Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

de for the color blindness with which
arge numbers Of applicants for posi-
lions on railways are affected.
1t is known that the bellows were
used in Egypt IN the time of TOthmes
Ill, one OF the Pharaohs 1890 b. q.
From a picture on a tomb Of that date
bellows made of leather bags, worked
by men standing upon them, are
shown
"A petrilied apple was discovered Al
Harrington, Ne, recently. by some
boys. 1t had been changed TO the color
Of marble. The stem and blossom were
apparently as perfect as when the fruit
fell from the tree.
"A child born in Denmark is con-
sidered to be Dane only while he TO
mains in that country. Birth in Portu-
gal confers Portuguese nationality un-
iess the child formally renOunces il.
Two French painters. NM. De
lord and Pierre Carrier r-Belleuse. have
received an order from an American
company TO paint panorama OF the
two great Journeys OF Henry NJ. Stan
ley through Africa.
Once again the Weather Bureau
advertises cold wave. 1t Is struggling
very hard TO help out the plumber, the
coal dealer and the seller of sealskin
sacques. But do you know how large
portion of the community Is happy
70 get along without winter clothes or
extra fuelP
According to DR.. Talmage Solo
mon at one time possessed s., 400 OO0,-
900 in gold and s., l45, JOU, 334 in silver.
How happy Solomon must have been
along about this time of the Yea-. But,
OF course, he had no Philadelphia stores
in which TO spend his money.
In New Zealand, where rabbits are
a great pest, they are poisoned with
malt, sOwn in burrows, as turnip seed
would be sown; they feed at dusk and
IN the early morning. In a fortnight
10000 rabbits were destroyed with only
eight bushels of poisoned malt, on the
Glen Erin estate, near kyneton.
The beautiful Earl crematOry and
chapel in Troy, n. Y, cemetery inter-
ests all travellers who visit it. Tie
structure is Of Westerly granite, and at
the south end is a square tower ninety
feet high. A low loggia connects this
with the chapel, and IN room west of
the chapel is the crematory proper, IN
which stands a retOrt constructed on
the Nenini system. The building was
presented to the city by w. 5. Earl, sS
a memento of his son.
"A St Louis man who remembers
when Henry NJ. Stanley acted as cor
respondent for newspaper in that city
with General HancOck's Indian expedi-
tinn, says the explorer at that time
signed his name John Rowland and eX-
planned that he signed Henry NJ
Stanley" as a correspondent out Of re-
spect to the New Orleans merchant OF
that name Who had befTieDded him
when a boy.
The natural cunning of the fox
was shown at New Ipswich, y. II. a
fox that was started by a hunter ran
directly to pond and passed around
the edge on the Ice as near the open
water as possible. The dogs followed
closely, and, coming upon weak ice,
/ broke through, and but for help given
them would have drowned. Meanwhile
Reynard escaped TO place of safety.
In parts OF Il ooklyn the excellent
custom has been adopted Of placing on
street lamps the numbers of the houses
nearest to which they stand. This is
a great convenience to people who are
searching for a certain number in the
dark of an evening, since the general
methods Of displaying house numbers
are far from satisfactory. The idea Is
not new, having been adopted in New
York at least ten years ago.
"A case OF particular interest TO men
who insure their lives for the benefit Of
their wives was recently decided in st.
Louis. The case was CEe in which 4
man had taken out such policy. His
wife died, and he married again-hav-
ing children by both marriages. At his
death dispute arose as TO who was
entitled 10 the insurance. The decision
of the court was that, as the Insurance
was taken out for the benefit of the
first wife, her children alone were en-
titled to the money.
"A curious case of out Of the frying
pan into the fire occurred in Sydney,
New South Wales. An evangelist Was
addressing a crowded meeting when
panic arose among the audience. The
caretaker promptly threw open the es-
cape doors, but fotgot there was an eI-
cavation IA feet deep outside Of one OF
them, made for a proposed enlargement
of the building. Into this pitfau the
people tumbled as they rushed out, the
majority fortuna ely escaping with
nothing more than a severe shaking.
Three of the new States-Montana
and the two Dakotas-havs given 20
women the right to vote at school cleo
IlOLs. L lltN have also DAOklAtA AlAdA
only one-thIrd Of the school lands can
be sold at time, and there must be an
interval Of five years between the offer
ing of each portion, and none must be
sold. unless after fifteen years, for less
than ten dollars an acre. If these pro
visions are hOnOTdbly carried out, the
school systems of these States will have
splendid endowment.
Sir Henry Isaacs, the new Lord
Mayor Cf London, is the third Jew who
has filed that Office since the date OF Its
institution, just 700 years ago. Henry
FitZ-Elwin, who first held the Office,
was appointed by tie Crown. The TIVE
previous Lord Mayors of the Jewish
persuasion were Sir David Solomons
and Sir Benjamin Phillips, and curl
ously enough, the year 1899, during
which Sir Henry Isaacs viii exercise
his authority, is the 60Oth anniversary
Of the expulsion of the Jews from Eng
land by King Edward l.
There is a rich family of the name
of Lofting in England whose fortune
was founded by the thimble. The frs,
ever seen in England was made in Lon
don less than 2, 90 years ago by a meta
worker named John Lofting. It's use
fulness commended it at once to Al.
who used the needle, and Lofting &C
qIIired large fortune. 1t was then
called the thumb-bell, it being worn Oh
the thumb when in use, and It's shape
suggesting the rest of the name. This
clumsy mode of utilizing it was soon
changed, however. but the name, soft
encd into ''thimble," remains.
Fish-medt does not contain more
PHOSPHORUS than ordinary butchers
meat. The benefit which brain-work-