Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-05-05

A Highland woman, selling a hen
to her neighbor, was asked. "Is she
. good hen and hos she any faultsi"
Reply: "Aye, Margaret, she has
got ae fauf! She lays a bit egg on the
Lords day!"-Pick Ne Up
Southland Robson has recaived q
letter, that his daughter with $50
others, has been transferred from
the Philadelphia hospital for the
treatment of weak-minded children,
to the Venango county hospital.
the coming oats crop is looked
forward to with a great deal of inter.
est, for the sowing was done at diff
ferent times on different farms. On
some farms it showed itself above
ground before it had been sowed on
other farms.
Over in Snyder county q woman
traded all the old rubbers she had in
the house for dust pan, and then
owed the peddler l5c. She learned
later that she might have bought the
same article from the hardware man
for 10 cents.
Huntingdon Journal:-The young
man who SO gracefully lifts his hat to
every young lady he passes on the
street and then goes home and al
lows his sister or his mother to split
the kindling and bring in the coal,
isn't quite as polite as he thinks he
is. We have some of them.
Arbutus is a woods plant and all
effort heretofore made to cultivate it
have failed. People in the vicinity
of towns are e1terminating it. In
stead of taking knife or scissors
with them to the woods to cut the
stem, they pull the plaut, root and
all, and that is the last of that indiv-
idual plant.
In Japan the best wages are paid
to tailors. Their wages range from
IA to 24c day. Stone cutters get
1Sc day; painters 13c; type.setters
14c; blacksmiths 15c; dyers 12ca day;
male farm hand Ole day; female
hands Gets; day laborers llcts day.
The average farm hand wages is p
to 7c day.
The stingy man who took chloro-
form to deaden his feeling OF regret
every time he spent penny. is only
equalled by the man in Kentucky,
who stopped his clock every evening
to the next morning to save the wear
and tear of night running. By saw
ing the pennies the dollars will take
care Of emse.ves.
A despatch from Mexico, Mexico,
states that on the 27th, storm hur!
ing three pound hail stones, devas-
tated grain and all kinds of vegeta
bles in s.The Rio Verde The hail
killed every living thing it struck.
On one farm IL persons working in
the fields were killed. 40 odd per-
sons were killed on adjacent farms.
The exodus of Greeks from Amer.
ica to fight the Turks has come to al
most a dead halt on account Of the
continued success & tie Turkish
army, This Greeks thus ia, are pot
able to fight the Turks. The sym
patby of millions of Christian people
have been with the Greeks, bat as
more is learned about them, it is
found that they are lazy people,
who do not help themselves at home.
An exchange says: - Three of the
members of the Legislature were con.
victed of larceny. One was tried for
murder bnt acquitted; three have
been in insane asyluns, while eight
hsve heen at Ksely cures. OF the
others, one is a gambler, one base
ball umpire, oae preacher, eight,
man who declare they afe "gentle-
men," nineteen without occupations,
twenty seven lawyers and one pugii-
ist.
Miss Anna Gertrude Sieber, eld-
est daughter of Rsv. L. L. Sieber,
will graduate in the Classical De-
par.ment OF Pennsylvania College,
Gettysburg in June. She has the
honor of being chosen as one of the
ten speakers at commencement. She
hes also been offered Professorship,
in the Ladies' College of Salisbury,
North Carolina Miss Sieber is only
10 years of age, the youngest mem
Der of the class. and tho only lady of
the class Of 81.
Huntingdon Globe:-Rev. DIR. Fur
bay, pastor of the Oxford Presbyter-
ian chsrch, Philadelphia, formerly of
Tyrone, has been asked by some of
his members to resign, because he is
mora inclined to the habits of an ath-
letic and healthful young man than
to the profound solemn. behavior,
which some people associate with the
ministry" Other accusations are
that DR.. Furbay parts his hair in the
middle, smokes cigarettes and rides
the bicycle. He refuses to vacate.
About sunrise on the morning of
the 2Sth of April, great wave of
water, 8 feet high, struck the west
end of Guthrie, Oklahama. The
west end of the town is on lower
ground than other parts of the town
TIE river was bank full before the
great wave came down the valley. II
is believed 1t was c.used by cloud
burst up stream. Houses were crush
ed by the wave and swept away and
many people were drowned. Among
The drowned are J. H. Calhoun and
wife and child. They were Juniats
people, and he and Sheriff Calhoun
Of this county were cousins.
The Chicago Globe Bank failure
which wrecked the financial affairs OF
many people. had q woman in If