Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-10-13
NO. AZ.
NEWS in BRIEF.

Der In Salisbury's cabinet who can talk
French.
"A professional beggar, who died
recently in Rio Janeiro, left a fortune
Of 100000.
-Liszt died poor and without a will.
He lately gave 500, 900 francs to his
native place.
General Booth, of the Salvation
Army, will come to the United States
in October next.
"A dozen defaulters have stolen
81, ,00O, 600 from Phlladelphians during
the past five years.
Lewis county, w. T., has not
single Chinese inhabitant, 'tis said; q
year ago it had 600.
Floral offerings at funerals are be-
coming questionable in San Francisco
owing to the expense.
Mr.. Stevens who is attempting to
travel around the world on q bicycle,
has arrived in India.
Minister West has been visiting
Lord Landsdowne in Canada. His
children are IN Europe.
The Pasteur Institute fund now
amounts to S320.000. The car of
Russia has given $4,000.
Carl Schurz has been offered So, 900
year by the Cincinnati IluStrated
Ne'rS, which seeks an editor.
The friends of Hon. S. S. Cox are
cheered by the announcement that he
Will soon turn his face bOmeward.
-Kaskaskia, which was once the
capital OF Illinois with a population Of
1000, now has but 80 inhabitants.
-Chromo-llthOgraphy IS said to have
been invented by Frederick Emile
Simm, who died lately at Strasburg.
The interior OF the vault contain
ing the remains of Frederick the Great
has been decorated by Emperor VIII
liam.
New Orleans has named its expo
sition grounds Audubon Park, after
the famed naturalist, John James Au-
duboD.
An essay by a Tennessee lad, con-
tanned this brilliant passage: Honesty
is, like angels visits, few and mighty
scarce"
MIR. Henry Willard is going to start
IN business again in New York. His
wealth is estimated at quarter OF
million.
President Grevy is allowed 3OO,-
600 francs yearly for travelling expen-
seS. He saves most of this as he travels
but little.
There are 100000 Italian settlers
In the Argentine Republic, 81, 900 In
Brazil, 10000 in Uruguay and 5000 in
Mexico.
Recent general army statistics show
that last year "a out of 156 deaths that
occurred among the soldiers were due
"A foul ball knocked into a crowd
of men at Topeka hit negro in the
eye with such force that his eyesight
was destroyed.
1t is said that Mr. Lowell contem-
plates another trip to England next
spring, his visit this summer having
been SO pleasant.
M. Bonaparte Wise, a grand
nephew Of the First Napoleon, Is a
wealthy capitalist and is interested IN
Canadian lands.
There is a veteran Georgian in
Americus who has fifteen children,
hfty-one grand children and twenty
four great grandchildren.
Lord Randolph Churchill is not
little and fat, as Punch represents him.
he Is, on the contrary, slim young
man, of average height.
The ancient city of Damascus is
growing in prosperity. and now bids
fair to become once more an important
trading centre In the east.
On farm on the Choptauk river
in Maryland is stalk of corn growing
from fish hawks nest in the top OF
an old dead tree. The stalk is more
than five feet high and in 1Ourishing
condition.
The first antl-Slavery man sent To
the United States senate on that issue
is still living. HIS name is Joseph
Cilley, and he remains on his old fami.
ly homestead at Nottingham, n. Ii,
He is 90 years old.
uc tfttCt~JO -fttCo 5lfilSo lllsiI Wills
in the last few months the wheat trans
actions on the local Board of Trade
have amounted to 7Si, 1000 900 bushels,
the actual grain handled was only g.
0OO,000 bushels.
&C. l. James, an alderman of Eau
Claire, Wis, claims to be son Of the
novelist, G.. L. II. James, and is full
fledged Anarchist. He recently visited
Parsons, whose intimate freud he is,
In his cell in Chicago.
When an Ell art, Ind, farmer was
unloading load of hay which he had
driven to market and sold, he found
We y lively rattlesnske in the hay, and
IN the serpent he found two meadow
moles still alive and kicking.
Mr.. Whistler, the painter and
eteher, whose eccentricities have excIt-
ed the mingled wonder and admiration
of London for ten years, will arrive
here this autumn and give series OF
lectures through the country.
Among the voters of the recent
Alabama election was Thomas Garrett,
OF HOlman's Precinct, who cast his nrst
vote for John Adams in the fall Of 1896.
lie was then % years old, and on his
next birthday will be 1l9 years old.
A young whale feet 2 inches in
length, was killed by blow from an
oar, down east papers assert, by Dur
ham fisherman in Oyster river, and
they are wondering how such a creature
ever got ten miles up the river.
-Kawara and Nure, the two young
japanese cadets who are accompanying
Count Saigo, the Mikado's minister Of
marine, in his tour of inspection of the
navy yards Of this country. will enter
the naval academy at Annapolis this
fall.
Crdckle glass is produced by covering
one side Of piece of plate glass with a
thick stratum of a flux, or readily fusi-
bic glass, mixed with coarse fragments
of glass. The hux Tor fusible glass;
under this treatment cracks and splits,
leaving innumerable fine lines Of frac-
ture over its surface, having much the