Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18

o'rayeo, Lost or Stoien-A yellow dog,
from the premises of the owner, near Oak
land Mills. Information that will lead to
the recovery of the dog will be thankfully
received. Address or call on John Bashore,
OAKLAND Mills, Juniata Co.,, Pa.
"Prentice Mulford declares that two
hours work about hot stove is more ex-
hausting than four hours work out Of doors.
and thinks the women who in Europe do
mems work in the fields arc better of than
the American housewife, of whose life five-
sixths are spent in the Kitchen"
g. W. keefer, of Sunbury, has contract
ed for the rebuilding of the river bridge.
He has commenced work, and in the course
of some 10 or IL days travel may be re-
sumed. The bridge is to be completed by
the LIST of September. The sum of money
he is to receive Is a5out seven Thousand
dollars.
The Huntingdon Journal makes mention
of delinquent subscriber as follows: aAn-
other scamp skips out and leaves US out of
pocket three or four dollars for subscription
to the Journal. Simon Coder, who has
been receiving the paper at Castleton, ILL.,,
Is the individual referred to. Who's the
next scallawsgi"
1t is a well-known fact that Col. William
cultural Implements and Machines. He has,
to supply a want, become agent for the In
vincible Vibrator Separator Threshing Ma
chine. See advertisement elsewhere in these
columns. Experienced thresher men in Ju-
niata county have seen it working and can
youch for its effective or thorough work.
John Fulkrosd, living in Fayette town
ship, was out in field picking stone, few
days ago. While thus engaged he felt a
sting,hs Sensation in one of his fingers. he
Strengthened himself up and looked at the
finger; there was a small puncture notice.
able. He looked on the ground where he
last had his hand, and there lay a pugna-
cious copperhead snake, IS inches long.
Fulkroad hastened home aud bruised
white onion and put it on the bitten finger.
He suffered no serious illness.
The Bloomfield .4drocate of last week
says: On Sunday evening a week Mr.. J. II.
G. Kinter, of Mllersto@n; tock a notion to
visit his farm on the opposite SIDE of the
river, to see if everything was right. He
arrived just in time to save his line barn and
other buildings from destruction by fire.
II turned out that one of the boys had Ia
ken some gunpowder back of the barn, and
making hole in the stump was having a
little 4th of July all TO himself. But the
boy forgot to see that the fire in the stump
was extinguished, and the result was that
fire was communicated to a fence and was
burning rapidly toward the barn, containing |
Is fat steers, farming implements, &C., |
when Mr.. Kinter arrived at his barn.
Here is something for women that have
formed the habit of smoking. James Kelly |
and wife, Of Napier township, Bedford |
county, were engaged in burning lime. Mrs.
Kelly varied the monotony of the proceed
;ngs by sucking an old clay pipe. While
thus engaged she picked up a bucket con-
tanning a pound of rock powder. As she
stopped over to examine hole in the buck
ct from which the powder was escaping
spark from her pipe fell INTO the bucket and /
there was a rather extensive explosion. The
woman's clothing took fire, but she had
I'D 90 ,ba b,,r
ing garments from her person, though not
until she had been pretty seriously burned.
Her husband was also burned about the face |
and hands.
Baltzer Lauver, of Milford township, has
successfully cultivated the bee many years,
and he does not incline to the belief that
the great loss among the bees during the
past winter was caused by the bees freezing.
He believes that they smothered. He had
only one "skep' TO die, and that was caused
BY starvation. He had taken too mnch of
its honey. His theory on the question of
the great mortality is this The bees
smothered." The bee box set too closely |
bees, when the weather is cold, will form
into ice at the lower edge of the box; the
ice rim will gradually grow thicker if the
winter cold continues, and thus the aperture |
between the box and the platform on which |
it sits will be gradually lessened. During |
the winter a number Of bees in every hive |
die; the dead bees drop down and form OBJ
structions to the passage Of the air between
the box and platform, and thus gradually |
the aperature is closed up and frozen shut,
and the hive must smother. "My plan,"
says Mr.. Lauver, sis to put the bee box
above the platform high enough to be GER
tain that the circulation of air cannot be
shut up by the bodies of dead bees and the |
frosting, or formation of the breath of the |
bees into ice on the lower edge of the box,
and occasionally l remove the distractions
from the opening. The bees that were lost
last winter were smothered."