Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-05-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

1t is said there are more American
women studying art in Vienna and
Paris than ever before. a leading art
club in the former city has twenty-five
American lady students.
The chief supply of mistletoe comes
from the north of France, Normandy
and Brittany, the people Of which parts
propagate and cultivate il IN the great
orchards as carefully as apple trees.
The Centennial banquet for 500
people cost s, 600, OF SD per head,
without wines. The latter cost So, ,O29
more, and the supper after the ball,
wine included, cost the enormous sum
of S2S, ,125.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, when a choir
boy at the Chapel Royal, composed an
anthem, and 1t so plased the Bishop of
London that he gave the little author
a half-sovereign This coin. 1t is said,
Mr.. Sullivan wears around his neck AS
a talisman while composing till this
day
Over one hundred AMI sixty
women matriculated at d Philadelphia
woman's medical college last year
They represented nearly every nation
on the earth, some being from China
and others from Australia, while there
were two or more from every State in
the Union.
The Eiffel Tower, IN Paris, is be-
ing turned to practical account. Two
small guns are mounted on the second
platform; one daily announces the
opening, the other the closing of the
exhibition. y third should be added,
for where could be found such = place
to announce high noon?
A rather remarkable collection of
amber was received lately by a Mil
waukee physician. 1t came from the
shores of the Baltic, and comprises q
specimens, II of which have insects
imbedded in them. One piece con-
talns a beetle, another an ant, three
pieces contain flies, two contain neu-
roptera, and one a spider.
"A correspondent of the London
Times says that the word ''teetotal''
had its origin through a suffering tenn
| perance orator, who urged on his
hearers, that nothing less than ''te-te-
total" abstinence would satisfy tenn
lperance Teformers. Some one at once
adopted "teetotal'' as suitable word,
ana it sprung into general use.
"A countryman at Columbia asked
the price of a railway ticket to Mechan-
ical, and being told 20 cents replied to
the agent, ''I'n give you 15.'' The
loffer being refused lie set out to walk.
He had not gone far when an engine
whistled behind mm. Turning about
he shook his fist at the engine, exclaim-
ling. 'You needn't whistle for me; /
made you an offer once!' and then
logged on.
| -Torchon lace is now so little
known, excepting through the ma
chine-made imitation, that few are
aware of the beauty and variety of the
real fabric. The original lace is made
on the pillow by French and Belgian
workers, and one house alone, that uses
only real torchon for the trimming 1t
ladies' and childrens' underwear, en-
ploys hundred and fifty different de-
signs, which come direct from the
makers.
-Laftte, the eminent French bank
er. owed his first start in lite to the cir
cumstances, of his being seen to pick
up pin In the courtyard as he was go
ing TO call upon wealthy person for
the purpose of seeking employment
| The man who would pick up a pin.
thought the wealthy person, must have
some thrift about him, and so he gave
him employment and found that he
had not mistaken his character.
The number of artificial teeth made
in America is increasing very rapidly.
Last year three OF the largest business
houses engaged IN the trade turned out
nearly 10000, 600 of teeth. and this was
not more than half the actual product
of the country. one peculiar feature
| of the business IS that the houses which
do the most extensive export trade are
Obliged TO prepare teeth Of different
IcolorS for different countries.
/ 1t is somewhat singular how often
the omission of u single seemingly in
| significant letter will alter the entire
meaning Of a sentence. For instance,
several errors are recorded where the
letter ''n'' has been omitted from the
word window" invariably placing a
widow in some embarrassing pO-
sitiOn; as where, on the occasion of a
ssTeet pageant, a gentlemrn Unwittingly
| tdvertlsed ''seyeral widows for hire. "
|, Recently a man named Hagen,
while at work in his field in Schriven
county, Georgia, found a gold coin
about the size Of silver half dollar,
round, but not near as thick. On one
side was the profile of a man, and the
inscription "JoSephus 1. d. G. Port. ct
! Alg Rex, " and bearing the date Of
| l772, on the reverse side was a coat of
arms, surmOunted by a crown. This
coin was evidently lost during the Re-
| evolutionary war, or it may be IS a stray
| piece Of some hidden treasure.
| "A despatch from the City Of Mex
leo reads: News has been received here
of a discovery Of great archaeological
importance in the State of Chiapas,
near the ruins Of Palauque, being moth
hng less than large city hidden in the
| depths of the forests. Some buildings
are five stories high, and in a good
state of preservation. There Is a well
paved road, several miles Ia length,
still perceIvable in the midst of a trop-
ical forest. Very few particulars have
reached here, but the report comes
from good sources. Palauque IS said
to be a mere village In comparison with
this lost city Of prehistoric times.
The yield Of feathers for pillows
and beds alone is said to be about B.
600, 900 pounds per year. Tie tail
feathers or turkeys are used Tor dust
ers, and utilized by cleanly merchant
men, housewives and maids. The
glossy plumage OF turkeys chickens and
birds are converte into hat a Iurn-
ments for ladies and little girls. The
quilts of geese are converted into tooth
picks. In the olden times, before tile
days Of steel and golden pens, they
were used for pens by all classes Of
writer's.
The height and velocity Of c'ouds
may be determined by means Of pho
Biography. Two cameras are placed 6OU
feet apart and provided with Il stanta-
neous shutters, which are released by
electricity at the same moment. The
langle of inclination of the cameras and
1.-THE position of the cloud as photo
graphed are thus obtained, and simple
trigonomstrical op ratiOns give the
height and distance from those data.
COMPETITION is a good thing, even
/ among brutes; two dogs on "a farm make
both dogs more watchfuL