Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-05-01
NO. 10.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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A boy of six years died Of heart
failure at Pittsburg while jumping a
rope.
Youngsters at Long Branch enjoy
themselves, these days, flying kite six
feet in height.
-Yale's new recitation building is
TO be very handsome. The stone carv-
ing alone will cost 10000.
Eight sets OF twins and five OF
triplets have been born in Pike county,
Georgia, within a week.
The snow plows of the Main Cen
tral Railroad were not even called into
service during the past winter.
Tobacco dealers in MoOdus, Conn,
lave resolved not TO buy or sell cigar
cites after dIsposIng of their stock.
"A musical manuscript of Mozart
was sold recently in Berlin for $50
marks, and letter from Lessig for $40
marks.
The Eskimos are naming their
children after by Thunder" " Go TO
Halifax" and other expressions used by
English sailors.
Madame Tussaud's museum, In
London has been sold TO a joint stock
company for S565, 900. 100000 people
visited it last year.
DR.. Mary Walker, it is stated, is
J seeking a place under the new order OF
tn ngs 4 cleTkship in one OF the de-
partments IS the peculiar thing shs
pants for.
Herr Hans Won Bulow, the ecceL
trio interpreter of Wagner and Beetb-
oven, is to get $4,000, besides having
all his expenses paid, during his fouS
weeks tour of the country.
The Drexel Industrial College for
Women is said to have been endowed
10y Mr.. Drexel with the sum of ST.
0OO, 900. Ii will be IN full operation In
about eighteen months.
"A curious feature of the artificial
teeth industry is the variety of co'or
required for different countries. Canada,
for instance, demands teeth of snowy
whiteness, South America those Of gel
low color and China only black teeth.
Boots are said to Fave been the in
vention of the Carians. They were
mentioned 10y Homer 9U7 b. c., and
frequently 10y Roman historians. In
Scotland an instrument Of torture
named ''the boot WAS used upon the
Covenanters about the year 1866.
"A train of seven Pullman sleeper
jumped broken rail on the Peuusyl
| wanna Railroad, near Altoona, recently,
[ and after running on the ties for sew
5 eral hundred feet, regained the track
? again and went dashing along without
t any damage. The train was running
7 at the rate of 30 miles an hour.
! "A floating theatre Will shortly ira
verse the Russian river Volga. 1t will
consist Of a large vessel on the AmerI-
can saloon system, containing hotel
for the company, besides stage for
. representations, and will chiefly visit
{ the out of the way towns where there
i is no permanent theatre
Interest IL the story that treasure
was buried many years ago in a hill Ia
Kansas City IS being revived there by
- the proposition Of a railroad company
to grade the district Tor depot. The
money WAS hidden, the story goes, by a
1 Mexican gan bier, and several unsuc-
o cessful searches have been made for II,
- one IN 1873 by "A Mexican.
e The cadayer of Jumbo has finally
y found place of rest. His skin has
n has been stuffed. and he has been "set
p uD'' and ID eseuted 10y Mr. b tmuI 10
< the Musum Of Natural History q
"A Tufts College. In life Jumbo weighed
e. seven tons, but the stuffed Jumbo only
u weighs about three tons. II VIII be a
is long time before we shall see his count
e erpart-l2 feet high, IA feet long and
a Is feet In girth.
u The Astor Library, founded by
:, John Jacob Astor, who bequeatheC
:, S4O0, 900 for that purpose, was opened IL
" New York City, January 9, 1854 Il
y January, 1856, William B. AstOr, sol
= of the founder, gave the land 10 double
- the size of the building, and in 1877!
= John Jacob AstOT, the second Of th'
name, gave the land and directed th'
= erection Of a second new building; tn
- cost OF the last Improvements beinl
! about S250.OOO.
IN The telegraph operators on tn
D. | Nashville and { la tanOOga RulrOa,
i have organized a NJ .el Sunday-schoOl
le | Each Sabbath at = \. NJ, the supeTin
ut tendent operator, Bramblet, at Wart
" race, asks the class questions over tn
to wire, and the quickest pupil TO answe
IT.. is the one who captures the circuit
" Prayer is had, Bible chapter read
~ and, In fact, all the exercises eXceI
C. singing take place.
ed Mrs. Stanley Brown, formerly Mis
lN Mollie Garfield, daughter Of the deS
IN President, is described as a singularl
p beautiful woman, with a slender bJ
NJ effect of her beauty is said 10
ar heightened by ''undIsguisable sugge
'ct tions of sadness" which have lIngere
10 about her eyes and mouth ever sInC
'iI the dark, dark days of 81, when 81
tu lost the father she idolized.
H. The death Of Mrs. EslI-~r HallIda
is the wife Of the noted Ben Halliday
,se has recalled TO WashingtOnians mar
.sH "reminiscences Of her life there IN Il
days of her husbands prosperity.
was she who brought over from EurOJ
at at a cost of 81, 900 the faC-simIles
the famous bronze lions Of Munich no
reposing on the front steps Of the Co
lar coran Art Gallery. For a long tin
ins they lay in the front yard Of the Hall
n-, day residence, and on its sale last sun
IN mer they were bought by the manage
nd of the CorcOTan Gallery for Il, go.
yu, In Japan the wages Of caTpeute
ld, are from 30 to 45 cents a day; woI
yer carvers, 35 to So cents; paper hanger
ma . to 4j cents; stone cutters, 45 10
the cents; blacksmiths, . 10 3S cents, ga
hat deners, - to 3S cents; day labOrers,
ace to % cents. The wOrKingmen pay
.wo cents per month rent for a house Of o
ON room, 81 20 per month for food Al
vi 1915 per year for clothes. This 5che
JW, ule of wages and living will hard
iii' prove complacent reading 20 the a
ye erage American working man
90. "A recent guest at the White HOus
s,,i General Matthew p. Taylor, Is a cous
- Of President Harrison and gres
-, nephew Of William Henry Harriso
,-ap P General Taylor, who was then a chill
bar witnessed the Inauguration Of {
ag,s elder Harrison in lS4l. Taylor "
ne the youngest member of the Harris
H.gnI ~ Iasa# ND 4
great deal OF by the enthusiastic par
ders who marched through the mud
off that rainy day nearly fifty years a.
ac- General Taylor IS not in Washiugt
aud for an Office. President Harrison
fond Of him