Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-03-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

and wife.
The late Meredith Featheringil,
Spanish soldier, leaves an estate Of ST.
100000 to heirs in Kentucky.
The Duke of Buccleuch-the
richest man in Scotland-has an in.
come Of 81 800, 600 per annum.
Schuyler Colfax is to have
bronze statue erected in one of the
squares OF the city of indianapolis.
Austria has decided to put her
naval establishment in condition 10
cope with any Of the European powers.
An English lady has had a costume
made by Nlcholay all ruby plush and
darkest sable, which cost l,76O guineas.
"A recent census puts the total pop
'ulation of the Chinese Empire at 392,-
00O,0OO. They are piled in about three
feet deep.
1t takes l4,sO0,OO gallons Of oil a
year TO keep the railways OF Great
Britain going, and the cost is nearly
s.. 900, 600.
The report runs that the German
Government has bought an invention
for steering military balloons, aud paid
a million marks for II.
"A lady OF Winnipeg had her photo
graph taken not long ago and her face
appeared in the negative covered with
spots. On the following day she was
Frustrated with a severe attack of va
riOloid.
"A Berlin doctor is said to have
caught the bacillus that produces can
Ger. He has inOculated dogs with the
germ, and is reported to have devel-
oped in them tumors OF a cancerous
nature.
There is a beautiful uncertainty
about the value Of copper cents ia
Mexico. In Vera Cruz, for instance,
Int takes lO4 OF them to make 81, while
In chihuahua ninety-lve VIII pass
for 81.
Lord Salisbury recently sold his
! property between the Thames embank-
! ment and the strand for loco, 900.
BY the growth Of house property IN
London he Is now one of the richest
men in England.
Mosquitoes in China have very
| POISONOUS sting. In a Tientsin hos
pital there were at one time this sum-
mer man with an abscess in his facs
and another with blood poisoning from
the bite of the insects.
"A paper published at Sauk Center,
| Mimi, IS successfully running its
presses by the aid of power communl-
Gated to them 10y means OF a wind
mill. Ttls Is probably the only in
stance OF the kind in the country.
"A fisherman at Asbury Park. \.
j., picked up a sealed bottle on the
coast containing map showing where
an alleged treasure is buried at place
near Wilmington, Delaware. The dis
| coyery has aroused a good deal of Gu
| rosity there.
AT Burg HnI, ONO Charles
smith shot a blue heron at HE carp
pond, ana found fOrty-seven fish in its
stomach. From the appearance Of the
carp they had Just been swallowed and
constituted only one meal for the
bird.
The cruel punishment of slow
| death by hanging 80 as To stand on the
tips OF the toes IS sun extensively in
| nicted in China. The narbarOuS Gus
tom or cOnferrIug houOrs on women
| who commit suicide is also continued.
king John of England who was
forced to grant the Magma Charta,
! June -, 1915, when the great seal was
| affixed thereto at Runnemede. a
meadow between Staines and Wind
sor. The original Magma Charta is
preserved in the British Museum.
"A Norwich, Conn, cocker spaniel
that spent his early days in a family
OF children and had bis face washed
regularly Will not now, in his old age,
eat breakfast until his face has been
washed. If his toilet is neglected he
sits down and howls loud and long.
-Bavaria's late mad Kings per-
! sOnal effects were sold at Munich re-
Gently. y pair Of scarlet trousers
brought ten pounds; a pair Of musical
! brushes did not sell, because the
music wouldn't go" The saddest
thing IN the collection was the Kings
| inseparable bed-fellow during the last
four years-a stuffed monkey.
"A little girl while playing one day
recently on = porch at WallIngford.
Conn, was startled by a large bird
flying over her head. The bird flew a
short distance away and returned
! again and WAS caught and held by ths
child until her parents, who ueaId tic
| noise. came out and secured It. It
proved TO be a full grown partridge,
apparently unlIurt.
| In Germany the average duration
| of the life or gardeners, mariners and
! fishermen Is fitty-eight years; butchers,
| lfty-fouT years; carpenters and brick
| layers, fOTty-nine years; cOmpOsltOrs
| and lithOgrapheTs. forty lone years; and
| labOTeTs, thirty-two years. OF the pTo-
fessions the average lifetime of clergy
| men IS siXty-Seyen years; teachers.
! tifty-seven years; lawyers, lifty-fouT
years. and physicians, forty-nine years.
For years In,..o.., s-..,., ,r.,5o.,.s have
| been found in such numbers on the
shores of Bantam lake, in Connecticut.
| that antiquariaus thought that battle
must have been fought there once.
Recently workers digging there found
! confederation OF the battle theory in
the form Of bones Of men mingled with
rare Indian weapons. Apparently the
men had been buried IN a sitting DOS
ture, and one grave, by its unusuallv
large collection OF weapons, Indicate
that its occupant had been a chief or
mighty warrior.
| In eXcavatlng for an addition TO a
prison in Salt Lake City recently five
underground cells were found, each
two and one-half feet wide, six foe.
long and three feet high, and win
walls two feet thick. covered with
hard plaster cement. The doors were
gone, but parts Of the hinges remained.
There are believed TO be many more
Of the cells at the same place. They
are supposed To have been reachee,
when in use, by subteTranean paths.
| Whether their doors were grated or
solid is not known.
"A Minneapolis man ate 500 oys-
ters in two hours recently for bet OF
500.
Popular faith is being nailed 10
hypnotlsm in France, where all kinds
of ailments and peculiarities are now
being treated by the mesmerists. The
| cure of drunkenness has haau af