Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-02
GENERAL ITEMS.


houses in which -horsefesh is sold fol
human food. An average of 45o horses
are consumed in this manner every
month.
While Charles Miller was eating
breakfast, in Detroit, his wife smbrsc-
ed him affectionately and cut his throat.
She explained that she was the Queen
of England, that he was Emperor oi
Germany, and that the cause of peace
demanded bis death.
The wife of William Bancroft, OF
Marysville, Ohio, obtained divorces
from him on the ground of drunkenness
and cruelty, and on the following day,
won over by his promise of reform, she
remarked him.
The best OK horns come from the Rio
Grsnde they are tough, Of fine tex
ture, and are susceptible Of fine poi
isb. Cattle hoofs sell at from Sl2 to
$40 per ton as to quality. Cattle tails
are worth from 10 TO Is cents apiece.
The hoofs of horned cattle weigh about
two aud half pounds The horses
hoof In unsuired for buttons, although
it is manufactured for other purposes.
lu the winter swallows collect by
millions in Louisiana swamps and feed
on what the French call swallow trees,
. species of willow. They will settle on
the trees 10 such myraids as to break
limbs as thick as a mans leg, and a
heavy load of mustard seed shot from a
double gun will sometimes kill thirty
or forty dozen at once. They are dress
ed and sold in the market for Is cents
dozen, and are used by the French
and Creoles IN making ''jumbles,' a
preparation of rice and meat, fish or
game.
The French engineers, who have
gone to Panama to begin surveys on
the Panama canal, are now hard at
work. Landlords have raised their
rents to extravagant figures, and pro-
visions are hundred per cent. dearer
than formerly. Orders for frame hous-
es to be built liz the United States and
shipped in sections have gone forward.
The wages offered to la6orers are
twenty dollars per month with board
and lodging, and the supply Is abund-
ant at that price.
Where the large breeds of fowls are
kept, such as Brahmas and COchins,
much trouble is frequently experienced
in preventing curvature or depression
of the breast bone from roOsting on
high and uneven or rough roosting
poles. 1t is needless to say that the
roosts should not be high for the heavy
birds especially while they are growing
for many of the broken wings or legs
are due to their attempting TO Chamber
and futter up to roosts which are too
high even for the light bodied breeds.
In breeding large numbers Of the large
bodied Asiaties, very good results have
been secured by "bedding" them down
with old hay or straw With some
breeders this is or will be, a new
"wrinkie," and will at first seem to be
entirely unsuited to poultry. but trial
will convince almost any one Of the ad
vantages Of such a system.
Minnie Arnold, mill girl lately from
Lowell, Mass, died several days ago at
Providence, r. |. of self administered
poison. She had become infatuated with
married wau and bad tried 10 kill him.
A dispatch from Milwaukee says !:
Coroner Hickman was notified that =
dead body lay in house on the plank
road, b short distance from the city
limits. On proceeding to the place he
found family in horrible seats of
destituti5n. The inmates consisted Of
the mother, i'll from giving birth to a
child eight days before, aud which had
been dead In the house for two days,
and four children ranging in age from
ten years down. The family had had no
food for forty eight hours other than
scrapings from an old swill barrel which
bad formerly been used in carrying
s!ops from distillery. The squalor ard
filth of the place is described as sick
ening to the last degree. The father,
Ernest Larz, is in Jail awaiting trial for
the theft of an old harness.
While burglars were at work on the
safe of jewelry store in Jersey City a
few nights since they we're disturbed by
the barking of two watch dogs in the
yard. They deliberately opened the
lack door, called the dogs in. and fas-
tened them to the legs of the counters,
where they were found by the proprie
tor the next morning.
The army worm has been known in
this country since l143.
The First National Bank of Syracuse
N. Y, voted yesterday to withdraw
500, 900 of its circulation.
The National Exchange Bank of AL
bany, ~ Y, took action to retire its
entire circulation OF S27O.OOO, owing
to the restrictive features of the fifth
section of the Funding bill.
The loss OF cattle by the seyere
weather in the Western ranges is now
esiims.ed at 100000 head.
At Bloomington, IL, Wm. Lowery,
a young man play pointed an
"empty" pistol at his sister Mary, pull
ed the trigger, and shot her in the neck
severing the jugular vein and causing
death. Realizing his terrible mistake
be attempted to shoot himself, but was
quickly seized by bystauder.
1t Is we'll settled that nitrogen, phos
phoric acid, potash, sulphuric acid,
lime and magnesia are the only ingred-
tents of plant food which need be sup
piled In fertilizers and all other in
gradients of plant food are supplied BY
the soil in quantities sufficient for the
production of the heaviest crops.
Ii is complained in some of our rural
exchanges that too many young persons
are encouraged to make profession of
religion during revivals, the conse-
nueuee of which Ia h.otslid,n, ,bot