Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-08-08
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Several pardons were proclaimed
first at coronations by Edward III in
1927.
The Prince OF Wales has seven.
teen hrothers-in-law, sixteen uncIes,
hfty-seven cousins and fifty-eight
nephews and nieces.
Glasgow, Scotland, obtained .
charter under James H.. 145l; made a
royal burgh by James VI afterwards
James | of England), l6ll; wasted by
fire, 1862; received charter from VII.
liam and Mary, 1890.
There are about thirty grand dukes
in Russia, all of them being near rela-
tiyes of the Car. Each receives from
the State an annual pension amounting
to $50 600, and the majority OF them
have large private fortunes beside.
Queen Victoria is very fond OF
straw hats. She recently had a photo
graph taken of herself as she sat at
breakfast surrounded by her family.
On her head was a most remarkable
straw hat, the most striking object OF
the picture.
East river is the geographical
name 10y which the strait dividing
Long Island and Manhattan Island is
known. There IS no doubt but 1t is a
strait, but for all the purposes of COM
merce, literature and geography it is
the East river.
The acrostatic corps of the Ger
man army have succeeded in taking
good photographs of the surrounding
region from a balloon which was poised
about one-and -a-half miles in the air
the first practical work of the Kind
ever accomplished.
king kalakaua, the versatile mon
arch of the SandTic islands. has
written learned treatise on the diam
etrical physiognomy of the earth. The
article is based on observations of the
volcanic phenomena for which the
Hawaiian group Is noted.
Twenty years ago this country
consumed 500, 600 bales of cotton of 400
pounds each, and all the rest of the
world 4 800, 900 bales. Now the rest
of the world consumes Z, 300, 600 bales.
an increase of 20 per cent, while this
country consumes , 1000 bales, an
increase of 200 per cent.
Parchment was Invented for
writlng-bOoks by Enmenes (some say
by Attalus) of Pergamus, the founder
of the celebrated library of Pergamus.
formed on the model of Alexandria,
aDOuN 4JU ID. -. DOOka
from this time became most used.
Shaving was Introduced among the
Romans about 3. &. 300. PlIny says
SclpIo Africanus was the first Roman
who shaved every day. Subsequently
the first day of shaving was regarded
by the Romans as the entrance upon
manhood, and celebrated with great
festivities.
Joe jefferson is the only actor
possessing a separate summer and win
ter estate. When the icy winds are
bowling about nnr heads here. th.
veteran player is in Louisiana among
his flowers. His summer home is in
New Jersey, and in both places he Is
free handed entertainer.
MIR. Edmund Yates describes
Queen Natalie of Servia as "decidedly
OF the fine woman order; tall, broad
and massive, with large features and
black eyebrows and eyes and black
hair, which she wears down her back,
as the sayin' is as poor Sketchley used
TO say. like hCrse's tail"
From paltry a. cents worth OF
iron ore may be developed s.. 80 worth
of bar iron, $40 worth of horse shoes,
$50 worth of table knives, 81, 500
worth of fine needles, S29. 4SO worth OF
shirt buttons, $500, 900 worth of watch
springs, or g, 800, 600 worth of pallet
arbOrs FUSED In watches.)
While excavating IN Norwich,
Conn, recently, wOTkmen unearthed
the complete skeleton of an Indian.
The skull held a well-preserved upper
set OF teeth. Beside the body were
found a scalping knife with horn
handle, parts of an old gun and brass
| ornamental head to u cane.
"A singular freak OF nature Origi-
nally discovered in Western Australia,
Is likely TO remain unexplained. 1t
consists of nine liue pearls adhering
together in the form of a Latin cross
seven in the shaft and one each side
of the second pearl. a suggestion is
that a fragment of seaweed in the
shell of the oyster formed the frame on
which the cross was built.
Little Mandy Taylor, aged eleven
years, child of French Taylor, Esq, IL
teaching school at her home near
Breck, Kentucky. She is said To be an
unusually bright little miss, and has
the dignity and pOltenes5 of Il grown
woman. Her discipline IN school is AS
good as can be had, and the way shs
lnstructs her pupils, five In number, is
simply wonderful.
| "A singular accident happened 10
consignment Of young fish and eggs
! being conveyed south IN the United
States fish commission car. \ change
of water was found To be necessary at
Atlanta, Ga, and arteslan well water
was supplied. Within an hour %, 900
fish were dead, and nearly 1900 900
eggs are supposed TO bs spoiled.
| Experiments r-yr,-pT0c1d that the
tensile strength of wet rope is only
one-Uhird that Of the same rope when
dry; and a rope saturated with grease
or soap Is weaker still, As the lubricant
permits the ibres to slip with greater
facility. Hemp rope contracts strongly
on being wet. and a dry rope twenty
five feet long will shorten TO twenty
four on being wet.
The length of the principal rivers
In America are: Missouri TO the Mis-
sIssippI, 3, 100; Missouri to the Gulf,
1850; Mississippi, 3,lGO; Amazon,
5000; River DE La Plata, 2,240; St.
Lawrence, 2.1OO; Orinoco, l,GOO; Rio
Grande, l,SOO. The Missouri Ito the
Gulf is the longest river in the world.
The Danube IS the longest river in
Europe, the Yang-tse-Kiang in Asia,
and the Senegal in Africa.
Oliver +. Rahm, inventor Of the
self-scratchlng match, is living quietly
In Bonneville, n. Y. lie is now an old
man, and his fortune, estimated at
S250,00O, gives him every comfort and
successfully keeps the wolf from the
door. His famous match was an in
spiratIon which came to him in sleep.
On retiring he had attempted 10 light
his gas with an ordinary match and
had burned his fingers. He had a
dream which suggested the device by
which he made fortune.
A VETERAN fruit-grower, In the
New York Tribune, says the method
of catching the curculIo in plum trees
by jarring the little pests down on a
white sheet is a remedy better than all