Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-04-11
NO. l6.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-MOTpula was discovered III OPIUM
by Sertuerner In 1903
There are 81, coo, 600 900 worth Of
! diamonds in tie world.
On the average 100, 900 people
cross the Brooklyn bridge every day.
Two hundred thousand Infants
under two years old are believed to
be farmed out in France.
"A low estimate puts the number
of persons supported by all the forms
of Employment furnished by electricity
at 5,000, 900.
There are forty-three log school
houses in Iowa. This Is the number
given in the report of the State Super
intendent for 1887.
! Alexander III OF Russia Is going
TO spend S650,OOO on a monument 70
his father in the grand court of the
Kremlin at Moscow.
Venus, the morning star. Is
brighter than it ever appeared TO any
man now living, and nearer the earth
than it will be again for $40 years.
One bundled and twenty bull
| fights were given in the City of Mex
leo during the past year. Seventeen
bull fighters were wounded, and one
professional and two amateur fighters
killed.
"A certain Philadelphia family
| seems to be of very fragile material.
| There are 10 persons in it, and they
have experienced 80 fractures of bones
during the past few years.
Two Protestant citizens of Madrid
were lately condemned to six months
| Imprisonment for refusing to kneel be-
! fore the Viaticum. The liberal news
| ind -
! intolerance.
Mrs. Eliza Wilcox is the only per-
son born in the White House. She was
the only daughter of President Jack
sons adopted son, and was born in the
presidential mansion during the admin
istratiOn of "Old Hickory"
"A year ago Miss Clara Moore. OF
Cincinnati, went to visit friends Ia
| Los Angeles, Cal She had "A few
hundred dollars with her, wli;h she
| Invested in Southern California lands,
and in the boom that followed she sold
| out her property at a net gain OF Sl25,-
600.
| There is a man in the Kansas PEN
| itentiary who, beginning with a term
At Sing Sing years ago, has served his
| time in regular succession in the peni-
tentIarles OF New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and
Kansas.
Miss Meuk Meyer. a grandniece of
J Anton Rubinsteiu and pupil OF
List, is the musical prodigy Of Vienna.
Austria She is not yet eighteen years
old, but has composed the music and
written the libretto of an opera.
There were lynched during the
| year 1887 in the United States no fewer
than l23 persons. OF the various
States and Territories Texas leads the
list with fifteen lynchings, and Mlssls-
Ippi is entitled TO second place with
fourteen to her credit. All the VIC
tins were males, eighty of them being
negroes.
Queen Victoria dislikes the cleo
| trio light, and refuses to have it in her
| palaces She has at length permitted
one of the royal yachts to be fitted with
electric lamps, except her sleeping
cabin and saloon. IL Is said soft oil
lamps best suit the compilations OF ell
derly ladies.
There is little girl in Baltimore
| who goes out into the streets, begins
crying and gets the police to Sy TO
find her home. She gives an accurate
description OF house, but when such
one is reached she always declares it
is not the right one. The other day
she Kept three policemen busy all day
walking about the city with her, and
at night admitted that she knew all
the willie where her home WAS. and
could have gone to 1t any hour.
The princes of the Hapsburg
family are about to present the EN-
peror Francis Joseph with magnia-
cent album, the cover of " hich is to be
richly studded with jewels, and it is
TO contain llfe-s'zs photographs of the
donors, taken in the uniform Of their
respective Austrian regiments. The
Prince Regent LuitpOld OF Bavaria and
the other German princes who are
connected with the Austrian Imperial
family have Joined in the gift.
Baron Hirsch's offer OF SIC, ,OOO. 900
TO be expended by the cZaT of Russia
in promoting the welraIe of the Rus
sian Jews has been accepted. The
money is to be paid into the Bank of
England, and Baron RothschiId and
Baron De Worms, who were appointed
trustees, will receive the interest of the
sum deposited. 1t Is estimated that il
will be possible to open 900 schools
for $4,000 children with the money,
other charities not being neglected in
the meantime.
The old Rodgers house in Wash
ington Is for sale. This Interesting
structure has many curious associa-
Citations. On the sidewalk in front OF
1t General Sickles shot Barton Key.
The house was occupied during the
war by Secretary Stanton, and II was
there that Payne tried to assassinate
Secretary Seward. The lot on which
lsUnT1
owned by Henry Clay, who swapped
it with Admiral Rodgers fo- a biooded
colt.
Among the various substances
found on the human tongue, as shown
by the microscope, are tine following:
Fihres OF wool, linen and cotton, fbres
of spiral vessels, and fibres of muscle,
starch grains. cheese mould, portions
OF potato skin, scales, moths, ETC.,
hairs from legs of bees, hairs from legs
of spiders, pollen of various flowers,
stamens % various flowers, hairs Of
cats, quite common; hairs Of mouse,
once only; hairs from various leaves,
wing of mosquito, once; fragments
from the leaves of tobacco, of chamo-
mile flowers, etc.
Both the sons Of Garibaldi are
now deputies, RIccIotti, the younger,
having been elected TO represent Rome
In May, 1887. Menotti Garibaldi, who
for many years has represented the dis
trict OF Velletri, is generally popular
with men Of all parties, and is plain,
honest soldier. who. although of course
a member of the Left, is distinguished
for good common sense rather than ex-
trene radicalism. Ricciotti Garibaldi
was educated In England, and has an
English wife. He entered parliament
as a workingman's candidate; but It
remains to be seen whether he will re-
ally prove 10 be as much OF a radical
after his election as he was before it.
DR.. Y. PouIdin believes that the
reason that cows L-ilk so often dis
agrees with children is found in the
fact that cane supar is used to sweeten