Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-12-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.


his seventeen-year-old daughter mount
ed the cart and drove about the country
for three weeks. Her sales excesdsd
any that her father ever made IN the
same length of time.
A physician In Boston sounds q
warning against the practice of chew.
ing wooden toothpicks. He SAYS the
habit is responsible for much sickness
Small PARTICLES OF the wood are swsl-
lowed, and, lodging frequently IN the
walls OF the stomach, induce gastric
disturbance. He knows of several such
cases which proved fatal.
A. NJ. Bisbee, who was the Chiness
delegate 10 the maritime conference at
Washington, is an adventurous Yankee,
born and bred on Cape Cod. In his
travels he drifted across the continent
and over the Pacific, and he is now
Coast Inspector OF the Imperial Mari
time Customs Service Of China
The King of Siam is about 20 send
five Siamese boys to the United States
to be educated at his own expense. It
is the Kings custom TO educate the
sons of noblemen and the princes OF hiI
domain in Yrrious countries, and when
they return to Siam appoint them to
high Government positions.
"A check for several thousand dol
lars sent TO Pope Leo XIII. from New
ark, y. j., has been returned through
the regular channels 10 the Newark
bank on which il WAS drawn, duly en-
dorSed by the Pope. The handwriting
is neat and even. The check will be
kept as a souvenir.
The editor of a Japanese newspaper
recently collected statistics OF growth
from all the Protestant churches OF ia
} pan, showing their increase during the
, last three years, From thirty-eight
| chuI ches they have grown to Isl, and
l from 800 members TO IL, 900.
st. Paul has de id 81 to build ''the
most fantastic Ice palace ever known
, and TO have the biggest and finest
carnival possible at time 10 be set
; later. Financ al backing in Abund-
. ance has already been secured, and
every Indication points to the most sue
cessful carnival in the history OF the
Northwest.
Marion Crawford, the novelist.
. who is about to become a resident of
Washington, is known as "A very expert
swordsman, but lie Is mIghtier IS
penman.
4 The postal cards anniversary. The
postal card was twenty years old Oh
Z the 1st Of October. Austria has the
credit of first adopting the invention
A though It was first advocated by the
4 German Postmastes-General,D DIR. Step
= han. On October /, 1869, a CORES
pondenZ karte'' first burst on the as
tonished Continental word.
n The French Postmaster General
has published his telephone tariff.
e Yearly subscriptions IN Paris are re-
duced from ga TO El6, and IN towns
:, which there Is already an underground
network OF wires to El2, on the condi-
z, tion, however, that each subscr iber
It shall bear pTOpOrtionate share OF the
Y expense of making necessary repairs.
"A Christian tribe, surrounded by
'e pagans, bas just been discovered in the
k heart of Africa. They had never be-
fore seen a white man. While their
religious ideas are crude, still they have
i a priesthood, the cross and other en-
y blems of Christianity. They are be
u lIeved to have been eXiled from Abys-
sinia about eight hundred years ago.
7, An affidavit does not accompany
the following story, which Ohio sends
q along: "a lady of Columbus used for
u her complexion a mixture OF arsenic
n and nitrate Of silver. Then she went
II to the White Sulphur Springs and took
a the baths. The sulphur decomp Jsed
le the silver salts in her skin and turned
her 50 black that she has gone into re-
tirement and will not be seen again fsI
~ year"
"a Over 100 guests in a Kalamazoo
70 Mich. hotel tried in vain TO guess
/, why a drummer had two little plaster
p of Iaris skeletons fastened in the crown
N OF his tile After all gave up he eK.
II plalned. saying: at is simply case OF
a business. / used 10 have so many hat
m stolen 1t kept me poor buying new ones
Pc but / find nobody vi steal 4 hat will
r skeletons in it, hence the skeletons A"
es The talk heard so often nowadays
10 about China's growing friendliness u
s. the outer harbarians IS founded on er.
Of Tor. The Chinese hate them as bitterly
1t to-day as they did thirty years or more
Is ago. The lives and limbs of foreigners
,e in Canton are SAID 10 be much less safe
L than formerly, ineomuch that II they
10 choose TO visit unattended the temples,
the potter's field where the beheading
= takes place, OF any OF the other famouI
le sights in the wonderful city, the risk
" run is considerable.
ct Ben Butler has decided 20 writ.
4 his memoirs and has selected his pub
OI Usher. He says lac wants the truth "a
u appear in answer "tO the false and
Is malicious statements made concerning
N nearly everything l have done, engen.
IS dered by the venomOus hatred of pOr'
u tions of each politi al party. because
Is disagreed with both, AMI in the early
J. DAYS Of the war of the rebellion largely
D. written and publ shed both IN thii
III country and Europe, and paraded x
y fire the Southern heart as sort oI
u posteriOr Justification Of rebellion and
- treason.
,, "A remarkable story comes from
- Maine to the effect that man who en-.
- ployed two intoxicated Oarsmen 70 take
HIM across lake was landed on AT
island instead OF Oh the ma shore.
"Au his shouts, when he discovered
where he was. were of no avail, and II
. was several days before he got of.
,y Luckily he founl, in a cottage which
- he broke into, some crackers, OniOni
:, and potatoes, but these didn't last long
a At last, by raising MS coat as a signal
=, on tall tree, he attracted attention
p from the malnl nd and was rescued"
8 Some interesting ancient relic,
"a were unearthed recently at BIddeforc
~ Pool. Ne, by members of the lite saw
in ing station near there. The heavy sea
IN has badly washed the beaches, and
1e upon the Pool beach the bows Of TWO
g .dugouts'' boats, such as the Indian:
OF and earlier settlers used, were seen
at sticking out of the sand, having beer
8. uncovered by the action OF the sea
At The life savers got shovels and began
Mt digging. and, though 1t proved 10 small
av lob. they finally shovelled the ancient
I'd crafts from the sand. The wood WA
"a in a perfect state OF preservation. The
IN boats were pointed head to the sea, and