Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-05-22
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

England owns oue-half Of AT the
spIndles OF the world, and consumes
more than one-third of all the cotton.
A man IN Rothehild. Neb., dressed
himself in a shroud and lad himself
carefully into a coffin which lie had
purchased. In this position he went TO
sleep. When his friends discovered
him, some hours later, he was dead.
Senator Leland Stanford, OF Cali
| fornla. is worth from $50, 200. 900 70
! 500, ,OO0 600, and his new university
will cost between SO, OOO, 600 and $50.
100000
| The largest ruby in the world Is
sad to be stone weighing twenty
four caTats and measuring an inch in
length and three-qUarters of IN inch in
width. 1t is owned In London.
The late Isaiah V. Williamson. Of
Philadelphia, left nearly $4,000, 600 Of
property. The appraisers estimated the
worth of his clothing and furniture 70
be nothing at all.
A clothing store Is advertising a
novel bait to catch customers. Each
person buying a suit is photographed in
his new clothes free of charge, and the
| oSllNAAAC - HiAph ny q lslA ALlb bAAC
1t is alleged that almost all the
tuTquOises that have been sold during
the past ten years have been manufac-
tured by a Persian syndicate, which
flooked the Nijn!-N NovgorOd fairs with
1O0,OO Of the fraudulent stones
"A number Of Detroit ladies have
organized a society for the cultivation
Of the art of conversation. They very
properly regard the attainment as one
, OF the highest and as much TO be sought
after as plano-playing OF painting
, "A French scientist says that, allow
e ing five acres for each inhaOitant,
| Europe has room for ll5, 5000 more
2 people, Africa for ], 1886, OOO.OOO. ASIA
for l, ,4O2, 600, Oceanic for 5l5, 600, 900
and America for 2O,O0J. 900, 600.
The Swiss watchmakers have In
, vented watch for the blind. \ small
p peg is set IN the middl of each figure.
Il Wien the hour hand is moving toward
p a given hour the peg for that hour
/ drops. The person finds the peg Is
down, and then counts back to
twelve.
9 The Memorial Fund to Matthew
Arnold is said TO amount to S3j, 600. In
e fluenJial SUBSCRIBER VIII hold a meet
ing to consider what IS to be done with
the money. and to examine designs for
+ a memorial to Ice placed IN WestmIn-
: ster Abbey Tie greater portion Of
t the fund will doubtless be ass gued TO
/ Mrs. Arnold.
Cowboys in Franklin County,
t Texas, frightened Wild pony into
a river thirty feet below. After the
lapse of few moments the pony ap-
> peared, climbed on the opposite bank,
: and dashed away, apparently unInjured
! ! 10y his b & dive.
Gong up the elevator to a recent
n | ecclesiastical reunion in the city re-
: minded a correspondent Of the PreS5Y-
y terrain OOSfrUer of a solemn mistake
r once made by hyperdignihed bishop:
: " lie congregation will please rise aud
continue rising Not a bad church
motto. he thinks.
DIR. G Z. Simmons, who Is trying
4 to secure SAB. $50 from the executors
). for med cal advice to the late Samuel J.
y Tiden, figures up the sum by charging
5 so visit FOR 22JO visits and $50 day
for holding himself in readiness to de-
r. vote his eXClus We attention 10 MT. TIL
d den. 1t is a magnificent bN Of its
a kind.
In Evansville, Ind, recently, dur
i ing the progress of a divorce suit, IN
e which "a woman was trying TO gain
5 | possession Of her children, her little
u girl recognized her and sprang crying
I, INTO her arms. The court granted a
T, recess for the mother TO see her child in
e an ante-room, but when the recess was
over neither could be found.
"A large sycamore tree, planted IN
! 1892, by Alice ami Phoebe Cary, on the
: Hamilton turnpike IN Hamilton county,
~ ONO, is still standing and one Of the
- finest trees in the county. They were
y ch ldren, returning from school and
. saw a farmer grub and throw q small
tree on the road. This IS the tree they
planted, and often afterward visited
- when they and it had grown up and
"a iouTished.
n -George Washington was an euthU-
siastIC Mason. In letter to the Rhode
! Island Mas0us he says: being per
- suaded that just application Of the
~ principles on which the Masonic Fra
=. ternity is founded must be productive
n Of private virtue and public prosperity,
~ | shall always be happy 10 advance the
At interest Of the Society and 10 DO coh-
a. sidered by them as u deserving
pr brother" "
a The Chinese never kiss, but .
le Chinese manddT an who las travelled Ia
western nations has attempted 70 In
ID strUct the benightcd Celestials He
g, says: kssiug IS "A form OF courtesy
ce which consists IN present ng the lips 20
the lower part of the chin and max ng
sound. - Again: "Ch IdTen, when
10 visit ng their sen oTs, apply their mouth
2 10 the left on right lips of the elder with
a smaCkiug noise" Il is 10 he feared
that this matter-Of-fact description Of
ty the progress Is hardly likely 10 lend tC
It's naturalization u the Middle King
dom.
Tie very interesting discovery Of
many years ago Of jewish colonies In
western China is now well supplement.
9 ed by the discovery Of Christian clam
y OF sects in Africa south Of ADyssiuia.
TX These wholly Isolated peoples have re.
he tanned some forms Of Christ an Deliei
Ne and worsh p since tie early centuries,
when Egypt and the lands OF the SOUTH
-. were IN the hands Of ths followers Oi
lg Jesus. MohammedaUIsm aEIs ~ II
st, the seventh century cut of this section
n and has Obliterated Christianity 10 til,
ir. north OF them. What IS left, however
sat Of the better faith Is now 50 thoroughly
he degenerate that it IS not worth the pre-
a serving. Africa Is full Of wonders.
~, u LIE lOsJ man war lItuJOu,
- which was wrecked at Samoa, WAS al
a ways considered to be an uulucky YES
~ sci by the sailors who sailed her. The
first attempt 10 launch her was Decem
Ter 30, 1873, but after two hours wOrl
on the effort was abandoned. Soon aftei
ad being launched she was put into dOcl
To and cOppered, and when she was takeI
el- out she was found to leak 50 badly tha
by she had to be redocked. II was thsl
yil found that two OF three holes near tht