person will be followed by some ben
efactor of his married fellow-citizens in
each and every state in this Union"
A Fiend Incarnate Explo des q
Ship to get Insurance Money.
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