Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-08-04

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statement of Astronomers, were amaz.
ed at their own lack of knowledge,
when they looked upon the partial
eclipse of the sun last Thursday.
Those who were ready to plow for
wheat found the ground in first rate
condition after the late rain. Their
ground will have time to settle and
get itself in condition to produce q
profitable crop.
The late drought caused the ap.
pies to drop in great quantities and
prevented those remaining on the
trees from growing to their full size
or the size that they do grow to when
there is enough m oistuce to round
them out.
The Pannebaker Island Harvest
Home, will take place next Saturday.
Speech making, ball playing aud mu-
sic and social conversation with your
friends, and dinner will constitute the
chief features Of the occasion. The
dinner will have to be paid for at the
rate of 25c for each person.
DR.. E. F. Ackley of this place re-
Gently received a letter from Ohio,
stating that his brother James D.
Ackley had died in a hospital He
was confined there about a year, be-
ing very helpless. James was an old
soldier in the war against rebellion
and formerly lived in this county.
At the Musical College, Freeburg,
Snyder county, Pa, none but the
best methods are used, SO that to day
it is recognized as one of the fore
most schools Of music in the country.
S33 will pay for term of six weeks,
instruction and board. Fall term will
begin Aug. 80.
For catalogues address,
HENRY B. MoYER,
tt. Director.
Buy your hunting dogs and have
them acquainted before the hunting
season opens have the following
to offer. guaranteed thoroughly brok-
en- On their game and reliable. Fox
hounds, rabbit hounds, beagles, set
ters and pointers; also some fine
Newfoundlands, spaniels, collies, fox
and bull terriers; fancy poultry and
pigeons; Belgium and German hares;
prices low. j. HOWARD TAYLOR,
Aug.27,1y. West Chester, Pa.
A man in Huntingdon the other
day became visibly drunk, but he was
not in the stage of drunkenness that
lays a man off his legs. He how ever
was druhk enough to mistake tn ings
and mistook funeral procession for
political procession, and fell into
line and enjoyed himself immensely
on the way to the grave yard, but
when the procession gathered around
the grave, a streak of the truth,
cleaned in upon the liquor befud
died brain of the intoxicated man,
and in an instant he was transformed
from a gay parader to a crying
mourner. Truly truth is stranger
than fiction.
Carlisle Herald:-For the freak o
a lightning stroke this beats them all
During Monday afternoons thunder
storm, lightning played a queer
prank at the Henderson dairy farm
!, northeast Ct town. A discharge o.
electricity from the clouds struck the
lightning rod on the eastern end ol
the barn and followed it to the Level
of the grou4dk Instead of "grerlnd
lug" or beMe>cond@cted aWa
the earth, the electricity
the 20 inch stone wall of the barn
burrowed beneath a board. walk il
the COW stable and killing one of the
COWS. Even then the lightning
force had not been expended, for il
entered the ground aud after travel
ling almost the entire length of the
barn, g distance of about 20 feet
emerged from the earth, penetrated
the 20-ipch stone wall at the west side
of the barn and knocked a wooden
trough away.
A branch of the stroke left the
lightning rod, followed up the spout
ing and tore some shingles from the
roof OF the barn. The most remark
able part about the barn being struck
was that not the slightest evidence O.
any burning was to be seen.
The COW which was killed had beer
purchased only last Saturday at I
cost of S35. It's calf standing be
side WAS unharmed as were also 2.
more head of cattle and the dair,
wagon horse, which were in the same
stable.
Some one stole the Democratic
Fermanagh township ballot box las
Saturday evening. Thomas Sulouf
was the Judge, who held the Demo
cratic Primary election in the after
noon. The box in which the Prim
ary Election votes were deposited
was paper box that had done ser
vice as shoe box, which is fifty sig
nificant of the kick the unterrifie'
brethren are now engaged in owe
the theft of the box. Of course ther
was no money in the box for the par
ty that stole it, The motive doubt
less was to know how certain of tn
brethren had voted. This thing @
curiosity when carried too far is
dangerous thing as is evidenced b
the doctrine that all the human fam
lily suffer by mother Ewes curiosity
that prompted her to eat of the for
biddsn fruit. How the race has sui
fered since Ewes curiosity came t.
the light OF day, and how the Fer
managa township ballot box loote
will suffer if found out is hard to tel
Judging from the amount Of talk in
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