Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-05-23
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

school day after he was fifteen.
The great Cromwell left the Uni
versity OF Cambridge at eighteen.
Michigan and Canada supply New
York weekly with 10000. 900 eggs.
Theodore Thomas's wife takes as
much interest in cookery as he does In
music.
The sales of diamonds In New
York are estimated to foot up SOC, ,000,-
600 year.
Scotland and Ireland together have
14l Congregational Churches.
The Queen OF Corea is attended by
an American lady physician, who re-
ceives salary OF $4,000 year.
"A Philadelphia oculist declares
that the use of opera glasses strains the
optic nerve and Injuries the eyesight.
An orange tree In the gardens OF
Versailles, is 450 years old. 1t was
planted by Eleanor or CASTLE In 14I6.
1t takes every year a million
horses tails to keep a Iawtucket (R.
l. hair-cloth factory in running order.
The South African diamond fields
last year yielded gems amounting to
3,646, ,S99 carats and valued at over
$40, 1000, 600.
1t is now an imperial regulation IN
Brazil that persons who die from yellow
fever shall be cremated, the State
bearing the expense.
Queen Victoria is an autograph
collector, and she has recently added to
her American department an auto
graph of Andrew Jackson.
Berry, the English hangman, has
executed lib parsons up to the present
time, sixteen of them having been in
Ireland and two in Scotland.
The average time OF 5000 New
FORK business men at their down town
luncheons is eight minutes. This is
matter OF record in a leading restau-
rant.
William II. Seward commenced
the practice of law at twenty-One, at
thirty-one was president of State con-
vention, and at thirty seven Governor
of New York.
The body of Emil A. Knotser,
| formerly of Puck, was cremated at
| Fresh Pond, L. l., recently, making
| the lS9th incineratiOn since the open
/ ing of the crematory.
The last public whipping in the
State of Rhode Island took place in
Providence July y, 1927. Two horse
thieves were flOgged with a cat-O'-nine
tails by order of the court.
Strange as it may seem, more peo-
pie enter Russia than come out OF it.
Between 1873 and 1881 the number OF
emigrants was 5000, 900, and the num-
Der OF Immigrants 8. 9.450, 600.
"A grandniece of Keats. Miss Elena
Blockman, who has gained consider
able distinction as a painter, Is at work
IN Madrid upon a life sized portrait OF
the Queen Regent and the infant
King.
"A philanthropist in London has
established a Spectacle mission, where
poor printers, tailOrs, shOemakers and
seamstresses can have their eyes tried,
and obtain spectacles for little or
nothing.
The Emperor Frederick is said, by
London Truth, to be a comparatively
poor man, having been left little under
the will of Emperor William, and has
nothing to dispose of by will except
about 100000 The job of Emperor
lis not as lucrative, it seems, as il once
was.
The number of fowls kept in
France has been estimated To be
43, ,S5S, 7SO. The average product of
chickens reared is 3 to each hen, and
the average product of eggs per hen is
100 per year. The total money pro-
duct IS SlOl 600, 900.
"A reader of the Boston Globe re-
ports that the word ''dude'' Is TO be
found in the dictionary of the Swahili
language spoken by PZangibas ne
groes-that the plural is 'mastude" -
and the word itself probably older
than the hills.
Prince Bismarck's declinatiOn 10
become Duke Bismarck, on the ground
that he has not the ways and means
to cut the proper ducal dash, will occa-
sion hilarious suspicious that the Iron
Chancellor IS getting unusually irOni-
Cal. Bismarck would be rated 4 In
the mercantile lexcOns.
1t is seldom that three Expresses
meet each other at the same time.
That unusual sight was seen in Berlin
recently. Stranger still was the fact
that they were mother, daughter and
mother-in-law. Perhaps a similar Oc-
currence has never been seen in the
worlds history.
II "A German newspaper tells or an
old gypsy fiddler who awOke one night
to find his hut flooded with water, and
who, having no movable goods except
an old bed-stead, a stool and bass
,viOl, seated himself on the latter and
padded to dry land, using one of the
Stats of his bed as an oar.
Queen Christina. of Spain, has a
mania for being photographed in COM
pany with her children. y recent pic
ture presents a most charming family
group. 1t represents the queen regent
pouring tea at table, the baby king in
his high chair at her side and the two
infants looking demuTe and beautiful
in their PLAIN white dresses.
John Quincy Adams body servant
while he was President, was Borney
| Norris, a Virginia negro, who has Just
! died at Galena, Ills, al an advanced
age. When he was boy he was a
slave in Commodore Stephen DecatHr's
family, and was present at the duel
ling ground at Bladensburg when his
master was killed by Commodore
Barron.
The Left-Handed Club Of Houston,
Texas, has hanging over one or the
doors of Its house horseshoe, OF rather
muleshoe, with a history. One day
last summer at Pass Cavallo a mule
waded out into deep water. First he
knew one of his hind legs disappeared
into the big mouth OF passing shark.
A few days afterward tie shark was
caught by the crew of the State Quar-
antine schooner, and the leg OF The
mule was found in the interior of tht.
big fish. The shoe was taken from the
hoof, and now keeps of the witches IN
the home of the aforementioned
Left-Handed Club.
Mr.. MaigneR last year made a sue
ceSsfull and satisfactory exhibition Of
his process for softening water by
means of the material called ''antical-
caire." Steam boilers which have al
ready slightly incrusted with lime
were worked for two years with water
softened by anti-calcaire without atten-
tion. When opened they were wholly