Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-09-12
NO. 32.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

oight TO nine hours repoSe.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt paws
her physician $4,000 year.
Insurance was in general uss in
Italy, 1l9i, and England, 156O.
AT Monersyille, Penna., JoYet
thunderbolt deigned to Kill a cat.
Mary Anderson's half brother has
rancho in Colorado, and he is said to
be the handsomest cowboy in America.
A Baltimore lawyer has INDUCED
In speech 50 hours long.
-BorIngs around West Point, Ky..
have revealed the existence of large
deposits of salt and an abundance OF
gas.
1t is said that the Century Maqa-
zine receives an average of 1000 man
uscripts month from literary aspi-
rants.
An artesian well sunk under the
salt waters of New York bay OH the
Jersey side produces pure fresh water
in abundance.
Mrs. Frank Leslie told a reporter
recently that she had to decline ION an
average two offers Of marriage every
day" of her life.
Although 200 of TaImage's con.
gregatlon are basking in the sunlight OF
Europe the Tabernacle is about a.
crowded as ever.
The smallest baby vet is Miss
Minzie, of Chicago, who brought into
this vale OF tears Just thirteen ounces
Of flesh and blood.
Bridal parties and titled foreigners
appear to have adopted Niagara Falls
as their own, as they are said 10 form
the majority of the visitors.
Some forty-thr descendants of
Rebecca Nourse, 1.-THE pIous witch of
1892" picknicked in her honor at
DAnyers Centre, Mass. the other day.
"A whole village in Brazil has ac-
cepted the Gospel through the instru-
mentality of a young business man.
who invited missionary TO that
place.
Over So 1000, 600 have been ex-
pended in Australia during the past
three years and half to eXtermlnats
rabbits. and they are more numerous
than ever.
The French crops have been dis
astrously affected by the Weather.
According to the returns the yield of
wheat will probably be 5000, 900 hec-
tolitres short.
Mark Twain is an enthusiast re-
gardlng baseball, and attends all the
games played at Hartford He is
studying that department of American
humor which deals with umpires, but
finds that it offers but little msriration.
More than three hundred Italian
laborers sailed from New York for
home the other day, being unable to
obtain employment. Two brigands,
who had been confined ever since their
arrival, were sent back by the same
steamer.
During a recent fete of the BO-
logna university the students of Parma
sent to their Bologna brethren a Par
mesan cheese weighing 100 pounds and
covered with Latin inscriptions worked
in macaroni. A huge tun of Barbera
wine went with it.
The Danish government has
granted a sum OF =, 800 for the pur-
pose of having tie oyster banks in
Denmark examined by aa expert. HIS
| object will be TO ascertain the results
| of their continued preservation, with "A
view to the resumption Of fishing.
The ancestral home Of the Wash
ington family, IN Notwithstanding,
England, IS to be sold. The estate
contains 22O acres, and was granted To
Lawrence washington IN l'42. His
son, Lawrence, emigrated 10 Virginia,
and was Gen. George Washington's
ancestor.
"A new state is about to be added
! to the sisterhood Of nations. Letters
| patent have been granted to THE
British East African Company" ," giving
them full power TO erect and maintain
a government, with taxes and army.
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OenIItl AlIIcd-
| "A curious custom that attracts the
attention OF a stranger in Panama Is
the spectacle OF native women walking
along the street smoking long, slender
cigars. IL IS the custom OF the women
oieie " saITi ~ 'l. PiD,io i.ial heI as
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Inc annual report ol Jhe canadian
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"A boy mas dled IN Inc NaJchez
(Miss.l Hospital unuer pecuilaI ciTcunl-
stances, anu lhe tNeoIy ~ tu4L ms
death WAS que 10 SAahe DlIe "ulcn
he received more lhdh year ago IL
Is said ne eIhlUIled All lhe symptoms
Of hydrophoDa except Au aversion 10
water, whlch he drank Win aVluILY
but which ms stomach rejected.