Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-09-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are six poets in the house OK
lOrds-includng Tennyson.
Carved brick is now the fashionable
decoration for open freplaees.
-Astrologers are about to pick out a
wife for the Emperor Of China
A comic paper is the first fruit of
constitutional liberty in Bulgaria.
The latest Chautauqus discovery
is fresh-water spOnges in the lakes.
England, according to latest reports
has 150, 900 more women than men.
LARD, if applied at once, will re-
move the discoloration after bruise.
\ FEVER patient can be made cool
and comfortable by frequent sponging
off with soda water.
Twelve hundred and fifty people
have ascended Pixies Peak this sum-
mer.
When the period of deep mourning
is over English women wear gray
gloves.
AT Kletzk, Russia, over one hun
dred Jewish synagOgues were burned
lately.
In the opinion of men Of science
the pyramids were built OF artificial
stone.
More than 100000 visitors have
registered at Chautauqua SO far this
summer.
Sixty thousand cards are used In
the new card catalogue of the Brooklyn
library.
One hundred and six children were
counted at one seashOre hotel one day
last week.
"A Jonesville, Mich, miss rides
reaper all day rather than swing IN
hammock.
"A Germantown boarder was badly
cut by the explosion of sour milk in a
nursing bottle.
-Manitowoc. Wis, farmers cut
down trees that their cattle may feed
on the green tops.
About 25.O00 cattle will be driven
into the Canadian northwest from the
United States this season.
Martin Luther's home as a child at
Mansfield, SaXony, has just been IT.
oNOACN " ANo Va AAAttA NOLAAASAOAA-
DIR. Oppler of Strasburg considers
pulverized roasted coffee a superior an
tiseptIc for surgical dressings.
Great Britain has more than Il, ,0OC
| total abstinence societies for young
| people, with membership of ], 500, 600.
Emperor William has given $685.
600 towards the erection of an eYangel-
ical church in the town of Eydtkuh-
nen.
The late Archbishop Trench left
property valued at S40O,000. He be-
queathed $4,000 to the Episcopal
| church in Ireland.
"A Warsaw, Ind, curiosity is large
potato which has grown into and eOm-
pletely filled large beef bone. The
potato is eight inches long and six
inches in diameter.
The consumption of lead pencils IN
this country is estimated at 25O,O a
day. This is at the rate of one per dag
to every 150 of the population, or about
5000, 900 year.
-SouthalI quotes from Herodotus to
show that the Scythians used to scalp
their enemies. The wild tribes OF
Northeastern Bengal also used the
scalping knife.
"A Bombay physician asserts that
| gradual increase In the SIZE of the skull
among the natives of India is taking
place, which change he ascribe5 to the
effect of civilization.
Il Nnnr,nfrraly cOVDat hinn
green in a cake Of ice and split the
cake open. The thing was a frog,
which, after an hour or two in the sun
light, hoped about vigorously.
Several years ago Prince Bismarck
is reported TO have said to an American
statesman: England is counted out Of
| European politics while Ireland re-
mains as an enemy at her gates"
An entire village in North Derby
shire was offered for sale the other day,
but the property did not change hands,
as the highest BID was only 81 500
whereas the houses alone had cost e1,-
so.
| "A Boston newspaper tells Of an old
lady whose wedding present to a happy
pair was couple Of fatirons, and the
motto ''Fight on' neatly worked In
: colored wOrs.ed on perforated card
| board.
"A Warkworth, Ont. minister
prayed one recent Sunday morning as
/ follows: Lord bless our servant girls
who are detained from joining in the
worship Of Thee by the sleeping o.
their masters and mistresSes.
That eminent English physician,
Sir Henry Thompson, thinks that more
than half the diseases which embItter
/ life are due to the errors in diet. An
over supply of nutrition. which must
90 somewhere, produces liver diseases,
gout, rheumatism and various other
disorders.
Lieut.. Brickwedel OF the regular
army. JUS. returned to san Francisco
frola hunting Apaehes, has a picture
he thinks much of. 1t IS that of a
Young woman, but its beauty has been
marred since it stopped bullet from
an Apache's gun that was aimed
straight at the young mans heart.
"A Buffalo newspaper is responsible
for the statement that after meeting
the other evening Bishop Coke said to
a reporter: 81 should like to correct
the proof sheet of my prayer. You
newspaper men and printers are so un-
familiar with prayer that you are pretty
certain to bungle it up badly"
DIR. Elsenhart of Chambersburg,
Pa, offered his two little sons cent a
dozen for all the nails they would pick
up on one block Of a certain street, and
another citizen made like offer to an
other boy. The result was that the
Doctors boys found los dozen and the
other boy $50 dozen nails.
BY diamond drills at Schaladebach,
Prussia, in search for coal, depth OF
4560 feet has been reached. The gov
ernment bore the expense, SO, GOO, and
the work occupied three and a half
years. At the bottom the temperature
Is 4So centigrade, confirming the idea
that the heat increases as we descend
into the earth.
E T.or