Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-08-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A rloridlan shipped six crates OF
leans to New York; gross returns, 25
.ents.
The Mount Vernon association is
going to restore the old tomb of WASH
ngton.
The champion tennis player in
England Is SAID to be 15-year-old girl
If Rockferry.
birmingham, Ala, is to have a new
furnace, yielding two hundred tons Of
Dig iron daily.
Prince Charles and Princess Amslis
f Portugal, have but So, 900 a year to
,egin housekeeping on.
"A Masonic temple for the lodges Of
hat city is to be built in Newport, r.
L, at cost of S25, 900.
Street railways in 233 cities and
owns OF this country are said to have
n use S4 800 horses and 16, $50 cars.
Nine prisoners were convicted Of
irson IN Lyon county. Kansas, lately
N attempting to burn their way out Of
all.
-Shillalahs they say are never seen
n the hands of freshmen IN Ireland
low. 1t Is the tourist who swings the
tick.
Princess Pignatelli, according to
'he Paris Figaro correspondent, is now
erving as waitress in cafe in Vi
inna.
The names gwen to three Tennes-
'ee post-offices- MikadO, Yum Yum
md Nanki.Poo-were suggested by
he post-ofiice department.
In Buffalo, one style of soliciting
correspondence anonymously is to have
answers directed ''care OF Letter Car
iier No." so and SO.
The AltG California claims for
Los Angeles that she had gained $50
Der cent. in population since 1880 md
all through advertising.
People who go on excursions, the
New Orleans Picdylme philosophically
explains, are so happy to get home that
hey are glad they went.
An English champion pigeon shot
announces that he Twill shoot any man
n America for 81 ,000." General Crook
would like him to take a pop at Geron-
mo.
-'The Belle" q towbOat, is declar-
I'd to be the oldest vessel on the IIud-
ION. She was built half 4 century ago
and has been in active service ever
inee.
1t is now proposed in Pittsburg 10
use natural gas as fuel for the fire de-
lpartment, the gas to be supplied by
stand pipes placed near each water
plug.
The interest in athletic sports In
Park City, Utah, Is So great that the
other day large number of residents
walked thirty miles TO witness a wrest-
ing match.
Anybody that knows thing be-
fore it happens is called a reporter"
was the deflitiOn written on the slate
Of an eight-year-ola boy in a Boston
i'chcOl the other day.
buffalo bakers lind their bosses
Oalky in the matter of having none but
lniOn men and paying union rates.
0nly abOut thirty out of eighty-four
shcps nave yielded 10 the demands
In Lewis county, Wyoming Terri
-ory, there is not now remaining a
single one OF the GO0 Cinnamon that
lived there year ago, and not much
over so are said TO remain in Seattle.
-Bomby, the rhInoceros that was
imported for the New York Park de-
paTtment, and which died of pneumo-
MA recently, weighed 1000 lbs, of which
the hide was found 20 weigh nearly one
eighth.
"A child fell from a car window
while the train was in motion, some
weeks ago, at Lincoln, Ne5., and when
the train was stopped and parties ran
back to the spot, they found the little
one playing with pebbles alongside the
track.
-NeIghborly people in a Maine town
not only helped to put out a fire at
residents house, but stayed and re-
'hirgled the roof, which was burned,
md took up collection to pay for the
shingles, the whole being finished be-
fore night.
ALI the Indian scouts heretofore
used in the campaign against the hos
lies have been sent back to theiI reser-
gatiOn. They will be used only as
.railers hereafter. This change in the
new administration gives great salts
faction In Arizona.
Prince BaudOuin, eldest son OF the
count of Flanders, the brother of the
ling Of Belgium, has now besn definite
y acknowledged..aS next heir to ths
,rown of Belgium; and, although only
seventeen years ole, takes precedence
If his father and mother on all Official
occasions.
Jones, of Nevada, is one Of the
characters of the Senate. He Is
thorough Bohemian and good fellow.
de Is an able man, too, and an invete-
ate sDeculator lie is worth millions
me week and dead broke the next, but
Ilways manages to keep happy.
An OId sueamooat Inan tens a re-
,orter, apropos of the present lowness
If the Mississippi River, that, in 1868,
le made trip on 4 stern wheel boat
when the water was so low that they
lept the wheel going backward half the
line trying to throw water under the
)Oat to float her.
The next generation insists on
,TOwing up. The Prince of Wales has
! son who is year older now than his
ather was when married. There is no
eason why this young man should not
marry and have a family of his own be-
ore Queen Victoria dies. In that case
here would be three generations OF
leirs to the throne.
"A dozen women, one OF them with
! rope, are reported, in a special to the
Y. Y. Herald, to have been in party
II prohibtionists who waited upon a
at Ipswich, Dakota, and
,rdered him to leave town. He was
,arricaded IA his saloon, armed and
lefiant az last accounts.
DIR. Dio Lewis, who died recently
vas the author, among other books. OF
weak Lungs, and How to Make
Them Strong" and 'Chats With
fOung Women" After mastering the
of the first work, it may not
"a imprudent 10 go on TO the practice
4 the second.
AT cost of s50O,0OO Chicago IS