Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-07-28
NEWS IN bRIEF.

A Havana (Illinois) woman, % now
living with her ninth husband.
Queen VictOria's recent visit TO
Liserpool cost that city $4,000.
! The colleges OF this country con-
tain 5000 female students.
Z The Saturday half-holiday move
ment IS gaining ground in San Fran.
cisco.
Hereafter English soldiers will not
I be allowed to smoke in the streets In
daytime.
! One hundred and fifty Of the 365
colleges of the United States publishs
newspapers.
After hard dashes of rain, coarse
gold is often picked up in the streets OF
Shasta. Cal.
Portland, Me-, has lost 500, 900 by
fire this year, but insurance has covered
Sl25, 900 Of that amount.
Mrs. Oliphant, the foremost among
English women noyelists, has written
forty-three novels, all good.
There is movement in Louisiana
to remove the capital of the state from
Baton Rough to New Orleans.
The Maine lumber dealers have or
ganized state association to regulate
the hours OF labor and prices.
"A shoal Of whales, eighty In num-
Der, was recently driven ashore on the
Shetland Islands and captured.
Cleveland and Parnen have been
chosen by Connecticut man a, the
n1mRS his naxkF1y tx.-t
1t is again announced that Miss
Maud Banks, daughter of General ".
L. Banks, will go upon the stage next
winter.
The Chinese on the Pacific coast
are not such an infection as the Poles
and Bohemians of Chicago and Mil
waukee.
The cool spell boyeOtte.l the mus
qultoes, which were already reported
as aggressive on portions of the New
jersey coast.
The authorities Of st. Johns, Mich.
do not take kindly to the Salvation
Army. The soldiers are arrested every
time they try to parade.
Miss Rebecca Williams. a Balti-
more belle, recently had her portrait
painted by the famous Cabanal, Of
Paris, at cost of IS. 200.
There are no newsbOys in the city
Of Mexico. The papers are all sold by
women, who hold them out to passers-
by, but never say a word.
Artificial lithographic stones are
now made at Frankfort, Germany, OF
cement that is moulded in cast-irOn
mould under heavy pressure.
Mrs. Harvard, IN English woman,
has been engaged as Professor of Cca-
tory in the Cincinnati law school, The
students like the innovation.
Several men have been arrested at
Barbastro, in Aragon, Spain, for bury
ing man alive for revenge. The victim
was rescued In critical condition.
"A Cape Cod editor is trying to make
himself and his paper popular by "a
standing offer of s25 to any subscriber
who loses property by fire or lightning.
Three pairs of American turkeys
that were planted" in 1850 on an
estate on the Danube, near Vienna,
have increased to 1Oek nearly 500 In
number.
The IOwdy West IS not so bad after
all. Tombstone, Arizona, cOngratulates
itself on the fact that for two weeks or
more there has not been Il case before
the Police Court.
The temperance element of Ten
nessee is jubilant over the perfect or
ganization it has throughout the state.
1t is on better standing than ever be-
fore, and is very alert.
About year ago monument for
erection ut Yalaha, Fla, was lost over
board while en- route to its destination,
and now the pedestal for new one has
suffered the same fate.
"A citizen of Winchester. Ky, un-
earthed box containing 81 ,233 in gold
and silver coin, while digging post holes
and now post-hole digging has become
popular in that section.
Miss Alice Freeman, president Of
Wellesley College, has great executive
ability. Her faculty o, extempore
speaking, it IS said, has excited admir-
ing surprise In England.
One of the three tenements In
Richmond composing the building
known as Libby Prison, used during
the late war, collapsed the other night
from Oyer-burdened floors.
"A costume adopted by the Fat
Mems baseball club, of Orlando, Fla,
consists Of 4 Mother Hubbard dress.
and it Is said to be cool and comfortable
II not an aid to fast running.
Jamaica, Long Island, now hasa
mad dog panic, and the board OF town
officers besides ordering all dogs muz-
zled. has authorized the citizens to
shoot any dog found at large.
Miss "Joe" Anderson. author OF
the novel Gan American Girl" which
created a literary sensation some years
lgo, was drowned while bathing in the
Sacramento river, June 5tb.
There are over thirty criminals in
all In various parts Of the State Of
North Carolina under sentence OF
ieath. Over half of them are likely to
be hanged ere the year ends.
Senator Wade Hampton. of South
Carolina, feels the effects of q wound
N the head so severely that he fears he
s losing his hold Oh memory; but tho
South Carolinians will never forget
lim.
Mrs. John Sherwood, the wife ofa
-ich man. worker for women, and an
luthoress OF wide repute is In England.
She says the Princess of Wales is the
woman she has seen for
Tears.
The Maine State Agricultural Col
ege is the object for many glbes at
present because $1,000 herd Of Jersey
lows has been so overfed with cotton
iced meal that they are all diseased and
must be killed.
In an English court the other day,
! thief, who had been sentenced to five
Tears' penal servitude, offered, IL the
udge would lend him a shilling, to
oss him whether 1t should be "ten
ears or nothing"
AT a six-days' type-setting contest
leld in Boston lately, between female
three of the women beat
he. hoo II -,