Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-09-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Vera Cruz exports $4,000, ,oCo
pounds of coffee annually.
1t is a wise maR who knows his
own portrait when It Is printed in .
newspaper.
Two houses are being erected at
Parkersburg, which will have paper
walls, paper partitions and paper roofs.
--One of the richest men OF st.
Paul, who owns block after block OF
real estate, lives on less than $500 a
year.
Gold Plate to the value OF S12, ,OOC,-
is stored away in the gold room of
Windsor Castle. One piece, a salver,
is worth $4,000.
-"HoodIum" comes from the Ger
man hudIer, meaning a loafer, OF idler;
so hummer" from the German
bummler, word of similar import.
The great furniture manufacturing
centre OF the United States is at Grand
Rapids, Mich, where there are forty
two factories, employing 1900 men.
-Sunday-schools are increasing rap
idly in this country. Last year the
American Sunday-school Union organ
lied ,502, with 6, ,326 teachers and "a,
129 scholars.
fAAAbLAS ILLUS III
Z2n, in Yacatas, Mexico, in search OF
treasure, are sad TO have revealed q
magnificent palace, which is an archas-
ological wonder.
Davis Strait takes its name from
Its discoverer, John Davis, who Au-
gust IL, 1885, reached that Northern
latitude on his voyage in search of a
northwest passage.
-(TlaSS WAS IN usa ap1nur the Do-
mans at the time of Tiherius, aud the
ruins of Pompeii show that 1t was In
use for windows during the first cen
tury of the Christian era.
The knights of Columbus. in
Bridgeport, Conn, have voted to take
part in a movement Of their order for
celebrating the four hundredth ami.
yersary OF the discovery of America
Jesse d. Carr, the -ich ranchman
OF Fresno county, Cal, has been or
dered by Government agent to re-
move stone fence which he has built
around 10000 acres OF Government
land.
1t is estimated at the Treasury
Department that there has been de-
crease of So, 800, coo in the public debt
during the month of July. Over Sl4,-
100000 were paid out during the
month for pensions.
"A tombstone weighing sixteen
tons, and cut in the form OF a tree,
with birds ard squirrels lodged in It's
branches, and ferns, flowers, an open
book and a scroll OF music at the base,
is curiosity at Manosha, Ohio.
Lincoln used TO say that It al
ways did him good TO look al the God
dess of Liberty on the dome OF the
! capitol at Washington, for il satisfied
him that there was one woman in
Washington who was not approachabIe.
The average yearly income of the
working woman of Boston is S260. OF.
and her average expenses are reckoned
| at S2Gl. 30. There is certainly not
very much left oyer for incidental
Items. such as doctors bills, amuse-
rlents ard books.
There are twenty-five crematOrIes
in Europe. of which ten have been
built within the past year. There have
been 600 incinerations in Germany and
200 in Italy. There are seven crema-
tories in the United States, and six III
process of construction.
The origin OF the rose jars now so
fashionable is quite romantic. They
started in Turkey centuries ago, and
no harem is complete without them.
They are also much used in India. The
rose Jars OF TO day are IN hundreds of
styles and cost from 80 cents TO 500
apiece.
The finest theatre in the world Is
the La Scala at Milan. The stage is
$50 feet deep. aud there are six tiers OF
bINes. The largest edilce in the
world is the Colosseum at Rome. 1t
NlrU to N.HHHH 4
in honor OF Titus. Its seating capacity
was $1,000.
"A Georgia girl aroused the whole
household, screaming and declaring
that some one had kissed her while she
was asleep. Her father rushed In, with
pistol in Cne hand and a candle In the
other, when the intruder WAS discov-
cred In the shape Of the damsel's pet
kitten, nesting behind her pillow.
When Phil Armour, the great
Chicago pork packer, goes on a journey
he greases his way as no other million
aire In the country does. lie goes to
| New York by the Vanderbilt roads on
ore Of the vestibuls trains. and gives
the engineer. conductor and Wagner
conductor each a s. note. Then he
gives the brakemen, walters and har-
| Der each 81. And yet lie does not
travel whit more comfortable than
| any one else.
The output o. the Birmingham
CEngland) pin mills is 30,0OO,OOO a day.
Other factories in that country have a
! capacity of 100000 pins per day.
| France turns out about 70, 900. 600 q
day anH Holland and Germany ~, 900,
| 600 each. The pin machines cut the
wire to pin size, head, point, polish,
sort and stick them in the papers.
The origin of "God Save the
! Queen" is q very much disputed mat
ter. 1t would seem, however, that
both the air and words were composed
with very little aluratiOn as they now
now stanh, for the marriage Of King
! Henry VII. with Elizabeth of York.
| The composer was A singer of St
PauI's Cathedral. The tune IS very
! similar to that Of the English national
| tune there.
Professor Rudolph Virchow, upon
whom Emperor Frederick recently
conferred the Order of the Red Eagle
is the possessOr of eleven decorations,
including the Iron Cross and two mem.
Orlal crosses of the war OF 1901.
His learned colleague, Professor The.
odor Mommsen, wears seven decora.
tions, among them the Order Of the
| Crown.
"A country girl has devised a new
means of gaining money. She gives
her time for twenty-five cents an hour
to mothers of families and house
keepers who need extra help. She
does not hire herself out as q washer
woman or seamstress, but takes VI
bits of work for an hour or two, accom-
nZni1g phildrnrn for 80 -.
serving up of a dinner or oversee
house cleaning. Her time is as full
occupied as her strength will permit.
1t is stated that vessels built O
African teak wood have lasted 1O(
years, to be then broken up because o.
faulty models. Its weight is from
forty-two to fifty-two pounds per cubic
foot; it works easily, but wears the
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