Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-04-19
GENERAL NE VS. ITEMS.

Mrs. Adam Wuchter of Bethlehem,
Pa, has not eaten solid food within
the past years.
Sixty-four of the United States
Senators are lawyers, one preacher,
one doctor and one a journalist.
Pins are said to have been fouEd
in the prehistoric caves of Switzer-
land, and among the mummies of
Egypt.
Mrs John Budner. aged 16, of
Beaver Brook, Luzerne county. last
week gave birth to two boy babies,
and two girl babies.
The largest petrified snake, claim
ed to have been unearthed IN Colors
do some time ago turns out to be q
fossilized palm tree, which grew in
that State before the climate changed
Itch on human and horses and all
animals cured in 80 minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This
never fails. Sold by l.. Banks & Co.
Druggists, Mifflintown. Pa. Oct. 1, ly
IT is believed, in Liverpool, that
NJ. B. Henderson, who perished in
the fire of the Wallace Hotel in that
town, set fra, accidentally, by cigar
cite smoking, to his bed and smoth
cred.
A 2-year old colt owned by William
Campbell, of Indiana county, this
state, is said to be perfectly devel-
oped in every particular except its
tail, which is conspicuous by its ab-
sence."
Altoona Tribune, April 14.-Dr.
D. d. Kline died at his home in Os-
ceola Mills, on Saturday ct the nd
vanced age of 102 years. He had
practiced medicine in Clearield
county, when it was little less than
a wilderness.
General statistics prove that sincs
the Trojan war, 5000 years ago
that is since the beginning of history
!, not a single year has elapsed in
which some war has not killed a
, large number of men.
81 wish 1 were an ostrich" said
: Hicks, augrily, rs he tried to eat one
J, of his w;fe's biscuits and couldn't.
r Il wish you wsre," returned Mrs.
:. Hicks, I'D get few feathers for my
3 hat. Boston Globe.
A man, giving the name of John
Driscoll, of Buffalo, WAS found locked
4 in freight car at Pittburg, in the
last stage of starvation. According
to the story he told after being re-
. suscitated, he was without food OF
l drink IA hours.
A bachelor of 35 living in Harris
, burg, dreamed the other night that
he had q wife and seven children.
Next morning basket with a baby
; in it was found on his front doorstep.
6 And now he's afraid to go into the
| back yard for fear the wife and the
other six children may turn up too.
V William Featberstone, a waiter il
Q q New York hotel, had blood eurd
ling vision the other night, in which
he saw his father standing before
him with his throat gashsd. After
telling his story he shurried to his
fathers shop aud found tina the hat
8 killed himself by cutting his throat
: with razor.
= 1t is said that many Of the men in
| Pittsburg, who have been urging the
enforcement of the Sunday laws,
against certain kinds of business, arc
stockholders, in corporations, that
: run their business, on Sunday. They
have not seen the mote in their own
eye, the other people propose to
: show it to them.
a EARLY on the morning of the 18th
inst, fire destroyed the commercial
;. Hotel in Liverpool, Perry county
: Long ago the hotel was known as the
Wallis House. The fire originated
. in the room of NJ S. Henderson
, liveryman, Henderson perished in
the fire. His charred remains were
;, scraped out of the ruins.
a Conductor Andrew Wolfkiel, oi
r the S. & l.. Mail train, has entered
@ his 10th year of continuous service
{ with the P. R. R. During this time
4 he has been off the rail or over ar
/ embankment 35 times. Considering
s the fact that Mr.. Wolfkiel is only 5S
j. yslrs of age we doubt if a similar
a record of service can be produced
q Lewistown Free Press.
On Tuesday evening a fire broke
out in the grass field of II. K. Letter
near Logania, and spread with alarm
s ing rapidity. 1t was caused by
q a spark from locomotive. The rail
Q road track hands came to the rescue
!. and after hard work succeeded in e1
tinguishing the flames. JOSEPH
Hockenberry 8 barn narrowly escaped
being burned.-Bloomfeld Times.
, Harry Gross, of Pittsburg; How
a ard Sharper, William Maitlick and
f Robert K. Pickering, of Philadelphia,
escaped from the Huntingdon Rsfor.
: matory on the morning of 18th, by
r picking the locks of their cell doors
. and scaling the main walls by means
| of rope ladder. Gross, Sharper
and Pickering were recaptured the
: same day by the citizens Of Alexan-
[ dria. Mattlick is still at large