Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-02-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

forbade women TO learn to read. The
Sultan has now started schools fOI
women. See what Christianity IS
doingl
The only living woman who ha
ever held a public office in England
save Queen Victoria, is Miss Francis
Lord, who was for years superin-
tendent of the kindergarten system.
The provinces of Alsace and Lor-
raine originally belonged to Germany.
She lost them at the end of the Thirty
Years war in 1854. and regalned them
at the end of the Franco PrussIan
war in 1870.
Among the objects of art needle
work at an exhibition in New York is
fan from the West Indies, made of
lace bark, lace ferns and mountain
cabbage worked into a graceful design,
with hunming bird for the center
piece.
The iron railroad bridge across
the Missouri river few miles below
Kansas City is one of the big bridges
of the world. 1t is :. 1872 feet long,
weighs 81, 2T5 tons, IS frry feet above
high water, and Its towers are 200 feet
high.
Christmas is often written Xmas
In place of the regular name. The y
is supposed to represent the cross upon
which our Saviour was cruciied, and
is used in place of the name Christ. It
is perfectly proper, but rather old
fashioned.
"A patient at the Benevolent home
in Atlanta was kept alive 10y nitro
glycerlne for several days after
Cancer in the stomach had eaten away
that org n entirely and reduced him to
a skeleton. The explosive was placed
on his tongue and absorbed into his
system without being swallowed.
AN artist of Boston gives recep-
tions at which two small white cats
are permitted 10 be present. Each,
with scarlet ribbon, bow and collar,
is the object of much attention, and
the pair make lively addition 10 the
company. Oae of the little cats per
forms a variety of tricks, and is as
socIable as he Is bright.
"A bibliopeQIst is a -cphile with
a special regard for boo 'ndiugs. a
bibhOtaph Is IA book misrr. 4 blblIo-
pole is a book seller for biblIOphllts. s.
A biblioklept is stealer OF valuable
BOOKS, Mr.. LennOX, who would not
let Prescott see his Mexican manu-
scripts, was blbliotaph, and sam
Pepys was a bibiUklept. BlbAolatry
is the worship of books.
"A child was recently born at the
Emergency hospital, New York city,
without a mouth. The physicians
made an iucisiOn, cutting through the
hesh and tough mem urIne which con-
uected the upper and lower laws.
| Plugs OF pressed cotton were then uut
between the jaw bones to prevent
| them from uniting i'll healing. The
! appearance OF the mouth is now quite
natural
"A portable burial vault has been
| invented and patented, 1t is composed
OF plastic materials, which harden into
artificial stone; and by an ingenious ad-
jnstnent of rOIlers and handles, II can
Easily be transported from one place To
mother. 1t Is described as ''hIling a
.Ong felt want fer those who desire TO
keep the remains OF departed friends
within convenient contigulty."
General Booth, of the Salvation
Army, has decided TO send squads of
his soldiers to Zululand and South
America. Some Of his forces have al
.eady reached Jerusalem, and the
streets OF the holy city resOund with
her ''amens" and the jingle Of their
5ambourines.
One of the most curious of the
safety appliances for theatres is The
iron curtaiu which has Just been put
INTO the Theatre ETancals, In Paris.
The curtain Is of sheet ilCn, stiffensd
uy braces or iron and decorated bv
canvas attached to it. 1t is worked
uydraulically, the valves arranged so
As TO be operated by electricity.
The number OF colored soldiers in
the war of tie rebellion was far greater
than is generally supposed Accord
ing TO Col. George w. Williams,
whose history of the negro troops IN
the war of the rebellion has just been
published, the number OF negro enlist
ments IN the army of the Union was
49, 900.
Pope Leo XIII. is very fond of
agriculture, and Las a Iassion for
planting trees. One of his first works
after his election was to plant the gar
den of the vatican with fruit trees aud
vines, and this year for the first time
the grapes of the vatican gardei. are
turned into wine. His holiness super
intends the operation and gives the
necessary orders.
The city of LIVERPOOL is to De SUD-
piled with water from q reservoir in
Wales, which is 10 le four and one
half miles long by a half mile to
mile broad and 50 feet deep. There
will be three lines of pipe, each sixty
eight miles long, with EIteriug beds
and secondary reservoirs. The auue-
duct alone Will cost Sl5 100000.
1t has long been known In Italy
that Garlbaldi left an autobiography.
and various stories have been current
regarding it. One of these said that
the manuscript was in such a confused
cond ition and so bulky that il was i'm
possible 10 print II. 1t appears, how
ever, that this is not true, and Il is
| now announced that tie autObiogra-
ply will soon appear in a volume Of
| 500 pages. GarIbald.'s manuscript is
said to be copied out very neatly 10y him
and to take up ONLY GG7 pages of PRINT
ing paper
LIN the window Of Newark clothing
house is on exhibition a dried cat,
which was recently found in hot
air flue in dwelling at Dover. The
cat had been missing for two years.
II was found by some wOTkmen who
were repairing the furnace. It's whis-
kers were the only features uniDjured
by the desiccating process. The fur
was gone, and the skin converted INTO
parchment, through which the internal
mechanism of tue animal could be
plainly seen.
-Fayette County, Pa, according to
an exchange, is the home of men bear
ing very well known names. Andrew
johnson IS an Industrious farmer of
Wharton township, JEFF Davis is a car
penter of Fairchance village, John
Quincy Adams lives In Jefferson town
snip, John Brown is a CoDneIlsville
shoemaker, George Washington digs
coal near UniontOwn. John Kelly is a
day laborer at New Haven, and David
Porter will sit as a juror at the next
term of court. Moses Rothschild
doesn't live in the county, but carries
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