Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Queen Anne died of dropsy.
Charles 1 died on the scafOld.
Edward VI died of decline.

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Edward vi died of decline.
r chard III was killed in battle.
Prince Henry vas the first Russian
prince who ever sailed round the world.
The Empress of Japan is a diligent
student OF German, Russian, French
and Italian.
When AT. Stewart died there was
to his credit on the books OF a. T.
Stewart & Co. Sl2.000,OOO.
twenty-five thousand Norwegians,
it Is estimated, will leave their homes
this year TO settle IN the United States
"A scientific paper has been started
In Paris with the novel feature of pub
fishing nothing not written by women,
The old wood should be removed
from vines as soon as possible, as dead
wood sometimes causes the new wood
TO become diseased.
Moody, the evangelist. is lfty-one.
and his mother is still living at an eX-
tTemelY advanced age. They reside at
Mortified, Mass.
Ten millions sterling will be spent
by the japanese Government in the
next ten years IN the purchase OF fifteen
ironclads and thirty torpedo boats.
In China girls are not obliged to go
to school at all. Their position in the
empire is so Insignificant that no pro-
vision is made for their education.
Montreal has thirty boot and shoe
manufacturers. -Four thousand persons,
all over IA years of age, are employed.
Wages average Sl2 per week for men
and 81 for women.
The beauty show at Spa, Belgium,
has been a failure, as there were only
twenty competitors for the prize OF
10000 francs. y creole from Guade-
loupe is TO receive the money.
New Orleans has discovered that
there's money IN the canning OF
shrimps, and is developing the industry
rapidly. 1t is said that fully 100. 600
cans day are packed there during the
season.
Lord " Olseley tells OF a soldier who
was the bravest man he ever knew. He
was so lazy that in battle he would ex-
pose himself TO the most imminent dan
ger rather than move ten PAGES to a
place of safety.
The novel, "Robert Elsmere, - has
been expelled from the circulating IL
brary of the town of Ipswich I'm Eng
land on account of its dangerous" re-
ligious tendencies. Intolerance is not
limited to the Cars dOminlOns.
1t is only 9Oyears ago that the FIRST
stage carrying the United States mail
westward passed over the Allegheny
Mountains. The road taken by the
stage was from Cumberland, Md, to
| Wheeling, a distance of l3O miles.
C. Plazzi Smyth, astronomer royal
for Scotland, has resigned his Office for
despair Of ever being able to do any
thing good or compete with the other
observatOries when the government con-
tinues to refuse to do what their own
commission recommended"
The natural rough taste Of Jrta
champagne is Obvlated by injecting a
finely favored liquor Just before leav-
ing France. 1t takes two years for this
TO assimlate itself fully, and therefore
champagne is better If not used until it
has been a couple of years in this
country.
An English writer declares that the
custom Of pairing off guests at dinner
arose In the middle ages, when there
was only single plate and drinking
cup for each couple, and that while the
the pieces in his mouth and they both
drank from the same cup.
In New Mexico the Spanish Ian
guage IS the language of the courts, the
council and the assembly. Legislative
debates are carried on in Spanish, and
laws are framed In that language Eng
llsh is a secondary tongue, aud a person
| is at a decided disadvantage even in
transacting bu iness unless he Is famll-
lar with Spanish.
| -Refuting the assertion that meat
! diet causes cancer, Surgeon Major
: Hendley reports from India that out of
! l02 operations for cancer performed at
Jeypora since 1850, Al were on the per-
sons Of meat eaters and 81 on those OF
strict vegetarians, who had not known
the taste of meat from their births.
In the month of April last two Ger
| man travellers, Lenk and Topf, under
| took the ascent of the volcano OF Iztac-
| cihuati, the neighbOr of Popocatepeti, e,
IN Mexico, whose summit reaches an
elevation of about Il, 900 feet. They
I failed TO reach the very top, but the ex-
pedition fully rewarded their efforts, AS
/ they report the existence Of a glacier.
! 1t has not been supposed hitherto that
there were any glaciers in this part OF
/ the American continent.
Some fellow of a mathematical turn
/ of mind has been to the trouble to cal
culate that the light of the full moon is
equal to that of l34, 600. 600, 600, ,OOO, 600
candles, and that within s5Ie or two OF
! that number of candles could be set up
/ on end on one-half the surface of the
moon. This information Will enable
any one to figure up how much every
/ fun moon Is worth TO US, putting can
! dies at, say, fifteen cents a dozen.
The French national debt is stated
| to be the largest in the worlds, ,0UO, -
| coo, 600; annual interest, S264, OOO. 600
/ Thus the interest alone is nearly SGO,-
, 600, 600 more than the total wants Of
the United States Government. The
per capita tax Of the French people is
SIS, perhaps the largest of any people.
! The President receivesa salary Of Slj3. =
900 year.
The richest mine OF Australia, and
perhaps IN the world, is the Mount
Morgan, OF RockhamptOn, Queensland,
says the san Francisco L1dmtaer. Its
value has been vaTiOusly estimated at
from El2, ,OOO,O 600 TO GOO, 900, 900, but
II IS fact that one OF the ROthschilds
offered $40, 600 600 TOR the NINE, but
the offer was refused. The gold, as
taken from the mine, is 30 6ne, or al
most pure.
The ingenuity exhibited In the diff
ferent modes of spelling quite a CON-
mon name is curiOusly illustrated In
the following incident: A lumber
dealer in Minnesota, whose given name
was Isaac, had quite an extensive cor
respondence. HIS bookkeeper made a
memorandum of every time his name
was misspelled in letters directed 20
HIM, and the list read as follows: Isiac,
Iisac, Icaack. Iscac, Ysac, Isaag, Izlc,
Isiace. Icae. Isach, Isle, Isaace, Isaace,
Icaas, Icks, IaasIc, Aisec, Isaar, Iaasac,
Iceic, Isaas, Isica, Iaac, Iassac, Izk, /
Sic, Issaach, Isac, Isick, Tssacc, Issaace,
Iseke, Isslck ,Isaak, Iisace, Isak. Issack,
Icaac, l Sick, Isich, Isaac, Issac, Isace,