Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-10-16
NO. 43.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Preparations are already being
made in several German university
towns TO celebrate next year the three
hundredth anniversary OF the invention
OF the microscope.
-Troy,N Y. and Kansas City. No,
are both suffering from invasions OF
feas. The JanitOr of school in Troy
declares that mill ons OF the insects
made the building their headquarters,
and that he swept them up by pail
fuls.
A weeping peach tree is one OF the
curiOsities OF Denison, Texas. 1t is
visited by many persons daily. At
times a perfect mist of spray surrounds
it. 4 number of superstit GUS persons
think that spirits operate upon the
tree.
There is an item Of news going the
rounds of the press that Chicago hotels
DO not permit their servants to receive
tips. If this can be shown 10 he true,
New York, st. Louis and Washington
may as well throw up the sponge in
their fight for the location of the
Worlds Fair.
Though intimate friends OF the
Blaines profess ignorance on the sub
ject, the engagement OF Mss Margaret
Blaine to Walter Damn osch-tne young
orchestra leader and Wagner inter-
Preter-is accepted by usually we'll
posted people in New Y ork as fact.
1t IS estimated that in London the
evening papers print no fewer than
25O. .OOJ copies every day, whereas thirty
years ago they did not issue 10000 alto
gether. OF the morning journals there
are two that boast Of printing more
than 500, 900 copies between them for
the days supply.
Iron ore is produced in twenty-nine
| counties of England and W ales. twelve
| counties of Scotland, and IN one of the
! provinces of Ireland. The production
has fallen off seriously during recent
years, and some of the older centers Of
production are becoming extinct, If
they are not So already.
The electric beam from the EifTel
tower lantern has a luminous intensity
of about 80 GOO candles CItaliOptuc
| rings are arranged to make the light
| stronger and stronger as 1t travels from
| the tower, so that III clear weather its
range-if not ! mited 10y the earth's
curvatuTe-shOuld be l27 miles, with
an intensity of . 600. 900 candles.
The smallest screws in the world
are made in watch factory. They
are cut from steel wire by a machine,
but as the chips fall down from the
knife II looks as If the operative was
simply cutting up the wire FOR fun. One
thing is certain, no screws can he seen,
and yet screw is made every third op-
Grafton.
1t is said that Sufferers, when
| speaking I'm a whisper, show no impede
ment of speech. This fact has been
turned TO account by Coen. In his
method of treatment, for the first ten
days speaking is prohibited. During
the next ten days speaking is permissi-
ble in the whispering voice, and in the
next uTJeen days the ordinary converse
tioh-d ton" NAV hn gradually employed.
While a French girl was playing
with a rope about her neck recently In
Lake Village. y. H., tenement house,
the building was struck by lightning,
and, as the story goes, the rope was de-
| strOyed by the electric current, but the
child escaped unInJured. The same
cir WAS struck and thrown into a ditch
by the locomotive Of an eXpeess train,
but was not hurt.
Practical jokers saturated with al
cOhol the clothing OF a man asleep IN a
Newark, y. J., liquor saloon, and then
applied a lighted match. lie wa
frightfuIly burned. lie afteTward!
wandered to an open lot, where th'
stencil from his burned flesh attracted
the attention of passcrs-hy, who haC
the man sent 10 hosp tai He retuseC
to divulge to the police the names o.
his Jorturers.
The Chinese customs returns fo
I the second quarter Of this year show I
I falling off of nearly a million OF taels
compared with the same period Of 1888
o. ''In imports the decline IS chiefly II
p opium; in exports the d crease Is en-
:. tirely in tea, caused mainly 10y the fac
, that the Foochuw market did not opeI
ill after the close of the quarter
, 1t IS not known precisely how the
/ name "kettIe-lrum" came 10 he gIvel
- to an afternoon tea, but when the ladies
/ in Charles ii. 5 time came In from !
n hunt they were served with light en-
= tertaiument which WAS called h
f drum - aud when tea drinking be
came the order of the hour, no dOub
j kettle" was added TO make the tern
J, significant.
= The bronze statue of MAJOR Genera
> George J. 5 anuard, which IS to sur
= mount the monument erected by tn
J SLaLE
battlefield, has been completed. Tb
statue was des gued by Karl Gerhard,
d, of Hartford, Conn, AMI weighs DOB
. pounds. The figure is grand In It
4 proportions ana outline. The face
!, shaded 10y the broad felt hat, the empt
sleeve is pinned across the breast, th
10 left leg, encased in heavy cayalT
y boot, Is slightly advanced, and the lei
I ! hand rests on the sword belt"
Il The Boston Journal having rasHl
} stated that the Uni ed States 20 sesse
but Que statue Of Christopher COluH
1t bus, that given to Baltimore by th
Y French Consul in the last century
;, somebody writes 10 say that there Is
second IN Fairmouut Park. Philade
If phia, and a third, Of grAnita, ia the Ol
d arsenal in Central Park, New IOrL
presented IN 1863, by the late Marsha
u .. Roberts. y fourth exists in BOstO
y itself, and stands IN as well-kuown
spot as LOusburg square. II WAS pr
n sen,eI TO the city IN lS49, by NJ
y Joseah Iasigi, a Turkish merchant, VIII
o became an American citizen and who's
d children are prominent members OF II
community.
y "A discovery, referring to the iro
D. age, has BEEN made AT GlOppen, on n
70 coast of Norway. 4 burial chamber
u formed Of stone slabs and coutainin
10 the remains of man, has been uncO'
p ereI. There - ere also in the chambs
I a bucket. ornamental with brouz
maize of limewOod; two iron lane,
Id heads, twelve inches long; double-edge
r. sword, in scabbard, with a ferrule
ly bronze buckle some Roman gold coin
T, perforated and worn as ornaments;
n glass beaker, green and blue IN col,
End ornameuiel " ith etchel tTaeimg