Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-08-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


love cake soaked in beer.
CHINA has a population of 400, 600,
900 and % newspapers, of which IL
are printed in Chinese, in English,
and l in French.
Chet Meyer, noted bear hunter
living near Ralston, Lycoming coun-
ty, reports that bears are very plen-
tiful in that section.
Governors will be elected in twenty
five States this year, and an entire
Lower House of Congress will be
chosen in the country at large.
William P. Kirk, of West Chester,
was stopped in q lonely piece of
woods by highwaymeu recently. He
displayed revolver, and the rob
bers fed.
The 13 year old son of Christian
Beener, of Norristown, accidentally
fell into caldron of boiling water on
Sunday week and received injuries
which resulted in his death.
A California tailor tried to run
away from his wife and boarded a
sailing vessel for Honolulu. His
wife went by steamer, got there first,
met him when he landed, and escort
ed the unhappy man back home.
H. G. Saxton, Superintendent of
the furnaces at Saxton, Bedford coun-
ty, has been arrested at Harrisburg
to answer the charge of attempting
to abduct and abandon the child of a
young woman he had deceived into q
secret marriage.
1t is asked how editors pass their
moments. Bless your dear soul, they
don't pass them; they never catch up
to them. An editor is usually from
ten to forty years behind his leisure
moments, and always dies before he
gets within gunshot of the rearmost
of them.
A SECOND petition of the Vienna
newspaper printers for permission to
open their offices ON Sundays, in the
face of law prohibiting Sunday work,
has met with as little success as their
first. In consequence no morning
paper can appear on Monday it the
Australian capital.
Coal tar is one of the best disinfec-
ants. If it will not destroy the lice it
will at least prevent their appearance
if used plentifully on and around the
hen roosts, The boxes for nests
should be lined with tarred paper.
The odor will fill the feathers of hens
and repeal vermin.
In reference to Harvard students.
Colonel Higginson declares that "a
poor young man who has agreeable
manners and is good at athletics has
better chance for popularity than
a rich snob.' How about a poor
young man ofagreeable manners who
excels at his studies!-Utica Observ-
er.
The ruin of the hop crop in New
York state has caused a sudden ad
vance in the price. Growers in the
vicinity of Canajoharie have repeat
edly refused thirty cents for hops
picked in 1885, and on Monday a
grower of Minden sold last years
crop at forty cents, which is the
highest price paid in three years.
There is said to be one lawyer in
Heaven How he got there is not
positively known, but it is conjectur-
ed that he passed himself offas an ed
itor and slipped in Unexpectedly.
When his dodge was discovered they
searched the realms of felicity in ali
their length and breadth for another
lawyer to draw up papers for his
ejectment, but they could not find
one, of course, he held the fort.
The house on Monday passed a bill
which increases the pension of sold
iers of the late war who lost leg or
arm. Under the bill these now re-
ceiving S24 month are to receive
$50; thosereceivingS3O are to receive
$36, and those receivingS37. so are to
receive S45. The bill affects S,457
pensioners and will add, it is estima
ted, S615, 900 to the pension roll. 1t
had previously passed the Senate.
The mountain lions of Montana
are large and ferocious and they fire.
quently attack full grown steers. The
territory offers eight dollars for every
scalp, and the cowboys make quite
q business of hunting themin the
winter Lions are often killed meas
uring nine feet from tip to tip, and
weighing two hundred to three hun
dred pounds. Many more measur
ing from ten to eleven feet are fire.
quently bagged, and occasionally a
monster reaching twelve feet
A blank crop report was sent out
by a Cleveland paper for the farmers
to fill out, and the other day one of
them came back with the following
written on the blank side in pencil:
Gall we've got in this neighborhood
is three widders, two school ma ans,
a patch of wheat, the hog cholera,
too much rain, about fifty acres 'taters,
and a durn fool who married cross
eyed gal because she owns eighty
sheep and a mule, which the same is
me, and no more at present"
CHICAGO, Aug. 9. "A special de
spatch from Fort Keogh, Mont, says:
Word has been received from Simons' S
Sheep Correl, on the American fork
OF the Mussell Shoal, that a cloud
burst occurred there Monday evening
which destroyed eight hundred head
of sheep. The cloud exploded at the
head of Dry Run creek and came
pouring down in a solid wall twenty.
two feet high, carrying off nearly the
entire herd and almost drOwnino n