Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-04-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

delphia was completed in 1929.
A new French gun throws q pro-
iectile having a shell of German silver.
One person Is drowned for every
329 killed on land according TO statistics.
-Tennyson receives an income OF
from S20.0 900 10 S25, 600 a year from the
sale OF his books.
The manufacture Of tinware 10
this country WAS commenced in Ber-
lin, Conn.,, in 1770.
In 1870 line OF stages was estab-
lished between New York and Phila.
delphia, to make b!-monthly trips.
There IS mountain OF coal IN
Wild Horse Valley, Wyoming, which
has been burning for thirty years.
The twenty-frst verse OF the
seventh chapter of Ezra contains all
the letters ef the alphabet, except ].
In Mexico it IS the custom to ad-
dress ladies by their given names, even
when they are almost strangers. Ne
glect to comply with this custom will
give offence to many women.
1t has been calculated according
to Professor Proctor, that a man OF 20
has consumed twenty wagon loads, OF
An elephant has been sent by Lord
Dufferin 20 the Shah of Persia as
gift. 1t is a very fine one, gorgeousIy
caparisoned and attended by thirty
HIndoos.
"A patchwork quilt made by child
rem in the United States, and an Indian
shawl. the 6 fl Of Queen Victoria, were
buried with Jenny Lind at her re-
quest.
-'Carolus Duran. Csbanel. and
Bonnat," says the London World,
'among them have painted almost
every living American who is worth
more than S5,00O,0O0.
-Des MoInes, Iowa, Las been stirred
up over an attempt at grave robbery In
a cemetery on the suburbs of that city.
The ghouls were medical students and
narrowly escaped lynchlnR.
The Arabs exhaust their greens,
and blues, and purples, and reds, and
black upon the walls and ceilings and
make their apartments perfect kaleido.
scopes of colors, and with beautiful
results withal.
There is a Shakespeare Hotel In
Stratford-upon- Avon, and instead or
numbers the names of plays are upon
the room doors. Take the gentle
mans luggage Upto Romeo and Juliet"
iS common order
The common thistle, which now
covers large areas in southern Chill, IS
said To have been introduced there by
an Englishman, who imported busheI
OF seed and sowed il under the delu-
sion that the plant would prove valu-
able for fodder.
The orange tree and the lemon are
both descended from the citron. The
history of the orange tree is said to
date back TO the crusades. the return
ing pilgrims carrying it into Europe
100 or 800 years ago.
There is bookkeeper in a New
York wire factory who has merely to
glance at brOadsIdes OF figures, row
after row, filling a whole sheet OF
legal cap, and declares the result in
stantly. He doesn't know how he
does it, nor does anybody else.
1t is curious to note that accord
ing to Thomas WilwOrthy's Guide TO
the English Tongue" which was ac-
cepted as a standard in pronunciation
by polite English society of a century
ago, the vowel sounds in file are foil,
bile and boil were pronounced alike,
as also were those in tour and tower,
dio anu all uo" anu 10.
between December II, 1908. and
Nov. IL, 1909, 1.152 persons were con-
fined in the New York Debtors
prison. None of the debts exceeded
S25. The debtors principally received
sustenance from the Humane Society.
-Eany persons use the phrase sin a
trice," who have no conception of its
meaning. A trice is the sIxtIeth part
OF a second of time. The hour is di-
vided into sixty minutes, the minute
into sixty seconds, and the second into
sixty trices or thirds.
One of the smallest manuscripts IN
the world to be sold.-For sale, a grain
of rice with the whole first chapter of
the Koran written on it; given to an
English officer in 1872 by an American
gentleman, who received it from an
Arab sheikh, whom he had cured OF
dangerous fever in the desert.
The prince of Naples. who has
just come of age, has received the
order of the golden fleece from the
emperor of Austria and the black eagle
flom the late German emperor. II Is sug-
gested that, IN view of the close
friendship between Italy and England,
be ought to be invested with the garter
"A Ildl lAOIu uJdu started ROOu
fire in sheet iron stove in his Cfice,
forgot to close the draught, locked the
Office door and went TO drive. When
came back he found the fire out; but lt
had made itself felt before going out.
Everything in the room was scorch i,
apples on a shelf were baked, aud a
dog that had been locked in was dead,
evidently sufocated.
Lii Hung Chang, the viceroy or
CANA, Is six feet tall, 60 years old, well
Guilt, gray and swarthy; his eyes are
dark and piercing aud his teeth dark
aud uneven. When receiving Ameii-
can guests he wears a gray Astrakhau
sur out with long, flowing sleeves,
loose silken trousers felt shoes and a
daring hat with the button of his rank
un the top and a poacock's feather
sticking out behind.
Two boys who attempted to learn
the amount of petroleum in the oil
tanks ON a car at Flint, Minn. recently,
by letting down a lighted lantern
through hole in the tank, were very
much disappointed with the result
The explosion of the car followed, and
tie flames shot two hundred feet in
tie air, lighting the country for miles
around. One boy was hurled twenty
feet and badly burned about the head,
face and neck, and his companion was
only slightly burned. but thrown fifteen
or twenty feet.
An accident happening at the Vic
toria Theatre. in Berlin, Germany,
supplied the new and interesting ex-
perience that electric light does not
give perfect security against the danger
Of FIRE. During the performance the
coal OF an electric lamp in a state of
white heat, fell out and was hidden in
the folds OF the dress OF lady sitting
beneath. In moment the dress was
ablaze. Two g ntlemen sitting by the
lady's side Immediately Joined hands
over the flaming spot and succeeded
in extinguishing the fire. not, however,
without being severely burned them
selves, both their hands requiring