Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-08-28
NO. So.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

~ L w - IN DlNILI.
A remarkable bird was shot near
Dundee Indiana, recently. It was
SNOW white, and. although seven feet
high, it weighed less than four
pounds"
A barn IN Hartford, Van Buren,
county. Mich, struck uy lightning re-
Gently, Is said To be the fourth building
on the site tuat has been destroyed II
that way.
A special from La Crosse, Wis,
dated August S.h, reads: John Spever,
a late arrival in this country from
Prussia, working rs a. Gay laOorer At
whatever turned up, was surprised 10
receive notice from the German consul
at Philadelphia requesting his lmme-
date presence IN the Old country,
relative having bequeathed 10 ~pever
over $1,000 IN securities ana large
landed possessions. Speyer Went East
at once.
7 There is a German newspaper pub
lished at Jerusalem, and IL SAYS that
the city is growing IN size and popula-
tion at q remarkable rate, which is sur
prisIug. because neither It's situation
nor Its trade Is favorable to rapid lu-
crease. The Jews take the lead IN
nuillmg, followed uy lle Russ ans and
Germans. The Greeks and .Aruuulans
are also busy building cafes, t..zadTs
and shops.
An effort is being made I'D Aus
traha to restrict by law tile acc. e's
slaughter OF kauCaI1Us. The great
market for kangaroo skins IS Tie jH.l-
ted States, and 50 high a price ls Istli
fer them that the young animals are
killed IN such numbers as 10 threaten
the rapid extinction OF these singular
creatures unless eueltIal measures are
taken for their preservation.
A large panorama which the Mum
ich artists, Petersen Louis Braun ami
Edwin BeIuiuEer are now painting toT
the city If France, represents t.e cities
of New York and Brooklyn ~ seen
, from the deck of a North German
. Lloyd steamship IN the upper uay- The
! panorama VIII he mounted ami eA-
! hibIted this fan Iu 0LLLuE ueal The
Bremen City Park.
1t Is written of Eo.laire that when
in his pauful ,fIor, 10 learn English
he discovered that the letters t---u-e
> spelled s'agu, " "a word uf two -yllaa.es,
; but II you increased the length 10y add
, ing two murs letters, and So guJ
S p-l-a-g-u-e, the word became one ss .i.l-
S be and was pronounced 'plag- he
S threw the book across the room and
fairly danced IN rage.
| They were hunting up old sChool
Z teachers III Vermont lately, and found
u that the oldest In active service Was
little short OF fifty years 40 the desk
, This veteran Is \. ID. SeaT.e-, who be-
z gan teaching in 1871 AT the age OF lS-
e He obtained his hrst certificate from
S the poet John G. SAKE. He Is now In
u control OF the school which the late Sir
7 Curtis NJ. Lamsou gave TO the village
Of New Haven Mills, VI
y Thomas MOnahan, a millionaire,
who died recently In Australia, was
one of 30 Door emIgTauts who sailed Tor
- that country from Ireland in 1889. The
, ship he took passage on was IN such an
= unhealthy condition that % of the pas
, sengeTs died on the voyage. hnnaham
:, shreN dy invested his hit savings IN
u ! land around Melbourne, with the re-
:, suit that blocks for which lac paid 40
: in those early days are now worth
e25D, 900 each, 1t is estimated
. "A resident Of New York City sent
~ TO Scottsburg, Ind, recently, 10 par
Is chase large white oak tree, winch
- measured twenty seven feet ia circum-
,t ference. lie paid $40 for il, aud at
once set to work 10 get out as large n
board as possible. The tree was Ipued
up by means OF cTus7-sut saw. au1
b made "A board ten inches thick, D feet
q inches wide at butt, aud feet vide
at top. ana - feet long. It required
two yoke of oxen and eight hulses n
whole day To move % one and oat-lat
miles on a broad tread wagon.
~ THE latest story of Karsls pro
~ ductiveuess comes from Ford county,
. where a Mr.. SternJerr plant a D. acres
- Eastern seed house Tor = %. From
~ the melons he manufactured 1 900 bar
T.. rels OF vinegar, which he values al SO
per barrel. This me on vinegar us
claims TO be fully eIua. 20, If not bet
ter. than cider vinegar. If this story
Is true Kansas VIII be PRINCIPAL. de-
voted 10 the production ~ #.l.I-,Hel-
ous iu a short space of time. just
.s think OF ltl SO, 400 for tie product Of
n p acres Of land"
re- New Haven police recently de-
er tected a saloon keeper who -yas selling
~, liquor on Sunday iu "A cuT0-s way. Al
e. officer asceuded East Rock, having O 80
an secured a good spyg.aas- lie to.k 4
position where be could see the saloon
We and watch it. Presently he Saw some
men enter and he taereuTou gave z
ut signal by waving a handkerchief 10 a
i'm. near the saloon. They also bad "a gas.
ok and when the signal was given do
sceuded upon the saloon. The UruJIt
on etor was arrested and fined sd and
costs the next day.
-LabOrers around new build ul
.I,o IN Boston were am fz.I recently t1 ful
"a that they could not release their #al
on guy rope Of the derrick Tit
-, foreman shouted 10 them 90 90 10 work
and they replied that they r1u El Q
,ao He became angry at the au-H-. and
rushing TO the SPOT. gTasIed the guy
-. He then understood the situation Ter
-; fectIy, but he was unable 10 rrulav
, the cause Of the trouble live el. ctri
.rs wire that had crossed tue guy Sr.r
--' the connection was uu4gcuu laal
100 broken and all the men were rel-a %
httIe the worse for their experience.
Experience don't make man So boil
Is il does so careful
WHrs- q. man is made ND wholly