Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-12-09
GENERAL NERS ITEMS.

Apples weighing three pounds
each have been grown in Southern
California.
"There are too many people who
claim to love with all their hearts
who sell potatoes in small half
bushel."
Mrs. Cora Fry of MELVILLE, Cum
berland county threw vitriol into the
face of her husband while he slept.
General Grant was fined in De
troit for neglecting to keep his side
walk clear of snow.
A company of women is running
two canning and preserving factories
in Michigan. No man is allowed to
work in either place.
An insane barber in Indianapolis
lathered customer with coal oil and
tried to shave him with scissors.
George Baldwin, of Michigan, has
240-swarms of bees. They made
him over eleven thousand pounds of
honey last year.
The oldest man in the world is be-
lieved to be Michael Soils, a half
breed living in Bogola, in San Sal
vador. 1t is certain that he is $50
years old.
Hundreds of fish are still alive in
the Royal aquarium in st. Peters,
burg that were placed there more
than hundred years ago.
A Vermont farmer picks the apple
seeds from his cider presses and sells
them for use in the manufacture of
prussic acid He gets about one
bushel of seeds from 140 bushels of
apples.
Among the exhibits at the Free
burg (Me.) fair were plow that has
been in use lis years and picture
frame in board cut from a pine log
120 years ago.
A bit of oyster shell swallowed 15
years ago, caused the death of Hi
ram w. Haskee an Allentown JUS
tice of the Peace on the 18th ult.
Roses bloom every day in the year
in California. Near Haywood there
is rose bush that covers nearly half
an acre of ground.
Congressman Rife, of Middletown,
has announced himself as a candi-
date for third term to congress.
Winfield Faber of Nicktowu, Cam
bria county, shot 300 squirrels this
year.
Forty eels stopped the flour mill
of G. NJ. Meyers at Pipervllle, Mont
gomery Co., one day last week. The
heaviest eel weighed two pounds.
Asportsman in Wilbur, Ore, has
trained two eagles to catch geese.
He weights their bodies so that they
cannot fly after they have captured
the game He follows them on horse
back and takes the geese from their
claws.
The less a man knows about chill
dren the more crazy theories he has
in his head about how they should
be controlled.
From the Syracuse Journal.
The fact is carpets were never SO
cheap as they are to-day, when our
manufactures have ample protection,
and it is remarkable that free trade
newspapers claim that they are too
cheap.
At last Thomas Laws, the negro
who bore the message from Miss Re-
becca Wright to General Sheridan
which induced Sheridan to attack
the rebels at Winchester, has been
found. He lives in Philadelphia.
A hame foctory in Traverse City
Mich, turns out 13 SO names q day.
On that scale it is an uncommon in
industry, names being the piece of
wood used in the collars of harnesses
for draught horses,
The last reports from Australia
are very unfavorable. The average
yield is not expected to be over five
bushels per acre, or less than one
half the usual production. Should
this prove the case the amount avail
able for export to Europe will be i'm
material
A trip up Pixies Peak by the new
railway is said to be too much for one
of every 200 people on account of
rarefed air.
When the baby comes the first
thing the fond father does is to give
it weigh. After few weeks he
feels sometimes as if he would like to
give it away; but he never dares say
so to his wife.
A woman in Manchester, n. H.,
earns her living in a blacksmith's
shop. She works from MOI ming till
night in her husbands shop, and
can do everything except shoe
horse.
John Irwin residing near Hunters
Run, Cumberland Co., found large
buck in his pasture field with his cat
tie He succeeded in getting close
enough to hit the buck hard with
light shot The animal then showed
fight. Mr. Irwin hurried to his
house, loaded his gun with buckshot,
and on returning had no difficulty in
killing the buck, which dressed III
pounds,
Harriet E. Hall of Waynetown,
Ind, says: 81 owe my life to the
great South American Nervine. 1
had been in bed for five months from
the effects of an exhausted Stomach,
Indigestion, Nervous prostration and
a general shattered condition of my
whole system. Had given up all
hopes of getting well. Had tried
three doctors with no relief. The
first bottle of the Nervine Tonic i'm