Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-01-18
SHORT Locals.
Wafer Water, Water

Wafer Water! Water!
The price of pork tends upwards.
The cold has shortened the egg
crop.
The cold weather stopped oyster
fishing.
It IS the coolest winter since 1856
and 1857.
Water was the next thing to lux
ury last Thursday.
The Court House clock does not
run well in winter time.
There was a foot of snow at Wash
ington, D. c., last week.
The merchants on Tuesday, paid
"a cents a dozen for eggs.
The HonesIale, Pa, water supply
was frozen tight last week
Below zero everywhere last week,
even as far south as Kentucky.
Charles Low of Pittsburg visited
friends in town last Thursday.
The Prince of Wales will visit the
Chicago Columbian exhibition.
It is 20 years since Philadelphia
had as much snow as this winter.
No water, no water, was the ex-
preston heard in every direction.
1t was the 10Th snow this winter
that fell on the 10Th day of January.
People in Berls and Schuylkill
counties have diptheria and small pox
The water main on the bridge at
Woodtown, Pa, froze solid last week.
Coastjng don't seem to be the
sport for the boys and girls this win
ter.
Mrs Robert Parker is slowly Ere
covering from a severe illness of pieu-
risy.
Many a man gets his eye shut by
getting the wrong woman or girl for
aw.fe.
The present generation have no
recollection of cold weather like this
winter.
Sheriff Lapp was to Steelton,
Dauphin county, on business on Sat
urdaY.
Coffee is good for horse that has
bean over worked and has lost his
appetite.
A Snyder county man stopped his
saw-mill to chase a bear that passed
the mill
Mr. John B. Fox, Esq, of Hughes.
vile, Pa, spent Sunday with friends
in this place.
The thermometer touched s de-
Froos below zero, last Wednesday,
uuary II, 1898.
Next week Mr. Frederick Espen.
schade Will ship lot of Walnut logs
to Hamburg, Germany.
There are to be a great many sales
of personal property in Tuscarora
Valley the coming spring.
Seven new members were added
to the roll of membership of the Pres
byterian church on Sabbath.
The dispatches recording the de.
struction of Greenwood furnace by
an explosion was false report.
The mail route men up and dowr
the valley are saving the piv they
get for carrying the mail is to low
The cold weather has caused ;
good many rabbits to take up quar-
ters in town, under wood-piles, sheds
&c.
There was another fall of feecy
snow on last Thursday morning, bu
it was too light to make good sleigh
ing.
AT a number of places in Canada
last Friday morning the thermome-
ter was down to so degrees below
zero.
Samuel Richenbach has been ap
pointed a weigher of mail on tn,
route between New York and Pitts
burg.
The condor is the highest flying
bird known. 1t spends most of it:
time floating three miles above ses
level
1t will be necessary to keep an eye
on seed potatoes as the cold of the
winter will kill the lie germ of many
potatoes.
Under the law man found drunk
on the streets may be arrested and
fined two dollars for common school
purposes.
The water main froze last Thurs
day night at point between Espen
schadcs farm and the dam in Mace
donia Gap.
The letter remaining in the Miffiin
town post Office at the close of the
week, January IA, was for Mr. FIJI
aso Raffaelo.
A section OF two of new pipe was
required in the water main at the
Lost Creek crossing, the pipes hav
ing bursted there
Italians are met with on the street:
OF the town, occasionally. Wait till
summer for the large number of for
elgners to put in an appearance.