Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-05-30
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NEWS IN BRIEF,

I sp6lIONo. "a premium Ol leu Genus q
dozen is paid for shoorIng them.
An English philanthropist says
there are no fewer than 80, 600 gypsy
children in England, of whom not
more than per cent. are able to read
and write.
! -Yale's historic fence is again
threatened with destruction, and the
students have petitioned the corpora
tion to use their influence towards It's
preservation.
The French Transatlantic Steam
ship company has furnished Its large
fleet with complete apparatus for
dropping oil on the waves' during
bad weather.
! Marie Antoinette's scissors and
penknife were recently sold at auction
for $50. The relics were terribly sug-
gestlve OF the instrument which
caused her death.
The widow Of Ex-Governor Colby,
OF New London, Conn, aged ninety
two, made and contributed a hand
some tidy TO the fair lately held by the
ladies OF that place.
Queen Emma of Holland is bru-
net whose eyes would be pretty did
she not continually wink when speak
Ing, thus giving you the impression OF
preparing for a good burst of tears.
Spencer. Mass, has public-spIrited
| citizens. The other day one of them
gave fourteen acres of land for a pub
lie park, another gave $50 900 for a
high school and another gave SIS 900
for public library.
"A New York man has recently
| distinguished himself by eating at one
single meal ten feet SIX inches of corn
] cake, three inches wide aud one inch
| thick. 1t was at a church fair, and he
wished TO get his moneys worth.
The name assassins was applied to
a tribe or clan called Ismaehans, who
settled in the mountains of Lebanon
about 1890 and became notorious for
their murderOus pTopeusities; hence
the origin OF the name as applied TO
muTderers.
| Recent parties visiting the volcano
POpocatapeti report increasing activity
IN tie crater, with clouds of smoke
and sulphurous fumes. Reports from
! Central America show that several vol
canoes are unmlstakaDly in renewed
activity.
"A school boy of InsteTburg, Ger
many, recently wrote TO the Emperor
OF China asking for some Chinese post
| age stamps for his collection. A few
days ago the Chinese embassy In Berlin
forwarded to him letter from the en-
peror incloslng the stamps which he
desired.
"A pamphlet condemning in mod
crate terms Russian reactIouary policy
aBd predicting internal disasters is
being circulared in the highest circles
in st. Petersburg The pamphlet is re-
maIkable for the elegance of It's Ian
guage. The police have 50 far failed to
discover the authors of the WORK.
| -Eighty.Jhree members of the ma
| tionai house of representatives were
| Union soldiers, and almost all OF them
are entitled to wear tie Grand Army
button. The leading Grand Army
state, as represented in Congress, is
Kansas, all OF her seven representa-
tlyes being memb srs Of the order.
n woman n Argentine, Mich.
has terrOrIzed the whole ueighhOrhood.
| She keeps firearms in her house 10
shoot any one who tries to arrest her:
her landlord cannot collect his rent and
no one dares to refuse her anything
she aske for fear lest she will Kill bInI
or set fire to his house.
The richest child In America is
little Miss May Sharpless, who Is nine
years old and has fortune of g, ,uOO,-
900. She is a daughter OF "A late
member of the frm of Arnold, Con-
stable 6c Co. The chhd millionaire has
remarkably interesting collection of
dolls of all sizes, several ol which cost
$1,000 apiece.
The manufacture Of orange wine
is becoming an established industry In
Florida. The factory at Clay Springs
has Just closed Its season. having made
one thousand barrels. For this quau-
tity million and half oranges were
pressed. The price paid for oranges
delivered at the factory was IS a
thousand.
Large numbers of colored people
are said TO be emigrating TO California
from the Southern States. Recently
one party of twenty four men and
women arrived In San Francisco on
route TO join colony in the Southern
part of the State; Another party OF
ITO laborers has gone to FrisnO TO work
in the raisin vineyards, and $50 more
are to follow.
1t was twenty-one years ago this
Spring that Alaska was ceded by
Russia to the United States. This
square miles, and Is fifteen times the
slBe of Illinois. Its civilized popula-
tion Is 1900, including about 5000 OF
1000 white population and 80, 900 other
inhabitants. The gold mines OF tins
country yield some 81 500 900 a year.
-Ug Yee Yam is the name of a
Chinese woman who recently arrived
In San Francisco. She is possessed OF
xxnnAarfr1 laartfrv 4
have gone wild over her. She is a
sister-in-law OF Lee Kong Yon, a we'll
known cigar manufacturer of San
Francisco. This Is the first time that
really handsome woman has come TO
this country from China. Those who
have seen Ug Yee Yam say that her
beauty can well be called ce estial.
Prince Bismarck's wife is said to
be typical "hausirau," with never a
thought above petty domestic details.
The Crown Princes wife Is OF the
same nature. In their eyes it is little
short or infamous for the Empress TO
read philosophy, advocate the higher
education Of women, aud take an in
telllgent interest Ia the affairs or the
Empire and of the world. Yet her
breadth of intellect and force of char
acter have never prevented the Empress
from being a model wife AMI a model
mother.
a Tel0 invention for the pTOpelling OF
street cars is in the application Of the
gas engine to a moving train car. All
such attempts have failed heretofore
for the reason that the gas engine starts
and stops too slow In this case the
engine will be in motion continuously,
and the power VIII be thrown on and
on, as the occasion may require, by the
use of movable friction wheels geared
on an endless link belt This belt is TO
be attached to the engine. Ordinary
Illuminating gas will be used.
of the 5000, 900 net profit realized
during their joint session by the actors
Booth and Barrett, Booth is to get