Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-11-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

weighs three pounds, and has q frame
OF solid gold. 1t is radiant with dia-
monds and pearls.
The Sultan IS said TO be preparing
magnificent presents for Emperor WI
liam, and in due time he will want an
other loan to pay for them.
"A king fisher attacked a black base
near Orlando, Fla The bird sank its
talons into the bass, intending to carry
the bsh of, but the task WAS too great,
aud. as the bird could not free itself,
the bass found little trouble IN drown
ing It.
Sir Frederick Young. who is over
40 years old, has returned to London
alter one OF the most remarkable jour
neys ever ever made by a man OF his
age-a South African tour that COW
cred 10, 900 miles. He was not sick
dag during his absence from home.
"A dog, wnicn nau been lost for l6
months recently walked into its old
masters home In Logan, o. 1t is a
mystery where the brute was during
its absence.
There is considerable excitement
among residents of Union Ridge, Cabell
county, w est Virginia, over the exist
ence of wild animal IN that regi II.
People are afraid to leave their homes
after dark. Those who have seen the
beast describe II as ten feet long, I've
feet tall, and of a daTk-brown color. II
rOars like lion.
An electrical device whereby the
name of an approaching station is in
scrbed on a conspicuous tablet on q
railroad car is coming into use. The
New York World SAYS: lit will be
warmly welcomed by the public, who
have suffered so long from the Vola-
puk, ChOctaw and Hindustani OF
brakemen and porters."
The monument to General Caesar
Rodney, one of Delaware's sIgners Of
the Declaration of Independence was
| unveiled at Dover, the capi' al of Del
aware, on Wednesday, Oct. tn. The
monument IS over the patriot grave.
1t Is eighteen feet high, with a large
urn surmountng the shaft The only
inscription IS General Caesar Rod
ney."
Has a remarkable memory. A
Weston, W. Va, man, who was raw
/ Ing maniac for six years, was discharged
as cured from the hospital recently and
the first thing he did on gaining his
liberty was to start off for a gallon OF
applejack, which he buried when he
saw the officers coming 10 arrest him In
1883. He found the applejack exactly
where he had secreted it
The will of L. B. Eaton, the eccen-
| trio farmer of Steuben county, Ind,
which was contested by his son, has
| been declared valid by the Court. The
] terms of the document Will, therefore.
! be executed. The 4O0-acre farm will
be divided into l0-acrs lots, and 20
| homes for widows and single women
| above the ags of 30 viii be erected
thereon.
"A. G. Car, the apple king" Of
hennebec county, Me-, has raised Q
| queer apple this year. The sweet and
sour portions are distributed in alter
nate layers extending from stem to
| blow, and from one-half TO one inch
wide, and can lie distinguished by the
color and texture of the outside skin.
| The apple grew in the famous Pullen,
| or Benson, orchard in East Monmouth.
and there are said to be several trees
which bear this peculiar variety of
| fruit.
Mr.. Richardson, a young natural
list of Boston, who took high ground in
/ Mexico recently on a question OF
/ Geography ascending the volcano
near Toluca-has been given two
! years job as Walking Delegate for the
British Museum, under whose order.
/ he will go to Sierra de Colima and
gradually work his way down into
Guatemala. making a thorough eI-
plOratiOn of that Republic, and next
going carrully through Nicaragua.
"A relic of the Johnstown food.
[ Recently, laborers engaged in clearing
I up the rubbish In JOhnstown, Pa, found
the dating stamp of the ticket Office At
Conemaugh. The stamp was set for
May 81, 1889, and in the wreck OF the
ticket office Oh that fateful day it had
been carried down in the flood, AMI had
! lodged in the centre of the town, about
three miles from the starting point.
The stamp has been received at the
general Office Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. and has been placed among the
| collection Of relics of that great food.
| An old man, who appeared TO be
very needy, some time ago received
permission to keep fruit and notion
stand by the Court House at Los An
/ geles, Cal. Recently, however, he ap-
! preached a money broker aud sought
| opportunity TO loan Sl4 900, for which
be expected to get IA OF 10 per cent.
interest. This excited surprise and led
TO inquiries, and the result was the dis
covery that the old man is worth about
| 500, 900, most Of his property being in
Texas. His stand at the Court House
has been given to poorer man.
"A notable decrease has taken place
in the British convict population. In
July last the total number in custody
under sentence Of penal servitude had
| dropped TO 64O5, as compared with IL
/ b6O twenty years ago. The number Of
women sentenced to penal servltude
has fallen very much below even recent
years, the number in 1888 being 81, and
/ in 1888 lS6. The whole number of
women In England and Wales now
under sentence Of penal serYitude Is
| only 4O2, or less than a third Of the
/ daily average female convict popula-
tiOn of ten years ago.
A school boy in New York hit
upon = novel method Of obtaining the
answer to au aTithmetical problem. He
| dropped into grocer's shop on his way
TO school, and said he wanted certain
commodities at certain prices. After
/ eKhausting his list, he said: Now, II
give you half a sovereign, what
| change shall ! get backr' The grocer
told him, whereupDn he thanked the
shopman and turned 10 20. "Wait for
the things" called the grocer; and his
disgust can be imagined when the in
| genious urchin told him he was late
for school and, and, as lie hadn't
learned his arithmetic lesson, he had
adopted that method Of getting the
sum worked for him.
Str ". Thomson Is TO deliver eighteen
lectures on "MOlecula Dynamics" at
the Johns HOPKINS University during
the first twenty favS Of next October.
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