Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-10-27
NO. "A
NEWS IN BRIEF

-IdluOTnla mas earthquake nSuI-
ance companies.
During the year ending last June
nine OregOnians died aged 100.
Two Of the thrones Of the last Ma
poleOn are for sale in France at SIOO
each,
-Sueci, the Italian faster, completed
his task of living thirty days without
food.
Coal has been discovered on the
Sabinas rlver by the Southern Pacific
people.
Country postmen in France are be.
ing supplied by the government with
tricycles.
The iron works at lie Cruzat,
France, burned recently, causing a loss
of 100000.
Since the creation of the world
l,34 600 people have been killed by
earthquakes.
! smallpox has become epidemic in
Pesth, Hungary, and numerous deaths
are reported.
The deficit in the French budget
this year is expected to amount to "a
100000 francs.
Two hundred sheep butchers of
Chicago struck recently for ten cents
per head for killing.
The Chiricahua Apaches have been
lodged in Fort Marion, near st. Au-
gustlne, Fla, and are held as prisoners.
The newest weapon Of war is an
electric sword Run a fOeman through
with it and death comes from the
shock.
The Italian government has re-
solved to enforce existing laws, which
VIII result in the eXpu.tOl Of all Je5u-
Its from Italy.
The largest flat in the world is sit
uated on the corner of Mott and Eliza
beth streets, New York, and affords a
home for 1900 people.
"A beautiful custom is said to pre-
vail with the natives of Java. \ father
when his child IS born, plants a tree,
ana thus sIgnal.zss the birth.
Sweet lemons are a fayorite Mexi-
can dainty. They are the shape. color
and size Of the lemons or commerce
but are sweet-r than bananas.
5 An Arizona paper offers 4 prize of
demliohu OF gin 10 any one who will
furnish It with correct list of the
twenty wCrSt men in the town.
Every morning the aged president
Of William and Mary College, in Vir-
ginia, rings the college bell and, though
no one responds, the college is open and
still retains its charter.
The ancient Romans were bv no
means powerful on the sea. and their
navy way 10y no means equal to their
army. The Mediterranean was the
only sea they wished to command.
1t is mentioned rs curious fact
that fine building stone is imported
from Ireland for use in New York
city. 1t comes from BallinaslOe, at
COunaught, County RoscOmmOn.
The World, following IN tie wake
Of the Press and knickeruOcker, has
interviewed various New York mer-
chants and manufacturers and finds
steady Improvement III business along
, the entire line.
"A good CremOna violin has fifty-
eight divisions. The back, neck, sides
and ciTc'eS are Of sycamore; the belly.
Of deal; the finger board and tail piece
of ebony.
-Ildli-sLIvel shingles nailed by
the eccentric preacher Lorenzo Dow,
uQOn a roof in MOntviIle, Conn, sixty
six years ago, are said to be rs sound as
when first put dawn, although the house
itself is much the worse for wear.
The vestal virgins were members
Of a Roman sisterLOOi Who dedicated
themselves under a vow OF chastity 10
the service Of the goddess Eesta, I'm
whose temple they mIUistered as priest
eSseS, and watched 10y day and night
the sacred FIRE kept burning upon her
altar.
For the mesquite tree Of Texas it IS
claimed that the bark Yields more tan
niu than that Of rel oak; that the wood
IS good for cabinet work and is excel
lent for fence posts and ties; that the
bean which the tree produces in abun-
dance IS excellent food for stock; and
that its gum makes Is good Eucilage
rs gum arabic,
--Benveuue, the country seat OF
Hamilton ;. Fletcher, about six miles
from Washington, RappahannOck coun-
ty, Virginia, was recently the scene Of
the marriage in which the groom and
the bride have been betrOthad since the
seventh birthday Of the bride.
To kill one fly in March is estima-
ted to be as good work as killing s.
10000 In August, the increase and
multiplicatiOus of the fly population be-
ing figured as follows; One fly on the
10Th Of March is represented by 200 on
the 2I,h Of April, by 1900 on the 18th
of MAY, by 100000 on the 2I OF
July and By 5, 100 100000 on the S.h of
August.
u gentleman who has made a
special study of rats says rat by na-
ture IS compelled TO guaw; if he does
not his teeth grow so rapidly that his
Jaws become locked. He is one of the
most nervous, cunning and sensitive OF
creatures, and when COrneret IS very
vicious. They are easily alarmed by
rumbling or iarring sounds.
Washing day was by no means
very exhausting n the TeIgns Of the
TudOrs in England. In one grand
house, where there were more than lG6
persons and fifty strangers daily, there
were nine table cloths and no sheets at
all, and the washing bill for the whole
year was only forty shilIings, including
the charge for cleansing the linen be-
longing 10 the chapel,
"A curious spring eleven miles from
MOOrtield, W. Va, flows from July I
10 August 81, and at no other time,
every year. The flow Of water only
lasts fifteen minutes at a time, when 1t
recedes with a rushing noise back into
the hills and remains dry fifteen min
utes, wheu the water will again rush
out in a stream sufficiently large to
turn an ordinary mill-wheel. The water
comes rushing under the ground like
distant wind storm.
Salts Of copper-usually regarded as
very pOisOnOus--have been administered
by French chemist to dogs and rab-
bits without serious effects, either from
Inoa1 ont