Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-07-18

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ten feet deep, into which the prison
er is dropped, and out of which hC
cannot climb, as the hole is larger al
the bottom than the top. When the
prisoner is wanted the guards drop {
line and pull him up on It
A Syracuse ghost had it all his
own way until he stole ham and &
buck-saw. Then lie was waylaid Will
a club and sent up for sixty days
That was a more dishonest ghost
than the pee-wees and boys at Mud
dy Run school house. Question, re.
ferred to the Democrat and Registel
and their correspondent "Johnnie
Bull.
Do NOT FORGET.
Do not forget that at Hess's Pho
tograph Gallery you can get any
small picture enlarged for IS cents
Also anything that is made in Pho
tography, you can get here done up
in first class style. All the latest
style pictures, such as Cards, Cabin
cts, Promenade, Pannel Boudoir
&c, &c Frames OF all kinds cheap.
The weather of last Sunday alter
mated between sunshine and heavy
rain storms. 1t required a good deal
of grace on the part of the man thai
had wheat out on shock TO not feel
unpleasant over the prospect of It's
ruin. The probability is that Juni-
alta county people realized last Sab
bath, as viyidly as ever before that
Providence can blight the brightest
prospect in a few days or hours.
Two valuable heifers owned by
Silas Mover, VINO lives on the Island,
wandered Of to the railroad last
Thursday morning, and were there
struck by the locomotive of fast
passenger train, one of the animals
was killed, the other one had leg
broken. The one with the broken
leg was taken home Oh sled, and
the broked leg set.
DR.. Donald Padman, OF Louisville
says: '.To quiet baby roaring with
cole lay it upon Its back and pat it
from the neck downward over its lit
lie abdomen, taking care not to pat
upward. This usually not only
brings relief to the infant but to the
family and the neighborhood, and all
young married people should have
the recipe.
"a Huntingdon county farmer
wanted to borrow a gun from neigh
Dor for the purpose of killing some
crows in his field of corn, which were
eating the grain. His neighbor de
clined to loan the gun for lie thought
the crows were useful. In order to
satisfy his curiosity he shot one OF
them, opened its craw and found IN
it twenty-one cut worms and four
grains of corn.
Many are the misfortunes that fol
low a drunk, which present illustra-
tions every day, of which the follow
ipr is a sample: A drunken young
man fred a pistol shot at random on
one of the streets of Erie, on the
Fourth. The ball entered the heart
of a Young lady. Afterwards a youn.
ger brother of the murderer, crazed
bv the disgrace which had fallen on
his family name, committed suicide,
APerry county woman found q
man under her bed few evenings
aoo. and that's enough to keep Per
nv county women looking under the
bed every night for the next 3 gener-
atoms. or for hundred years to
come. The habit that women have
of looking under the bed every night
comes from a woman in the long past
finding a man under the bed, SO m
point of fact the case in Perry coun'
tv is history repeating itself.
Mrs Foster from Washington, ID.
G. and Mrs. Foster from Harrisburg
the maiden name of both of whom was
Law. came here to see their brother
James Law. They are all natives oi
This town. children OF Benjamin Law
Iong since deceased. Benjamin Law
did business as a merchant III this
town for the period of 40 years, and
in his dav was known by every bllsl
ness man in Juniata and MIifiln
counties. His children are now Old
people and are known to only such
people as were here a half century
ago
A gypsy woman fortune teller
scared a number of people in these
parts bv predicting loss of property
and SO forth. The cause OF the Gyp
s;e's prediction was found III the fact
that She had not been allowed to tel
The fortune of the owner of property
and receive pay rs she desired.
A witch doctor should hang out
his sbinele in the vicinity of the
DemOcraf md Register office, he could
readily be called IN when the editors
of That paper get scared over the
NOISES that pee wees and boys make
IF tbev could get johnnie Bull ,
champion OF Muddy Run school house
manifestations, to shoot a black cal
and hang the skin in the office OF the
Register It might do as well as witch
doctor for them; it might act as 4, a
charm and quiet the witch alarm that
no. disturbed their serenity evei
s;nce ihe pee wees and the boys rals
ed the ghost excitement IN Muddy
Run school house.