Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-05-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

that the sun will furnish US light and
heat for only 1o, 900 900 years more.
The ancient Trojans carried the art
of soldering gold and silver to height
to which modern jewellers cannot at
! tain.
-Rubinstein has been made a Coun-
| cilor of Russia and an Excellency.
Gladstone was In Parliament at
| twenty-five, and at twenty-four was
Lord of the Treasury.
"A swinging sign in front of Chi
cago store bears the legend: 1.-The
Truth Spoken Here"
Lord Bacon graduated at Cam
| bridge when sixteen, and was called to
the bar at twenty-one,
Peel was In Parliament at twenty
one, and Palmerston was Lord of the
Admiralty at twenty-three.
-Nisprints on occasions are of q
very painful nature. The editor of q
| temperance paper who wrote, "Getting
| drunk Is folly" was Mortified to read
in the sheet the next day that Getting
drunk is jolly"
During his stay in San Reno,
| Italy, Doctor Mackenzie, of London,
| composed an overture to Shakespeare's
| Twelfth Night" The work is said
| to reflect the life and humor OF the
comedy.
During the past ten years no less
than six species of North American
birds have become extinct, and it Is
claimed that the English sparrow has
been the main cause OF their disap-
pearance.
| Germany has now more than
seventy manufactures of champagne
francais.' OF 100000 bottles i'm
ported annually by Russia, Germany
provides 100000
The stones of Temple Bar, after
having been exposed for eleven years,
have been built up into gateway of
brewers residence. 1t Is now called
Temple Beer"
&C. H. Jackson and George H.
Jackson, father and son, are expecting
to graduate in June, at Hlllsdale
mich College, and are pushing each
other for class honors.
There Is to be a grand interna-
tional exhibition In Berlin next May
OF hunting trophies. of all sorts of
game, ancient and modern arms, and
implements used in hunting.
The famous Goodwin sands In the
British channel are disappearing. They
have Teceded toward the kentish coast
half mile within a short time, and
show signs of generally breaking up.
The number OF hides imported into
England for home consumption is estI-
mated at 5000, 900 per annum, which
together with the domestic hides bring
the total number to about 10000, 600.
The great Leo Y was Pope at
Chirty eight. Having finished his aca-
demic training, he took the office Of
cardinal at eighteen-only twelve
months younger than vas Charles
James Fox when he entered Parlia-
ment.
1t would take, according to calcu-
iations, 6.340,0O0, years to transport
the whole of the solid land down to the
sea. Should the whole of the solid
land be reduced to one level under the
ocean, then the surface of the earth
would be covered by an ocean with a
uniform depth of about two miles.
John Quincy Adams. at the age of
fourteen, was secretary to Mr.. Dana,
then minister to the Russian court; at
thirty he was himself minister to
Prussia; at thirty-five he was minister
to Russia; at forty-eight he was minis
ter to England; at flfty-six he was Sec
retary of State, and President at fifty
seven.
There have been twenty-five Pres
dents of the United States, five OF
whom were elected at ffty-seven and
six attained that great office before the
age of fifty. Three military men, past
sixty, have been elected. Two died
very soon, and the other was General
Jackson, and he was but slxty-one
when elected.
| According to a writer in Black
| grnQHHc hnnU-lg9p fha nynCiaa Of
sylyanIa teach young bears to dance
by placing them on heated iron plates
while the trainer plays on his fiddle.
The bear, lifting up It's legs alternately
to escape the heat, involuntarily OBJ
serves the time marked by the violin,
and eventually learns to lift his legF
whenever he hears music,
| -PasJeur has among his patients in
| Paris William Chapman Chamberlain,
a Texan ranchman who was terribly
bitten in the face by a wolf supposed
to be suffering with the rabies. Out
of BOG cases treated by Pasteur only
two, he says, were failures, and his
| system was not observed in either of
them, while there have been fatal re-
suits III out of A untreated cases.
Every man when he takes up his
cards at game OF whist holds one out
of 635, ,013, 559 600 possible hands. As
for the total number of variations pos
slbIe among all the players, it Is so
enormous as almost to exceed belief.
Mr.. Babbage calculated that If ,OOO,-
OUO men were TO be engaged dealing
cards at the rate OF one deal each min
ute, day and night, for 10000, 900
years, they would not then have eI-
hausted all the possible variations or
the cards, but only 100 ,OO0th part OF
theml
| Among the books Abe Lincoln
read when a boy was IL ops Fables. "
He was always good story teller, and
it was told by one of his early acquaint-
ances that ''he could tell more stories
than anybody in school but Hazel
Dorsey" Esop's stories helped him
immensely, and lie soon was a better
story teller even than Hazel Dorsey.
"A lake at KTknitz. in the Aus
trlan Alps, has for many years mysti-
fed every one by drying up at one
season of the year aud filing with
water and overlowlng at another. Dur
Ing the dry spell the people raise very
good crops in its basin. Recent explor-
ations show in one part of the BASIN an
immense cave, which, when the water
has reached a certain height, begins
sucking it up till the basin is empty.
The cave leads TO long series OF
underground lakes, all connected with
one another by continuous current.
General Grant was elected Presi-
dent at forty-six; but when a young
man, in the Mexican war, he so distin-
guished himself at the battle of Mo
limo del Rey that General Scott named
him for promotion on the field, and at
the storming of Chapultepec his cour-
age and ability caused him to be speei-
ally commended by General Worth.
And for these young acts of skill and