Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-21
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

State capitol building.
Complaint is made that Indiana
has few first-class hotels.
Mr.. Tennyson has Just passed his
seventy-second birthday.
Ping up mice holes with soap. The
mice will not go through.
Glucose is used for sizingpaper and
for making printers rollers.
Zinc will stand exposure to the
weather better than marble.
1t is claimed that electric light can
be applied in bleaching textiles.
Lord Harrington is physically ole
of the mos. powerful men in England.
There are 800 square miles of ice
in the Alps, from 50 to 600 feet thick
The ancient British used buckets
without hoops, cut out of solid timber.
The Bsdleian library at Oxford con-
tains 420, 900 volumes and 80, 900 MSS.
-Cadmus brought the invention of
letters from Syria to Greece about 2549
A. NJ.
New York has five hundred men
O"~n "oith tiiCo uiiloii uOfltIs Ut
more.
King Kalakaua is gazetted Knight
Grand Cross of st. Michael and st.
George.
The Grand Duke of Baden has made
up his mind to restore the Castle of
Heidelberg.
Some of the Egyptian mummies are
encased in bandages more than one thou
sand yards long.
Senator Ben H. Hill, of Georgia,
was able to respond to a serenade in
Virginia recently.
There are $40 Indians on the Tona-
wanda New York; reservation, which
covers $500 acres.
Old Queen Bess is said to have died
OF melancholy, from having sacrificed
Essex to his enemies.
Mr.. Gladstone has one daughter
Her husband is head master
OF Wellington College.
Cardinals Manning and Newman were
among the specially invited moarners to
Dean Stanley's funeral.
Mayor Bulkeley, of Hartford, Conn.
devotes all the salary he receives from
the city to city churches.
A recent visitor to Buckingham
Palace writes the pictures there are per-
ishing for the lack of care.
The paper for the bank of England
notes has been made in the same mill,
in Lanerstoke. Hampshire, since 1719.
Only two grandchildren of Daniel
Webster are now hving-Mrs. James
Geddes Day and Mrs. Samuel Appleton.
In Denmark, diet of bread and
water for month was formerly consid-
cred equivalent to punishment of
death.
The next use of the Mayfiower, after
her memorable voyage to America, was
to carry cargo of slaves to the West
Indies.
The Cincinnati friends of Genera
Edward F. Noyes, late Minister to
France, are preparing public welcome
home for him.
A committee is being formed under
the lead of the Duke of Westminster to
erect statue to Dean Stanley in West
Abbey.
-Curfew Bell was introduced into
by William l., 106S. 1t rang
at eight O'Clock, when all lights and fires
we're to be extinguished.
in Vienna meat is prepared ON a
large scale for the Paris and London
markets by exposure to cold and treat
ment with powdered borax.
Count Wilhelm Bismarck, one of the
German Chancellor's sons, Is going to
marry Countess Helene Andrassy,
daughter of Count Andrassy.
Two of Prime Minister Sir Robert
Peel's grandsons, Lords jersey and
Camoys, sit in the house of the Lords.
The latter is Roman Catholic.
California raises great quantities of
mustard seed, but cannot succeed in re-
fn1ng it, so the bulk goes to England,
and returns as Durham mustard.
The "pack" of salmon taken in
Fraser river will be enormous this year.
There are said to be eight canneries
there, representing 100000, in full
blast
The new Duchess of Argyle is a
to the tenth Baron Ward,
and the niece of the first earl of Dudley.
She is the eldest of Bishop Cloughton's
daughters.
The Fish Commissioners of Maine
have put $50, 900 young sea-salmon into
the Kennebec River, as many more into
the Presumpscott and 300, 900 into the
Penobscot this year.
Last year, the biggest in its history,
the Philadelphia mint received 1885,
sos. 40 ounces of gold, valued at S62,-
905, ,947.98 and STAG, 9O2. 81 ounces of
silver worth S6, 482, ,30o.96.
of 500 wild pigeons shipped from
st. Louis to Canton, Ohio, recently, for
a shooting match, 225 died on the way
from poor care and close packing, and
the rest were too weak to stand.
The grave of General Braddock, de-
feated near Pittsburg in 1855, is few
miles east of Uniontown, Fayette county,
Pa, on the old national pike. There is
no monument or stone to mark it.
j.. The Boston Massacre occurred in
front of the Old State House. The death
of George IL, accession of George ILL.,,
and the Declaration of Independence
were announced from its balcony.
A new slab has been fixed over
Byron's grave at Hucknall. The num-
Der of visitors to the tomb is as grea
at any time since the funeral in
The names of large number of Ameri-
cans are recorded in the visitors album.
The Church ofSt. Michael at Hugh
enden is to be completed and improved
as O memorial to Lord Beaconsfeld.
Over the seat which the Earl was accus-
toned to occupy Queen Victoria intends
to place monument, the chief ornament
of which will be portrait medallion.
I'm the quarters of the Paris firemen
black marble slabs are to be erected, in
scribed with the names of members who
have persisted at fires since 1927, COM
mencing with Corporal Bounard, who
died May 81, 1927, and ending with Pri-
vate Harvard, whose hfe was sacrificed
in the great Printemps fire, March, 8,
1891