Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-08-15
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF

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Marshall Field, the Chicago dry
{ goods merchant. has fortune of $50 =
0,OeO.
t Over 5000 pianos are ruined every
year IN this country 10y changes of at
mosphere.
The full name OF the new EN-
Peror william ii. of Germany, Is
Frederick William Nicholas Charles
Senator Sherman's estate at Mans
field, o., including stocks and other
Investments, Is estimated at SlOO. GOO.
IF each letter in the Bible be taken
Tor a person, II will take eighty Bibles
10 represent the population OF China
i 1t is noted that every American
woman who has married into English
high life has been not only beautiful
but wealthy.
j There are 2GG city missionaries in
New York city alone. who make daily
visits among the poor and sick of all
| denominations.
The father of General Boulanger
was money lender, and among his
clients was the Marquis de CIuS, the
husband of Adeliua Patti
There are said u be more than "A
/ hundred colored men in Washington
who are worth 81, coo or over. Fred
Douglass has fortune of $500. coo.
Garfield & Garfield Is the name OF
| the newest law firm at Cleveland.
| ohic-the partners being Harry \.
and James r., son OF the late Presi-
dent
-SamSOn's riddle (about 1141 B. C.,
Judges xiv, ~ Is the earliest on re-
/ cord. The ancient oracles frequently
gave responses admitting OF perfectly
| contrary interpretations.
There are 10000 farmers In the
! United States to-day, saying nothing
of the hired men who snooze among
! the corn rows and wake up now and
/ then to yell at the oxen.
There are 32O, 600 species Of In
sects on the earth, and in view Of this
fact it is no wonder that a man has to
hustle around pretty lively to keep
from having flies on him.
Liquor, it Is said, recently killed
Henry c. Spaulding, the inventor OF
"SpauldIng's Glue" At one time he
Is said 10 have been worth $50, 900, but
his deathbed WAS in an almshOuse.
The last French rifle, as described.
has a hall SO small that "A soldier can
carry 220 rounds, shoots with a new
smckeless powder, a1d ITS bullet pierces
brick wall eight inches thick at 500
yards.
Professor ]. \. LIntner placed the
total number or insect species in the
world at 100000. or those found In
the United States 1000 or $. 600 are
fruit pests, and at least 2lO attack the
apple.
Japan has 80 newspapers. LOCO
miles of railway, and 1900 or 5000
miles of telegraph line. y Japanese
reporter collects news, but does not in
every case write it. lie tells what he
knows to news writer's.
1t is reported that the widowed
Empress Victoria OF Germany is con-
templating visit to her mother, the
Queen of England, at an early day, and
that she VIII be accompanied 10y sew
eral members Of her family.
Recently at Moscow sunset the
rays of the sun were Intercepted by a
cloud, and through some peculiar prop
srty IN the atmosphere the entire city
was colored a vivid purple hue. This
strange effect lasted for eight minutes.
1t is now said that the Chinese
were the original discOveTeTs of the
continent. America may be lacking
In many things, but on the score Of
original dIscOvereT5 she already beats
The world and the list is still growing.
The first volume of the correspon-
lence Of Peter the Great, edited bv
Count TelstOi, has been published.
There VIII be ten very large volumes,
containing upward of -, 900 letters,
which have been gathered from ar
chIveS all over Europe.
-Kuang Hsu is the name of the en-
peror of CHINA. On his accession he
always selects new name, or Kwo
Ilao; SO his former name, Tsai Cien.
was exchanged for Kuaug IIsu. He
was born August i, 1871, and sue
ceeded January y, 1879.
The lumber from which the gal
lows was constructed on which John
Brown was executed is owned by a res
ident of Harper's Ferry, who Is wait
Ing for some relic hunter to come and
take it off his hands. The modest
sum Of $1,000 is asked for it.
The inspector of butcheries at
Paris has just published report on
the sale of horse flesh in the French
capital. 1t appears the consumption
Of this meat, IN a more OF less con-
cealed form, has increased to an extra
ordinary extent.
between the orbits of Mars and
Jupiter, about 80 UOJ 900 miles from
the sun, there TevOlve some 30 little
bodies whose diameters vary from
eight or ten miles to two hundred.
They are called plauetOids, from two
Greek words, which mean resembling
A planet or wanderer.
There is now filed with a will
litigation in Monroe county, Ga,
silver dollar that was issued in l775.
and has been in possession OF the same
family for more than 100 years. 1t is
one Of Thirteen dollars that were paid
TO a Revolutionary soldier when dis
charged from the Continental army.
The back Of gold watch. with
crown aud the letter y engraved upon
II, was recently returned to Dent 4
Co., of London. and they Identified 1t
is the back of a watch which the
Empress Eugene had given to her
son, the Prince Eugene. In 1878. The
-elic was sold TO gentleman in the
African diamond mines by a Zulu.
The London Medical Press con-
yratulates itself and its readers that
here is a more crowded city, with a
higher death record than London.
namely, New York, where, In 1850.
1917 persons lived IN every dwelling
house, on an average against 10 in
London. Furthermore, the English
city has no deaths from sunstroke to
-ecord, and a temperature below zere
IS almost unknown.
At the Bologna exhibition is TO be
'ound the skull of DOnizettI, the COM
poser. To il is attached a printed
statement TO the effect that II was res
;ued from the house OF a pork packer
1f Bergamo, whose children had used
L as a money box. 1t is surely a Gu
rious and suggestive fact that within
hat skull. where once immortal melo-
lies delighted the mind of genius, the
vulgar clink of a tradesman's gold