Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-11-24
NO. As
NEWS IN BRIEF.


dinner costing him 500 plate. -
They are gathering an extra large
butternut crop along the Hudson.
"A farmer in Elmer, n. J., got fifty
two tons of tomatoes off four acres,
Wilson Barrett is equally good at
humorous recitations and mimicry.
Six French families of wine-grow-
ers have settled in North Vineland.
Excellent marble has lust been
found in HummelstOwn, Berks county.
Over $50 entries have been made
for New YOrk's November horse show.
Florida oranges, green, are selling
IN Gainesville, Fla, at i've cents q
piece.
-Gymnasiums are increasing the
number Of rOSy-cheekej girls in our
cities.
"A LeesbuEg, Fla, man will pack
MS oranges In hay, and await good
prices.
Will Carleton, of Betsy and 1
Are Out" fame, has been lecturlng IN
verse.
The professional guides of Wash
lngton are doing right well off bridal
couples.
"A cotton picking machine, to rev.
olutionize things, is being made In Will
mington.
The coroner of Baltimore often
hnds 1t difficult to get jurors to serve
willingly.
"A Cedar Rapids (Iowa) cat has
adopted young mouse and is tenderly
rearing it.
Stephen COEnick, of Meddybemps.
Me-, walked four miles in an hour on
October 11th.
-Forty-twO new ice factories have
been started in the south during the
past nine months.
Miss Hester Clarke, of Marion.
Ala, says If she lives to see Christmas
she will be 123 years Old.
"A white chipmunk was caught
near East Jordan, Mich. 1t is the first
ever heard Of in the state.
Rosa Bonheur has received a wild
mustang as the latest addition TO her
p, I. BaTnum Is to give a new
schoolhouse, built on new plans, to the
town Of Bridgeport, Conn.
The Harlan family Will hold a re-
union next year on the 200th anniyer-
sary of their establishment in America.
President Cleveland, it is said, u.s.
ually wears a flower on his coat lapel
now, which he never did before he was
married.
"A professional beggar shipped $40
In nickels, dimes and quarters from
Sioux Falls, ID. T., to her husband in
Minneapolis.
tElsdeipli8 hhss,Sssieii5Ste9ass sass s. 4 ed of
vain efforts to get good servants, are
now experimenting with cOlOred help
from the south.
Daniel Carr, Of Ophir, Iowa, has
petrlhed human heart, which was taken
from the grave Of woman whom he
had known years ago.
"A dog bitten by a rattlesnake in
Nebraska, instead of diving developed
hydrophobia, and bit fourteen head OF
cattle, ali of which died.
lightning struck a barbed wire
fence at Dunlap and killed a score Of
hogs that were lying against the fence
quarter OF mile away.
The Austrian government thinks
CT introducing the tricycle. into It's pos
tai service, and experiments to that
effe are now being made.
"A Maine soldier obtained his pen.
sion for a lost finger solely through the
evidence Of rhymlng descIi ton Of the
occurrence sent at the time 10 his wife.
An iron tower 9Si feet high, sur
mounted by an electric h1ht and sup
ported by four pillars, is to bs erected
at the Paris exhibition at cost Of 81
coo, 900.
The Emperor of China having
learned TO read, understand history and
public documents, and Judge between
right and wrong, VIII begin 20 rule next
year.
Lightning struck 4 Plattsville, n.
Y, potato patch scorchlng the vines in
a circle of IL feet and uncOverIng and
baking the potatoes in the center OF
the circle.
During a recent tornado in Indi-
sna board was picked I'D by The wind
slapped up against the side OF house
and held tight across a window until
removed by occupants Of the house.
The Algonquin Club of Boston las
purchased land on Commonwealth
avenue for Sl2). 600 aud will put up q
house costing SiS0,UO0. New York
architects have secured the contract
The kerseyS Of Lancaster county,
Pa, are long lot. DR.. Kersey and
his wife are each SIX feet tall: one Of
their sons IS six feet three inches, and
George another son, aged l3 years, is
seven fe high.
j. G. Baldwin, of Houston, Tex,
sent to the Smithsonian inStl-
tuition the hOOfs Of an ass bred at san
Antonio. They were spirally twisted
like the horns of an Indian goat, and
One OF them was twenty-sIx inches
long.
Excepting only Harvard, William
and Mary, In Virginia, founded III 1895
IS the oldest college in America. II
can now boast of not single student
and the last dollar of It's endowment
will soon have been spent The grand
Did institution owes its downfall first
70 the civil war, and finally to two de-
,tructive fires.
The Rapid Ann River, the boun-
larry OF the counties of Madison, Or
lnge, Culpeper, ETC., was not named
after Queen Ann, as generally supposed
says the Baltimore American but le-
rived It's name from a half-wild woman
If the neighbOrhood, who, or account
IF her remarkable heetness, was always
spoken Of BY the early hunters as RAPID
Ann.
The crow, according to Mr.. J. T.
Campbell, is one Of the most Industri-
Jus and persistent seed-transpOrting
agencies known, and 10 its efforts are
due the founding Of many
lew forest. This bird has an ainles.
Ind mischievOuS habit Of picking up
Ind flying With any small object which
happens to attract attention, dropping
hem IN an equally aimless manner.
The crows often gather by hundreds,
holding noisy conventions, and rs they
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