Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-08-25
NO. 80
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Chicago gamblers last year cleared

-a4Odly, N. L =, IS the Oldest town
IN the old thirteen colonies.
A steam laundry IN Reno, New, is
driving the Chinese to despair.
In some places in Arizona there
mas been no rain in three years.
Sitting on the roof is becoming a
summer night fashion in New York.
"A woman with hot kettle foiled
telegraph pole painter in Sandusky.
The latest feminine folly Is a bed
spread made from old kid glove backs.
"A chicken snake, killed in Florida,
was found TO contain a china nest t-egg.
"A plOw. rigged to a locomotive, is
cutting sod for embankments in Jersey.
The honey crop of Los Angeles
county, CAL, is figured to be 1000
tons.
When Cleveland society is much
agog it is SAID to "wink its eyelids
loose"
AN exchange apologies for a mis-
print of monkey dudes" for money
dudes.
"A Santa Barbara, Cal, beekeeper
has extracted five tons of honey this
season.
Arthur Rehan, brother of Ada,
will take Nancy Il Coz on the road
next fall.
Railroad building promises to be
unusually active in Arkansas during
the next year.
Youthful criminals have increased
amazingly in number in France within
the past five years
Los Angeles, Cal, ladies' have
pledged themselves to eschew song birds
in their millinery.
An average Of fifty unaddressed
postal cards are daily mailed at the
New York pOst-oflice.
! -Pinafore Is being given aboard
real ship at a summer resort short
distance out from Chicago.
An AmadOr County (Cal. man has
applied for patent on process for
making butter Uy boiling the cream.
in ear of corn measuring eighteen
inches in length was recently taken
from a field near Sylvania, Georgia
A Preston (Ct.l man has a cat
whose favorlte tidbit Is nice Tat grass
hopper, which she captures for herself.
"A bright boy in WOlcott, y. Y,
has taught a drove of hogs TO run after
him whenever he sings Yankee Doo-
de-"
Mrs. Marina Wright, of Addison,
, VT, is over lO2 years old, and has lived
in her present residence over ninety
nIne years.
"A young woman of Ithaca has
nearly one thousand silk worms Sus-
pended in paper cones, and all spinning
IndustriouSly-
-MelocIpede is the new name OF
musical bicycle so fashioned that the
rider can kick out melodies. waltzeS
aud reels as he travels along tie road.
Robert Smith, of Lexington, Ind,
lost his nice black hair rs the result of
typnoid fever. Now kis head is cover
ed with hair three inches long, very
kinky lie negrO's but as white as
SHOW.
Fifteen years ago man quit Ber-
lin, Canada, owing ten-GO.lar board
bill The other day he returned found
that his creditor was dead, hunted up
his family, and paid the debt with in-
terest.
Rose Leslie, whose immense size
made her famous as circus attraction,
has died in Lowell, Mass aged twenty
five years. She weighed GIj pounds,
and measured five feet three inches in
height.
"A Maine groom who could talk 10
French, and French bride who could
speak no English, we're married the
other day in Lowell, Me. They both
had understood the unspOken language
of cOurtship.
"A Marechal Mel rose tree at Lon
Con, Ont, is peculiar one. On one
side the roses are crimson, and on the
other lily white. The tree has not been
grated, "budded," or tampered with
in any manner.
"A big turtle was caught near Lin.
coin Parish, La, and its head was cut
off Three days later a chicken found
the head and was picking at It when
the jaws snapped, caught the chicken
and killed it outright.
Harry l.. Falk, swimming in the
COnestoga River, near Lancaster, Pa,
saw a black bass within arms length
of him. He grabbed for it, was lucky
enough 10 catch his fingers in the gills,
and SWAN ashore with line fish.
Five years ago Ida Garrison, of
Denison, Tex, fell from tree, and
hurt herself so that she has not since
been able to use her arms. She has
succeeded in learning to paint, holding
the brush with the toes of her left foot.
The one baby that is said TO have
been born in the White House was
christened "Henry Walker" is now
forty years Old, and lives in Mont
gomery, a a. His mother, niece of
President Polk, was visiting her uncle
when Henry was born.
"A Macon (Ga.) negro is gradually
changing color. Two years ago he was
as black person as ever was born, but
now his skin, besides being dotted with
big blOtches of white, is assuming a
color similar TO that produced by the
mixture of dun and hght-brOwn col
ors.
Frank Butler, of Prairie City, Ill,
says he saw snake near Niger Greek
which was black or one side and cream
cOlored on the other. 1t was as big
around as mans thigh. He threw
stones at the monster, but these mis-
sles bounded from Its hack as if it were
of rubber.
An eleven and three-fourth pound
lobster has just been caught off Win
throp, Mass. 1t measured over all
twenty-nine and one. half inches, large
claw eleven inches, and small claw ten
and three-fOurth inches. 1t was re-
markably symmetrical lobster for one
so old and large.
A train hand in the Salem railroad
yard on hot night heard chickens
peep coming from freight car. He
went in, and among lot Of eggs found
one through which a chick had stuck
its head. The little fellow was removed
and now thriyes at the train hands
home.
Mime. Goyull, aged one hundred