Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Bull, Cow and Calf, are the names
of three Kentucky streams that empty
into the Sandy river.
DIR. Winslow says that spiritualism
has a constituency OF 200 in the luna
tic asylums of the United States.
Rev. Phoebe Hannaford has or
dained her son and married her dsugh-
ter.
The Chaplain Of the Colorado State
Senate is a negro, Rev. G. f. Watson,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Italy produces 80, ,OOO, 900 gallons of
olive oil annually, and France some
1000, 900 gallons.
Lyon g. Tyler, son of the late
President Tyler, has been appointed
Professor OF Modern Languages at VIII
liam and Mary College, Virginia.
They have one Patron ofHusbandry
(famiiiarly, Granger) in Congress, Col
Onel ID. Wyatt Aiken, Democratic Rep
from the third district
OF South Carolina
Gov. kemper of Virginia, says that
thedebt of that state amounts to $50, ,0OO,-
900, all of which as contracted before
the war. It amounts to one-tenth OF
the taxable property of the state.
Nothing like perseverance. \ man
named Fox of Titusville, Pa, has re-
covered S93, 900 damages from the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad by % years
suit.
Mr.. Robert Browning has beeh
by the Glasgow students
Association as their can
didate for the Lord Rectorship of the
1t showed recently in Constantine
pie, and the superstitious Turks were
filled with dismal forebodings at pbe-
of such rare occurrence in
their climate.
Two young men in st. Louis re-
Gently robbed the corpse of deceased
halter OF an oyercoat. They thought
he would not need it where he was
going. -r
Col. j. Dean Hawley, of Syracuse,
y. V, has presented to the University
a watch about 800 years old.
1t still keeps very good time, and
weighs half a pound Troy weight.
"A youth was recently tried in Eng
land for breach of promise, who had
written 10 his sweetheart 229 lOve-let-
ters since 1867. Those letters cost him
flOO, not including the stationery.
The first bank in the United States
was the Bank of North America or
ganized January Z, l732, at Philadel-
phia, and it is still transacting an ex-
tensive business in the Quaker City.
MIR. Chafee, the new senator from
Colorado, is enormously wealthy. anda
widower. 1t is not especially encoura-
ging to fair treasury clerks, however,
That he has been a widower for 20 years.
"A son of Brigham Young has re-
signed from the United States Naval
Academy, desiring TO seek another Oe-
He stood well in his stu,lies,
which he had been pursuing for over
two years.
Capt. BOyntOn has successfully ac-
his greatest voyage in his
dress, by swimming down
The river Po, from Castel DuOmO to
Ferrara, $50 miles, in sc hours, without
l break.
There is an unusual interest mani
tested in kitchen maids by the young
men of Memphis, Mo-, caused by a
in local paper that young
lady, heir to $4,000 is working as a
domestic in 4 family there.
Mrs. Scates is an old lady of Car
rollton. ILL.,, whose age is supposed to
be from los TO IlJ years. She Is known
10 be over 100 years old. She has been
helpless tor many years and dependent
upon the charity of friends.
The result OF the recent School
Board election is the greatest triumph
he Liberal party have had in LOnd0s.
for many years. All the four lady can
iilates have been elected. At the first
election in 1870. only two ladies were
A Brooklyn man recently got him
'elf into trouble by kicking the wron5
BOY. a lot of young rascals had been
ringing mis- door bell, and he ran out for
revenge, which cost him $3.50 and
twenty nine days Imprisonment. y
nln ought always to be sure of his boy.
The CherOkees have over eighty
common schools. The Chicasaws have
our public and ten district schools. The
ChOctaws have two public schools, and
,ver fifty district schools. The Creeks
nave three public schools and about
hirty district schools.
There are 33i FreemaSOn lodges IN
Germany. Outside of the Empire there
ire l23 lodges that conduct their pro-
in German, of which % are in
he United States. The others are dis
ributed throughout the world, inclu-
ling China, Turkey and Egypt.
A lady lost two valuable rings in
he snow at Rutland, VT, the other day.
while taking OFF one of her gloves. Sew
,ral gentlemen volunteered their assist
lnce, scraped together all the snow in
he vicinity, placed it in boxes, and took
{ into boiler room, where it was soon
Melted by steam, and the jewelry re-
covered.
Gas in Baltimore was reduced few
months ago from So TO S2.15 per thou
and fleet. Now BaltimOreans are be-
the gas company 10 restore the
'Ormer price, as, according To the bills.
hey are paying for nearly One-haif
more gas under the reduced rate than
hey ever did. Anyhow. they don't
want any further reduction on this
plan.
1t has been asserted impossible that
/ man could eat thirty quails in thirty
days, which may be true OF
men, but San Francisco woman re-
Gently achieved the feat in response 10
4 banter from her son-in-law. who Of
fered wager OF 500 that she could not
accomplish it, and thus nobly taught
Dne man what a spirited mother-in-law
can do. He thought they would kill her,
but she survives.
The rev observatory at Niagara
Falls, when completed, will offer advan-
tages to the sight-seers that will Ger
tainly be appreciated. The building Is
being erected on a massive foundation
of masonry, short distance from the
entrance to the '.ShadOw of the Rock
The entire end of the building facing
the falls will be of heavy glass, afford
ing to those within grand view of the
falls. The building will cost about
50, 600
The new Harvard catalogue con-
tains $40 names of students and officers
in the several departmepts. Teachers.