Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-07-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dried shark fms are sold in every
Chinese provision store IN New York,
and are esteemed such delicacy that
they bring nearly 81 per pound.
"A parrot that was valued at $500
died in PoughkeepsIe recently. 1t
could sing, talk and swear In the Eng
lish, Dutch and Portuguese languages.
Generals Sherman, Sheridan, How
ard and Terry are the only men now
living who have personally received the
thanks of the Congress of the United
States.
The Emperor of China has four
physicians. each OF whom receives a
weekly salary, stopping when he be-
comes sick. Therefore his IndispOsI-
tion is never of long duration.
"A Maine clergyman's donation
party recently nettei So. The stuff
that the guests devoured cost the poor
preacher S2S. Now he prays earnestly
/ to be delivered from his friends.
Under the high license law OF
/ Pennsylvania there are now only $50
places in Pittsburg where liquor Is
sold, whereas before the law Was
! passed there were l 800 such places.
-NCdllg dlA Allc = NulNtl hAES DEud-
tors are large men, the average weight
running close to $50 pounds Their
entire weight. according to a statistical
correspondent, is nearly IA 900 pounds.
-TFPngrim's Progress has Just been
! translated into the language of the
Fantes, a tribe occupying a district in
! Upper Guinea, on the gold coast. This
/ is the eighty-hrst foreign version OF
Bunyan's work.
! Roscoe Conkling managed to salts
factorily dispose of S2OO,O worth of
property in a will of seven lines. 1t Is
safe to say there will be no fat pick
irgs for lawyers In a contest OF that
document.
"A Methodist church at Augusta
held a ''hard boiled egg festival" for
the purpose of raising money. Each
lady attending was expected to bring a
hard boiled egg, the proceeds to 20 to
the purchase OF an organ.
"A French engineer has recently IN
vented an improved key, which simpli-
fes and renders lasting the tuning of
stringed Instruments. The viOloncel-
lists of the GraId Opera at Paris have
had them adapted TO their Instruments.
"A number OF New York ladies'
oNDoSAA AbGA d lullu VI Eb,OOU.
whose interest shall be used to pay
the college expenses OF the New York
woman who each year shall pass the
best examination for entrance TO HaU.
ward.
-Deering Me- people were amazed
at seeing what appeared to be a lumi-
nous cloud floating high up over their
heads about 10 O'Clock in the evening
recently. An investigation made from a
roof showed that the cloud was com
posed of fire flies.
What is pronounced the smallest
circular saw IN practical use is a tiny
disc about the size or a British shilling.
which Is employed for cutting the Sits
III gOlp pens. These saws are about as
thick as ordinary paper, and reyOlye
some 1000 times per minute.
According to the San Francisco
Altd, church organ in that city has
been benefited rather than injured by
the accidental discharge OF bullet into
It, The instrument was out Of order.
but since receiving the bullet has pro-
duced almost as good music as WHEN
new.
The following is the seating ca
pacity of the eight largest churches Of
Europe; st. Peter, Rome, "a, 900 per
sons; Milan cathedral, 81, 900; st.
Paul, London, %, 600; st. Sophia, Con-
stantinople, %, 900; Notre Dame, Paris.
l21,O00; Florence cathedral. 10000;
Pisa cathedral, 1900; st. Marx. Ven
ice, 1000.
The largest bell In the world is the
great bell of Moscow, Russia, which
lies at the foot of the KremlIn. Its
circumference at the bottom is nearly
Giytu.ainhf nd
than twenty-One feet. In Its stoutest
part it is twenty-thTee inches thick,
and its weight has been computed 10
be 443,77 pounds. 1t has never been
hung. 1t was cast on the spot where
it now stands.
The character OF thieves "a GER
tain class of them) booty seems to be
undergoing a complete revolution
Only short time ago their bOldnesz
extended TO carrying of stoves. Then
1t became more expansive, SO as to In
clude house roofs, and now one of the
rascals out In Kansas las capped the
climax by digging up and carting away
500 sweet potato plants
The anti-German crusade Is boing
carried on within Russia with great
vigor. Officials who are Lutherans.
and not of the Russian faith, are being
removed. In the Baltic provinces,
German. which was authorized by
Peter the Great, is to be replaced by
Russian. Criminals of German nation
alty are being Disseminated against
by the courts.
The cost Of maintaining the impe-
rial family of Germany, with all its
various branches, is $40, 900 900 year.
The Sultan of Turkey costs So ,OOO,-
600 annually. The most economical
court in Europe, considering the
wealth Of the Empire, is the Austrian.
Royalty comes high, but some Of the
people Of the old world think they
must have It
Six months ago resident Of Mil
lersburg, Kentucky, received a pony
from a friend living IN the Indian
Territory, and the story is that, very
recently, the animal escaped fIOm his
new master, wandered of through sew
eral States, swan over a number OF
rivers, and on Monday last reached his
old home. Horse anecdotes bid fair to
eclipse fish stories In interest and PIC
turesqueness-
On February %, 1911, Marcby Hnl,
near Hereford, England, began to
move, bearing with it the cattle, trees
and hedges on its surface. 1t con-
tinued In motion for two days, over
throwing a chapel that lay In its path,
and leaving, where it formerly stood,
a chasm forty feet deep and thirty long.
a similar phenomenon happened In
Dorsetshire in 1888.
The French Minister OF War, be-
fore giving an order for the manufac-
ture of military clothing, investigated
the wool product and gives the follow
ing figures: worlds annual product OF
wool 800, 900 tons, value 5000, ,OOO, 900. OF
this Europe produces one-fourth part,
AustTalasIa one-eighth part, India,
Central Asia and China three-sIx-
teenths, the United States One-tenth.
France has p 900, 600 sheep, aud i'm
ports $4,000 tons Of wool per year.
Half of this is used for the army and
navy