Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-07-25
NEWS IN BRIEF,


China feels hurt because Australia
bars out Cinnamon.
The solitaire diamond ring worn
by Mrs. W. Il. Vanderbilt cost S4S, 900.
Lady Monckton is the only Eng
lish lady OF title on the English stage,
"A professional rat catcher took
328 rodents out of Yanderbllt's new
house the other day.
The late Eugene RimmeI, the
London perfumer, left an estate valued
at 500. 100000 He evidently knew
how to make scents turn into dollars.
The Anglican church OF New
South Wales is to raise 81 900, 600 as a
centennial fund. TIE Wesleyans will
also ralse $3.50, 600. Both amounts Will
be raised in five years.
In Belgium drunkenness is pun
ished by compelling the man or woman
caught in this condition TO sweep the
Streets for two hours after they get
sober. 1t is better punishment than to
ssut the drunkard up in the station
House.
The only accident on the ball
fields of the country IN 1887 which re-
suited in death occurred in a match
game at PoOleville, y. Y, when Otto
Bronson was struck on the temple by
9 hall and Instantly killed.
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., OF Bedford.
Mass, bought a gold mine near Sump-
ter, Ore, for less than SIS, 600. After
declining various offers for It and
working it himself, he has now sold
the mine for l,5O0, 900 in cash and
81, 900, 600 in stock
"A decree has Just been issued by
the Austrian Government ebanishing
all grinders Of organs from the streets
OF the haiseustadt. In future the hale
and strong organ grinders will be
treated as .vagrants, while those who are
crippled or otherwise afflicted will be-
relegated TO the almshouses.
-Kojiro Matsaga, one OF the gradu-
ates Of the Yale Law School this year.
Is son Of the Japanese Minister OF
Finance, and is of royal blood. He has
been in America four years and speaks
English, Latin and German. He will
return TO Japan two years hence.
1t is said thai Fannie Fern had
never written a word for publication
until She had passed her fOrtieth
birthday. She was unconscious of her
latent powers until misfortune made
her exert them. Robert Bonner was
the first to recognize her genius in the
way of liberal remuneration.
Jay 6ould has IN his conservatory
at IrvingtOn not fewer than 400 varIe-
ties OF palms and tree ferns, besides a
vast collection Of smaller plants. The
rose-hOuse, which is perhaps the most
delightful part of the conservatory, is
filed with the finest summer and win
ter roses 10 be found IN the United
States.
The Astor House plot In New
York city cost 500, coo, and It much
annoyed the builder that he had to pay
such An enormous price for about 200
feet. The Park Bank, however, since
then paid $780, 900 for 3l-foot front
almost opposite the Astor, and real
estate experts value the latter $4,000
900 alone.
Mrs. Harrison's father, DR.. John
w. Scott, is a remarkably well-pre-
served and genial, handsome and cour-
teous gentleman, IS years Of age, and
has for some years held clerkship in
the Pension Office. He is said to be,
with a single exception. the oldest
man in the active service of the Gov
ernment.
Mr.. 7. NJ. Wells has completed a
clay model or the bronze statue OF
James w. Marshall, to be erected on
the spot where gold was first discovered
In California. 1t Is OF colossal size aud
represents Marshall clad in a miners
dress. holding a nugget in his right
hand and with his left pointing to the
spot whence it was taken.
The largest wooden ships in the
world are the KomandOr Svend FOyne,
the latter of 2, 4j9 tons, having been
built at Maitland, y. S, in 1874, and
called the William ID. Lawrence Cthe
name of her buildeT), and the a. G..
Ropes, OF 2.342 tons, which was built
at Bath, Maine, in 1854. There are
few other vessels of
above 2 600 tons even.
In the British Museum in London,
guarded in a glass case. are
some OF the oldest shoes in the world.
They are sandals, taken from very an
Client Egyptian tombs. The soles are
made of palm leaves, and they are pro-
vided with bands made Of the stems OF
papyrus. The papyrus is a species OF
a very tall reed which grows on marshy
river banks in warm countries.
1t is reported from Detroit tl,At
lad named Frank Bailey, sixtee.i wears
old, has such mania for thrusting
pins and needles into the right side OF
his face and neck that it has become
necessary to send him to a lunatic asy-
Ium. AT the time Of his departure he
had from thirty TO forty pins buried to
The head in his cheek, besides an un-
known number of needles that were
put Of sight.
"A granddaughter of Charles
Dickens is now engaged on a promising
enterprise. She has engaged a staff Of
Ioung ladies', who, with herself, deVo6e
themselves to copying with the type-
writer. They have attained great pro
iclency In the art and work more neatly
han most amateur typewriteUs. They
Ire getNnG~ plenty of custom, and ara
specially clever In correctly decipher-
ng and rendering badly written man
iscripts.
The Roman Catholic church does
lot publish the numbers Of its mem
'ers, but as its adherents are prlncI-
ally foreign born, or the children or
oreign born citizens and Inhabitants
nd as the number OF Immigrants has
realty Increased of recent wears il ia
My fair to assume that the Roman
have increased also. There
re now supposed TO be about :. OOO. 900
toman Catholics to u, QUO, 900 Prot
stants. In 1885 there were about
90, 900 out Of 1000, 600 Inhabitants.
ow there are 100000 out OF say Co.
10000.
Prince Won Bismarck likes cards
nd has left it on record that he once
layed with political purpose IN his
mind. He sat down at ecarte with the
AUSTRIAN plenlpotentiary, who in a few
ays would have 10 discuss with him
he Schleswig-Holstein question. IL
vas his cue to make his opponent he
eve that he was rash man. and so
e played wildly and staked high. The
feet was that when they came to
ak politics he found his opDonent