Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-04-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

During the wear 1SSS nearly 7Cl
persons disappeared in Philadelphia,
large percentage of whom were never
heard Of.
The most remarkable echo known
is that in the Castle of SimOnetta, two
| miles from Milan. II reports the echo
of pistol sixty times.
General Bollanger's one idol il
/ life is said to be his mother. H.
| spends every Sunday afternoon anc
evening with her, aud il away alway:
, sends her telegram.
| The greatest cataract in the world
/ is Niagara, the height of the American
Falls being los feet. The highest fail
OF water IN the world is that OF the
Yosemite IN California. being ZOO
feet.
The wealth of this country IS esii.
mated at Si5. 600, ,OU0,0 900. It is said
that 1855 persons own $1,000. 600, 900,
and that 1000 persons control fortunes
invested in corporations, etc, ratel al
1000, coo, coo.
!. During the interval at a concert
Nine. Patti drinks a glass of cham
pagne (PommeTy-GUe1o) For dinner
on a concert day she takes a slice iron
saddle of mutton, a glass OF Leor-
vile and baked apple.
The quickest passage ever m ie
! across the Atlantic was that Ct /
steamer EtrurIa Of the Cunari Line
being six days, i've hours aud thirty
minutes from New York to q Ieens-
town, the distance being ,, $50 miles.
-George c. Hayden, 10 yeaIs OF age,
miser, who died recently IN 81
I Louis, and was supposed 10 be very
! poor, was found to have S6l,OOO d.
! cash, stocks and bonds He IS sup.
posed 10 have relatives IN Maine.
' The Mormon Church in Utah
g shows a membership of l27, 29i q. .OUJ
{ families. The church has y apostles.
5S patlarchs. 3 So seventies, 3 l55
+ high priests, IL 900 elders, l. 300 bishops
u and 4 400 deacons, being gu Office ioI
t each six persons.
The aggregate OF land In the United
States owned 10y members OF the House
of LORDS and British SyudIcates IL
90, ,94l COS acres, "A greater area than
all of Ireland, 100000 more than
y Scotland, and over half as much As IN
England and Waes-
= Theodore Roberts and John John
. son, convicts In the Sing Sing prison,
were fighting IN one of the galleries
70 recently, when they lost their balance
- and fell 30 feet to the stone floor
: but Roberts was not even daZed.
ID AT a type writing contest IN Lon
ty don a month ago there were l2G entries
ne and nearly all appeared. TIE first
Of prize was for seventy-nine words 4
lr minute, twenty or thirty words less
al than have been achieved IN the United
ll States.
j. For the supper to be served at the
ie inaugural ball in Washington, there
III were provided 10000 raw oysters, 2O,-
l. 00O stewed oysters, s OJO chicken GRO
quettes, 6 600 sweet bread pates, 300
gallons of teTTapin and other articles
of food In proportion.
Colonel Robert &. IngersON, among
his other multifariOus duties as lawyer
ad caUtle-groweT, telegraph director and
he afteT-dinner speaker, las undertaken
a to run 4 silver mine. lie IS President
ed of a company which owns and operates
lie a mine at Silver City, y. NJ.
he The advertising card Is of entirely
lie, modern origin. although the Egyptians,
E. Greeks and Romans knew something
he about advertising. They accomplished
ch the desied result through the medium
ed of posters, as several bills, painted in
au black and red. were found on the walls
mt of the Pompeiian dwellings.
Moses Jacobs, who sells papers in
,er the streets Of Des MOInes, Iowa, j.
he propably the richest nswsbOy in In,
West. He is Is years old and has sold
newspapers for the last fourteen
nd years, during which time he las &C
er. Quired 81 600 worth OF Tea. estate from
gu his savings.
The microscope is usually suppose,
-. to have been invented in lG-l Dy Cor
II nelius Drebbel, Dutchman, but NJ
'So Goyi has found ar old book, published
in 1910, which proves that GalIle
'hy must have originated this instrumen
lou as well as the telescopes. Calico HIM
= self seems to have referred to In
microscope in lOl4.
=, The monde, winch last year swoT
that Mrs. Mackay was papering th
tba smoklng-roOm of her hotel wit
the bank-notes, Will no doubt find the bi
al OF gossip very probable that size
1ta awaiting the arrival from Paris Of
,ot1 gown which is embroidered all owe
with real pearls, and fO~ which She Ia
an agreed TO pay GlO,O
The waters Of Eelrly all the hC
VII springs in Black Rock region, Nevada
are SO strongly lmpregnated with NH
eral matter that they Will petufy vea
re etable or animal matter in a few year
red One enterprisIng genius has the bodIe
han of three Indians IN soak, and vile
her they are converted INTO stone he eS
poets to make a fortune exLlb!tiH
try them.
ung The revival oG beard wearing
NY. England Is said TO he due TO Two q
cumstances. An impulse was given
It by the example Of the thTO gs
the heavily-bearded Germans and Russian
blue who flocked u the first great eXhIb
tion, and another by the return Of q
,u'd British soldiers and officers, entire
unshaven, from the CTimean war.
Thy, "A German expert reckons that II
'our single grain of wheat produces IF
ime grains, and that these fifty each pr
duce fifty grains more, and so on, the
will be in the second year $500 grain
:. IN the third year, l25,O grains; Ia q
sixth year, l5,625, 600 gTaiusi In u
twelfth year, 244, l4O, ,625, 900, ,OJO grain
" Is The third years crop would give 3
hen, men one meal, leaving enough bran
ad- feed eight pigs for one day. The pr
Ing, duce of the single grain IN the twet
or IL year would suffice 10 supply all the
'ung habitants OF the earth with food dur.
re- their lifetime.
ilct, 1t has been a subject Of repeat
los' discussion in the press what eK-pr-
as dents should do. Grover Cleveland d
sue set an example. He left the VIII
House within a few hours after .
term of Office had expired; was in N
ad York two days later; walked into
his law ONCE, took off his coat, sat dON
mil to his desk and went 10 work.
little "A man fishing off Beacon Hill "
attacked by an octopus devil hs
little twenty feet In length, says a EicJo
correspondent of the Portland Orcyl
, les i'm. The fish fastened itself TO
boat, retaining its hold OF the roc
beneath, and almost succeeded in {
no setting the boat a large hook thTo
o,t caugbt in the fish which made {