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

Julia FolviIle of Belgium is soon
to be brought out as rival 10 Josef
Hofm8nn.
Foreign scientists have discovered
minute diamonds in meteorites found
in Siberia.
More than 2O0,oOO bird skins are
now shown at the Natural History
Museum in London.
In Morocco women who talk scandal
are punished by having cayenne pepper
rubbed into their lips.
Henry Clay was in the Senate of
the United states at twenty-nine, con
trary TO the Constitution.
John Hampton, after graduating
at Oxford, was a student at law in thO
Inner Temple at nineteen.
Maurice of Saxony died at thirty
two, conceded to have been one of the
profoundest statesmen and one of the
ablest generals which, ChristeDdOm has
seen.
On December Z, 1887, the King OF
Spain, aged eighteen months, was
taken to the Senate House and placed
on his fathers throne, with all the
paraphernalIa, and amid great enthus-
iasm.
DIR. Schllemann has discovered the
location OF the temple of Aphrodite
Urania in Cythera. Rain-stoTms and
an inundatiOn of the river compelled
him, however, to return to Athens via
Sparta,
There are 200 private railroad cars
In the United States, representing II
value of nearly s., 100000. They ara
worth anywhere from s., 900 to 500, 600
each, the most luxurious, probably.
being that owned by George NJ. Pull
man.
The cornfiower that was the IA
vorite of Kaiser Willamette blue
"bachelor's button" of this latitude
is said to be the badge of the Liberal
party in Belgium, while the red poppy
is that of the Conservatives or Clerical
party.
From the earliest years Of Queen
Elizabeth to the latest of Queen Vie
toria, England has had scarce an able
statesman who did not leave the uni
versity by the time he was twenty.
and many of them left at an earlier
age.
The late Lord Deaconsdeld left the
cloister and entered the great world
early, as did John Bright, and com
menced his political career by writing
a book at seventeen, in which he pre-
dicted that he would be Prime MIN
lister.
"A Kansas prairie chicken is cred
tied with causing the stoppage of
train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad
by flying against the bell rope and
striking it with such force as to ring
lsignal gong In the locomotive.
The wooden cross marking the
place where King of Bavaria Ludwig
ii. met his death, is TO be replaced by
a small chapel built on piles. King
lOtho's condition has undergone no
change; on the last visit paid to him by
his mother he failed to recognize her.
"A traveller on a Georgia railroad
wanted to get off at a station where tile
train did not stop. 1t was after dark,
and SO when the conductor wonli not
agree to stop for him, the passenger
went to the front platform OF the rear
car, drew the coupling pin, set the
brakes, aud when the car stopped
Jumped off.
AT Omaha, recently, the tUO-ye2T~
old son of a Bohemian farmer fell 40
feet to the bottom Of a dry well AS
the latter was too narrow for a man TO
descend, the work of widening il with
shOvels was begun. After sixty hours
imprisonment the yOungster was res
cued, apparently little the worse for
his experience.
M. Gervais, French authority,
says there ara men capable of bearing
arms-in Germany, 100000; IN
France, 4 500, 900; in Austria II ungary,
1,SO0,O 900; in Italy. , 0OO, 900; in Eng
land, 5000, 600; in Russia, 5000, 900,
and in all other European states,
100000. That gives totaI OF "a
10000 OF that number 10000, 900
are trained soldiers.
The latest entertainments In Chi
cago, according TO an exchange, are
''bird talk matinees.' These consists
of a lecture ''replete with pretty
stories and unheard-Of facts, coupled
with bits of verses and snatcbes of BIZ
ography. On a stand near the lee
tuTer are birds In variety-wrens. iays.
| ravens, bObolinks, robins and larks-
| illustrative of the lecture. - The la
| dies attend in pretty carriage and
street dresses"
In carefully compiled table of
labor statistics in the United States,
France, England and Germany, 1t ap-
pears that labor OF all kinds, skilled
and unskilled, is paid over one hund-
red per cent. more in the United States
than in any OF the other countries
named. In some cases-nOtably in the
wages of women-the difference is
over three hundred per cent. in favor
OF the United States.
There is living in Chennubbee,
/ Sumter county, Ga, a country girl
named Irene Wilkinson, who is quite a
curiosity. She is "a years old, weighs
II pounds, measures 2 feet inches
around the head, ? feet inches
around the waist, 3 feet inches high
and has arms and legs only u inches
long. She is quite Intelligent, does
good needlework, and also the cooking
for her aged father and mother.
Berlin, it seems, has gradually be-
come the headquarters of the carved
wood industry, supplantlnE Swi.zer-
land Six hundred artists in wood
carving, the same number of turner's
and 700 carpenters are engaged In
manufacturing such articles as cigar
cases, newspaper and picture frames,
napkin rings, etc. The value Of the
annual export of these articles is given
as 5,OOO,O0O marks, and this is exclu-
slye or the costly carved wood furni-
ture, the manufacture and export of
which are assuming large proportions.
1t is interesting to learn that Mrs.
/ Cleveland always calls her husband
''Mr. President" Mr.. Cleveland ad-
dresses his wife as Prank Martha
| Washington, in her younger days,
called her husband George" but In
the last twenty-five years of her life
always addressed him as General" A"
While in the White House Mrs. Hayes
called her husband ''Mr. Hayes
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Garfield always
addressed their husbands respectively
as "Abramp and "Jim." Now the
question is, what should Presidents
wife. according to etiquette, call her
husbandP Precedent seems to give no
answer,
Wood pulp is rapidly being substitu-
| ted for plaster of Paris in the manufac.
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