Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-11-07
Items.

Cholera prevails to an alarming ex
tent among the hogs of York county.
Jacob Hagan, of Farmers Mills,
Centre county, was kicked to death
by horse whose harness be was ad-
justing.
Boston girls are wild over the
charms of banjo music. The banjo
bids fair to be the fashionable rage
this winter.
4 raccoon entered the turkey
house of George Woodhouse. in
West Goshen, Chester county, few
nights ago, and killed sixty two of
the birds
Fully one half of the corn crop on
the bottoms of the Wabash River in
Indiana was ruined by the late fresh
ct. One farmer had 100000 bushels
under water.
The horse, the camel and the goose
have been discovered in Central
Asia in their wild state. They showed
no fear of man even after some of
their number had been shot.
: tramp who meant to spend the
night at farmers barn near Con
nellsville on Saturday night, while
attempting to climb up to the hay
NOW fell and broke his neck.
While drinking a glass of milk N.
d. Smith, a dentist, of Scranton,
partly swallowed his two false teeth.
They lodged in his throat and were
extracted with difficulty by two sur
geons.
A Columbia, Nebraska, paper re
cords the sale of 5 year-old child
by its father for $40. The boy wept
bitterly while being led away by his
purchaser, who took him to his farm
in the interior.
The small boy with the gum sllng,
who is nuisance in many of the
towns of the state, must not try his
skill in Lock Haven or the Chief of
Police will have him arrested for
malicious mischief.
California has produced an ear of
corn that can take rank among the
curiosities. 1t is grown in the ex-
act form of a child's hand, all parts
being complete except the little fin
ger. which is double.
An old Nimrod down in Texas fred
at fine buck. This aroused another.
and the two flew towards each other
under full steam. They collied,
one of them springing twenty feet
in the air, and then both feel dead.
A German writing in one of the
Berlin papers of his campaigns gives
the following interesting item: In
this battle We lost the brave Captain
Schulz. A cannon ball took off his
head. His last words were: Bury me
where l fell. "
A Reading man has brought suit
against a number of Jolly fellows who
shipped to his address box con-
tanning eight rats. Seven had died
but one was living and ran up the
lap and over the arm of his delicate
wife, frightening her into serious
illness.
Mrs. John Raser, of New Center
vile, Chester county, has a tame
polecat which her son caught last
spring. 1t wanders through the
houses and is as playful as an ordi-
nary kitten, but hates Mr.. Raser,s
two hounds, while for his Newfound
land dog it has a decided affection.
William Oil, aged 81, well-known
resident of Easton, boarded a train
to go to Glendon. The train did not
stop there, and when he reached
Freemansburg he jumped off, though
the cars Were going forty miles an
hour. He turned a somersault and
his neck was broken. A wife and
child survive him.
Two Parsian Esaus were taking sup
per at farm house near Orleans. All
at once one of them made wry face,
called the housewife and showed her
a very fine blonde hair in the hare
ragout. The good woman smiled
and said: ''Yes, there is one after
all; excuse me, gentlemen. l thought