Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-09-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Iuo pIeSeuL SedSOn Is one OF great
promise to summer resorts.
Rhode Islands prohibitory law Is
reported to be full of flaws.
Iowa has paid out 81, ,1SS, ,553 in
support Of her soldiers orphans.
"A petrlfied ham has been found if
gravel-pit at Oak Hill, near Peoria,
III.
1t ls stated that several more
American Cardinals are soon to be Gre
ated.
Cholera Is spreading with great
rapldity and deadlinesS IN Southern
Japan.
--Bananarchists are defined as per-
sons who cast banana skins on the side
walk.
Two hundred thousand tenants are
wanted in Paris for the apartment
houses.
Senator Stanford says "there Is
room IN California for fifteen millions
of people,
Yale College, after an existence of
a couple of centuries, is about to become
a university.
! oliver Wendell Holmes delights in
handling the oar even at his present ad-
yanced age.
Artificial ivory Is now made of
sleeps bones and waste bits of deer
and kid skins.
Men above 50 years old only aver
age six teeth apiece, women OF that age
no more than three.
/ "A Worcester Judge has decided in
a test case that it is illegal to keep
barber shop open on Sunday.
o Floral decorations at funerals are
becoming questionable in San Fran
cisco owing to the the expense.
Many of the names most prominent
In journalism in Paris are equally 50 in
the legal profession of that city.
! Insurance companies Will not insure
a freight brakeman. They regard his
rs the most dangerous occupation.
-Oneida's Chinese laundryman
keeps his small change in his ear. He
can carry 81 In dimes in that way.
The New York police department
Is going to put in telephones. 1t pays
at present s13 600 year for kilograms.
Mrs. Allen, of Liverpool, has pre-
sented Queen Victoria with a parasol
Of satin made by Door Irish woman.
The replacement of diseased eye
by the healthy eye of an animal has now
been done five times, with one success.
The south is rapidly changing her
broad guage railroads to the standard
guage used in the rest of the country.
Gas has been cheapened in New
York, but consumers complain that
their bills are Just as big as ever they
were.
Daisies bloomed this year along
the bottom lands of Kansas, where, it
is asserted, they were never seen be-
fore.
Chicago now cOmpels her charita-
bic and educational institutions to pay
: the same water rates as are assessed
against properties in general.
Dried potatoes are ar article Of
export from France. They are sliced
thin, stepped in brine twenty minutes
and dried like apples and other fruit.
The French Academy of Medicine
has reported OleOmargarine as unfit for
Use IN the French hospitals, and the
government refuses TO allow Its use
there.
The average Of life is iohg:hening.
BY attention to health and the cessation
OF wars there seems no reason why it
should not be prolonged almost indef-
nitely.
-TOrnadOeS have SO scared the siti-
zens of Meriden, H., that they talk of
building a huge "eyclOne cellar"
where the whole town can take refuge
when a wind storm comes along.
Cultivation has so affected the
evolution of the tomato that the seeds
are fast disappearing, and bid fair to
pass out OF existence entirely. as in the
case of the banana, leaving the prOpaga-
tion of the plants dependent on cut
tings.
The Danbury Ne1rs is responsible
for the story that q mouse fell into
bowl of cream the other night, and In
its efforts to keep afioat churned the
cream into butter, on which it stood
and climbed out This is claimed TO
be true, because the mouse left trail
of butter all along the clean pantry
shelf.
Boys who smoke cigarettes are
at a discount in California.
n rancher IN PrOche week ago offered
to swap his eighteen-year-Old boy, who
smoked cigarettes, to any person for a
dog, and finding no takers at that, even
up, he offered five dollars to boot, but
even then couldn't make a trade.
"A hall-storm in Benton County.
Ind, drove a hen from her nest in the
grass, and smashed the eggs. The hen
went back as soon as the storm was
over, and began trying to hatch the
hailstones that filed the nest. She
didn't find out her mistake until her
feet were very cold and her feathers
very wet,
"A Douglasyille (Ga.l man went
home after dark, and as he closed his
front gate behind him he heard a strange
noise. On examination he found that
he had caught the head of a large
snake between the gate and the post.
The tail of the snake beat against the
gate for some minutes before the rep
tile died.
"A so-caIled mad dog in Hebron,
KY, bit COW. The cow in a few days
showed signs of rabies, and about the
same time baby that had been living
on the milk of the COW became similarly
1t is said that the symptoms
Of hydrophObla are pronounced in the
child, whose sufferings are very great
The mint julip is an old colonial
drink. 1t was invented in
Virginia by wealthy planter, who
had company OF friends at his house.
a great hail-stoTm came up; he gath
cred the hailstones, and on the inSpira-
ton Of the moment, cOncOcted that de-
IIcious beverage which we call mint
Iulep. Its fame spread, but at first they
never made 1t except when it hailed.
New Mexico newspapers tell ola
''norther" that passed over the north
ern edge Of Lincoln County a few
weeks ago, accompanied by hail-stOnes
"a laroa "a n mans fist doing great