Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

who had previously plowed the glebe.
"Tammie didna ken his wark, OBJ
served the man cody. as he turned
his team about; Eye see, when the
drills is crookit the sun gets in on a
sides, an so ye get early tatties. -
Youths Companion.
"If an Arab woman who has lost
her husband decides to marry again
she visits the grave of her husband
the night before her second marriage
and prays him not to be offended.
As however, she feels that he will
be offended she takes with her a
donkey laded with two goat skins
filed with water. The prayer end
ed, she proceeds to pour the water
on the grave to keep the first hus-
band cool under the circumstances
about to take place, and, having
we'll saturated him, departs"
LONDON, November GA dispatch
from Japan gives the latest official
estimate of the killed and injured by
the recent earthquake along the
Island of Hondo. According to
these figures $500 people were kill
ed and 5000 injured.
The amount of damage done can
be imagined from the fact that the
official estimate places the number
of houses destroyed at $4,000 to
which is to be added $4,000 other
houses considerably damaged.
A Nera Cruz belle wrote the fol-
lowing to a young man at Allentown.
II have thought 1 would write to
you what I will. 1 will not up now.
My mother will me not go then I
come now not mp, she wiz let me not
go. I'll come not up anyhow l
have sink 1 would write to you 1 was
SO busy. 1 have failed wriding, so 1
will close this letter. E'kuse the
bad wriding, wus so besy.
A year ago a woman died in San
Francisco who in life imagined that
she was a great red star. In fact
this hallucination obtained such in
fence over her mind that she contin-
ually wore O red flannel star sewed
on her dress. In other respects she
was perfectly rational, refined and
accomplished.
Millionaires are not so numerous
in the south as in the north, so that
in Dixie much interest is felt in the
estate of the late General w. A.
johnson of Sheffield, Ala. He left
100, 900 to each of his ten children.
Beginning life as deck sweeper on
steamboat he left the business as
commodore of river feet.
An unknown tramp stealing a ride
on a freight and coal train at Lea.
man place. Lancaster county, jumped
from the roof of high car down to
loaded coal car and not seeing
Charles Ellster of Philadelphia. an.
other ride stealing tramp. alighted
on the latter's leg and broke it.
John Moser of Lynn township,
near Allentown, will carry to the Su
preme court decision of the lower
court which says in accordance with
his fathers will, lie must tan two
hides per year for his brother Jos
eph the former having been left the
fathers tannery.
William Price OF Jackson. Mich.
was driving bus across the rail
road track when train crashed into
his team. He jumped from the head
light of the locomotive and caught
one of the iron brackets supporting
the lamp and his life was saved.
When Curr1er Downing of Ripley
Me-, left home rs years ago he plant
ed an acorn in the door yard. When
he returned the other day he found
that his acorn had produced an oak
tree nine feet in circumference, with
branches extending forty feet.
There are records of elephants
that have lived 200 years, and an age
of $50 years is not regarded as SC
very old for an elephant 1t takes
about a qusrter of a century to get
the elephant to full maturity.
John Aartman. of Warsaw, Ill
drove over bluff 100 feet high irtc
the Missippi River the other day
Mr.. Hartman was unhurt, and his
doctor saws he would surely have
been killed if he had been sober.
New York Sun: A canary with f
swollen hind toe was brought to {
bird finapcier recently, and he pro
nounced the trouble poisoning from
a mosquito bite. He said the thips
was not uncommon.
After separation of thirty. 81,
years, Frank E. Lawrence. of South
Chester, has discovered the where
abouts of his father, in st. Joseph
Mo. As slaves his father and moth
er were separated.
| The sun never sets on the soil O
the United States. When it is 81,
o'clock at Attoo Island, Alaska, it j,
9.36 o'clock A. NJ, the next day or
the Eastern coast Of Maine.
| Next years corn crop is likely tc
be famous one. This prediction is
based on the fact that shoes with
the sharp pointed Piccadilly toe are
again the fashiop.-Ex.
The purchase of 5000 Texas cattle
in seventeen train loads cost David
Rankin, the cattle king of Tarkio
Mo-. 1926, 900, besides the freight ex
$50, 900.
| Chemists say it takes less thar
half the amount Of sugar to sweeter
preserves, if the sugar is put IN af
ter the cooking has commenced.