Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-07-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

One farmer, near Atwood. Col, had
202 head of sheep killed in hail
storm last week.
The ripening of the watermelon
crop has taken much of the friction
out of Southern politics.
Eighteen bumblebees, twenty two
wasps or thirty eight ordinary honey.
bees contain enough poison to kill
an adult.
Seven thousand men are encamped
along the southern border of Kansas
awaiting the legal opening of the Ok
lahoma country.
Edna Haldeman, aged 5 years, of
Harrisburg, received probably fatal
injuries by falling from third story
window on Monday.
The camphor laurel, from which
the camphor of commerce is obtain
ed, has been successfully introduced
in California. 1t is a native of Chi
nl-
Mrs. Whitman, aged 40 years, the
mother of four children, died at Hun
locks Creek, near Nanticoke, on Mon
day. She is believed to have taken
a dose of paris green because of do
mestic differences.
Andrews, the Georgian, who last
year walked from Atlanta to Boston,
is now on his second trip, accompan-
led by the same little dog. The pc
culiar thing about it is that the pc
destrian is SO years old.
A corn doctor, without legs, and
giving the name of E. B. Michaels.
mas run off with a young lady of
Duncannon, and the couple have sue
ceeded in evading the father of the
maiden, who has been in hot pursuit
since their disappearance about a
week ago.
A week ago the children of Martin
Stadtmiller at Erie. appealed to Frank
Root for protection from the attacks
of their father, who was intoxicated,
and in defending the children Root
received bite in the hand, from the
effects of which blood poisoning, ac-
companied by insanity, has result
ed. He cannot recover.
Buffalo claims to be the home of
the most absentminded man in the
world. This distinction is based on
the fact that the other night be went
to his room smoking, undressed with
the cigar in his mouth, and then knelt
down and ''said his prayers" still
smoking. He discovered what he
was doing when half through.
Rev. Joseph Kaelin of the Catholic
church of Chambersburg on Wednes-
day received a letter that went to the
bottom of the ocean with the ship Ore
gon and was recovered by divers on
July 1st. The letter was written to
Father Kaelin by his mother at Elm
siedelin, Switzerland, on March Sd
and is good state Of preservation
after its immersion in the sea.
A small New England negro named
johnson ran away several years ago,
slept in the woods and froze both feet
so that one had to be amputated and
the other was mutilated. Some char
liable women of Pittsfeld, Mass, col
lected sum of money and put it in
a savings bank, subjected to his order
when ne came of age. Johnson, who
now lives in Danbury, drew the mon
ey a few days ago. 1t amounted to
S1,7OO.
A Tall fish story from Maine re-
lates how Captain John Haley, while
rowing quietly and alone the other
evening, suddenly received blow ON
the head which knocked him fat in
the boat. No human being was III
sight and the blow was mystery to
the captain until he happened to look
in the far end of his craft and there
a fifteen pound sturgeon, which had
whisked itself out of the water, lay
eyeing him wondering what it ought
to do next.
If Florida has many more boys like
Mortimer and Roland Bunting, of
Madison, her future is assured. These
little fellows they are 13 and eleven
years old have this year rented II
acres of land and planted it with
corn and cotton, have worked the
crops carefully, and have good pros
poets of an abundant yield. This, be-
sides raising enough vegetables to
supply the large family of their faith
er who is an invalid.