Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-12-12
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

has a rooster which can unite shoe
strings.
The first directory of the city of
New York was published in 1856 and
contained but SAC names.
"A mass of clam shells embedded in
sandstone has been found at depth OF
100 feet near Forestvllle, Cal.
The temple of Apollo. at Delhi.
the most splendid temple dedicated TO
that deity, was built 126S B. c.
The diamond tiara, presented by
the Duke of Aosta to his bride cost
SS5, 900. 1t contains 1,150 stones.
The baton used By conductors OF
concerts is said to have been intro
duced into England by Spohr in 1920.
| Apologies for Christianity were
addressed by Justin Martyr to the En-
peror Antonius Plus, about A. ID. lG4.
The first sheet of plate glass man.
ufactured in the United States is still
doing duty in one of the show VIII
iows of store in Pearl street, New
Albany.
The occupants OF an Astoria, Ore,
hostelry fish from their bedroom win
dows and haul IN their suppers from
the surglng waters about the hotel
foundations.
| Cardinal Manning will soon give
his views on teaching religion in the
public schools. That is a point on
which Professionalism and Romanism
will never agree.
| "A university is said to have been
founded at Bologna by Theodosius
about 433, but the real date of the
establishment OF the University OF
Boulogne was ZIG.
speaking of Belva y. Lockwood,
a correspondent says: I'm literature
she loves works on science, history and
biography best, the writers of such
works being her favorltes."
An industrious Maine boy recently
sold over twenty pounds of lead to an
Augusta junk dealer. 1t was rifle
balls which he had dug from the EN-
bankment back Of the State militia
practice targets.
"A raft of piles is being constructed
at Norfolk, Va, on the Berkley side OF
the river. The raft will be 600 feet
long, % feet team. 1t will be IN six
sections, coupled strongly together
with wire. 1t is to be towed to Bos.
ton
The Russian Government has
granted an annual subsidy of Ill ,OOC
rubles to private firm who contract
to run "A line OF steamers between the
Russian Pacific ports and COrea Japan,
and China, the vessels in time OF war
to be at the disposal of the govern
ment.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the author
of Robert Elsmere,' is described a.
D a small, slight woman, with a coloTless
face, soft. thick, dark hair. which she
wears without friZZle or curl. Her
nose is large, and her eyes, though
small, are black and piercing
, Martin Wiles. bathing master OF
= the Mohican House, Lake George.
] while digging under the roots of big
I cedar not far from the beach, found
: quantity of Indian weapons, evidently
! of great antiquity, and portions or
!, human skeleton, which cTumbled into
!. dust as soon as exposed to the air. The
j weapons were arrow heads and stone
: hatchets of curious design.
: An influential paper of Buds,
Il Pesth, Hungary, advocates reform
) in the upper house of that country,
4 making titles of nobility descend only
. to the eldest son, and having them In
= separable from seat in the House,
,, | English fashion. The reason is fan
a tastic enough-that sO-called baron.
; and dukes have been killing themselye,
ldLCll DCCduSt Aubs AAdAA llO AAbICF ~
: support their dignity.
q "A woman in North GAINESVILLE
g Fla, saw little bird flying in and cut
n of a back window of her house. She
watched it and saw it pass through sew
d eral rooms TO the front parlor and dis
r appear on "whatnotn in the corner.
n There the housewife found a nest with
four eggs In it. They were not dis
p turbed, and at last accounts the bird
Y was trying to hatch the little eggs.
l. The etymology of the word honey.
d moon Is thus given by good authority:
y Among the northern nations OF Eu-
e rope there was an ancient practice OF
e newly married couples to drink metheg-
d lin or mead, a kind of wine made
/ from honey lhydromeD for thirty days
IS after marriage. Hence the term honey.
= mouth or honeymoon. AttIla, tho
n Hun, drank so much mead at his wed.
II ding feast that he died.''
e According to the Roman Catholic
II returns for 1888, there are in England
2. and Wales 2,3l4 priests, as against
l,525 in 1875, serving l,304 churches,
d chapels and missionary stations. II
e Scotland there are five bishops and
e 334 priests, serving 3Z7 chapels
e churches and stations. The estimated
J. Catholic population in England and
Wales is l ,354 600; in Scotland, 926,.
OGO; in Ireland, 3, 9Gl, 600; total, 5,64l,.
l. 600.
le "A young man at Vinalh2ven,
le Me-, who attended the fremen's ball
Of put on the sheriff's coat by mistake
9 While escorting home his 'best girl'
2, he found "A pair OF handcuffs IN hil
Iy pocket, and the young woman tried
| thar, TTnfnrf al fhau gnannaf
N and locked, and the hands could not
4: be withdrawn. The girl nearly
- spraIned her wrists trying TO eKtricatG
" herself from her embarrassing position
2 and did not succeed TIL tie sheriff ar
r rived with the key.
Ie The display of pretty faces anC
TO elaborate toilets in DelmOnicO's be
le tween u and , O'Clock ever
lay is remarkable. There Il
J. no other place in the worlC
II where women of indubitably correc
Is position feel at liberty to lunch with
At out escorts. Every day at Delmonico'
le there is a good deal OF wine and cOrdia
s. drinking and more or less of an eI
ic hibition of flushed cheeks and unusu
r. ally bright eyes; but the bounds o
i. decorum are never passed, ami th
t, beauty show stands to-day. as il ha
le for many years. absolutely without
10 rival
L The London GLoJC prints a strO
In from the diamond fields. a kafh
J" was suspected of being in possession o
D. uncut diamonds, and was pursued b.
officers of the law. When they cam
y. up with him ne had just shot one o
u. his oxen. Then they proceeded Z
T. search him. They ransacked hi
he scanty clothing, they combed hi
woolly head, they tried all the usus
processes, but never a diamond dit
C they find, and finally they had TO retir
d discounted. Then the Kafir proceeds
to pick out from the dead oxs carcas
as all the diamonds with which his GU
re had been loaded, and which he ha
he fired into the unfortunate beast whe
he saw the officers approaching.