Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-03-13
NO. II.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

IcCClNtu tAAEl AOL CaA4DES. ~
be sent to England.
Many California vineyardists in
tend this season TO dry their grapes,
instead of selling them at low rates u
wine makers.
The latest estimate Of the coal
supply OF the world gives US fuel Tor
the next so years. 10y which time son
genius will have Invented a way 10
make one coTncob heat big house
for a week.
or three women living in one
house in Walker county, Ga, there
are two wives, two mothers-in-law,
two daughters-in-law, three mothers,
/ two grandmothers and one grest-grand-
mother.
One of the best lawyers in Vir-
! yinia says he would on no account
leave his children any considerable
amount of property, and he gives away
not less than 81 600 year.
! An English joker took down the
calend r in business office. and hung
up one two years old. Dates for impor-
tant papers were taken from It, and q
loss of $50, 900 was the result.
! The Amalgamated Union of Amer
icaR Carpenters has 464 branches and
25, 5,226 members. II is the rival of the
American Brotherhood of Carpenters,
which has a much larger membership.
"A line of cable cars passing
through La Sale street tunnel, IN
Chicago, Is to be lighted by incandes-
cent lamps as the cars enter the tunnel.
the current being thrown out as day
light is again reached.
The greatest depths of the ocean
Of which soundings have been taken
Is off the coast of Japan. The water at
that point is five miles deep, and on the
bottom, even at that enormous depth,
traces of animal life have been found.
There has been begun in Paris a
campa gn against trained nurses, and
a return TO the old system of nursing
by Sisters of Charity has been strongly
advocated. 1t is alleged that the NOR
tallty in hospitals is per cent. higher
since the introduction of trained
nurses.
We are not likely to run short Of
salt in this country for some time TO
come. A solid body of rock salt has
Just been struck in the Onondaga
Valley which proves to be forty
five feet thick. 1he deposit lies at a
depth of l .2l0 feet, underneath strata
u ShhltS du4 4lLcsbUuCs
Mark TWAIN Is SAID by one who
knows him well to be the most miser-
able of men. He is possessed of a wild,
mad fear that ilI-luck Is bound TO over
take him and deprive him of his for
tune. 1t is said that he shed tears of
despair when an old fourteen dollar
COW died a short time ago.
The Boston budget says that
physician, in a recent lecture, de-
clared that if only twenty minutes a
day should be spent in physical exeT-
else, as an adjunct to mental education.
we might live TO be 70 years OF age
without days illness. That physician
doubtless forgot the cucumber and ice
cream periods.
-PauldO White is the name OF a
colored man of Norfolk with a face
almost as fair as a white wOman's.
White says at one time he was per
fectly black, but while at work in
potato patch one day became sunstroke,
and Immediately began to turn white.
Year by year his skin has been getting
fairer.
When a man by the name Of Samuel
Bowlby died in SouthwOld, Ont, in
May, 1857, his beard was about four
inches long, and the hair upon his
head was the usual length worn during
life. When the coffin was taken up
recently for Teburial it was discovered
that the beard had grown to the
length ot eighteen inches.
Marvellous stories are related by
the few Indians who have penetrated
far into the interior of Labrador res
pecting a cataract beneath whose ter
rife leap Niagara pales into insignih-
seen these falls Maclean, who visited
them years ago, estimates their height
at 2000 feet.
The Astor Library, New York,
founded by John Jacob Astor, who
bequeathed $4OO, 900 for that purpose.
was opened January 9, 1854. In Janu-
ary. 1856, William B. Astor, son OF
the founder, gave the land to double
the size of the building. aud In 1875
John Jacob AstOr, the second OF the
name, gave the land and directed the
erection of second new building. The
cost OF the additional building and i'm
provements was about S250,OOU.
-Alphonso XIII, King Of Spain, is
described as an exceedingly handsome
little fellow, with blonde hair which
falls in beautiful curls upon his shOul-
ders. He is all gayety, light hearted
ness and smiles. His little Majesty
gives no thought TO his exalted position
or his future destinies. He reigns, but
does not govern, leaving TO his mother
the care of signing every day great
bundles Of DEGREES and appointments.
Miss Grace KING, the author, L
described as a very modest and retiring
lady and decidedly averse to display Of
any kind. She labors necessarily, and
once told a Southern writer that writ
ing came very hard with her, and wal
attended with much honest labor
Recently she confessed that it wasn't
any easier now than It had ever been.
This willingness TO work hard aad per
sistently is undoubtedly the secret oi
her literary success.
Mrs. United States President-elect
Harrison is a woman OF taste as is Mrs
ex-President Grover Cleveland. Bott
the ladies' are fond of literature, and
Mrs Harrison is a leading member Of
the Katharine Merrill Literary Club OF
Indianapolis. Washington. indeed
see ms to exhale a literary atmosphere
Since going thither the Misses CHIEF
Justice Fuller are said to have devel-
oped surprising tastes for reading, and
together with Miss Secretary Of War
Endicott and Mrs. Secretary of Treas
ury Fanchild spend hours in the study
of Browning, Goethe and Ella Wheeler
Wilcox.
Professor Kirchhof Of Halle esti.
mates that the language most spOker
on the globe, for at least l, 900 years, il
/ the Chinese. for il is undoubtedly the
only one used by over 400 900 900 peo
pie. The next language most in use II
IIindustani. spoken by more THAI
100. 100000. English follows closely
with about 1OO, 200, 600, then Russian
lover 40, OO0. .000), German lover 81. 900.
OUO), and Spanish lover a. .OOO ,OOUl. Al
the present rate OF progress 1t Is prob
able that English will in no long tImt
occupy the second instead Of the third
Dlace.