Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-15
News Items,
BARTON SPEAK.

Prince Gortsc5akoff Is seventy eight
years old, uses no wine or tobacco, eat,
only Two meals day, aud sleeps ten
or twelve hours.
Apples in Michigan are sold for sew
enty-tv cents barrel, and in Geor-
gia they go for twenty FIVE cents a
bushel, with the bag thrown in.
To save quarreling with the life in
surance company, a Chicago woman
stopped her husband s funeral procession
before the Office and sent word 10 the
president to satisfy himself.
A man in Orilla, Ont., did not give
the alarm when he saw the fire burst
ing out of his neighbours mill, ''because
be had business @: his own to attend
to-" The jury of inquest said his self
lshness ought to be severely censured.
Two men in Hesldsburg, Cal, went
to see a circus the other day, and when
Ada Belmont appeared on the trapeze
they recognized a sister they hadn't
seen since she was eight years old, in
1856 and took her home with them.
Beef is six cents pound In Jack
sonvllle, Florida.
canada grangers will organize an in
surauce company for themselves
Importation Of potatoes from Grea;
Britain, Portugal and Greese as we'll
as the United States, has beel forbid
en- By the Swedish government, in order
to guard agains. the Colorado beetle.
The trade 10 borses between Eng
land and canada is rapidly increasing.
The Mikado of Japan will visit the
Paris Exhibition OF 1873.
Oae hundred Chicago families are
seeking a settlement in Florida.
Four hundred thousand pounds oi
mustard seed were harvested during
the summer in the Salinas Valley OF
California.
Says the English Veterinarian
"Horses can be educated to tue extent
Of their understanding as we'll as chill
dren. The great difference in them
comes from different management. We
once saw an aged lady drive a high
spirited horse, attached to a carriage,
down a steep bill with No hold back
straps upon the harness, and she assur-
ed US that there was no danger, for her
son accustomed his horses to all kinds
Of usages and sights that commonly
drive the animal into frenzy of fear
and excitement. Anything can be done
with horse if be only be taught by
careful management that be will not be
injured thereby"
The biggest tree in California is not
in the Yosemite valley. Kings river
valley, in Fresno county, is 5000 feet
above the sea, and its walls, which are
5000 feet high, are veiy preclpitous.
In this valley a new grove of colossal
red trees has been discovered. One OF
then eclipses all that have been discov-
cred on the Pacific coast. Its circum-
ference, as high as man can reach and
pass a tape line around, is few inches
less than $50 feet. This is beyond the
measurement of any tree in the CaIav-
eras grove. The height is estimated at
l60 feet; aud part of the top lying
on the ground is over 100 feet in
length.
Neither Mr.. Polk nor Mr.. Buch-
snan nor Mr.. Lincoln on his FIRST elect.
ion, received majority of the popular
vote.
A cancer weighing three pounds was
lately removed from q woman at Cres-
son.
Montgomery county prison has seven
ty convicts and twenty three vag.ants
Be content with what you have a,
the fox SAID to the trap when he left
his tail in it.