Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-07-15

The question is asked, lis drunk
eness diseasef
The Russian war cloud is still big
ger than mans hand.
THERr are in the United States
$4,000 women physicians.
ENGLAND seems to be determined
to keep out of fight with Russia.
JAY GOULD has appointed woman
freight agent at Castleton, Indiana.
P1cN1c1Na in the woods is said to
be paradise regained, when it doesn't
rain.
4 MILLION cat skins are used annu-
allv. to make seal skin coats and SO
forth.
Ok the 20th of May, fire in the
city Of Toyoma, Japan, destroyed
5,917 houses.
PROFESSOR G. P. LANGLEY, of Pitts
burg, insists upon it, that the color
of the sun is blue.
Or the more than six hundred
Vassar graduates, only two hundred
have become wives.
The majority OF the Quay delegates
to the Republican State Convention
had no instructions.
SECRETARY LAMAR could not raise
the American flag over his depart
ment on the 4th of July.
The Maria Cleveland reformers are
preparing to open the sluice gates OF
their abuse dam against Quay.
The late German census reports
that l, ,23S, ,0S0 women take a part III
field labor Oh German farms.
GENERAL GARIcA, with four hundred
of his soldiers was killed in Mexico,
IN battle with Indians, recently.
First Assistant Post Master Cen
eral, Malcolm Hay, has resigned. Mr..
Stevenson, of Ill, is his successor.
SIX days Of continuous rain in Kan
sas brought the wheat harvest to a
stand still and entailed q great loss
of wheat
Thirty thousand of the forty thou-
sand people of the city of Munica,
Spain, have fed from the cholera
stricken place.
The Republican State Convention,
and the State Teachers Convention
at Harrisburg, last week, caused the
old town to appear quite lively.
The annual session of the Grand
Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of
Pennsylvania will convene at Read
ing on the 18th day of July at 8 o.
clock A NJ
'One of the plans TO make Paris a
seaport is to convert the river Seine
into canal ninety-eight feet wide.
The cost of dredging, etc, is estima
ted at s2O,OOO,0OO."
PoLITIcs is not a pure pool, but
men of the world know that it is not
by many per cent as foul a pool as
the business pool of the country.
Open your eyes and ears, and learn
. for yourself.
QUAY conducted his own campaign
excepting the speech of nomination
by Col W. A. Norris. The Colonel s
speech was one of the most ably ex
ecuted pieces of oratory that has
been listened to in many years at
Harrisburg.
There are histories and histories of
the rebellion, by both rebel and un-
ion soldiers, and centuries after this,
students of history will ask "what
was it all about" The answer Will
be, "a fight for and against slavery,
and slavery WAS crushed out"
A SCIENTIFIC writer publishes an ar
ticle on the locality of the Garden of
Eden. He believes that it was at the
North pole and that the deluge de-
stroyed it. He believes that the
names found in the Bible, that indi-
cate that Eden was In Mesopotamia,
are general names.
THERE were two camps in Fair
mount Park, last week. A camp of
volunteer companies from the sever
al states, and small camp of less
than one hundred Indians headed
by Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull. The
Indians drew much the larger crowds
to witness the drilling.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcHER in a
sermon preached on Sunday a week,
said, 1.-The tendency in churches to
furnish amusement to the children
and adults of the congregations, in
stead of condemning all amusements
was a sign of natural evolution tax
ing place in the churches" How's
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