Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-06-06
NO. "a.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Secretary Whitney has a dog for
which he paid $500.
-Amanuensis was the name given
to a slave amCng the Romans who was
employed in writing for his master.
More than 90 different kinds OF
marble enter into the decoration of
the Equitable building, New York.
AT least 500, 900 orange trees have
been set out in California the past year,
and their cultivation is constantly ex-
tending.
"A woman in New York, seventy
years old, died recently from the bite
of a cat that attacked her while she
was at prayer.
An English peer, whose revenues
have been reduced, has accepted a po-
sition as drummer for a piano forte
manufacturer
The sheet iron trade employs 100,-
600 persons in this country at wages
from two to three times those in Eng
land and Germany.
The Salvation Army conducts
9lO0 professions weekly through the
streets of the British Kingdom, on an
average of 1900 per day.
In the Grand Court of the Krem-
lin, at Moscow, there is TO be erected
monument In memory Of the late Gar,
at an expense OF $500, 900.
of all the countries of the western
hemisphere Chill alone has honored
Christopher Columbus 10y engraving
his face on her postage stamps.
1t has been calculated that If 3D.
100000 people should clasp hands, they
could reach around the globe. Very
likely, but some of them would get
their feet very wet.
"A Louisville young woman is said
to have been made insane 10y dyeing
her hair. She was found in her room
seated among broken mirrors, crock
cry and pictures, "A raving maniac.
The Siberian Pacific railroad has
been begun in earnest. With bridges
over the British channel and Behring
strait there might be a continuous line
of rail from New York to London.
1t Is said that Tennyson sometimes
spends hours on single lire. We
can rattle off a single llue in the
twinkling of an eye; it is the second
line that eXhausts our poetic genius.
The slaughter or the birds to deck
women's head gear may be judged
when one London dealer says that last
year he sold 1000 900 small birds of
every possible kind and color, from
the soft gray of the wood pigeon TO
the gem-like splendor of the tropical
bird.
Yellowstone National Parks 35.5
square miles are filed with geysers,
hot springs, rivers, falls, mountains,
valleys and forests, making II a verit-
able wonderland. The Old Faithful
Geyser sends into the air every hour
stream of hot water, 200 feet in
hight.
Conductor Stillwell, who was in
charge of the Inflated train that was
wrecked and burned near ChatswOrth,
ILL.,, and whose hair turned gray from
the shock of the disaster, is still In the
service of the road. His hair is now as
white as snow.
Sir William Maguay, who Is part
author of "A new LOndOn play, Barren
Land" is the son of the Lord Mayor of
London who was made a baronet on
the occasion of Queen Victoria OPEN
ing the Royal Exchange. a few months
after her accession to the throne.
Francis l., of France, was the INST
monarch who introduced ladies' at his
court. He said, in true style of gal
lantry, that drawing room without
ladies was Ike the year without the
spring, or the spring without flowers.
"A stock company with a capital OF
=. 600, 600, equally divided between
English and Minnesota capitalists, pro-
poses TO ship wheat direct TO Liverpool
by the way of the lakes. The princi-
pal object of this new plan is to avoid
the mixing in transfer elevators, hith-
erto found so hard TO prevent.
Lake Michigan, according to CHI
cago engineers, IS this year a foot
lower than year ago and one and SIX
tenths feet lower than in 1856. The
effects of the low water are felt at al
most every port on the lake, but speci-
ally at the mouth of the Chicago river,
where extensive dredging Will have TO
be done TO make proper channel.
An old musket that is supposed to
lie relic of the time when Colonel
Bouquet was commander at Fort Pitt
was dug out of the bottom OF the
Allegheny River near PittsbuIg re-
Gently. The gun is a hintlock of
French make and is somewhat rusty.
but otherwise well pres erved.
"A cat died in Boston recently that
had an eventfuI history. Many years
ago she was shipwrecked in the Pacific
Ocean, but managed to catch hold of a
piece OF wreckage, from which she
was rescued by sailors from passing
vessel. Pussy was brought to Boston
and was for years a noted Gttucbe of a
Hub store.
Printed matter is measured by
lens" s" the letter "m' being the unit.
The following compilation IS by Pro-
fessor A. =. Lyon: The Bible contains
$500. 600 "ems," Webster's DictIon-
ary 10000, ,OJO. Chambers EncycIo-
pOedia 5S ,OOO, 900, Johnson's Cyclo-
poedia 6,OOO,O Appleton's Cyclic
pOedia 6O,00O.OOO ana Encyclopedias
Britannia lac, ,OOO,O1 "ems.''
"A correspondent OF a Southern
newspaper points out the fact that
the nickel five cent piece may be used
as a unit of measure lu calculating by
the metric system. 1t Is exactly two
centimeters in diameter and weighs
five grammes. Five of the coins placed
edge against edge give the exact
length of a decimeter.
Mrs. George w. Chnds is a fire.
quent and cordially welcome guest at
Atlantic City. y correspondent at
that resort says that Mrs. Chllds pos
sesses one of the finest collections OF
jewels to be seen, though as a matter
of fact she wears, as a rule, very few
and simple jewels. She possesses,
among other things, a rare East In
dian gem, that seldom gets beyond the
borders Of that land, and of which
there are very few specimens in
America.
Needles have somewhat of a repu-
tation for travelling the human body,