Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30

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The eclipse ON Monday MORNING
easy. :" "elus un-
II the sun would 90 out how long
would it take to freeze the hnma1
familyi ~ A"
The roads are dusty like in
drought times in August and the
streams are low
Samuel A. Tyson has been ser
iousiy sick with the quinsy at
MS home in this place.
The snowless winter and rai6less
spring has played havoc with the
"neat crop in this valley.
Almost everyone in town looked
through a smoked glass at the
ecnpse OF the sun on Monday morn
ing.
People who travel through Tie
narrows to Mifflin county say there
are many cattle pasturing in the
narrOws.
We take pleasure in acknowl-
fedging the receipt of State reports
OF public schools from Superintend-
ent o. G. Gortner.
The lawn sod of the Lutheran
parsonage lot was sold on Satur-
day to Albert Hackenberger, H. d.
Funk and A. II. Weidman.
See change of Railroad schedule
for Altoona Accommodation train
eastward bound. The time for the
train at Mifflin station is 6 .5S q. m.
George Berger has a graphic
phone that runs a two hours en-
tertainment. 1t takes the machine
four minutes to work off one piece.
Some cities are becoming so fas-
tideous that men are not permitted
to spit in public. How does it
come that men spit and women
seldom spit.
Rev. A. N. Raven is expected to
preach in the Presbyterian church
on Sunday, June 10. He is COM
ing from Seattle, Washington State
for his family.
President Mckinley and Mrs.
Mckinley went to Norfolk, Vir-
ginia on Monday to witness the to-
tai eclipse. The total eclipse was
about two hundred miles wide.
At Nome, they scoop up the sand
along the sea, wash the sand for
the gold it contains. There must
be rich veins of gold back in the
hills, whence the gold washed into
the sea.
The moons shadow on the earth
passed in a hurry at the rate of
two thousand two hundred miles
an hour. 1t will be sometime be-
fore man makes something to trav-
ell that fast.
Those who remember the sum-
mer of 184S, say the months of Ap-
ril, May and June were so dry,
that timothy grass did not head,
and hay that season was distress
ingly scarce.
The other day August Croft, ag-
ed Sc years and Miss Kate Putam,
aged SO years were married in
South Bloomfield, Ohio. All the
invited guests were past sixty
years of age.
People who travel over farms
and throw down bars and rails off
fences don't know what the law is
for such offences or they would not
throw themselves open to the laws
penalties.
The fruit crop is promising:
Cherries, peaches, apples are thick
enough on the trees to produce an
abundant crop. In the way of ber-
ries the bushes have blossomed
well and that indicates a satisfac-
factory crop.
ILL you are nervous and can't
sleep, smash onions to a pulp,
smell the pulp ten minutes. The
! smell of the onions quiets the ner-
vous system and sweet refreshing
sleep follows. Fl
u Roy Beale and Harry Ellis of
this town were thrown from their
tandem bicycle at Newport on
Tuesday. Ellis had his eyes black
ened by the fall and Reale was
bruised about the head.
Some of the people who have liv-
ed a good while say, it was in 1S4S,
that long continued rain set-in
during harvest time. The wheat
was in shock and grew and was
ruined. The corn crop that year
they say, was a first rate one.
Every locust tree and every To-
Gust bush blossomed profusely
Some say a profusion of Locust
blossoms indicate a full corn crop.
Mark it down in the chimney as a
memorandum for next fall, when
the corn ripens and that way learn
how much there is in the locust
blossom sign.
The selection of a preacher fol
the Presbyterian congregation was
to have taken place at O'Clock
p. NJ, on the 21st inst, but as that
hour had been selected for the fun
eral of General Bell to take place
from the church the congregation
al meeting for the selection of a
nroacher did not take place.