Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-23
GENERAL ITEMS.

Paterson, N. j., has fixed the license
fee for circusses at $1,000, because
she had some trouble with one of those
institutions last season.
The army worm is marching vest
ward at rapid rate of speed. The
advance guard has reached West Vr-
ginia, in some parts of which State the
pest is doing serious damage to the
growing oats crop.
A large number of NlessiUa quail
we're turned loose in Ohio and Indiana
last week by a game protective sssocia-
ton, and q much larger nuhber of the
same birds will be liberated in the
State of Maine. They are perfectly
hardy, aud are easily scclimated. Had
the people OF the two States first nam-
ed Lusbanded their native game they
would not now be reduced to the ne
cessity of importing and scclimating
foreign birds.
The Yuma, Cal, Sentinel tells of a
novel insurance plan, as follows: Mr..
David BALI, who counts his cattle by
the thousands, has adopted a noTel
method to provide for the future o! his
two children. He has selected thirty
head of two year-old helfers from his
different bands all of pure blood and
we'll bred, and given them to his chill
dren, and has charged himself with
the maintenance of the same and their
increase until the children are of age.
We have made a careful estimate OF
the probable number of cattle his chill
dren will have on their becoming of
age, and fiud it enormous. Reckoning
an increase of 33a per cent. and the
I time sixteen years, it amounts To 2,O59
heads, worth We will say, $50 per
head, and will aggregate the snug little
sum of S62.9lO.
A man who had imbibed rather free
ly in the morning was driving bis coz
20 pasture, when a fellow came along
aud extolled the COW. "Yes, SIR" SAID
the owner, "every body is pralsing that
coS" 81 wish | owned her, said No.
2. Just then a couple of toads jumped
in front of the cow "Look here" ex-
claimed the owner "if you'll eat those
two toads I'll give you the cow" "hill
you ~ said the man. He seized toad
and coon ate him up. 1t was too much
for bis stomache and he stopped to con
slider while the owner of the COW began
to fear that he had lost her There
was pause when happy thought hit
the toad eater. "if You will eat the
other toad I'll let you up On your offer"
"Done," said the owner, and he COB
tled the second toad in jiffy. They
were both somewhat the worse for their
meal, and i; is still disputed point
which came cut ahead.
"We are informed" says the Black
shear, Ga, .heIcs, "though of course
we know nothing of the facts il our
own knowledge, that there IS consider.
able excitement existing in the COM
muRi,y of Strickland's ferry, on the
Big Satilla river. 1t seems that the
ferryman, Levy Strickland, primitive
Baptist preacher was putting one Mr.
Highsmith across the river IN a fat,
which sunk before reaching the cppo-
site shore, where the water was known
to be twenty feet deep. Mr.. Fl. could
not swim, consequently leaving him in
a perilous condition and praying for
help to save him from a watery grave.
The third time be rose up he cxclaim-
ed: Save me- and Mr. Strickland, who
could not swim, was yet upon the
wreck, cried ort: sHave faith snd rise
and walk OUT which was obeyed, and
the drowning man reached the bank
with safety and was not even strangled." "