Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-06-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

At Hillsboro, Missouri, the grand
jury found bills against fifty-nine
railroad strikers for conspiracy to de
stroy property. Many of them es-
capped and only four have been ar
rested.
An Indiana woman, who took off
ense at newspaper article, avoided
the publicity and scandal of libel
suit. She lay in wait for the editor
and rendered him an ovation of eggs
whose health was sadly broken down.
As several of the eggs hit the editor,
it is inferred that the woman aimed
at something in her rear. The edi-
tor says he would have preferred a
libel suit with the usual six-cent dam
ages.
Reports from Texas state that a
terrible drouth is prevalent in that
State. Hundreds of streams have
dried up and the country is bare of
vegetation. Cattle and sheep on the
ranches are dying in immense num-
bers. On the Meyer Half ranch, out
Of six thousand cattle, three thousand
have died within the past month, and
the prairie is literally strewn with
carcasses, surrounded by myriads of
huge buzzards. On another ranch
1900 sheep have died, while on one
of the largest the flockmastsr was
compelled to kill 5000 lambs, and q
neighboring herder killed 5000 lambs
because their mothers were too weak
from starvation to afford them nour-
ishment.
A letter from Genessee, New York,
says Some fifteen years ago Ferdi-
nand Ward had printing press, one
of the amateur kind, which was pur-
chased by his father, DR. Ward, who
is now a retired Presbyterian minis
ter of that village Your correspond
ent recently saw one of the circulars
which Ferdinand printed and sent
about the town scquainting the peo-
pie with the fact that he had a print
ing outfit and was prepared to fill or
ders for card printing. Young Ward
was for time an apprentice in one
of the local newspaper offices, but
the business was not congenial to his
tastes. He took his leave of the of
fee one day when requested to wash
the rollers of the press. He looked
at the inky glue and then at his own
white hands, and told the proprietor
he did not believe he was ever Great
ed for trade of that kind"
There are not nearly as many Sc
erets in hand treatment as people
imagine. A little ammonia or borax
in the water you wash your hands
with, and that water just lukewarm,
will keep the skin clean and soft. A
little oatmeal mixed with the water
will whiten the hands. Many people
use glycerine on their hands when
they go to bed, wearing gloves to
keep the bedding clean; but glycer-
inc does not agree with every one.
1t makes some skins harsh and red.
These people should rub their hands
with dry oatmeal and wear gloves in
bed. The best preparation for the
hands at night is white of egg with
q grain Of alum dissolved in it.
Quacks have fancy name for it; but
all can make it and spread it over
their hands, and the job is done.
They also make the Roman toilet
paste. 1t is merely white of egg,
barley -four and honey. They say it
was used by the Romans in olden
time. Any way, it is first rate thing
but it is sticky sort of stuff to use,
and does not do the work any better
than oatmeal. The roughest and
hardest hands can be made soft and
white in months time by doctor:ng
them a little at bed time, and all the
tools you need are a nail brush, a
bottle of ammonia, a box of powder
ed borax and little fine white sand
to rub the stains of, or a cut of lem
on, which will do even better, for the
acid of the lemon will clean anything.