Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-12-21
NEWS IN BRIEF

| 1uctc axe 1917 tctf pslp1t lOSc-l
| bers in Boston.
Michigan is to have a new museum
which will cost $4,000.
Pearl fishery in England is rs old
as Caesars time.
Shanghai. China, is to have an in
ternational exhibition in 1888.
The Prussian monarchy was de-
clared established in 1901.
-Libraries existed in Egypt contem-
poraneously with the Trojan war.
Mrs. Hayes will visit Washington
some time during the winter.
There are 40 woman law firms in
the United States,
Emanuel Swedenborg died in 1772.
Cornell University has an endow-
ment of 81. 700 600
Bishop Weightman OF the NJ. E.
Chuicn, South, is critically ill at
Charleston. s. C.
Donald G. Mitchell is-spoken of for
the professorship of English literature
in Columbia College.
-Chaucer received pitcher of wine
every day from the cellar of Edward
III.
Charles Martel, who detected the
Saracens in the Battle of Tours, 732,
died in 74l.
Drowning was a military punish
ment mentioned in the charter of Rich
ard /. only.
The oldest canal in England, from
the Trent to the Withan, IS said to have
been dug in 1134.
The number of meteorological ia
tions maintained in the United States
by the signal service Is 296.
Tine Rev. DR.. John Hall, has de
clined the Chancellorship of the New
York University.
Senator Blaine's new house in
Washington will be ready for occupancy
next spring
There Is perfect darkness at the
North pole from Nov. 13 to Jan. 90.
period of seventy seven days,
-England's ~Idest baronet is a He
brew. Sir Moses Montefiorc, man of
great benevolence and blameless record.
-Marggraf, an eminent Prussian
chemist, first drew the attention of the
public to beet-root sugar in 1747.
Baked, coarse bread, called horse
bread, WAS common food for horses in
the time of James /. instead of grain.
The Archduke Rudolph of Austria
has just printed an account, in two vol
ume,, of his Oriental travels last year.
M. Pasteur has resolved to visit the
Bordeaux lazaretto to study yellow fever
and ascertain whether 1t is due to u
parasite and can be guarded against
Tho French fishermen suffered in
October almost as much rs the British
At Boulogne the October storm has
made 90 widows and $50 orphans.
-Oakes Ames' children have erected
library and hall as a memorial of the
Congressman in North Easton, Mass.
1t cost $4,000.
The l nhce of Siam has been in
Jenna recently to purchase arms and
engage Austrian instructing officers for
the Siamese army.
"A transfer OF S45, 900 of real estate
in McLesn County, Ill inois, represents
the losses of the former owner in two
weeks of heavy play at poker.
According to statistics Just issued,
the import of gram into Germany has
far exceeded the export during the first
nine months of the current year.
"A colony of $50 Italians, in and
around Nashville, Tenn, have 1900
acres Of land devoted to grape raising.
which has proved very successful.
The pisnoforte was invented in Ger
many, and began to be popular in Eng
land and France near the close of the
last century.
The last court dwarf in England
was German, named Copperhein, re-
tanned by the Princess of Wales, the
mother of George III.
I'm 1444 patent was granted John
Cobbe. that, by the art of philosophy,
he might transmute imperfect metals
into gold and silver.
| In the time of Edward /. of Eng
land, the pay of a knight or esquire was
sixteen shillings a day, and that of an
archer three shillings.
One Wisconsin county estimates
that in eight months the cost incurred
through tranips was $4,000, not to speak
of crimes and the expenses of criminal
trials of tramps.
-Edwind Booth, 1t is reported, has
written TO Berlin that he will appear in
Germany next year, after having com
pleted his unfulfilled contracts during
next spring and summer
Mr.. A. F. Grant, of Montreal, who
lately gave 81, 900 for theological col
lege, has offered $50, 900 to free Trinity
!, Episcopal Church, ii that city, from
debt.
Eight of the Jurors who acquitted
, Bella Spraudling of numbering her hus
band, at Galesburg, ILL.,, accepted hei
Invitation to banquet inthe celebration
of her escape from the gallows.
in consideration of the exception
ally trying season, the Duke of Suther
land has RENTED so per cent. of tht
D current years rent to his sheep-farmine
r tenants in Sutherlandsh;re.
Thomas Parnell, retired publican
who died at Ramsgate, in England, tool
t part in the battle of Copenhagen unde
e Nelson, in 1901. He served in that figh
as naval volunteer, and died at the ag
n of SO.
o The Annapolis of Italy is Leghorn
where the Government has establishe
a,dourishing naval academy under forty
two officers and professors The pupil
number AS, and will be taught how
Il handle the new iron-clad monster.
Fl A number of young Englishmen OIL
K working on q farm at LIE Mars, low,
e They are pupils of an Englishman VIII
3 owns large tract there, and are learnin
IS the business with view to conductin
extensive farming in the far West The
is large English colony at LIE Mar
: including many sens of aristocrat
!, families,
II The Mormon Tabernacle at Sa
= Lake City, which has been twenty-eigl
wears in process of construction, and