Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-07-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

I Miss May Brammer is the latest
musical sensation in Europe. She Is
only 16 years old. and Is the holder OF
the prize of the LEIPZIG conservatoire.
! Her execution on the violin is said 70
be wonderful.
"A correspondent tells n Science
that European furze grows in one spot
| in the island of Nantucket, having
been introduced by An IrisEman, who
WAS homesick because it did not grow
about his cabin, as in the Old Country.
VIII Carleton, tie poet. is getting
stout, lives in Brooklyn, and acknOwl-
edges to ive-and-forty. His success
has been sudden, yet. while the critics
/ give him a wide berth, he gets fancy
/ prices for his verSelets, and his future
| work is already contracted for.
The servants of Brazil are very
/ poor, very high-priced aud hard to get.
| The necessity Of having to work To live
never having become a stern reality in
their eyes. they consider It rather
favor than otherw se-ln fact. quite a
condescension-to DO anything at any
rice.
-Novellsts rarely pay much atten-
! tion TO statistics, but Walter Besant, in
his The Bell of ~. Paul - appears 10
have taken note Of the claim that
nearly Ii, 600 bottles were filed at a
famous spring during lSS9. for lie OBJ
serves, This Il An age Of ApOllInaris
water
"A colossal scheme has been pro-
! jected for conveying petroleum in pipes
from the port Of Baku, on the Gasp an,
TO Batoum, on the Black Sea. The
length of this line of piping is 497 miles.
the cast iron pipes are TO be eight
inches in diameter, and there are to be
sixty-four intermediate stations.
The papers are full of accounts of
a silver center piece which Is being
manufactured for the Queen, and which
contains 1000 ounces Of silver as
there is already plate at Windsor castle
valued at upwards Of two millions. II IL
difficult to conceive what the Queer
can want with another center piece.
There Is an old lady living in Polk
county, Fla, who Is quite a genius.
She can write poetry and set il to music
and has written two books. She hunts
phosphate, plants trees, clears land,
works in an orange grove, can knit
dresses, make neat shoes, plait hats OF
palmetto and make flowers out Of
shucks.
Miss Eva McFaddeu, Of Oxford,
! Pa, had an adventure with a rat one
day recently. She took loaf of bread
! from the pantry, and when about to
cut IL rat jumped out Il and scamp
cred around until the family cat settled
its capeTs. The animal had eaten a
/ hole into the loaf and euScOuced itself
therein.
"A motion has been introduced into
the Swedish Parliament, with the OBJ
ject OF raising the marTlagcable age OF
women IN Sweden to y years. This
would mean vast difference from the
. present Law, according 10 which a
woman, or rather girl. il allowed to
marry at the early age Of -.
Experiments have been made near
. Copenhagen with tree telling by dyna-
I mite. Trees of three feet IN diameter
were brought down In some twenty %
. twenty-five III nuies, whereas the time
occupied by ordinary feeling would
probably have been ten times as much.
/ The experiments Were made FOR mill
tary purposes
The Postmaster-G Generals attention
has been called TO the condition of
/ about hundred women employed IN
the mail bag repair shop at Washing
ton. They are compelled 10 mend
forty bags daily for $50 per month.
The WORK is hard, the building uu.
healthful and it is claimed that As a
consequence many Of the women be
come SICK and die.
Probably no sing e aggregation Of
figures give such wonderful Idea OF
the advance in no lern warfare as tue
description of the new krupp gun,
which has Just been ordered for Cron-
stadt. 1t throws a ball weighing :, 600
pounds a distance of twelve miles. The
gun is fOrty-fOur feet long and il can
he fired twice a minute Every time t.
goes of it costs the government Il 800.
1t Will not be used for the purpose OF
firing government 5alutes.
Philadelphia new city hall is one
of the largest, if not the largest, build
ing of it's kind in the world, covering a
space of 47Ox4SG feet, and overlapping
every other structure that man has
built except the Eiael tower AMI the
Washington monument, falling shoIt
of the latter 90 feet by - iucnes. 1t
has go rooms on liJ acres of floor
space. The main stru is l2O feet
high.
Three nails of the true cross have
, been found in a very singular place,
namely, in the ruins Of the theatre at
Zurich which WAS burned down They
were In a little ivory casket OF admir-
able workmanship, together with a
. manuscript on parchment, and were
bricked up within little cayitv Of the
. substructure. 1t is presumed that these
relics were hidden ~ monks during
, the Reformation.
According 70 the Boston Herald
''the heaviest mail carried over my
mail route in the United states Is be-
TWEEN New York and Philadelphia
The average daily weight of the mail
carried over this route last year was
l POI ,Sl3 pounds. Tor trains carrying
the mails the best time !5 made on the
Lehigh Valley RAILROAD between Easton,
Pa, and Metu"heH Station. y. j., dis
tanee 54.20 miles. The average time
of all mail trains is forty miles an hour.
The longest continuous run made by
. postal clerks Is from Omaha to Ogden,
a distance of 1.O3j miles,
q In London alone there are upward
I Of 40 piano factories. over 300
) shops and factories in the metropolis
are devoted TO the supplying of musical
!, goods of all sorts Throughout the
provinces there are about 1900 music
! establishments of various kinds. They
? possess in England no ever than thirty
: seven newspapers dealing exclusively
with music AT the annual banquet OF
tile Society of Musical Instrument
, Manufacturers one of the speakers e.
+ tImated that 80, ,O0O piauO-fortes are
manufactured every year in London.