Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-06-07
NEWS IN BRIEF

to the foot in cooling.
Marc Antony paid 1900 pounds for
a PAIR of handsome boy slaves.
1t is estimated that the gypsy child
rem of England number 80, 600.
OF 920, LIT children born IN France
in 1880, eS, 227 were illegitimate.
-Libraries existed in Egypt contemp-
oraneously with the Trojan war
The Spanish Celts raised temples
and sang hymns of praise 10 death.
The city authorities of auburn,
Me-, refuse to license billiard halls.
The public debt was reduced dur
ing the month of April 81, ,4l5, S23-T4
At Pompeii combs have been found
exactly like the modern fine.tooth kind.
A Directory of directors" is pub
lished in London. 1t contains $500
names.
Edward the III prohibited the use
of coal in London by royal Proclama
ton.
In a single dav, at the dedication
of the Colosseum by Titus, 5000 animals
persisted,
There was $4,000, 900 worth of
barbedwire fences built IN this country
last year.
AT tine beginning of the present cen
tury the English laws made 160 crimes
punishable by death.
Miss Mary Anderson's steam yacht,
the Galatea, made her debut among the
pillows recently.
Russian Nihilists are not peasants,
but members of the lowest stratum of
the middle classes.
About half the childen in Eureka,
New, are down with the smallpox.
Mr.. Lorillard, the tobacco manufac-
turer. has bought an interest in the
Frewen cattle herds in Wyoming.
Tho output OF coal from the mines
of Alabama has increased IRON 10000
tons in 1875 to 40O, 900 tons in 1881.
The rld1ng whip OF Isabel, wife of
Edward H. IN 1925, Is described as a
very short staff with numerous Iashes.
Ohio, with over 8, 900, 600 Of people
has only 80, 900 paupers, who cost the
state something over $500, 900 yearly,
The handsome, wealthy and elO-
quent MOnsignor Capsl, the Catesby of
Lothian, Is coming t. this country.
Sir Walter Raleigh's house at You
ghsl, which is party a museum, Is the
property of Sir John Pope Hennessey.
In New Zealand the men wear bangs
and allow the hair to iow down their
backs. The women are clipped short
1t is believed that tine mullet FISH
cries of Florida will become as impor-
tant as the cod fisheries of New Eng
land.
The first political gun Of the year
will be fired by Oregon, June 5th. She
elects State offers and q member of Con-
gress.
The emblems of supreme authority
among British Engs used to be brace
lets of gold about the neck, arms and
knees,
| -Megret. the friend Of Charles XII,
exclaimed at the instant of the kings
death: "1he play is over; lst us go to
supper.
Silver was first coined in Rome in
the year of the city 4S4, five years before
the first Punic war. Gold coin was first
struck in 564.
Marcus Aurelius, by compelling
lgladlators to fight with blunt swords,
rendered the combats for a time COM
paratively harmless.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, the wife of the
late Commodore's heir, pays her chief
cook 81, 900 year, or more than the
annual compensation of United States
Senator
The first foundling hospital estab
lished by Royal Charter in London, 1879,
was instituted through the exertiOns of
Capt Coram, whose portrait WAS paint
ed for the hospital by Hogarth.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins has presented to
the University of California Emmanuel
Leutze's historical picture "Washing-
ton at Monmouth The painting Is in
sured for $4,000.
The son of Princess DOlgOrouh is
described as resembling the Gar Alex
ander III. and Nicholas, but having eyes
, not so staring as theirs, neither plain nor
. handsome, but remarkable, and evidently
conscious of his peculiar and painful
position.
The Pope has expressed n desire to
\ lhave official communication with the
I English Government, in order to have
o accurate information of the condition OF
the Roman Catholic Church in the
! British DominiOns, because he appreci-
l ates the liberty permitted Its members.
The maximum salary OF the primary
g school teachers in France Is $1,000, the
q minimum $40. instruction Is free In
v infant schools, primary schools proper,
and adyanced primary schools, and also
in the normal school.
considerable excitement has been
caused among Southwestern people by
y the report that Texas had issued land
n certificates for 5000, 900 more acres OI
# land than can be found subject to pos
e session under them.
! The annual campaign against thC
- locusts has been in process for about {
fortnight in the Island OF Cyprus. Th'
~ rewards offered by the Government las
n wear resulted In the collection and de
u struction Of more than 1900 tons OF eggs
ie Mr.. Edouard Seve, Consul-Genera
u OF Belgium IN the United States n TN
Id city, has received the Order OF the Re
ne Cross Of Geneva for his services durin
a the wars in South America. This Is tn
first time that the Cross has been pre-
u- sented since 1870.
Ad The Marion Rife Corps, OF Balti
more, which was organized by I.afayett'
Feb. %, 1924, on the occasion of ri
civil and military reception in that city
,at has presented to the Maryland Hlstor
- cal Society Its flag for safe keeping, IL
Sr- survivors of the company being now o
men.
iid Late reports from Louisiana ind
In cate that the cane which was covered
the floods is not so much injured
sry there was reason to fear that 1t won
be. This is accounted for by the lC
AL Temperature at the time of the fiooC