Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-15

IT is said that Germany and France
have formed treaty, offensive and
defensive.
UNITED STATES Senator Bill Hill is
reported as dying of cancer on his
tongue.
THERE was an earthquake in Costs
Rica, that destroyed four towns, q day
or two ago.
The entire line for the Isthmus
Panama canal has been cleared OF
trees and underbrush for a width OF
800 yards.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcHER was
seized with fainting spell while de-
hvering a lecture at Chicago one
night last week.
"THE boring of the British chan
mel tunnel has now progressed about
HOO yards under the sea. 1t is only
seven feet in diameter.
The Chinese want treaty that Will
prevent Americans from entering
China-that Is, one portion of the
Chinese desire such a treaty.
ME CoNKLISG has declined a posi-
ton on the Supreme Bench. The
President nominated him, and the
Senate confirmed the nomination
II is said by Western papers that
in the three States, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi and Tennessee, $4,000 people
have been rendered homeless by the
floods of few days ago.
II is said that founding children,
and others that are taken to the Phil
adelphia Almshouse, never live there
over three months, if they are allowed
to stay there that long.
A MAN named David Navasso died
OF small -pox in Pittsburg last week.
When he was born, which was in
1861, he weighed Z pounds; when he
died he weighed 100 pounds.
A NUMBER of farmers in Franklin
county expect to cultivate the cotton
plant the coming summer on their
farms. 1t is an experiment that will
be looked upon with no common in
terest.
An oyster, the shell of which weighs
52S pounds, was found recently in
the waters of Japan. The shell was
bought by Californian, and has been
sent by him to the California State
Museum.
THE Russian General Skobeleff has
almost thrown Europe into convulsions
BY declaring in a speech. that the Sla-
vonic race must take issue with and
check the increasing power of the Ger
manic race.
CLARIFIED people are happy over
the statement of a geologist, who
has figured it out to his own satisfac-
tion, that the coal supply in that
county will last for a period of five
thousand years.
JOURNALS of the grumbling quality
are finding fault with President Ar
thur because he did not know that
Conkling would not accept of the
nomination to a place on the Su-
preme Bench. The grumblers must
grumble over something.
A DISPATCH from London on the 7th
inst, tells of a whaling business as
follows: During hurricane in the
north of Scotland three hundred
whales were driven in Weesdale Voc,
Shetland Islands, and shoaled. They
were all captured
A MAN in the gallery at Washing
ton arose and clapped his hands in
applause over a speech that Mr..
Devices was delivering on the Chinese
question on the 7th inst. 1t was con-
cluded that the man was crank, and
he was led out of the house.
The politicians of Illinois were anx-
ious for something to do, and the
Governor has been induced to call
the Legislature to apportion the
State into Senatorial and Congress
sional districts. The Governor has
made the politicians happy.
An exchange tells wives to be
sausy to their husbands when they
displease them. 1t says: Tell your
husband that he ought to be thank
full that he has found woman will
ing to live with him. The latest cen
sus bulletin shows that there are
100000 more men than women in
this country"
The Mayor of Philadelphia, upon
charges preferred by the Press. has
removed the old detective force,
and appointed a new body Of men as
a detective force. The charge of the
Press was that the old detectives were
not detectives in point of fact; they
were only ',go betweens' between tine
thieves and people that had been
robbed.
HE town OF Neponset, Mass. ex-
perienced an uncommon sensation on
Sabbath by the arrest of a Baptist
preacher while he was in his pulpit
preaching. 1t was a woman case,
and people that side with the woman
caused the arrest of the preacher
while he was preaching, for the pur-
pose of creating the greatest possible
sensation.
THERE is a story in, fresh from Utah
that Brigham Young has arisen from
the dead. There is a supplement to
the story; that he did not die, but
that some other man was buried as
Brigham. The desire to play off a
resurrection game on his followers
is said to have been the cause of the
announcement of his death The
whole story, supplement and all, is
probably -