Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-10-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

the First National Bank, in Blooming
ton, III.
Pueblo, Col, is making prepara-
tions for building a mineral palace on
the same general plan as the corn palace
at Sioux City.
The Koran, the sacred book of the
MahOmetans, was written by MahOmet
about the year 610. 1t was translated
into Latin in ll43.
The coming theatre hat, modelled
| after the E ffel Tower, VIII not be so
| Objectionable after all. The Eiffel
! Tower can be seen through. 1t is built
| that way.
"A grandmother at3l. The Savan-
nah NaCS tells Of a woman in Wadley,
| Ga, who has become a grandmother at
! the age of 81. She married when only
/ IA, and her daughter did likewise.
The Empress of Germany is said
to wear on her shoulder at court fetes
a magnificent agraffee in diamonds
which belonged to Napoleon l. and
which WAS attached TO his hat at
| Waterloo.
The Shah of Persia asserts that the
Kohinoor IS an unlucky Jewel. He
points to the fact that Queen Victoria
lost her husband soon after coming
into possession Of the famous stone.
At Tonawanda. y. y, John
| Roach, an old psnsioner of the British
army, won wager 10y drinking a quart
of whiskey in p minutes, and was vol
unteering to drink an additional pint
when he fell dead.
1t is said that the only thing that
has prevented William Waldorf AstOT
from becoming great artist Is his
wealth. And it is often the fact that
the only thing that prevents a man
, from getting wealthy is his devotion 10
art.
The desire manifested by the fair
, sex for miniature paintings set a.
, brooches amounts TO almost a craze.
. These paintings are imported, and
leading manufacturers claim that they
have difficulty in mounting them fast
enough to supply the demand.
Five sergeants, three corparals and
t seven patrolmen of the san Franc SEQ
Y police force have been retired on pen
y slons as a reward for their long an6
faithful services. The sergeants are 10
J receive S6l.5), the corpOrals $3.50 and
the patrolmen $50 month.
"A ''bulIet prOoT'' spook is spread
ing terror among the timid people OF
; Belfast, Maine. He has the faculty Of
i overcoming all obstacles, but as he Is
{ described as wearing a waterproof and
i a white mask there IS reasonable
doubt Of his being the real article"
= In Dublin, a small town in Lau-
Q rens county, Ga, there lives a blue
man. lie is a Caucasian, but instead
of being white, is a greenish blue, and
is known rs "Blue Billy" His whole
# skin is blue, his tongue and the roof ol
+ his mouth are blue, and where his eye
a should be white is seen the same ghast-
. ly greenish-blue color.
d "A joker on Change at Cincinnati
l. was observed 10 have a white thread
is on his shoulder. OF course, the FIRST
friend he met undertook to brush il
10 off, and, failing, picked IL up and pulled,
and was astonished TO fed 1t without
an end. The fun spool was in his
breast pocket.
p, "A Maine dentist tells OF a mar
70 who came into his Office and insisted OF
having a sound tooth eXtracted-nO
IN because he had neuralgia in his face
* but because faith healer had told hin
ar that it would improve lis genera
r health to have tooth pull Il.
WHATS i'm "A name2' People whC
believe that there is something In
name will be Interested To know tina
Jack Ripper, mate of an American
bark which recently reached New Yorl
has been arrested, charged with assault
ing a sailor on the high seas.
10 The great bell of Huug-wu, whicI
has long lain halT buried in the ground
~ has at length been lifted 10y foreigl
a. machinery and hung in pagoda built
OF iron by foreign firm. According
pa to prophecy, this bell wa5 never TO ~
of lifted until China had entered upon F.,
new career Of prosperity.
Fl Miss Bjoruson, the daughter or Tia,
u novelist, has Just made her debut o.
opera at Paris, and that eXcitable Ci''
a is wildly raving over her beauty a .,
3 her voice. She is very fair, tall au'
slender, with powerful soprano vDlc,
er and great dramatic talent She l. no
ie quite %. and will devote two NOR
years to study before becoming hNel
VI star.
- The expression OZARK horse" nov
in such general political use, Is said Z
u have first occurred in Lord Beacons
III fields young Duke" " in the tOllOwiu.
paragraph: The first favorite wa
never seen after the distance post, a.
e the ten-io-cnes were in the rear, and |
ie dark horse which had never beel
- thought Of rushed past the grand stan,
- in sweeping triumph"
wi -Maine's Oldest clergymen. il ha
been claimel that the Rev. DT. Car
nd ruthers. Of Portland, who recently cele
he brted his 39Jh birthday, was the oldes
.h clergyman in Maine, but this must b
sd a mistake. The Rev. J. L. Hawes
Pastor of the Congregational Church
at Litch6eld Corner, recently ce'eDrd
= ted his 9lst birthday. The Rev. Mr.
Hawes and his wife jnin-d the Juvenu
Temple recently TO please their grand
o. children.
ay Claus Spreckles is IN Sau Fran
a cisco, deep in beet sugar making. III
'ie complains that his WatsOuvllle lCal-
IS factory cannot be kept running day am
~ night as he expected, because Of tn
eI poor crop OF beets this year. lie ha
IS rented a large tract of land near TIA
iG factory, and expects to grow enOug
Gu beets next year to keep the factory run
ys ming for SIX months. "lle will bulli
an next year one factory, the machiner
ID for which is now on its way from Ger
so many. lie declares that the site ha
OF not been decided upon, but rumor ha
10 narrowed it down TO Coronado Beac
u or san Jacinto, in San Diego county
%? Cal"
',v "A bust OF Edison. Herma
"a Schurig, sculptor and Director Of tn
an Art School, in Olfenbach, Germany
has come to America TO CONF lete
bust OF Thomas 4. Edison. which d
q began while the inventor was in Eu
- rope He became acquainted with Nj