Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-06-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

john Brlght's oratory is still the
delight of London asSemblages.
The use of epaulettes will soon be
discontinued III the French army.
The best running tracks now have
their turns thrown up like the trotting
\ tracks.
The Dwyer Bros.' fremont, is
by everybody considered the best 2-year.
old or the year.
The establishment ola daily church
newspaper is advocated in London.
in China the fee for medical atten-
dance is from i've to ten cents visit.
Lucy Larcom, whose poetry is
widely copied. once worked In cotton
! mill.
-Thirty-two Of the Isl prisoners in
the Maine State prison are serving life
terms.
AT the drum tap nine million
drilled soldiers would take arms In
Europe.
Three great-grandsOns OF Charles
Wesley are now clergymen of the Church
of England.
The doors of st. Chrysostom's
church IN Philadelphia are never closed
during the day.
Prince Bismarck is unhappy be-
cause his doctor wants him to shut of
on beer drinking.
Pacific City, Ia, claims TO have
the champion curiosity in the person Of
whistling ghost.
Last year the number OF commHni-
cants in the Presbyterian church in
Canada increased 1886.
-Pig-styes of rosewood logs are to
he met with in Mexico, SO plentiful are
tie precious woods there.
Mime. Etelka Gerster has returned
to Paris fully restored as TO health and
voice by her soiourn in Italy.
-Flounders can now be caught with
the hook and line by the thousands in
any of the Long Island bays.
The late George Sloane, the New
York dry goods merchant, left his
s, 100000 estate 10 his wife.
1t is proposed to erect several city
mission halls in London IN memory Of
the late Earl Of Shaftesbury.
John Boyle O'Reilly has overw0rk-
ed himself in speech-making for Ireland
and SO has to go on vacation.
Orioles have been seen with unu-
sual frequency in various parts of Mas
sachusetts for several weeks past.
BY a Japanese process seaweed i3
made into paper so transparent that it
may be substituted for windOw-glass.
Snow still lies to the depth of three
feet on the mountains between Will
mington and Bennington in Vermont
"A piece of property in Berlin which
was purchased 30 years ago for ., 600
marks was sold lately for 3-6 600 marks.
The State prison IN Massachusetts
expended during the past year S20, 800
and earned S17, ,6j2, There are 1872 con-
victs confined.
AT the London Zoo" q hall has
been erected and Il course OF lectures
on zoology will be given during the
summer months.
-Topsfeld, Mass, has a citizen
named Holmes who is 6 feet inches in
height, and believed to be the taIlest
man in the state.
Ostrich feathers are said to have
declined in price from $50 to goa
pound tor the best. Cape farmers are
returning to wool growing.
"A seyenteen-year-old lad in Pope
county, MINI, has invented "a COM
bined hayrake and cocker" for which
he has refused an offer of $4,000.
The life-savlng stations on the
Long Island coast are to be furnished
with a new style of life-boat, claimed
to be self-righter and self-bailer
Last year the expenses of India ex-
ceeded tbs revenues by S15,000,O00,
owing mainly to the war in Burmah.
A surplus of S400, 900 for the next fiscal
year is figured out.
The Trafalgar, which is about to
be commenced at Portsmouth, Eng,
will cost nearly e700,000 according to
an estimate that has been approved by
the Admiralty.
-Four members of Blount county
Tenn family have married in as many
weeks. First two sons went of, then
a daughter, and now the father, aged
three-sc0re years.
"A strange fish resembling a sperm
whale with an animals head, but only
about eight inches in length, has lately
been on exhibition in a jewelry store at
Gloucester, Mass.
"A meteOrite fell on the ice recently
near Aastvedt, in Bergen, Norway,
with the effect of making a hole about
eighteen inches in diameter, though
ha afr -,
"A pier under the Brooklyn tower
Of the East RIVER bridge has been leased
for s., 500 a year to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, which will use it as
a landing place for the eOmpany's
annex boats.
Harvard College celebrates its 250th
anniversary on the 7th Of next Novem-
Der with appropriate ceremonies in
which James Russell Lowell and the
Governor and State officers will be in
vited TO take part.
Public interest in the projected
National Industrial Exhibition in 1888
is on the increase, and subscriptions TO
the required guarantee fund are re-
ported to exceed by this time the sum
of l 200, 900 marks.
Eight years ago Rev. David Walk,
a New Orleans clergyman, purchased
five acres of ground in Ninth street, in
Kansas City, and at the eastern city
limit, for $500. This week he sold the
same property for $780, ,250.
The gallery at Brussels has acquir-
ed, for 100000 francs, a superb por-
trait Of woman by Rembrandt, dated
1854, and fine piece of still life by
Adrian Van Beeren. The Gallery at
Antwerp has bought, for s. 600 francs,
portrait by F. Halls.
The Municipal Council of Vienna
has compiled a list Of the distinguished
dead whose remains it is proposed to
transfer from different suburban ceme-
teries to the Central Walhalla. The
names include Beethoven, Gluck,
Schubert and Johann Strauss.
Professor Billroth, of Vienna, ac-
companied by one of his assistants, re-
Gently went to Alexandria, Egypt, to
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