Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-02-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

james welch, of Portland, Me,
was fined 5000 and sentenced TO IS
months in jail for liquor selling re-
Gently.
1t takes Il. 800 600 gallons of oil
year to keep the railways of Great
Britain going, and the cost is nearly
e, ,O0O, 900.
Echoes of the cold spell are still
being heard. The Newark Journal
learns that il caused several dogs in
Beverly to go mad.
DIR. Buisson, OF Paris, claims to
cure hydrophobia by hot baths often
repeated. He makes the patient re-
main continually in hot room and the
baths are made as hot as l42 degs.
Silver mining has been added to
the industries IN Indiana, the Buck
Shoals Silver Mining Company having
beg un TO smelt ore at the mines on the
White River, ten miles northeast OF
Jasper.
Joseph Lippincott, of Burlington,
n. J., is three months old, weighs less
than two pounds, and is the smallest
inhabitant of thas place. When born
the babe weighed one pound 1lree
ounces,
The Stockton CKas.) Democrat
tells of man IN Rocks county, that
State, who has been arrested for steal
ing a school house. He had removed
! the building TO his own residence and
converted it into kitchen.
-''TOmah- w Itch" pronounced the
oldest member of the PasSamaquOddy
tribe OF Indians IN Maine, IS seriously
Ill. He is said TO be lO7 years of age.
lie raised a good crop last year and en-
gagged in hunting and trapping during
the fall.
An old widow, who had been sup
! ported by charity for twenty years,
| died lately near London, England.
After her funeral there were found
sewed III the pillow case almost two
thousand dollars in silver and notes,
some of the latter forty years old.
Frank Moxie, OF Dakota, was
about to be married, but was busy with
! a game of poker. The minister who
was to perform the ceremony went to
inform him that tie company was
waiting, got interested and took a hand
and the wedding mad to be postponed.
| AT the Minnesota State fair Gu
| rlous clock Is on exhibition 1t is made
of red cedLr and Is the work of an in
mate of the North Dakota peniten-
tiary. a jackknife was the only tool
used. In the gable of a Swiss cottage
sets the face OF the clock, with balco-
nies, piazzas and windows around it.
-Coldwater, Mich, has a schoolgirl
Of IA years who is quite a trapper. She
has dozen traps set, and has already
sold one or two fine mink skins. She
has also toyed with revolver enough
TO send one bullet through her finger
and another>lntO the calf OF her leg.
Tax Collector Thaxton, Of Butts
County, Georgia, has a COPPER piece
coined in 1868, on one side of which Is
Confederate flag, surrounded by the
words Our flag, 1863" and on the
other side the word Dixie" sur
rounded by the motto, ''If any one at
tempts to tear 1t down, shoot him on
the spot"
| An immense picture of the cruci-
fixion was recently found painted In
oil with great deal Of artistic skill on
| the wall of cave on the island of
Davaar, in CampbeltOn HarbOr, Scot
| land. The discovery made a great
| sensation until a Mr.. Archibald Nc
Kinnon acknowledged that it had
been painted by him.
"A Hungarian historian, rummag-
ing through the archives at Buda-
| Pesth, discovered over 500 wills dated
between 1902 and 1874, which had been
put away so safely that they had been
lost sight of, and the estates to which
they related bave been treated as
though the persons making them had
died intestaUe. a dreadful crop of
lawsuits is expected to follow.
Several years ago watermelons
We're almost unknown in California.
An old MissOurian, who owned forty
acres near Lodi and who had raised
the fruit in old Missouri, planted his
whole lot to melons. His neighbors
laughed at the idea of melons growing
without rain, and he was called the
boss crank of the century. But the
vines thrived and bore melons, a., 900
of them, and he cleared $50, 600 from
his forty acres, and now Lodi is the
great melon district Of the Pacific
slope,
There are now cables on almost
every sea and ocean bed, the total
length of wire laid, being nearly IL, 600
nautical miles. There are nine cables
connecting Europe with America. the
first that was laid dating from lS5S.
So great also has the advance been in
the operative aspect of cable tele.
graphy, that practically no more dini-
Guilty is felt in repairing submarine
lines than In attending to defects IN
those on land. 1t is seldom that auy
serious arrangement of the tele-
graphic system takes place. When Il
does, it Is comparatively Of short dura-
tion.
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rat not much smaller than itself, and
to make the contest equal the kittens
master took a hand and stopped tie
rat when 1t might have escaped.
Therespon the rat ran up the mans
trousers leg, and the kitten in hot pur-
suit followed. 1t went as far as it
could, and then backed down. The
rat and the man then had the battle
out. The former is still able to give
apparent proof of lust where the Kit
ten stopped and just how far the rat
went.
"A few weeks ago some eKcava-
tions at PompeI brought to light a set
of surgical instruments, many Of
which resemble instruments in use at
the present day. Some days later four
beautiful silver urns of fair size were
found; also four smaller vessels, eight
open vases, four cuts ornamented with
leaves and figures Of animals, and q
very beautiful statue Of Jupiter seated
on throne. Beside those silver OBJ
jects, several gold ornaments, such as
rings, earrings, ETC.. were also found.
"A young Australian near Bochara,
after an unusually hard days work
sheep-shearing, went TO sleep on the
sitting-room couch after supper. Soon
went through four gates, which be
carefully closed, to the woodshed, and
then hung up his coat and took down
his sheep sbeers and sharpened them