Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-04-24
NO. Is.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Harrison, their two children and their
children's children.
The United States Government, as
a reward for his faithful services, has
enrolled Washakie, the head chief or
the Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, as
a Government scout, with the pay Of q
regular soldier.
The tall female hat now so agitAtes
the minds OF the male frequenters OF
the London pits that it is proposed that
the pit should be divided like Quaker
meeting house, the men sitting on one
side and the women on the other.
An American is said to have Of
fered 81, 800 900 for Secretan's great
collection OF pictures. AS they are
chiefly modern productions. it would
cost under the present enlightened
tariff between $500, ,OO) and $500, 900 to
get them into this country.
John Jacob AstOr all his life been
a firm believer in the efficacy or pedes-
trian exercise as a means Of health. He
rarely enters public vehicle, no mat
ter what the weather may be, and sell
dom makes use of his own private car
riage, one Of the plainest and most in
conspicuous of all the milliOnaires in
New York.
The feature of Edison's exhibit at
the Paris Exposition Will he an enOr-
nous model of an incandeScent lamp.
forty feet high and made entirely OF
small incandescent lights, OF which IL
will be necessary, il is SAID, to use 90
600. The French and American flags
will be worked ont in incaudescent
! lamps on either side of the big lamp.
1t is estimated that the present
| population of the United States is Ca
! O0O, 600. The total increase IS said 10
be 100, 900 a month, exclusive of immi-
! grafton, and last year the increase by
immigration was sis, 900. At this rate
the next census, which will be taken in
COO.
Mrs. Harrison sent a bouquet OF
I red and white roses to deck the table at
the Garfield Hospital tea. The ladies
sold the flowers for twenty-five cents
| per pair. Mrs. Harrison has also con-
trlbuted two water cOlOTs TO the art
exhibition, one a bunch of pansies and
violets, the other a landscape of Fall
Creek, near indianapolis, a sketch from
nature.
Dumas two children inherit the
dramatic and literary talent OF their
parents. Jeannlue, the youngest IS a
viollnist OF talent. COlette, the young
est daughter, is now Nine. Lippmann,
wife of a wealthy manufacturer. No
French girl has been brought up more
severely than Dumas daughters; until
her marriage only once had COlette
seen a ball, and there she met her hus-
band.
The condition of TIE 1900 prisoners
in Sing Sing, suffering enforced Idle
ness, becomes more and more serious
and pitIable. Insanity must Of neces-
slty increase. Walking Is the sole d.
version walking in file in horrible
monOtOny. At the present rate In the
development Of insane cases there will
be seventeen or eighteen cases this
year. There are 800 men each night
troubled with insomnia.
The American Duchess" Cwife of
Marlborough is said to be spending
| her fortune royalty In revlvIng the ar
tistic glOues Of her husbands house.
An English observer writes OF her:
she is a handsome woman, and has
improved IN appearance since she came
, to England, while her toilets are daZ-
zling, and much more elaborate and
thought out than those ia which she
first appeared last year.
AT the American Express Com
pany's sale of unclaimed baggage,
which took place in Buffalo recently,
, a toy trunk was sold for 90 cents. On
opening it the purchaser discovered a
number of letters, and among then
I notes aggTegating $500 IN value. Two
of the notes had been Outlawed Just
, three days-one for small amount,
and the other for 1923. The others AT,
] pronounced good, and amount to some
II thing over tTOO.
IA According to the latest returns,
T. d 4.
:. richest man In Great Britain, hi
{ fortune being set down at $50, 900, 900
= This is a pretty big pile, but IL ISM
d over stating It TO say that there ar
1. at least half a dozen men in this cOun'
try who could buy out the Duke with
RI out eIhausting the contents OF thei
D. Golfers America has become th
T. abode Of the CrCoesuses Of the earth.
II AT weddings among Germans II
4. the southern colonies 1jJ years ago
II the groomsmen attended in beauti-
fully embroidered white aprons. Thei
" duty was to protect the bride from
having her slipper stolen from her foot
II any one succeeded in capturing 1t
the groomsman paid bottle OF win
for the loss, as the brides dancing de
e- pended upon II.
~ The Pope is a very dne ches
u. player and one priest In Rome has tn
u especial honor Of being his adversar
I. over the board. This priest-Fathe
ne Giella-has played chess with lie
Oh Pecci for thlTJy-twO years past. Whe
is Cardinal Pecci was raised 70 th
Su Papacy, Father Giella, who was the
.ss in Florence, got An invitation 10 PR
l4S ceed TO Rome and take up his quarter
IN the Vatican. GIella is hot tempered
aO but the Pope takes his temper goo
GO naturedly. and is said TO often impTOy
-e, the occasion by a hOmlly on the virtue
au Of resignation aud meekness.
81 %, The inventor OF the Pigs !
sgy Clover puzzle is Moses Lyman,
NJ" farmer living near Waverly, y. Y. II
>, has a large number of children an
"a keeps a great many pigs. One day b
,oS wished to amuse hIs youngsters an
,,s the idea of his famous puzzle can
., into his head. He tLereupOn made Of
- Of a piece of wood AMI a little pas
~ ~ board the original Of the Pigs
~, CloYer." a toy manufacturing hr
~ az Elkland, TiOga county, Pa heal
Of his puzzle and made him a handsOu
~, offer, which he accepted, for the e
80 elusive right to patent and manufa
~, ~ ture the plaything. a fortune las a
~ ready been made out Of the fascInatiI
aIi little device.
.tle Draperles Of black net threaten
ems supersede the figured Chautilly laces
~ long popular
~; tgo ParIsiennes wear riding gloves
iils heavy white suede, with palm and 70
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