Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-24
NEWS IN BRIEF

| The Odd Fellows of Memphis pro.
pose to establish public library.
-Ex Governor Ames will probably
60 into the lumber business in Mime
sofa.
| There is barber shop in Atlanta,
Ga. in which all the BARRIERS are young
| women.
The first Governor of Iowa, Anse
Briggs, is still alive, but i'm limited cir
cumstances.
Major Henry Fulton of tine Ameri-
can Rifle Team, has joined the Massa-
chusetts Rifle Association.
During the last ten years 10000
tramps have been furnished with lOdg-
ings in the station-house at Elizabeth,
N j.
"A New Jersey boy ten years old is
getting up company and going to play
"Hamlet" on the stage. Give the boys
chance.
There has Just been woven at Far
mington, Utah, the first silk handker-
chief ever produced in that territory
from native silk.
"A citizen of Dallas, Texas, has i'm
his possession ar inkstand once used
by the Empress Eugene, and he only
wants $3.50 for it.
The Government life-saving service
to be introduced on the lakes the pres
ent season, promises to become as eff
cient as on the seaboard.
The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company announces that ii owns 10000
miles of wire, that its assets are $3l5,-
300, and liabilities $279. .24.
"A Pittsburg cutlery manufacturer
says, the Georgia and Alabama ore is as
valuable for making cutlery as the
Swedish ore, hitherto exclusively used.
"A Texas court recently sentenced
one man to six months imprisonment
for burglary and attempted arson, and
another to fifteen years for stealing
horse.
Five. hundred boys are educated at
Girard College, Philadelphia, but the
legacy has so largely increased that
room is being made for two thousand
pupils.
The principal band-masters of New
York are Spaniard, an American, an
Englishman, an Irishman, and an Ital-
ian. Nine-tenths of the musicians are
Germans.
Peoria, Illinois, is the largest dis
tilliDg point in the United States, and
will pay this fiscal year over 81, SOC, 900
revenue to the Government on distilled
spirits alone.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a
bill providing for the punishment, by
fine and imprisonment, of all persons
who get on and off railroad trains that
are in motion.
The New Jersey legislature has
passed a bill filming whoever cheats
gas and water companies 500 and fin
ing gas and water companies that know
ingly use poor meters $500.
DIR. j. S. Sylvester, one of the most
distinguished mathematicians of Eng
land, has been appointed to the chair
of advanced mathematics in the John
Hopkins university at Baltimore.
The Centennial Committee of the
Philadelphia Councils nave decided not
to have the crack in the old indepen-
dence Bell repaired, believing that it Is
too precious relic to be meddled with.
Grace Greenwood repudiated her
Leander LiPpincOtt, who has
just been repudiated at Washington,
many years ago. She found out he was
bad before the democratic Investigators
did.
The third annual report of the
of the United States Gen.
tennial Exposition, says there will be y
deficiency in the funds of 81, 500, 600,
which must be made up by admission
fees.
"A Rochester gentleman proposes to
give to the University of Virginia, q
cabinet of minerals worth $25, 200, and
$l5 600 for building, provided $1,000
is subscribed for its preparation and
care.
The Speaker of the English House
of Commons has to invite each and
every member to dine with him once
during the session, and as there are 65S
this demands good deal of
Vienna DemOrest, daughter of the
New York milliner and dressmaker has
abandoned her intention of making a
career as public singer. The quality
of her voice is unimpaired, but it has
lost all power.
Boston, the colored cashier of the
Savings Institution in
accused of ftampering with
the funds of that institution, looked be-
hind his desk the very personiiication
Of respectable freedom.
Nine. Bonaparte Patterson of Bal
timOre is recovering. She long ago ex-
pressed the belief that she would reach
the age of one hundred years, and al
though over ninety, is remarkable for
her tenacity of will and physical endu-
rance.
The most costly private residence
at the West is that just completed by
George NJ. Pullman, of Chicago, of pal
ace car fame. 1t is built of massive
blocks of brown stone, and the build
ings, grounds, and furnishing cost, it is
stated 100000
The hitherto unknown giver of $25-
DOO toward the Centennial endowment
fund of $500, 600 for the Wesleyan Uni
versity in Middletown, Conn.,, proves
to be Oliver Hoyt, of Stamford, Conn.,,
who some years ago gave s25, 900 to the
same institution.
Mrs. Marshall of Chicago can out
walk Mrs. Hudson of st. Louis. She
did it at Fort Wayne, Ind, the other
day, walking one hundred and fifty
miles while the latter only made one
hundred and forty-seven miles They
are going at it again for $3.50 side-
"A blast of one thousand kegs of
powder was recently fired in mine in
Nevada county, Cal. 1t loosened up
ready for washing, about 200, 900 cubic
yards of earth. The bank was over
200 feet In height, and the mass was
raised bodily four feet. The explosion
was complete success.
The New Jersey courts have de-
ciden that bets on election are void, and
that the stakeholder Is bound to return
the loser his money. There will prob
ably be more betting hereafter in New
Jersey than there has been heretofore.
The people of that State are fond of
excitement.
John Hall, of North Troy, VT, has
seven children, four of whom, under
years of age weigh 200 pounds
each. The youngest are twin girls,
ten wears of a0e. healthy and intelligent.