Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-08-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

GU peach trees IN parts OF CallIOTnla.
"A round million was spent upon the
new Cotton Exchange in New York.
The Corean Government has deci-
ded to abolish the custom Of selling Of
fees.
-Spaln's royal baby has four nurses,
who take turns in administering pare
goric
Two boys in Boston, made ill by
poi,on in brown cloth, barely escaped
death.
Primrose china has been introduc-
ed by London dealers for Conservative
dinner parties.
Bouquets Of joaquils or dadydo-
wndillies are seen tied upon the new
sunshades in London.
The question Of using b,oodhounds
10 pursue the Apaches is being discuss
ed by the Arizona press.
The streets of Cory, Pa, are now
lighted with natural gas, supplied from
point forty-One miles distant.
"A Buffalo court has decided that
ten thousand dollars is sufficient recon-
pense for the loss of ones reason.
Miss Lillian Smith, of California,
a young girl of IA years, has broken
323 glass balls in succession with the
rifle.
Plate glass insurance companies In
New York received last year $3.50, 900
in premiums and paid out SIG, 500 in
losses.
The insurance feature Of tine Broth
erhOOd of Locomotive Engineers has
paid to families of members since 1867
the sum of 81, $4,000.
The German National Industrial
Exhibition at Berlin in 1883, has been
unanimously decided upon by the pro-
visiOnal local committee.
News from the volcano centre is to
the effect that the Indications are very
favorable towards the volcanic fires be-
ing soon ''active" again.
Colonel T. X G. Judson, familiarly
known as Ned Buntline,n - died az his
home, Eagles Nest y. Y, and was
buried on Monday, June 10.
"A mountain grouse, while pursued
by hawk, flew into Like City, Col,
and through pane of three-eighths-
inch plate glass that cost sac,
The great monument to Victor
Emmanuel at Turin, costing 100000
has been erectel by King Humbert
entirely at his own private expense.
After being lined s2j for having
numerically chastised his boy, Slnta
Rosa, Cal, resident quarreled with his
lawyer and got badly done up'' by
aim.
"A seven-fOot-long kite was sent
)ver 1000 feet into the air at Raritan,
ILL.,, recently. Three men ami wind
lass were required to draw It back to
earth.
1t is asserted that Mr.. Robert Gar
rett SIil walk mile u avoid being in-
te.yiewed by reporter; but when he
is caught by one he yie!'ls TO his fate
with grace.
-EX-GOvernOrS Curtin, OF Pennsyl-
vania, kjfkwooi Of Iowa. Il Unsey, OF
Minnesota, and SpTague, Of Rhode
Island, are the only war governors"
Iuw living.
CT the 5000 cOmmunes in Italy,
more than 1900 are totally uEprOVided
'" "ANl &c AitAC slAE 81 r-Lb
Ings underground, which give shelter
TO 1Ol, 4JI persons.
"A Southern contemporary thinks
IL might be worth knowing that not a
single member OF the United States
Senate either wears Il wig or dyes his
moustache or beard.
"A pearl that is declared the largest
in Europe was sold IN London lately
for $3.50. 1t was two inches long and
four inches in circumference and
weighed three ounces.
-WOrkmen on the Clyde have been
greatly irrtated by the arrival of more
than hundred Germans from Bremen
to finish the Wool fittings OF a large
steamer beng built at Glasgow.
1t was German critic who re-
marked that Sin order to Prove the ab-
surd irregularities Of English prOnunci-
alton it will suffice to state that the
word Boz is pronounced Dickens"
Part of an ancient hull, in which
there was ruSt-eaten cannon, has been
found by dredgers near the Charles
Town, Mass. navy yard. 1t is supposed
salf'N NtiO 'N%asNA o-tA4h Al ASNNOAAt-Ol4dAJ
days.
1t was disclosed at the hearing of a
Mass, man recently on
the charge of swindlIng that since 10
be has squandared the greater part of a
fortune of s207 600 left him by his
father.
Mrs. De Young, wife OF the pro-
prIetor of the San Francisco Chronicle
has given an entertainment in which
the principal feature was a series of
iableauX vIvaBtS illustrating scenes
from "Don Juan
1t is expectei cadt the Bulgarian
Assembly will shortly proclaim the
union with EOUmeiia. The Porte will
bot attempt to prevent it, although
Turkish troops are being nassed on the
RnuIaelian frontier.
William Ii. RIdein., writing wit
lily Of gTadu2tiCEs IN England, aveTs:
The occupants OF the sOf-est cushions
are treated with the sOfte5t manners
he occupants of the hardest with an
asperity."
-Dr. Carl Peters stated recently at
lie meeting OF the Berlin Society for
German Colonization that the territory
now owned by the German East Afri-
an Society measured a5oG. 30,O00
German square miles.
Hancock item in the Waynesville,
No., Democrat: "SunGay sChOOl at the
school house every Sunday a. - a.
n. Let Us try and have a good turn
put at each meeting, and lead these
little ones as well as ourselves, in the
way that good men 60"
A we'll known centenarisn, deceaS-
Il at Paris, was a parrot of fame and
,lIbneSs Of speech. l. belonged to no
ess than ten families, being handed
lown by will to tie different owners of
.he houss in which it was born. The
asst words Of the bird, which died at
he a.-e Of 1O3, were "Grace pcur Marie
"A girl in Milford, Penna., was a
regular attendant at church. Some OF
he ady members of the church wrote
10 her that they preferred she should
rot come to the service unless she WAS
letter dressed. Size afterwaTd stole