Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-04-04
NEWS IN BRIEF

rill, of Maine, is i'll failing health.
. Marshall BaZaine is soon to write a
history of the Franco-PruSsian wax.
Ancient ThebeS covered an area
five miles in length by three miles in
breadth.
The independence ami prosperity of
Novgorod were destroyed by Ivan NaSi-
livitch L.
The Prince of Wales has accepted
the chairmanShip of the LongfellOw
Memorial Committee.
"A resident of Woodbury.. Tenn.
but thirty years of age. has just married
for the fourth time.
The petrifactiOn called agate was
named from the river AchateS, in Sicily.
where it was first found.
Rich gold mines have been discover
ed IN Guatamala, Central America,
causing much excitement.
The Paris Academy of Medicine
offers prize of 5000 for the finding
of remedy for diphtheria.
Valuable coal discoveries continue
to he made on the east coast of Vancou-
ver'S Island, British Columbia.
The different leagues of German
cities were united into one by the treaty
of Heidelberg, signed in 1891.
In the greater part of the East,
wliStling is looked upon with iIl-favur
rs practice full of evil omen.
The contract tor the Yorktown
monument has been awarded To the
Hollewell Granite Co., Tor $1,000.
The BerneSe Switzerland Govern
Inent has forbidden any meeting of the
salvation Army within the canton.
| n resident Of Holland. who died
IN 1872. was said To have smoked over
four tons of tobacco in his life of eighty
years.
-Bonnat, the artist. las secured. at
the price of S2IO0, a beautiful portrait
of Erasmus, drawn hy Albert Dmer in
1920.
One hundred and fourteen thousand
small trout have been recently distribu-
ted i'll the streams of Eastern Pennsyl-
vania.
! -POrpoiSeS are often known to form
a ring about a Shoal of small fish. and
by driving them intoa mass obtain a
hearty meal.
The largest circular Siw in the
world is AT Blakely Washington terri
tory. 1t cuts 2OO.OO0 feet in twenty
four hours.
On hearing of his having won 100
900 liOrins III one of the national lottery
drawings, poor starving devil was
struck dead
The ice harvest from the Kemnebec
river Is now estimated at GA. .O00 tons.
and there We're 100000 tons left over
from last year.
There are now only thirty-Six eS>
Establishments in Cologne that profess to
sell the true and only genuine eau. In
! lS2Y there We're sixty.
| A method has been discovered hv
I which the pine needles of the SileSian
forests can be cured. felted and woven
into Serviceable cloth.
The Mobile and Ohio railroad. $50
miles long has been in operation twenty
seven years, and not single passenger
has ever been killed on il
The Peruvians buried all the wealth
of their IncaS with them. and So great
was the amount thus Inferred that the
Npaniarls took S93l 900 from a single
tomb.
The reason why the tomlS of the
| Egyptian mOnarcliS We're built in the
desert WAS that in this place they occu-
pied no land which might have beer
used for agriculture.
during the twelve months which
ended on January 3lSt. lSS3, our i'm
ports of merchandise amounted in value
tO Si52, ~, 361, and our exports for
the same period were S7S3, ,29S, 100
The Marquis of LOrne while in
California had several dozen quailS ship
Ied from that state to the head keeper
on the lnverary mOOrS. with view To
having them acclmated in Scotland.
The production Of books and maps
IN Germany, including new editions.
during iSS2 reached 4.791. as against
| l1,lyl in 1881. Natural science. law.
and theology are all more weakly repre-
Sented. Mathematics, philosophy, and
modern languages Increase.
Judge jeremiah Black. referring to
the rumorS of the President 5 marriage.
SAYS that when lie was member of
Buchanan Cabinet he was continually
solicited To I've the medium of matrimOn-
ial Oyertmes to Buchanan.
Mr.. Frederick Archer, who in the
last 10 wears has won some 800 races
and who WAS married fortnight ago.
possesses fortune estimated to he COLI
siderable over SjO0.0O0. Mrs. Archer
is the eldest daughter of Mr.. John Daw-
son. Of Warren House, Newmarket.
Louisville, Ky, is busily making
preparations for great industrial eX-
hibition next August The citizens
have subscribed S2J0, 600. ask for no out
side help, and are putting up the main
building, which will cover thirteen
acres. The show will open August |,
and will continue 100 days.
in the town of Woodbridge, CT.
bout six miles from New Haven. ther
is an oak tree said To he from 900 To
, | 800 years old the oldest of its kind
known in America II is thirty feet in
circumference at the base, and some OF
its branches spread sixty feet beyond
the trunk. II is yet vigorous.
Beyond the Mississippi River there
are POO, 600 square miles not settled
by white men, and of this area 100000
best land, are included within Indian
reservations, while much of the remain
der consists of mountainous tracts,
lands inaccessible OF sterile and arid re-
regions which cannot he irrigated.
"A few years ago associations known
as ''Bahds of Mercy were formed in
England, the object of which was to
irculcate and promote kindness to ami
mails. They have achieved a great sue
cess, especially in teaching children to
show kindness to the dumb creation,
The Earl of Sliaftesbury is at the head
of the organization.
The annual report of the London
Peabody Trust shows the net gain for
the year TO have been almost $4,000.
II has now provided for the artisan ard
laboring class q, i60roOms, exclusive of
hath ,-n.t,.S, lotrn.f.-ia. ap1 xxr1 II houses