Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-11-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-lne eullOr OF an iowa newspaper
bought the flowers for his grave before
ne committed suicide.
AT fancy ball given in Sydney
not long ago, fat lady OF 60 appeared
As Mary Queen Of Scots.
1t is estimated that the prune crop
in Santa Clara county, California, this
season is worth 81 100000.
-Four of the prettiest girls of Gale
donIa, Mich, were caught stealing
watermelons by moonlight.
Ramon Vejar. of Pomona. Cal,
killed fOur-legged quail. which is now
IN the hands OF a local taxidermist.
The streets and squares of Berlin
contain upwards Of 5000 trees, and
the number is constantly increasing.
There are white knights, black
Knights and yellow Knights, for the
men OF labor have taken in some Chi
nese.
"A single orchard at South Glaston-
bury (but probably the largest in Con-
hecticut) contains about 1900 peach
trees.
Complete returns of the French
census shows the population TO be 3S,-
OO0, ,000-an increase of only 500, 900 in
i've years.
"A 10-year-old boy of Belle Plain,
Iowa, fell into the great artesian well
at that place; but was forced out by
the dow of water.
More buildings are reported now
under course of erection at Atlantic
City than has previously been known
at any one time in that place.
The trustees of the City hospital Of
Boston have determined to admit
female medical students, but they still
draw the line on homeopathic.
"A deposit of blood agate. contain
ing stones large enough to be sawed
into slabs fer mantels, has been found
in Utah, near the Grand River.
The experts who have investigated
the insanity of King Otto, of Bavaria,
report that the kings disease is incur
able paranola, which does not affect
the duration Of life.
"A French soldier of Napoleonlc
lOngings climbed alone to the top of
the Pyramid of Cheops the other day.
He fell TO the base with blood, bones
and flesh in pulp.
The latest ''fadn among fashion,
able ladies in New York city is to 90
coaching with their gentleman friends
on the new Fifth avenue stages In the
dusk of early evening.
While working in Huntington IL,
l. harbor Mortimer Scudder found an
oyster weighing three pounds four
ounces, and measuring ten inches in
length and six in width.
-Love-making over the wire seems
to have been carried on in a COnnecti-
cut telephone Office, since Is switch
girls employed there have beea married
within three years to subscribers on the
line.
"A strawberry grower in Lanark-
shire, Scotland, has cleared 81 300
profit this season out of the crops of
ground for which he pays a rental of
$50 year. Last season the profit was
just 81 900.
An opening for school teacher is
reported by the Elmira, IN. VI Gazette
in town (Colesville) where the trus-
tees want to give the successful appli-
cant salary of s. a week and charge
her 81 board.
"A plan for supplying sea water to
cottages at Long Branch for bathing
purposes Is under consideration of the
borough councils. 1t is proposed to
locate the pumping station near the
Hotel Brighton.
Three men sought shelter in a box
car at Danville Junction during thun-
derstorm. Lightning struck the car
near the door where they were stand
ing, shattering the arm OF one, but not
injuring the others.
"A young man found 4 handbag in
carriage at Tuscola, Ill. 1t contained
S35, and belonged TO young widow in
Atwood, and when the young man re-
turned 1t to her she rewarded him by
marrying him the next day.
John Adzeme, farmer at Stellar
ton, n. s., came TO his death curiOusly
the other day. He was riding on a
loaded coal car on the Acadia railway;
the bottom of the car fell down, and he
fell through with the coal, and was run
over by many cars.
"A six-year-O old girl IN Florida drop
ped her kitten INTO a well over fifty
feet deep, and at her earnest entreaty
her father lowered her down by the
well rope. She got the kitten out all
right and was pulled up again damp,
but happy.
The Burlington Coasting Club,
which numbers 800, has decided to
have another carnival this winter.
Over 500 toboggans are owned in the
city and 100 traverseS, or bob-sleds,
and thereTl be a tremendous lot Of
sliding.
All the dioceses OF the Protestant
Episcopal ChGIch have..sii.r n dele
gates - the general convention which
meets IN Chicago next month, except
two. Among the prominent lay dele
gates are Hon. ErastHs Corning, Hon.
George +. Comstock and Hon. Hamil-
ton Fish, of New York, Hon. Cort-
landt Parker, Of New Jersey and Sena-
tor Edmunds, OF Vermont.
-Beggary, which in North Italy is
an art and In London science, is in
Naples at once means of subsistence
and Of amusement. Sturdy, weII-to-do
women, with bold, laughing faces, beg
pence, and are impertinent and shame
less If they do not get them. In Italy
no families are so large as the Neapoli-
tan, and no people marry so freely and
so young. A family Of seven is usual;
family OF ten is not unusual.
TIE natural rate of respiration is from
sixteen TO twenty-four breaths per min
ute, the average being twenty; and DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes has explained
the popularity Of the octosyllable verse
by the fact that 1t allows the natural
rhythm of respiration more exactly than
any other. Experiments with the poe
try OF Scott, Longfellow and Tennyson
show that an average OF twenty lines
will be read in a minute, 80 that one
res liratlon will suffice for each line.
The articulation is so easy, in fact, it is
liable to run into a sing-song. The
twelve-syllable line, on the other hand,
as in Drayton's "Polyolbion, is pro-
almost intolersble on account
of its unphysiOlogical construction.