Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-05-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Five towns in Kansas now have
women mayors.
i: is estimated that the magnificent
stalacite cave lately discovered near
Reclere, Canton Berne, is about 5000
meters long, 600 broad, and 4 to 20
high.
"A novel feat in engineering was
recently performed on the line of the
Panama Canal y steam launch which
WAS too big to 90 under bridge was
lifted over il and safely deposited on
the other side.
"A sandwich company, which pro-
poses to sell its wares in offices, on the
streets and in barroOms and cafes, has
been established in New York. The
company will have uniformed peddlers
who will carry neat willow baskets.
The sandwiches will be sold for five
cents each.
To secure plumpness of figure
Turkish women eat rose leaves and
butter. This is supposed to be a state
secret III the sHltan'S country; but II
appearances furnish any criterion nearly
every woman in Yankee land has long
since guessed il.
! During the last year the number Of
female riders of the bicycle has won
derfully increased in Philadelphia.
! Twelve months ago there We're less than
dozen ladies in the city who could
mount the wheel. but now the number
is certainly seventy-five, and is steadily
growing.
When Turk dies, the legs are tied
together and the arms stretched 10y the
sides. The burial takes place as soon
as possible after the death. The corpse
is handled very tendeTly, AS the Turks
believe any lack of tenderness would
bring the curse of the dead mans soul
upon them.
The Paris exposition tower is COM
pleted, and claimed to be the talleSt
structure ever made 10y human hands
Its figures are l, l7S feet. The electric
light III the summit is said to be visible
for forty miles. Shll, 1t is a trliiing
affair compared with many natural
elevations. 1t Will, however, lie
TEN, ,,tatIon TO suicides.
A medical school Is to be cstab-
lished in connection with Johns Hop
kins University and Johns Hopkins
Hospital. SO far, $50, 900 of the $780,
600 fund for the relief OF the univ rsIty
has been subscribed. The other $50
600 will soon be forthcoming.
More than fifty years ago L. T.
Barnum was the editor and publisher
of a weekly paper in Connecticut. lie
was so free and Outspoken IN hls edl-
torial remarks that he was arrested and
incarcerated in the Danbury Jail. Re
Gently the jail was demolished, and
from one of its timbeTS a handsome
, cane was constructed and presented TO
the great Snowman.
\ Among the many who have sent
letters 10 DIR. Talmage in acknowledge
/ 3 d
I Pathway of Life, " are Queen Victoria
: and Lord TenuysOn. The book Is hav-
I ing wonderful sale, and already 2JO,-
! 600 copies have been contracted Tor 10y
! a southern subscription company. Dr.
1 Talmage says that he expects a million
a copies Will he sold.
= Joseph Keppler, of Puck, has been
busy sketching designs for the gigantic
. display which the Germans Of New
:, York are going TO make in the coming
7 civic centennial parade. There will be
4. about thirty-ive great tableauX,
i mounted on wagons, and his work Is To
y make designs for each of these. The
! designs cover all fields, NEUROLOGICAL,
historical, artistic, military, mechanical,
artisan and trade.
III The Almanac for 1889 issued by
the American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions states that thirty foreign mission
AIRY societies in the United States have
4 an income of -, 9O6, 9G7; !, 1893 stations,
!, 954 out. stations; 927 male and l,2ul
females missionaries; S,6l1 native
-. helper; 2,243 churches with l74,7S4
- communicates, of whom p 91S were
added last year; 1864 schools witt
l37, ,9O5 pupils.
The ocean Bay Society, a corpara
tion recently organized, proposes to hul
the immense hotel with loo room
which cost 81, $50, 900 and has been s,
ld long idle. at ROckaway Beach, To
- gether with an adjacent plot of GROUND
-y containing about twenty-five acres
~ will be converted into large relI LiOu
ys seaside resort similar TO Ocean Grove
N1 and although it Will be nOn-Sectarial
in will be under Methodist government.
"l 1t is said that love for pets an,
'' love of travelling are the two Tuliu,
passions of the Princess Marie Theresa
OF of Bavaria. She Is unmarried, and il
pr her many journeys Is attended 10y
We maid and chamberlain. She alway
IL takes her pets with her, aud the cham
beTlain has TO look after them. Iii
- place is no sinecure, for she has -four
h1 teen animals of one sort and another
ia including several dogs, two magpies. al
tlOi lllOl7 sAb anu 'AiAlAlllNAAAff AisAA
r,lI An opera company from MeKic,
nj was recently stranded in san Franc isco
H.. One Of the musicians WAS something O
~ d poet and he had dedicated few 90
= his verses 10 Nine. Diaz, wife OF tn
Il. President of Mexico. She had bee
much pleased at the compliment an,
I'll had told him she would be glad to serv
-.- him at any time. Remembering tin:
at he telegraphed the facts regarding h
,as companions 10 the kind-hearted senOT
,c and asked her assistance. Immediuel
is came an answer saying that she woul
es: pay their expenses back to the City q
m M-Xico. Her COndescensiOn cost be
ID. y, 900.
ng The London Times was hoaNcd
IN century ago nearly as badly as Do IN
ra- present instance PaTnell Inquiry 10y
Of clever gang Of forgers, who got mp
lr- bogus edition Of the French lapt
ng l. EcLdtr, at that time recognized as a
Of authority upon matters OF Information;
re, news 1t contained what purporte
ng to be the text OF treaty Of peace b'
tween the French Republic and n
his emperor of Austria. 4 copy got Int
IS the hands of the correspondent Of II
TO Times at Dover, and from him went
rn- London, where the alleged treaty W
ter published in The Tunes, and was sue
ng good and unexpected news that Oh
ION stock market went up with rush.
mt was several days before 1t was disco
ty, cred that the paper was a forget ed
nd tion and had been gotten up by LoIulO
IN Spectators TO bring about "A boom
rs, stocks.
Os, You CAxNoT TFLL.-You cannot &,
IId IiId whether you are succeeding or uU
lhr lhr You can only he sure that you are faIt
tiA fully doing your duty. You cuuu
ave estimate results now. Appearances
uh success are often fallacious. So, 10
his w ~ ~. t,.,,r;J,.,- IL
agement, but work on.