Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-01-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

SC14Ols BAShCo up a CluD CdCu anu kdNc
him battle. Bruin stood 1t for a while,
but was at last forced to turn tail and
run
Little Maggie Ream was playing
by the roadside near Johnstown, Pa.
when a Nimrod from the city came
! along. A ribbon around her neck
! fnttered In the breeze, and he thought
she was a turkey. Taking deliberate
aim he shot her in the neck.
Montana territory claims to be
ready for statehood, with plenty of
property, plenty of population, 400
900 cattle, 100, 900 horses, 100000
sheep. and gold and silver at the rate
of S26, 900, 600 year.
The skin of the catfish is now
tanned into leather IN Germany. The
new leather is tough, supple and OF
good appearance. 1t is made into
purses and shoe laces. Tanned salmon
skins are used as robes by the women
of CastTio's Bay.
in Italy turkeys are always fat
tened with walnuts Thirty days be-
fore the turkey is to be killed one wal
nut is stuffed down his throat. Each
day he is given an additional walnut,
and on the twenty-ninth day he has
twenty-nIne walnuts. He is then i'm
mensely fat.
"A Calais (Me.l gentleman gave a
birthday dinner the other evening, and
all the game seryed-the snipe on toast,
| the woodcOck, the partridge pie, the
| roasted duck-was shot for the occa-
sion by the host. At the plate of each
guest was a souvenir of snipe wings,
arranged with bright ribbons.
There IS a watch in the Swiss
museum only thTee-sixteenths of an
inch in diameter, inserted in the top OF
pencil case. Its little dial not only
| indicates hours, minutes and seconds,
but also days of the month. 1t is
relic of the time when watches were
inserted in snuff boxes, shirt studs and
finger rings. Some were fantastic
oval, octangular, cruciform or IN the
share of pearls, tulips, etc.
According 10 SIr. hoIyoke the out
look of the industrial class fifty years
ago was as dreary as Siberia. Food
was scarce. The English race was
thin. Even girls had an i'll favored
look because underfed. In a few years
after the repeal of the corn laws every
100000 of adult persons in England
weighed II 600 tons heavier than they
did before the repeal, and the young
people had grown ten times comeller
than they were.
The funeral of Napoleon, when
the body was brought back from St.
Helena, furnished theme for one of
the longest articles in Hugo's "ChOses
Vues, 8" in which are noted a few curl
GUS facts, among them chat the statue
OF Marshal Ney furnished for the oc-
casiOn was foot too tall, so the chiefs
of the Beax Arts department sawed
out of the statue slice of the stomach
twelve inches wide, and stuck the two
pieces together again as well as they
were able.''
Perhaps the statement may be OF
interest that the little screech oR
getting mUcu more cOmrann in the
vicinity of cities IN whichrs discQglisf
sparrow has become nuextTa issuan
that the imported birds .-p,.t- mud Ia
this owl as bold an enemy as the spar
row hawk is to them in Europe, and
even more dangerous. since las attacks
are made toward dusk, at a time when
the sparrow has retired for the night,
and is not so wide awake for ways
and means to escape.
There have recently been dlscov-
cred in the high Alps, near the sum-
NIT of the great ST. Bernard, five large
granite altars and a number OF other
relics of the stone age, such as axes,
knives, ETC., used In pagan epOchs for
sacrifices. Swiss writer's emphasize
the historical Importance of this dis
cOvery, in that il is a pranf that Nj
st. Bernard was place of sacrifie1sr -,
pagan times, and that as far back "a
the age of stone TIE Canton VaIsIs
was inhabited by human beings.
| -COnfOrmably TO the laws of advanca
and retreat of glaciers. it is said those
in the valley of ChamNanix, SwitzerN
land, are now beginning to advance
The lower extremity of To. Glacier 40.
Blossoms is mot more than OGO feet
above the level of he s.ss, anu -
ing still lower During the last three
years this lower extremity Las lad
vanced at the rate of fifty yards a
year" 1t is said that IA grotto cut
out of the ice in May, 1856, quarter
of mile from the extremity, has
moved down more than sixty yards. ~
Although other Alpine glaciers, which
cannot be so definitely observed, are
known TO be increasing in width and
height, 1t Will require many years OF
the present spec ''befOre they occupy
ground which within the memory OF
living persons they once covered"
The Kings mead was first used as
one of the the hall marks on English
silver in 1884. The story is that
George III. having attended a dinner
at Goldsmlth's Hall, was greatly i'm
pressed with the rich display of plate
used on that occasion. His Majesty
was IN need of money, it being Just
after the close OF the American war,
and the Idea was suggested that silver
plate was good article for taxation.
Soon after the Duty Act was passed
which imposed tax of six-pence per
ounce on all silver made in England
and also enacted that the additional
stamp of the Kings head or duty
mark should be placed on all articles
as an evidence that the duty had been
paid. The sovereigu's head is the
dfth mark, therefore any piece of
English silver with only four marks is
certainly over a hundred years old.
There are many fine specimens of the
eaIlier period owned in Boston.
Before the rain was obtained in
the Pho-ting Prefecture the drought
was severely felt by the peasants, who.
having been unsuccessful in ALI theiI
efforts to obtain relief, engaged Tao.
list priest, who erected in the open
listreet wooden stage. covered around
with matsheds. Incense sticks were
kept burning in the fIont, and a coffin
was prepared, with four gentry, OF
leiders, of the people, standing one al
leach corner of the coffin, while the
Ifpriest prostrated himself, murmurne
land burning some papers. After that
THE priest laid himself in the coffin, en-.
Joining that the nd be held tight by
several men. Should the rain still
fail TO appear, these performances were
to be repeated three times, after which
1t was believed that the rain would
certainly come. Ole difficulty was
that the priest might die in the course
OF {. sears from causes known Il
the gus q. e, through she sengeanc,
of tho gods. and, consquently, b,
oft nanded very III .remlr-