Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-03-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.


40, coo dozen balls in sto K.
Cardinal Lavigene desires to bring
together a great international congress
OF the representatives of all the anti
slavery societies existing in Europe.
The place OF meeting Will probably be
Paris.
An Alabama girl's practical joke
cost her her life. Impersonating
tramp she persistently importuued her
mother, while thus disguised, for aims,
and her mother, not recognizing her,
shot her dead.
The gilded rooster on the tower OF
the First National Bank building IN
Portland, Me is the same bird that
served as a weather yaue on the top OF
the old Portland Court House over one
hundred years ago.
"A circulating library for travellers
on the Austrian railways Is being pre-
pared, from which one VIII be able To
borrow books by leaving a deposit,
and receiving It again upon the surren-
der OF the book.
Miss Catharine Lee Bates OF Wei
lesley College has won the Grst prize
of 500, offered by the Congregational
| Sunday-school and Publishing Com
pany, for the M. best suited for
Sunday-school book.
Jersey City has abol sled its
| Newsboys' Home. II was found that
the boys used it for a loadug place,
and that four httbs OF lis lJlJers were
\ boys who ian away from home and had
no real need for its coavenieuces.
Benjamin FranEl'n's watch is
owned by a Lancaster (Pa gentleman,
who still carries It and SAYS Il keeps
/ a
a biscuit, and has engravel on its back:
ben Franklin, lIIG, Philadelphia.
| or the four women who received
the Crlmean medal from Qpeeu VIC
| toria, one, Mrs. Newton, of Toronto, is
alive. She was a nurse all through the
| Crimean war, and was shot through
the knee IN a trench before the R-dan.
The Queen herself pinned tie medal on
her breast.
| james q. Blaine has developed into
a great theateT-gOer. lie has attended
every new Performance given in Wash
ington since lie reached that city few
weeks ago. He enjoys low comedy
especially, and his laugh does not
sound as though he was IN delicate
health.
"A valuable white pearl was recently
found in the stomach Of clam by
Captain Lemuel 4. St1pllus, a veteran
clam digger at SJouiugJOu, Conn
Staplins has refused an offer Of SO for
IL. Another fisherman at StOning on
recently found a diamond in the
stomach OF a mackerel.
1t Is reported that Prince LuItpold,
the Regent Of Bavaria. has condemned
Countess Lari5h, the daughter of Duke
Louis, Of Bavaria, TO perpetual exile
for the prominent part she payed IN
the events which led TO the death OF
the Archduke Rudolph, the Crown
Prince of Austria,
About nine-tentls or all the clay
, / pipes manufactured in the United
States are made In Brooklyn, \. Y,
where three factories are located that
turn out -, ,0UO gross annually. The
clay comes from Woodbridge, n. J.,
and costs at the factory - per ton.
Charles II. Lau'er, who acted as
General IIaTri5On's barber, has been re-
! t4ined To act as valet to the President
elect at Washington. As the Indian
apolIs Journal supplies this news, 10 IS
reliable enough to discourage others
from making a brush for the p ace.
T Libby Prison is 70 20 20 Chicago
after all. The work of taking apart
the old structure is now going on in
Richmond, Va, and as the bricks and
. beams are displaced they are num-
a bered, so that the building can be put
together again just as IT stood In Nr-
D ginia. The interior OF the cd prison is
I TO be used as a sort Of war museum
Illinois census returns show that
e outside of the cities the population is
decreasing. The school census Of 1888
b shows that in July last there were In
the State SAB, ,SIG males under twenty
: wears of age In 1850 there were 49,
o 675. This is gain OF 81 800. but the
gain In Cook County was s3,2l7, 81
b that the loss in the rest OF the state
was 2S, 9l7.
u 1t IS an interesting fact that the
majority OF Presidents have had blue
} eyes. Mr.. Harrison's eyes conform %
3 this rule. Mr.. Cleveland's eyes are
brown. as were those of Arthur. VIII
} liam Henry Harrison had dark eyes.
e President PieTce's eyes were Intensely
!. black, as was his hair Thomas Jeiier'
sons hair was red, and looked well in
o TIE white House.
At a recent dinner given by the
Crown Prince OF Servia To the officers
- OF the battalion he commands, one o.
the guests asked HIS Royal Hlghuea
q to propose a toast, The boy, who is !.
= years old, without hesitation proposed
the health of his deariy-helOved mother
o The officers were painfully embarrassed
4 but after short pause they all draul
the health Of Their Crown Prince.
Mother" without calling her "Queen.
r 1t would be interesting 10 know
% though IT Is not easy az a glance Q,
o see, on what principle Ndme. Patt
y regulates her scale OF charges. WheI
"a she was singing IN the United State.
as a member Of Mr.. MaplesDu'5 Com
7 pany she received q 600 night
=, Soon afterwards, at the Royal italian
:, Opera, under the same manager, he
% fee was $500. At the Paris Oper,
! House she consented to sing at th
Representations recently given O
Gounod's Romeo and JulIeJ' 70
G2O0; and it appears that a. a charIta
bic performance about to be- given a
le Brussels she will sing for nothing.
~ II suppose I shall not meet yol
s. again before your departure FOR Wash
IS ington," remarked a lady visitor q
le General Harrison: u want To expires
I: my wishes for your success, and hop
ID you Will be reelected for alO.Le
$, term" 81 thank you" replied Gen
:, eral Harrison, with p serious q. r-sai0
=, OF countenancc, 'but I am not suT
10 that 1 care TO lie Te-electei.'
y In speaking to General Fred kuefeT
., an old friend, about his departure. D.
~ said: 81 am beginning 20 real ~ tina
er 1t Is a lonesome thing 10 lie Pres
le dent"
u The chair "a which Tresideu
y Cleveland has sat for four years IS or
that be had made to order aud p8II fo
20 hin self. II IS mace Of light oak I
III match the desk made from tie timbe
OF the Resolute and sent 10 the - hil
a House Ey Queen Victoria. II Is
=, great wide Spreading revolving cha0
W with a seat ana back OF split cane AZ
heavy frame tastefuil- carved