Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-03-27
NO. Ia.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

An alum mine has been discovereS
IN Utah. 1t yields so to 90 per cent
pure alum, which can be extracted b,
simply placing the crude material il
boiling water.
An Indiana court has decided thai
unless woman is pleased with heI
photographs she need not pay for them,
no matter II a dozen OF her friends de-
clare that they "look just like her."
The Texas census bureau has estI-
mated returns showing the population
of Texas in January, 1887. to have
been, in round numbers, 2,025. 900, an
increase of 264 per cent. since 1880.
The United States exported In 1888
81, COZ, ,053 worth of sewing machines
AS against 81, ,5O7, ,357 in 1887, and
| 81, ,626. 1886 worth OF steam engines and
other machinery in 1SSS as against
IS .6SS 700 in 1887.
The yearly income of the great
Kimberly diamond mines in South
Africa is $50. J.0OO, 600. and besides that
it is estimated that fully $40, ,0O0. 600
worth of diamonds are stolen every
year by the natives who work IN the
mines.
According to the latest estimates
the ponuIation of the territories is as
follows: Dakota, COO. .OO0: Utah, 2lO 600;
New Mexico, 1T5,0 Washington,
l67. .9S2; Montana. 140 600; Idaho. 1OO,-
600; Wyoming. 50 600; Alaska, 40, $50;
Arizona, 81, ESQ.
The total exports, by the United
States, of petroleum and Its various
Iproducts for the year ending December
81, 1SSS, were $40. .725. .O75 gallons,
valued at S45, 969 900. as against 5Sl,-
O2l, 800 gallons and S45, ,23l, ,9SS the pre-
yious year.
domingo, the Spanish painter,
long resident in Paris, for whose work
immense prices have ruled these many
years, has had the honor of painting
the baby King of Spain and his mother,
the Queen Regent. receiving for the
former S25,0OO.
The 1900 miles of new railroads
built in 1883, called about 80, 600 new
men into the service, reckoning i've
employees to the mile, including officers
and men in all capacities. The present
railway system of the United States
has an army OF 7S5. 900 men.
Mark Twain claims that he kept
, President Smith OF Trinity College.
Hartford, Conn, from accepting the
, BIshOprIc of OHIO. Twain says that
he was a sinner too much for TIE
Synod. But the fact is that it was
duty, not a joker, which kept DIR.
/ Smith at Trinity.
DIR. Alvan TaIcott of Guilford,
! Conn, who has given S25, 900 to endow
a professorship of Greek at Yale, is one
of the Oldest of the alumni OF that
: university, having been graduated in
! 1928. He is past 50 years old, still prac-
fnaEs lfaNVn doll
5 with far more earnestness than ever in
. his undergraduates days.
They are still peggIng away at the
> Cape Cod Ship Cana, which was begun
nine years ago. The contract requires
, the work to be finished by June 20,
! 1891, but as there are seven miles yet
, to he dug. and as during 1888 there
was only about seven eighths OF mile
! opened, the prospects are not good for
) the fulhllment of the contract.
3 Among the birthday presents re-
ceived by Edison, the inventor, was a
cake from his servants. 1t was about
two feet in diameter and y inches
| high. 1t bore the inscription: Thomas
! y. Edison, 1882" in frost work, and
T around its edges were AZ tiny incandes-
e cent electric lights, supplied from a
I battery placed in a cavity IN the centre
= of the cake,
\ Japan apparently leads the world
J in the number of houses destroyed by
/ fire. Quite frequently 25 OF 30 build
; ings 20 up in smoke, while several
times within the past year the number
: has been 30 times that great. Late in
| January flames swept over IA streets In
Ichibancho, and 1000 houses, including
schools and temples, were reduced TO
2 ashes. a few days later 500 buildings
r were damaged at Yokosuka.
l Toward the end OF his life, Il is
I said Charles Reade was accustomed to
! dictate his compositions to a secretary
while he paced the room, suitIng his
actions 10 his words. In Love and
l Money! the remark occurs in the dia-
: Iogue, There's a smut on your nose. -
; The great duamatIst gave the original
> exclamation OF with such perfect in
: tonation and gesture that his secretary
was for once deceived. He rose, went
TO the mirror, handkerchief in hand,
+. only to be laughed at by his employer.
An old book has just come TO light
= which was written by Jay Gould, the
railway maguate, before he was known
d; to fame. 1t IS entitled "a History OF
= Delaware County and the Border Wars
! of New York; The book Is loud IN
: denuuciation OF arlstOcrats, and in
praise of liberty, honest men and manual
, toll. containing, among other things,
\ this sentiment:
= The nOblest men 1 know in earth
I Are men whose hands are brown
4 with toll;
f Who, backed by no ancestral graves,
q Hew down the woods and TIL the
Y soil,
= And win thereby prouder fame
! Than follow kings' and warriors
name"
The sixteen ladies who viii dance
d IN the opening quadrIlie at the Wash
|, ingtOn inauguration ball IN New York,
f on April %, are:
4 Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, Mrs
i William Astor, Mrs. w illIam Waldorf
: Astor, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Mrs
Frederic J. de Peyster, Mrs. Elbridge
K T. Gerry, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton
g Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. Mrs RuLher.
+ ford B. Hayes, Mrs. John Jay, Mrs
/ Archibald Oracle King, Miss Garcia
b Livingston, Mrs. Levi Parsons Morton
/ Miss Schuyler, Mrs. Henry Van kens
u selaer, Mrs. sidney Webster.
r The fifteen great American inven
e tions OF worldwide adoption are
e First, the cotton gin; second; the plan
k ing machine; third. the grass move
a and reaper; fourth, the rotary printing
n press; fifth, navigation by steam; sixth
Ie hot-air engine; seventh. the sewing
IS machine; eighth, the india rubber in
II dustry; ninth, the machine manufac
n ture of horse shoes; tenth. the sand
t. blast for carving; eleventh, the gaug'
I. lathe; twelfth, the grain elevator
> thirteenth. artificial ice-making on 1
81 II,
magnet and its prs ctical application
= fifteenth. the telephone.
For embalming purposes the mater
las used CONSIST chiefly or acqueoU
and spirituous solutuoas OF chlOridl
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