Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-09-26
NO. 40.
NEWS IN BRIEF,

ID nO DttlcE tudl any OIneI city OF It's
size.
The leading fortune teller of Paris,
Mime. Moreau, left fortune of Co.,
600 francs.
1t cost the Emperor of Austria
$780, 600 TO entertain the Car OF Russia
for three days.
Last year 24S American Baptist
ministers died. Their average age was
sixty-dve years.
Addison Cammack began life as a
messenger boy IN New Orleans ship
ping firms office.
-Abram Il. Emo made the first part
of his fortune of $50, 900 600 in small
retail drygOOds store.
Mrs. George Westinghouse is cred
tied with an income OF ., 900 a month
from natural gas stocks alone.
There were &C, Cpl paupers, besides
lunatics and Migrants, in tile 3,Sl5, ,OOO
inhabitants OF London in the first
week of July.
-Sacramen nto, Cal, proposes to OBJ
! tain 5000 wild orange trees from Flor
ida and plant them IL the streets for
shade trees.
After an absence of many years
coons have reappeared in Connecticut.
Three were caught in the vicinity OF
Norwich recently
Excessive cigarette smoking is
blamed for the death of the adopted
son-aged y years-of Mayor Kelly,
of Weehawkeu, N J.
La COST island, on the Florida
| coast, will soon be one immense cocoa
nut grove, it is said, SO rapidly is It
being set out with cocoauut trees.
"A Nebraska girl chose for her
/ graduating essay the subject, 1.-The
! Possibilities of the Broom" and I'm
three weeks received and accepted an
offer of marriage.
1t is said that more fishing tackle
is sold in America than I'm any other
country in the world. Most OF the
best and highest priced grades are
made here; the poorer are imported
from England.
The Piutes of Lincoln county,
Cal, stoned an Indian doctor TO death
because some OF ms patients died.
Now they have learned that all who
died were taking a white DOCTORS
medicine.
The youngest millionaire in Chi
| cago il Cyrus II. Mccormick, who is
only % and is at the head OF the ex-
I AGLl0lNt lthltl AliAlluAslCAol1 louutltd
| by his father. He is unmarried and
las fortune Of 81 10000
The mother of the present German
! empress is confined in mad house.
| She wanted to become the wife OF
| LOUIS Napoleon, when he was presi-
dent, and would have done so but for
| the opposition of Queen Victoria.
Henry IL. died of a broken heart,
/ SiOrpn fsNr ffs lad of
children. William Ill. died of con-
sumptive habits of body and from the
stumbling of his horse. George l.
died from drunkenness, which his
physicians politely called an apo
plectIc fit.
! -DOwageT Empress Victoria, widow
of Frederick Ill has an annual in
come of 100000, $40, 900 or which is
derived from England. She Will be
/ obliged to make Germany her nominal
| residence and TO visit Berlin every
year.
The pTincp pal foreign missionary
I societies of the Unitel States send in
tie aggregate g, 5oG 295 annually for
! the spread of the Gospel in leather
/ lands. Great Britain through her va
| Tious societies eXpend5 on missionaries
! S4,6l9,DJ2.
An "oil witch, - who can locate"
! oil wells as the ordinary cOuJuTer does
{ those OF water, is reported from some
where in Pennsylvania, and it is said
that nearly a dozen gushers are due TO
/ her magic powers. She Is a beautiful
| Swede, rich and well educated, yet
now and then turns pretty penny by
! the gift she cannot explain any more
! than her beEoldeTs.
Large trees are rarely moved roots
and all, and therefore such a feat ac-
/ cOmplIshel at Port Huron, Mich, is
being widely spoken of. The tree is
4 poplar, and, with its branches,
. towers 10 height of - feet. Being
n the way of a new street railway the
trees removal to a distance Of eight
feet WAS decided upon and accom-
ulished without any apparent injury
10 it.
-Betullah, a Turkish bandit, has
n arried Aishe, a beautiful girl whom
he had long wOOed, and whom he TN
ally won by force, carry ing her of IA a
raid upon GuehZeh, where she lived.
The ceremony was duly performed IN
the presence of his followers, and on
its conclusion the bridegroom wrote
! to the officials OF GueIZ-h informing
them of the wedding and requesting
them to properly register it. lie
| threatened them with terrible ven
geance II they thus failed to legalize
his wedding.
F. O. Young, who is said to be
the finest pistol shot on the Pacific
coast, has but one hand and one eye.
HIS mother accidentally knocked his
eye out in flOggng him for some
youthful iud!scTetiOn, and his father
accidentally chopped off his hand. He
has encountered the most astounding
adventures with wild and tame animals,
and has been struck by lightning once
or twice, and yet he has won numerous
prizes as pistol shot, and has been
called the champion left handed pen
man of the world"
The sum OF 500 was deposited in
Hartford Conn bank IN 1924 and
never drawn out, while the person who
placed it there has been dead for sew
eral years. The heirs to the money,
who only recently learned Of its exist.
ence, will receive, besides the principal
over 8, 800, representing the accrued
interest.
Carmen Sylva,'' the queen Of
ROumania, Is having a poets cham
Der" built, wherein 10 write her
poems. j IS constructed or reeds,
surrounded by a high hedge OF roses.
In the niche of the hedge cages OF
singing birds are hidden, and in one
corner there Is a fountain. OF perfumed
water. In the middle OF the room is a
mossy bank and great block OF rock
that is also covered with moss and
hewn in the form Of a writing desk.
Upon this moss grown stone the queen
! f.pgteEg will Iulltg lpr yeraeg Tho
ground is covered with a thick, soft
carpet OF green turf, and hammock is
slung on one side with golden cords.