Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-08-04

complete hardening of the concrete
after which time heavy traffic begal
without apparent injury to the struct
ure.
1, OAKLAND, ILL.,, July % Will,
gathering berries, with several othe
ladies, near this city yesterday, Mrs
J. Hansen was bitten by arattlesnake
Her screams called the attention O
her companions, who went to her as
sistance. She was placed in a wag
on and started for her home, but be
fore she arrived she died. Her left
limb, which was bitten, swelled to
enormous proportions before death
ensued.
At Norridgewock, Maine, two years
ago, Daniel Davis, who is a black
smith and minister, in obtaining for
his octogenerian mother a pension,
as the widow of an 1912 soldier, made
affidavit that she had never married
again II was discovered last Friday
that she had married twice, and that
one of the marriages had been solemn
lied by her son. Davis was arrested
on Monday but escaped from custo
dy.
The other day, while Boston gen.
tleman, with his wife and little daugh-
ter, was fishing from q boat near
Bridgeport lighthouse, the little girl
fell overheard. She was in danger of
drowning, when big Newfoundland
dog, belonging to Keeper Mcneil,
leaped from the veranda of the light
house, swan to the child, caught her
dress in his mouth and swan back
with her to the lighthouse, where she
was pulled out of the water.
A hail storm of great severity Wis
tied the western part of Lycomina
county, near Jersey Shore, last
Thursday. Hail fell in great quanti-
ties, many of the stones being as
large as hens eggs. Buildings were
badly damaged and corn and other
crops in the path of the storm wholly
destroyed. The barn of George and
Henry Shafer was struck by light
ming and destroyed, with over three
hundred bushels of wheat and a lot
of other grain. The storm did not
cover wide territory.
The snail harvest has just begun
in France. The poor mans oyster"
is so appreciated that Paris alone |
consumes some forty nine tons daily, !
the best kind coming from Grenoble |
or Burgundy. The finest specimens
are carefully reared in an escargoti-
ere, or snail park, such as the poor
Capuchin monks planned in bygone
lays at Colmar and Weinbach, when
they had no money to buy food, and
so cultivated snails. But the major
ty are collected by the vine dressers
n the evening from the stone heaps. |
where the snails have assembled to
snjoy the dew.
PITTsDURG, July pa Bohemian
living in the suburbs butchered a
arge, fat dog yesterday and served
t up as feast, to which several of
lis countrymen and countrywomen
we're invited. They all ate heartily
If the flesh, considering it a great
luxury. Nearly all who partook of
he meat were taken sick, their symp-
oms resembling those caused by
poison. The doctors think some of
ham will die. The affair has caused
llarm among other Bohemians, who
lave dogs in process of fattening for
he table.
4 Springfield belle was visiting in
his city not long ago, and received
. large share of respectable homage
rom the leading society young gem
leman. She commands attention
lot only for her personal charms and
traces, but for her mental culture
md vivacious conversation. Before
eaving the Union depot in this city
or the State capital the young lady
vas describing to a friend of mine,
With whom she has visited, the
Bloomington kiss" as she was pleas
ID to term the salutations which some
ortunate but bold admirer was per
nitted to give. She said"the first
ime she WAS kissed by Blooming
oman she felt like big tub of roses
in honey, cologne, nutmegs
md cranberries, She also felt as if
was running through her
nerves on feet of diamonds escorted
~ angels, shaded by honeysuckles
and the whole spread with melted
ainbows.-Burlington NlD Eye.