Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-03
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Sultan OF Turkey has three hun
dred cooks.
General Sherman will not let up on
Flz John Porter
Leadville averages six elopements a
day
Good digestion will do a great deal
more to keep man straight than good
resolutions.
1t is recorded that vessel left Bos-
ton last week carrying eight hundred
thousand gallons of run and one mis-
siouary.
For neglecting to support his wife,
Rev. Charles Il. Walker has been sus-
pended from the ministry of the Meth
dist Church at Fall River, Mass All
the charges against him were sustained
BY the ecclesiastical tribunal.
The New York Times says that on
ly one fifth of the SIX thousand lawyers
IN that city earn livelihood and do
something better than exist. The rest
are doing nothing half the time, dun
ned by their landlords and every class
of tradesmen. This is sad picture of
the condition of the fraternity Of Goth
am, and no very cheering one to the
youth who expects to enter the law.
Not any to soon, Mayor Kalloch, of
San Francisco has concluded to put a
stop to meetings on the sand lots
A tramp protected himself from the
cold at La Harpe, Ill, by building a
complete circle of fire and going to
sleep in the enclosure; but he was
burned to death.
Captain Webb, the English swim
mer, has undertaken to swim sixty con-
secutive hours. The attempt will be
made in March, in London, in sea wa
ter of summer temperature. What
next.
A pretended carpenter was the auth.
or and executor of the Winter Palace
plot to kill the Gar.
Nelson j. Lee, the temperance
apostle Of Erie, has fallen from grace
again, started a saloon and skipped the
town to avoid the service of warrants
charging him with defrauding brewers
Snow was so tightly packed on the
Northern Pacific railroad during the
recent "blizzard'' that one work train
used up five engines in the attempt to
release an imprisoned train, whose
I passengers had to walk eight miles be
tore they received assistance. The
, snow IN the cuts is like ice
: A San Francisco actor named Snow
is IN luck. He was out few days ag
/ travelling on horseback when hi, hors,
, slipped and he fell over the bluff
, Snow was on the ground-not the actor
| but the other kind of snow; so the &C
tor Snow was on The snow rolling ovel
) and over. Had the ground and rock;
been bare be would have been badly
hurt, but he kept on rolling down tn,
! hill, which was at an angle of forty
! five degrees till he was stopped By a
7 mass of moss covered stone standing
out of snow. The horse in trying tC
stop rolling had kicked off some of the
moss, and left the rock exposed to view
1t was quartz lode, aud Snow broke of
; several pieces which were estimated
to be three-fourths gold. He says b,
won't take $4,000 for his interest.
At dance at a village in New
Hampshire. one of the musicians go
! Intoxicated and reeled against one o
! the dancers, who became so angry tina
be sIezed the poor fellows oISs VIC
and struck him on the head with it, in.
, HlctiDg injuries from which the music
ian died SHORTLY afterward.
A courageous servant employed by
, widow living in the English town o
/, Crawford, was attacked By seye-a
burglars fort night ago. She tan be
, fore them and locked the doors of th,
. rooms containing valuable property
She was thrown down stairs and par
TALLY stunned, but retained sufhcien
r courage and presence of mind to rusi
! out of the door aud throw the keys in
to the quarry. The ruffans dragged
her back into the house, and while on,
of them packed up all tie property he
could lay hands on, the other threw he
, down, knelt on her chest, half strangIeC
, her beat her severely, and threatened
, her with knife A noise outsid,
alarmed the thieves; who bolted with
out their pluuder. 1t is pleasing tt
learn that this brave girl, though ST
savsgely kaocked down was not serious
: ly injured.
An exchange speaking of the way
, men waltz, says; One man waltzes will
his head in the air. and much the ex
preston worn by a dog when be i:
bowling at the sound of music Another
has bend in the middlc, which look,
as uncomfortable as it is uugraceful
One genuhects at every turn, and slide.
out his feet as If to trip up rival dancers
An even more dangerous performer
works his left arm up and down as Il
1t we're pump handle. A tall man
with top-heavy kind Of stoOp, lean:
orer his partner like great hen tax
ing chicken under her wings. One
man holds his partner as if be were
afraid she would slip from his grasp
while another looks as if he wished be
was rid Of lis bargain.
Many horse has been seduced from
a pasture into stable by a hatful oI
oats held just beyond his nose; recent
ly noble red man was beguiled BY a
similar operation. Indian John, the
Winnebago chieftain from Shawano
appeared few days ago in the Wis