Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-08-18
NO. "a.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Thistle green is new tint tina
goes well with dark blue.
Miss Adele Grant wears the costly
Jewelry given by Earl Cairns.
"A Hamilton, o.. girl graduated
one day and married the next.
In the Island of Java there are
twenty letter-preSS printing offices.
An English firm has at last succeed
ed in making colored water mark.
-Burdette, the humOrlst, has a tai.
ented sister who can make addresses.
Corn eight feet high is reported
from the southern counties Of Kansas.
"A newspaper has been discovered at
Pekln that was started in the year Oil.
San Francisco has about fifteen
Chinese carpenters; they have a union.
BY the decision of a Philadelphia
Dogberry an ink-eraser is a deadly
weapon.
"A Methodist missionary has been
appointed chief physician of the Chi
neSe army.
Japan Is to have a national assem-
bly, hall modelled after the German
Reichstag.
All the railroads in Louisiana are
run at loss so far as local traffic Is
concerned.
An Athens, Ga, firm offers $1,000
for the exclusive privilege to sell liquor
in the county.
The Boston PostofIlce yields the
government an annual net revenue of
over 100000.
The vein of iron ore discovered at
Negaunee, Mich, turns out to be $50
feet in thickness.
Philadelphia grave diggers, it is re-
ported, have organized branch of the
Knights of Labor.
George Bristol, of Piano, Ill. sneez-
ed so hard the other day that he frac.
tured one of his ribs.
The Russian authorities admit that
there are SS4 penitentiaries in the coun-
try, with 94,915 occupants.
Shears with two blades and spring
back were used in old Rome for clip
ping sheep, hair and hedges.
"A Florida firm is shipping $500
biyd>kIns a month to Newark, n. j.,
10 be used as hat decorations.
There are now published in the
Unaea States ii, l60 newspapers, an
increase of 666 over last year.
Some of the Western newspapers
have been printing cut of LYDIA Pink
ham as that of Miss Folsom of Buffalo.
Last year 10, ,O67, $50 imperial gall
Ions of beer were exported from Mu-
mich, an increase over 1884 of 80 per
cent.
The girls IN the public schools of
Brooklyn are compelled to commit to
memory the constitution of the United
! States.
Italian railroads, 1t is said, reduce
by Go per cent. the fares of all dOg-bit-
ten persons who go to consult PaSteur,
at Paris.
Ell Telegrama, of Guadalaiura,
Mexico, is the smallest paper published
on this continent. 1t is five by three
inches in size.
"A cargo of Norwegian ice has been
imported into New York; but the profit
is SO small that such ventures are not
likely to increase.
"A Flint, Mich, physician recently
received eighty-four bushels of horse
radish in payment for a bill for pro-
fesslOnal services.
Cincinnati policemen who served
IN the war will wear on their left sleeve
red tape, to distinguish the soldier
element Of the force.
There is woman IN Union Point,
Ga, with beautiful beard nearly a
foot long. She is well to do and thus
escapes the dime museum.
The French are about to celebrate
at Montdidier. his native town, the
centenary of Parmentier, who intro
duced the potato into France.
"A woman by the name of Johnson
was severely bitten by a cat at Larned,
Kan. The maidstone was applied to the
wound and 1t adhered three times.
Measles have closed all the schools
at BrattlebOrOugh, VT, where about
half the pupils and some of the teachers
have been down with the complaint.
In London last year there were
2S5l alarms of fire, or an average of s
a day. OF these 2270 were veritable
fires though only sixty resulted i'll seri-
Gus damage,
"A Gales Ferry, Conn, man killed
with his gun the other day five rattle
snakes, the largest of which was nearly
the size of mans wrist and had
eleven rattles.
Mrs. Jennie Wright. of Indianapo-
lis, has brought suit to recover the
value of her sewing machine, which her
worthless husband carried to a liquor
saloon and rafiied off.
"A ucuIcw iii . uTeSlavl died lately
at the given age Of III years. The
krevlanen reports that he had been
arranging to marry for the ninth time
shortly before his death.
-Politeness could not be carried fur
ther than it is at certain coal mine in
Belleville, where notice warns all and
sundry in the following terms: "Please
do not fall down the shaft
To visitors at the Edinburgh Ex-
position Mr.. LlOyd's exhibit OF five
miles of News" paper In an unbroken
web is one of the most striking exam
pies of modern paper making.
1t is estimated that 1000, COO tons
Of paper are manufactured in Europe
annually. The value of the materials
used is placed at about e20, ,000,0
and the value OF the paper at $40, ,00O,-
0O0.
Thousands of Britons in times of
famine during the first century after
the Norman Conquest sold themselves
into thralldom. Children were even
sold by their parents TO escape extreme
poverty.
"A society has recently been formed
in Manchester for the purpose OF coll
lecting and preserving material of his
tOrical interest relating to the town,
tie 250th anniversary OF which will oc-
cur IN 1895.
" Z. Senlns0is read a paper before the
Paris Academic de5 Sciences recently
son Sounds produced in Vibrating
Plates by Discharges of Static Electri-
city," To hear these sounds the metal
plate must be fixed to the end Of a
sound conductor of ebonite, which