Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-23
Fr..b.v,t.r fab are reared In .,

Fresh-water fish are reared in sv-
cry Japanese farm where there is .
pool or brook with a. much care a.
poultry are in French cottage yards.
Girls go in the evening with long
wands to drive the fish into rooted
tanks, where they are locked in for
the night, to keep them from birds
of prey.
A Mexican boy in Encinal county,
Texas, fell into . we'll about fifteen
feet deep and containing nine feet OF
water. Tue mother jumped in to
save the boy, the grandmother fol-
lowed suit to rescue the daughter,
and the grsatgrandmother was in
the act of going over the brink whom
she tainted. They were all rescued
by one man.
Engineer Machim, OF the Arkansas
Valley route, recently saved the life
of man who was lying on the track.
The train was making fifteen miles
an hour, but the brave engineer got
on the cow catcher and when the To-
comotive was almost on the man he
jumped forward and with . mighty
effort rolled the man and himself oY-
er the bank.-Arkansss State Ga
zstte.
The longest line Of fence in the
world will be the wire fence extend.
ing from the Indian Territory west
across the Texas Panhandle and thir-
ty-fivs miles into Now Mexico. 1t is
said that eighty-fve miles Of this
fence is already under contract. Its
course will be in the line OF the Can
adian river, and its purpose is to stop
the drift Of the northern cattle. 1t
is bold and splendid enterprise and
will pay large percentage on the in
vestment. The fence will be over
two hundred miles long.-Dsllas
Herald.
A Maine newspaper states that the
little town of Sebec, at the outlet of
Sebec Lake, Piscataquis county, in
the interior, has one of the best wa
ter powers in the State, but has new
er been fully developed. A tooth
pick factory there is doing . large
business, using over thousand cords
of poplar and birch wood annually,
turning out two-horse load of tooth
picks daily, and employing from
twelve to fifteen girls and eight or
ten men. A private letter from the
place states what the newspaper
omitted, that "the tooth-pick mill
gives employment to as many girls As
can afford to pack hundred boxes
for twenty-five cents, and feed them
selves"
The little stream was damned and
utilized for fulling-mill, grist-mill,
and saw-mill sixty years ago; later
for shingle and clapboard mill, and
more than forty years ago a wooden
cloth mandatory WAS erected there,
which, within the past year, has prov
ed failure, the company offering fif-
teen per cent to the creditors.
COLUMBIA, Pa, January 16-Irwin
/ Ecksrt met with = terrible death
this morning while attending to his
duties as miller at tho Touring mill
OF Joseph Strickler, which 10 located
about two miles south Of Wrights-
vile. His lifsless body WAS discover
ed between 10 and IL o'clock this
morning by two men who had gone
to tho mill on business. When found
it WAS wrapped around the horizon
tai shaft of one of the bolts. The
men were unable to stop the machin-
cry and were obliged to go half .
mile TO procure assistance. The ma
chinery was then stopped and the
mangled remains removed. Both
legs and arms and several ribs were
broken and the skull fractured. 1t
is believed that the clothing OF the
unfortunate man, who was alone at
tho time, was caught by the shaft
while he was attending to something
about it, and that he was whirled a.
round on it until life was beaten from
the body. Deceased was only TWEEN
ty-three years of age and unmarried.
He has relatives residing in and q
round Harrisburg. The news Of the
accident was carried by the mon who
discovered the body to the farm house
of Jacob Strickler.