Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-04-12
SHORT LOCALS.

ihSAO was NO oC1oOl on uOOQ Fri
day.
Altoona is to have q circus show OIL
the 9th iust.
The population of Huntingdon i.
5000.
4 corn on the toe is convenient
weather indicator.
Col Saaford's lecture on Japan and
Ciiins was qlite entertaining.
Look to the northeast in the even
ing for the new comet.
Trout fishers have been successful
this spring in catching many trout.
Huntingdon Presbytery met in
Hollidaysburg yesterday, Tuesday.
A number of people in this place
are afflicted with sore eyes.
During the past week DR.. L. L.
Atkinson has been quite ii from the
effects OF severe cold.
There will be no preaching in the Presby-
terian Chapel next Sabbath. Mr.. BenAush
will be absent on that day.
The doctors and the undertakers
must live, but with all that keep or
your heavy under clothingyet q while.
An exchange tells bow to make for.
tune, namely, invent an acceptable sub
stiiute for wooden railrosd Tics.
Children were happy last Sabbath
over the eolored eggs that were pro
v.ded for them by their parents
Showers s. Scholl have put down
neat board walk in front of their
property on Washington street
( fisherman says that il is unlaw-
ful TO take trout less than inches in
length.
tir Kerr. of Milford township. has
been confined to the house by Sc
we're Geld.
Beautiful flowers may be seen in a
number of windows IN town. As yet
the sun flower has not been brought
forward.
The LAWYERS and bankers have re-
covered their breath from the pres
sure of the business incidental to the
LIST of April.
Friday was observed by some peo-
pie as legal holiday, and by other
people, because Of the religious rec
objections that are associated with it.
The Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany viii not sell tickets to persons
that are under the influence of intox-
icating drink
The Greensburg. Westmoreland
county, Press says, The County Com
missioners have purchased Brussels
carpet for the court room
Six pounds of corn will produce
one pound of hog, provided the hog
is in health. So observing hog
growers say.
Lime has been freely applied to a
number OF gardens in town this spring,
and the anticipated return of vegeta-
bles is proportionably large.
The water that was "let" into the
canal had short run of it. A lock at
the Millerstown dam cavsd IN and "let
the water all out 1t will require sew
eral weeks of time to repair the lock.
Last week was a severe one on edi-
tors. The editor of the McVeytown
Journal, the editor of the Hunting
don Globe. and the editor of the Cam
bria Freeman were all sick about one
and the same time.
Water plugs" have been placed
about in convenient places in Patter-
son by the management of the Rail
road Company. and hose have been
provided. so as to be of use should
fire break out.
A bonfire in Patterson caused
everybody to turn out pell-mell few
evenings ago. The Hook and Lad
der Company was at the scene OF the
fire almost as soon as the first few
men. 1t is not correct thing to do,
to create an alarm over a sham fire.
An exchange advances the follow,
ing advice: Girls should be careful
how they are vaccinated with virus
taken from a lovers arm. One has
recently taken to swearing, sitting
cross-legged and smoking a briar-
root pipe.
The Huntingdon Journal says, Cen
ter county has an inventive genus,
residing in one of the rural districts
who manufactures scalps out oi
skunk skins. He must have been q
pupil of the Huntingdon county man
who, few years ago, drove good
trade at the same business
ANYTHING taken place, to-day !?
asked Mr.. Frelinghuysen, as he walk
ed in and elevated his boots to the
TOP of the cabinet table. Nothing,
REPLIED Mr.. Arthur, without looking
ug from the tantalizing pages OF the
patent office report. There were
lots of fellows here who wanted tc
take it. however" Thus doth the
oasis of innocent mirth Tighten NJ
the barren waste of official life.-Bos
ton Transcript.
Shrom. of the Newport Ledger wal
at a sociable few evenings ago, ant
while playing ''blind mans buff, fell
striking his head against the wal
with such violence that he lost al
consciousness. He. however, ''camt
to" in a short time, and seemingly
sustained no injury by the fall
Shrom. were you beyond the border