Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-03-28
ITEMS.


A handsome opera house is to be
built at Huntingdon.
The severe winter has crippled the
apple orchards about Des Moines, Iowa.
During the month of February there
were l,500, 600 cigars sold in Leban-
on county.
Many oolored persons living in Dem
yer, frightened by Wiggins, have join
ed the church.
William Lutz and wife, Of Harris
burg, have just celebrated the sixty
second anniversary of their marriage.
The distance of the earth from the
sun, as given by the reduction Of the
contact observation of the transit Of
Venus, by the British expeditions, is
90, 800, 900 miles.
The rainfall thus far IN California
las been very light, and fears are en-
tertsined that unless there are p!enti-
fni showers the wheat and barley crops
will be almost a total failure.
The cultivation Of tho oyster is rap
idly growing IN favor in France, and
is said to be quite profitable. There
are now over 10000 oyster parks
averaging half an acre each in size.
The oysters sell st Eve or six cents a
dozen.
Mrs. Charles Horn, the wife of a
tramp, was assaulted 10 a woods near
Mannheim, Lancaster county, By Charles
Lough, another tramp, and during the
solffie the woman's clothing took 6re,
causing injuries which will result ia
tally. Lough was arrested.
A dispatch from Hamburg says the
citizens of northern BerkE county have
manifested their disapproval Of the
Dukes murder tria! By hanging the
twelve jurymen in siigies.
William Keck, of Salisbury, Lehigh
county, some weeks age traded cows,
and subsequently, was much hurt to find
that the fine long tail of the COW which
fell to him had been spliced near the
root.
Five horse thieves we're captured
near Kittauning, Armstrong county,
this State, few days ago. They be-
longed to an organized band Of thieve 5
and counterfeiters.
Near the village of Cameron, in
Cameron county, there live ten farmers
whose farms join one another. These
ten farmers have ten babies whose ages
do not vary more than three weeks,
one from another.
Minneapolis hss erected the tallest
electric mast in the country 1t is sur
mounted by eight lights, each of 1000
candle power. Il lights the most dan
gerous parts of the city, and anywhere
within a radius of one mile difuses
light enough to enable one 10 tell the
time at night by his watch.
George Washington Duke, an old
man, died in hut located in q lonely
wood near Easton on Monday Near
ly fifty years ago be was discarded by
young lady. ard since then has lived
as hermit
Rat poison in popcorn nearly popped
a whole family in Wooster, o.
4 Groenbush, N. Z. man shot his
own leg in firing at supposed ghost.
From the Dooly Yindicator.
Speaking Of living without eating, a
friend told us few days ago Of an in
stance in South Georgia, in which an
alligator was caught, his mouth closed
aud his jaws bolted together with iron
bolts so the mouth could not be open
ed The alligator was then retsrned to
his native element and allowed to re-
nsin without food. Four yesrs after he
vas recsptured He vas not only alive
but had grown much larger than when
ssen before, and his mouth still closed
with the iron bolts.
From the Owensboro Monitor.
A ridiculous circumstance was
brought to light at one of the distllier-
les recently. A billy goat mounted a
whisky barrel, on the platform in front
OF the warehouse, on which a tax-paid
revenue stamp valued at $3.50 had
jus: been pasted, aud ate it of. The
distiller had to forward to Washington
his warehouse receipt with an affidavit,
asking for duplicate stamp, with the
Endorsement upon it, Chilly goat ate it
of"
From the Alta California
4 log gun made at Marysville is
splitting logs IN the heavy timber coun-
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