Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-10
NO. 42.
NEWS IN EnILF.

Of apop.exi.
Henry III IS said to have died a
natural death.
Queen Mary IS said to have died
of broken heart.
"A company III Paris proposes to
supply cabs with electric lights.
In Turkey, when a man tells
falsehood they blacken the front OF his
house
johann Most says that there are
! 500, 600 Socialists IN the United
States.
The pin factories OF England,
France, Holland and Germany are said
to turn out Il, 7,000,0 900 pins daily.
The Encyclopedia britannica SAYS
that Longfellow was born '-at Port
land, now the capital of the State Of
Maine"
Grand Island, Neb., has a citizen
seventy-three years old, who is just
now through with his attack OF whoop-
Ing cough.
An artesian well sunk under the
salt waters of New York Bay on the
Jersey side produces pure fresh water
q abundance.
! Paris, In a total population of p
26O ,945. has % cenJenarians, 13S per
sons over ninety-dve, $40 over ninety,
and 63S6 who have passed the eightieth
year.
in Baltimore 1t is proposed to put
letter boxes on the street cars. This
will bring a letter to the post-oflice
from any part of the city in half an
hour.
There are 15G, 600 miles of railway
| in the United States, or about half the
mileage of the world. They have cost
50, ,000, ,000, 900, and employ more than a
million persons.
Mount Kenia, in Zanzibar, is de
| clared by its first ascendant, Count
Teleki, to be higher than the nelghbor-
ing mountain, hilima-N jaYo, which is
rated at IS, 700 feet high.
The number OF women engaged in
active journalism is constantly In
creasing. The latest addition TO the
ranks of newspaper women IS an Iowa
lady who is managing daily paper,
-Clytie, presumably, was a beauti-
full being. She is described as "a
nymph, loved by Apollo, who pined
away and died with her eyes fixed
upon him, and was changed into a
| flower"
1t is estimated that 90, 600 mocking
|
| date vicinity of New Orleans. There
are so many of these birds caught in
Louisiana that it is thought they Will
soon become extinct.
In Calcutta a society of native
young men for promoting the marriage
of girl widows has been formed. An
other has existed for some time, whose
members promise not TO marry little
girls, nor themselves to marry so early
as has been the custom.
John Roll, residing in Redmon,
Edgar County, Ill, is the owner of
horse that is twenty hands high,
weighs ?, 800 pounds, and Is said to be
the largest horse in the world. II is
five years old, never was off ROll's
farm, never has been broken, and has
never been shod.
1t is said that there are between
fifteen hundred and two thousand
women IN the northwest who are in-
terested in ranch and stock property.
| Many acknowledge their brands over
their own names, while others are In
terested in stock running under other
names, and IN which they are silent
partners.
II Hitherto all the lithographic stones
used in this country have come from
Bavaria, where the mines have long
been worked and are fast becoming ex-
hausted. Now a perfect photographic
stone IN large sheets has been discov-
erred within hundred miles Of Aus
tin, Texas.
H In Paris man picks up living
by going about the streets playing on a
clarioneU through a canula placed in a
hole in his throat after the operation Of
'tracheotomy. When he ha, finished
little tune he takes the canula out and
llexhibitS it to the audience, to show that
there is no deception.
1t Is noteworthy fact that the
Philadelphia Ledger, owned by George
w. Childs, aud the Chicago NelrS,
owned by Victor +. Lawson, neither
of which magnificent papers publishes
a Sunday edition, are, notwithstanding
this fact, the two most successful
papers financially, in retrospective
cities where they are published.
Won Bulow doesn't allow greedy
hosts and hOstesses to use his services
gratis to entertain their guests. He
always makes it a prOvIsO before enter
ing "A strange house that he shall not
be asked to play. 1t is related Of the
celebrated vlOlinIst Ernst that, upon
being asked to dinner and invited TO
bring his violin with him, he replied:
II The area OF dry land Of the world
s estimated al 55,OOO,O 600 square miles,
THE area OF the ocean l37, 200 900
, Square miles. The bulk Of the dry
land above the level of the sea Is 23.-
4jO, 900 cubic miles, and the volume OF
Jhe waters of the ocean is 1923 $40, 900
Icubic miles. The mean height Of the
and is 2,2j0 feet. The mean depth Of
The whole ocean IS L, 4S0 feet.
, Cheap roof gardens IN New York
are made by running a latticel railing
larOund an ordinary timed roof, cover
llng the deck with common mating,
bordering the roof with plants and
vines and spreading over ali an adjust
J able awning. The house-top IS Tecog-
nized as an unequalled sanitarium, and
all New York dreams of hanging gar
: dens.
Among the cabin passengers in the
, steamer Parthla, which sailed from
San Francisco for Hong Kong re-
Gently, was a distinguished ChInaman,
who registered as Chun Lee, Peru
He is said to be worth 81 600. GOO.
which he has amassed from his Peru
] Wan plantations. When he went 10
J Peru l3 years ayo he had but S4DO.
= Essex, Mass, is proud of a certain
venerable pear tree which still bears
2 leaves and blossoms and occasional
, fruit, and which was planted by John
: Coggswell, who sailed from Bristol,
= England, May %, 1885, aud settled IN
2 the northern part OF the town.
An Englishman who was playing
billiards at a public house in Bromley
, made bet that he would get one Of the
} ivory balls INTO his mouth. He did
get it in. and there It stuck, in spite of
all his efforts 10 dislOdge it. The sur
geon who was called In extracted the
lump of ivory, but only after taking
r out several OF the experiment alist'sp
front teeth.