Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-12-14
NEWS ~ BRIEF

Inc order OF the Garter Was institu.
ted In 1884 by Edward Ill.
! There is only one hundred of the
Modoe tribe of Indians left.
The first Russian embassy arrived
IN London in February, 1857.
The sons of the Prince of Wales are
being banquetei ut Yokohama.
Emperor Williams health is be
lieved to he declining seriously.
The Herdic coaches are so popular
at Boston that % will be added.
Prof S. b. Morse, the inventor OF
the telegraph, was born in 1871.
Cadet Whitaker has become ma
nager of a negro minstrel troupe.
The Emperor William has resumed
the transaction OF offi ,ialbusiness.
General Francis A. Walker, super
lntendent of census, has resigned.
There were 1851 cases of desertiou
from the United States army last year.
This first Scotch matyr TO the Re-
formation, was brought to the stake in
1927.
Chicago has already ten fine thea.
tres, but is talking about building an
other.
The first shad OF the season has
been caught in the st. Johns river,
Florida
Calling the hours by watchmen is
a custom said TO have had its rise in
Germany
1t requires $50 turns of the crank to
wind up the clock ON Trinity Church,
New York.
-Semper Idem always the same was
first used as motto on tie arms of Eng
land in 1892.
Two dyers of Exeter, England. were
fiogged in 162S, ''for teaching their art
in the NORTH
The Eddystone lighthouse was
begun in l766 by John Sweaton. 1t was
built in four years.
"A Texas man was lynched for riding
a mule on Sunday. ii was another mans
mule, by the way
The death is announced of Ehe
Schoumof, for many years the chess
champion of Russia.
Mrs. Collins, Of Troy, n. Y, has
been seriously poisoned by wearing
scarlet-dyed stocking.
The interior of the Capitol of yir-
glnia is being repainted by a convict
from the PeniteDtiary.
A wire 400 feet long can be made
from one grain of silver. Such a wire
is finer than human hair.
General Stoneman has raised Sl6. .OO0
worth of grapes on his vineyard at Los
Angeles, Cal, this year.
In two days recently there were
shipped from Pittsburg by water TO-
773, $40 bushels of coal.
"A large brick tea facto-y, 10 miles
frcu FoochOw, owned by Russian
firm, was destroyed by fire
King Alfred used to measure time
by device of twelve candles, graduated
so as to burn two hours each.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail.
road has ordered fifty new engines, eight
OF which are for passengers trains.
"A large boa in the Geological Gar
dens in London swallowed a blanket,
and disgorged it i'll thirty-three days.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has an
annual income of $1,000. When not
she saves about half of it each
year.
"A London firm has Just manufac
tured a sporting knife for Cetywayo, the
Zulu monarch, containing twenty-six in
Cattle men in the Northwest who
have watched the signs of the weather
for many seasons say that the winter
will be mild.
1t is said that one square mile in Lon
don where the poorest people congre-
gate, over 1000, 600 year is spent in
strong drink.
During the eleventh century the
ladies of France carried light walking
sticks, the heads of which generally re-
presented birds.
The first certain account of the use
Of stirrups of which the ancient name
was scalo, is said to 3e toward the end
Of the sixth century.
The Gothic style of architecture
was first adopted fer churches about the
eleventh century. 1t is distinguished
by its pointed arch.
General Sherman is shortly to visit
Colonel Blackwell at Durham, N. c., on
whose farm General Joe Johnston sur
rendered to him in 1865.
For half a century. Kentucky has
allowed white widows who have children
six and twenty years of age to
vote for school trustees.
Prince Murat has been badly wound
ed in the arm-pit in duel with Baron
yaux, whom he challenged for an article
published in the Tri6oulet.
The people of Truro, Nova Scotia,
in Il recent public meeting, authorized
the giving of 500, 900 in bonuses for the
promotion of manufacturing industries
there.
Sojourner Truth, the colored ex-slave,
who is 105 years old, is still lecturing,
She was born slave on the banks of
The Hudson river, and was owned by a
Holland family. Her name was Belle
Mr.. Archibald Macarthur, who is
.eputed to have been the oldest man in
Scotland, died on October 26th at Da-
loon, Argyleshire. He was born in the
parish of Kilmoorish, Argyleshire, on
9Th, 1777, and thus was in his
O5th year. His faculties remained un-
.louded.
The Tow-boat George Washington,
aid to be the oldest on the Hudson
River, has just been examined AMI
licensed for another year. 1t was built
n 1880, of live oak and cedar, and has
,een subjected to very few repairs.
Mrs. Garfield is now settled with
her three younger children in her new
nome on Euclid avenue, Cleveland.
They viii remain there until April, and
will then return to Mentor. The elder
Mrs. Garfield viii spend the winter with
he widow of her son,
The vote of the people of Colorado
1pon the site of the State capital con-
.inues il at Denver by over IL, 600 plur-
llity. The other leading places voted