Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-05-16
NO. 2l.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

! curing lne luOllee 1f,UUO pairs or
slippers.
There are los, 900 locomotives in
the world, representing 5000, 900 horse
! power.
The first religious newspaper pub
/ iished in America was issued in Ohio,
and called The Recorder.
President Cleveland will Law the
! cornerstone OF the new library build
ing at Cornell University in June,
Awful floods in Germany have
caused death and destruction THIS
! spring. Nearly a hundred villages have
been submerged
A Chicago newspaper makes the
statement that railroad train arrives
or departs from that ci.y every minute
| of the day.
A distinguished negro belle OF Port
au Prince, Hayti. has married a brother
of William Black, the novelist. Per
haps the name attracted her.
Mrs. Patti Lyle Collins, employed
in the dead letter. office at Washing
ton, reads almost every known Ian
gufge except Russian and Chinese.
-Conde conducted a memorable
campaign at seventeen, and at twenty
two he and Turenne, also, were of the
most lllustrious men OF their time.
Royalty has its drawbacks, Prin-
cess Louise OF Lorne is Just 40. and
can't pass herself of as 30 for the fact is
recorded in all the English almauacs.
Webster was in llege at fifteen,
gave earnest of his great future be
fore he was twenty-five, and at thirty
was the peer of the ablest men IN Con-
gress.
The choirs OF the Church of Eng
land include 154, 600 voluntary aud
1900 paid male singers, and $1,000
voluntary and = 100 paid female
| singers.
The present national bank system
Of the United States was organized
February %, 1868, to give uniformity
to the paper currency and the banking
laws of the country.
The House of Representatives is
constituted of 325 members from
thirty-eight States, and two delegates
from each territory. The latter have
no voting power or places on commit
tees
Only one civilian out of the Tresi-
dents of this country gained his first
election after he was sixty, and that
one was James buchanan. The chance
| for Presidency after sixty is small and
| growing less.
| There IS a concert in New York
| which employs girls to crack and pick
nuts, the kernels OF which are sold to
confectiOners. The shells are sold 10
be ground up and used in the manu-
facture of spices.
Near the town of Soleure, in Swift
| zerland, a birds nest was recently
| found which was constructed entirely
of the imperfect watch springs thrown
out from the workshops. 1t has been
| deposited in the local museum.
of the sixty-siX savings banks in
| New Hampshire, 1t Is reported that
twenty-five OF them paid last year >
| per cent, the highest ordinary dividend
allowed by law; six paid }. thirty-nve
paid 4, one paid 81, one paid 3, and one
paid ,.
Spencer, Mass, has public-spirited
| citizens. The other day one of them
gave IA acres of land for a public park,
| another gave $50, 900 for a high sohOol
and another gave SO, 600 for public
library.
William Pitt entered the univer-
5!ty at fourteen, was Chancellor Of the
ExchequeT at twenty-five, Prime Min
lister at twenty-fuuT, and so continued
for twenty years; and at thirty-nve
was the most powerful uncrOwned
head III Europe.
Lexington Miss has three femi-
nine residents who play an important
part iDSIeeping the town In communi-
cation with the rest OF the world. One
of the ladies aforesaid IS pOstmstTess,
another express agent, and the third
has charge of the telegraph office.
M. Chevreul, the French centena-
rian chemist (who Will lie lO2 years
old If he lives till next August). is said
by writer who recently visited him.
to look scarcely more than 80 years OF
age, and to be as gentle, even-tempered
and self-controlled as ever.
Hamilton was in Kings College at
sixteen; when seventeen lie made a no
table address on public affairs TO the
citizens Of New York; at twenty he
was intrusted with a most important
mission TO General Gates; was in Con-
gress at twenty-five, and Secretary OF
the Treasury at thirty-two.
The infant daughter or Prince
Beatrice and Prince Henry OF Batten-
berg was cnristened with water from
the Jordan river, a bottle having been
secured for that purpose by Rev. G. NJ.
Owen, OF Birmingham.
The Captain of the British ship
City of Madrid, which arrived lately
at San Francisco, reported that when
off the PatagOnlan coast, during strong
westerly winds, butterflies were blown
aboard the vessel at a distance Of 80
miles from land.
Mrs. Cleveland has been studying
French under the tutelage of French
woman who lives near the Executive
Mansion, and has made such good prog
ress that she can now, 1t Is stated, read
and write quite fueutly in the court"
language. and thus prove charming in
an additional tongue.
Mrs. Hetty Greene, the richest
woman IN America. was born in Nan
tucket. Mass, and her father was a sea
captain. She IS a queer character and
has been more written about than al.
most any other woman in America
She is worth SAC, 100000.
1t is said that the smallest child
IN the world belongs to a Maine
family. a local paper claims this
honor for Millard Fillmore Brown, son
of Nathan Brown, WHO formerly lived
in Prospect. The child has been on
exhibition in Boston lately. At the
time of his birth he weighed twenty
ounces, and at the present time he is
about three months old and weighs
tweuty-three ounces and - eleven
inches tall. HIS foot IS one inch in
length, and one inch spans his wrist
On one occasion Charles Dickens
came up to the late Mrs. Proctor and
invited her to be present at an anna
teur performance which his children
were arranging with their friends at
his house in TavistOck Square. Her
reply was: "Mr. Dickens. my charge
for witnessing amateur theatricals is
five shlllings, and five shillings extra
If L am expected to applaud" A"
Dickens looked veXed and turned on
his heel. She did not go to the party nor
was she expected.