Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-07-10

VI July.
It il the man who loves the work,
that he engages in. that makes the
mare 60.
A new fence has been put alon
the front of Mrs. Turbett's lot on
Main street.
Grasshoppers have been destruct-
ively numerous on some farms in this
county.
The average American girl pitches
her voice too high, 80 says a critic on
the intonation Of the voice.
Last Saturday Frank Willing Leach.
real estate deputy. in the Philadel
phia sheriffs Office, resigned his posi-
ton that pays sc. 900 q year to follow
Quay.
Second quarterly meeting of the
N. E. church here next Sabbath.
Love feast at 9 A. NJ; preaching at
1880 A. ~ by the Rev. J. K. Lloyd.
of Port Royal, followed by the Sacra-
ment of the Lords Supper; Sunday
school at 230 P. NJ, and preaching
in evening at 7.30.
Copies of the ''Ode to DR.. Wilson,"
composed by w. w. Fuller and re.
cited by him at the dedication of
the Wilson monument, are on sale at
the jewelry store of w. 81. Rollman;
ten cents per copy. They are dainty
booklets, and no one will be disap-
pointed in their purchase. They
contain fine picture of the DR.. At.
"Do you find your religious work
to your ikingi" q Montana minister
was asked.
"Well," returned the divine,
slowly: 81 can't say that I do. For
instance last Sunday, a newly con-
verted member Of the church, who
sits near the door said he'd fill me
full of holes, if I didn't speak louder"
Patterson has been a good deal
startled by lightning recently. First
by a bolt that fired shock of wheat
near the town on the Parker farm.
Second by q bolt that killed John
Wises horse in front of the Patter-
son house. People in that vicinity
are satisfied that lightning does not
always select high objects such as
trees and houses to strike.
Huffman Beashor, of Fermanagh,
had his right hand seriously hurt tho
other day. He was adjusting tho
sheaf binder of a harvester when q
sudden movement of the machine
caused the sheaf binder to close, aud
his hand was caught by one of the
prongs of the binder. The pin passed
entirely through the palm of the hand
making a painful and dangerous
wound.
A Frenchman has recently been
experimenting with sending up bs-
looms in which are instruments to
measure the height and degrees of
cold. The greatest height reached
was 101 miles, and there the cold
registered one hundred and four de
grees below zero. It would not take
a cold wave from that upper region
long to freezs all living things on
this earth.
Some ono said, the little German
band, that WAS IN town last Friday,
is under pay of a rich German, who
has a runaway daughter in America,
and the bands mission is to travel
from town to town with the object of
finding her. A detective or two are
said to be helping the band. 1t is
hoped that when the band plays airs
of the Fatherland, the young woman
may be sufficiently attracted by tho
music of her native land to come to
a window or door, and her where
abouts be thus discovered.
Eighteen town bloods rode to
McAlisterville for breakfast on Tues
day morning. They were back in
four hours, the distance Travelled was
16 miles. They were bloods whose
occupations do not give them exercise
enough to keep their digestion in
proper condition. If they were far
mer bloods they would have little
need of such recreation, but it will
not do for every one to, be farming;
that would soon create such An over
production that grain and farm
products would be q drug on he
market.
A large pile of ashes at the inter-
section of Bridge and Main streets,
on the morning of the 4th, attest the
labors of the patriots to celebrate the
advent of Independence Day. Where
the patriots collected all the fuel to
make such large pile of ashes, they
alone can tell. Boxes were taken
wherever found and consigned to the
Patriotic flame. Several days before
Independence Day, ]. H. Sim ons had
a wagon load of boxes hauled from
his business place to his residence lot.
On the night of the 3rd, the patriots
broke open the gate in the alley,
loaded the boxes on q wagon, and
hauled them to the square and sacri
feed them on tho altar OF freedom.
| That little German band set tho
young people of the town into . glow
for dance. and soon q bargain was
struck for the music for Friday even-
ing. Tho band was to play for SO
till midnight, and mine host, Nixon,
of the Jacobs House, permitted the
use of his dining room. Shortly
after 8 P. NJ the company fled into
the spacious room in grand march,
after which began the dance that was
kept up four hours till the little band
was almost blowsd out, and the par