Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-09-17

Tie ~#l..H las given to the King Of
lla.t a.FrIa. Arab horses aud other
valuable presents.
One hundred and twenty walnut
tree, standing lu tie forest near Del
Phi, IND, were sold lately for $1,000.
President Caruot of France Is gain
ins a Teputat ON Of being the most
industrious tAUIuetmaker IN Europe.
The Ventura county, California,
papers are unging their readers TO plant
cdmphor trees. They are said to grow
as rapidly as the eucalyptus.
After forty years OF mormon rule
all the city OF salt axe has 10 show is
some sets of boo6s that the most expert
bookkeeper in the universe cannot bal
ance.
An instrument has been invented
IN Berlin by means or which an exact
dIfierential diagnosis of diseases of the
lungs VIII he possible. The inventor Is
DR.. JanIczewslI.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is going to take
10 the lecture stage. She has contract
ed Tor twenty Lectures to be delivered in
tile principal cities OF the country he
ginning III October.
Oliver Dauymple, the bonanza
farmer of Dakota. expects TO raise this
year $1,000 acres OF wheat. MT Dal-
Iymple is not an applicant for seed at
the expense Of the State.
Baron de IL Grange, a French
nobleman, now in Baltimore, has Or
dered a lot of American corn-cob pipes
To be sent rs present to the COmte
Jean de kergoIlay, No Il Rue Matig-
non, Paris.
"A one-legged negro in Egbert
County, Georgia, has produced the
first bale Of cotton every season ~ that
county for several years. lie is pros
porous and is accommodating handsome
Independence.
Lady Colin Campbell has written a
play in which she VIII take a leading
part. If she acts as badly on the stage
as she did in private life her profess
siOnal career VIII be rs short as her
moral repertoire.
The Empress Frederick has be
come an enthusiastic archaeological
student at Athens. Or. Schliemanu
superntends her studies, and with him
she has visited both olympus and the
ancient ruins of Mycenae.
Experiments have been made in Ger
many with torpedoes made of paper,
loaded with a charge Of p pounds of
dynamite and fired 10y electricity Very
! satisfactory Results are said to have
been obtained.
Aunt Matilda Ruby of Kentucky
has just died at the age of l35. She
chewed and smoked for century and
quarter. But for her wicked and
deblItatiHg tobacco habit she might
have lived to quite a respectable old
age.
Mr.. s. Il. Wilson of salt Lake re-
ports on good authority that the Stand
ard Oil Company has recently com
pleted the purchase of GO,OOO acres
of oil territory m Wyoming, and will
proceed TO develop the same imme
diate'y.
William Lloyd Garrison Is tall and
and slim, and gray, and bald. He has
amasSed a considerable eOmpeteLce out
of wool, and Is OF a decidedly literary
turn of mind. He has "A weak voice,
which mars the effect Of his public
speeches.
An English phys clan recommends
the use If uitro-glyceriue instead OF
alcohol as a stimulaut in case of physi-
cal exhaustion. The widows Of many
a torpedo shooter in the oil regions can
vouch for the efficacy of nitro-glycerine
Is an annihIIaior.
bronson Howard, writing from
Europe to "a friend in this country, and
speaking not Of poker, but of politics,
expresses the opinion that tle day al
Kings and Queens has passed.
The French army authorities are
considering the adoption Of a helmet of
one design for the entire army except
the cavalry, and models have been Iu-
vited from the leading hatmakers.
The belle at a recent dog feast on
an Indian reservation in Dakota wore
jacket trimmed with teeth from $50
elks, which she herself had slain. She
is the granddaughter of the chief OF IA
tribe.
"A picturesque character who re
Gently died in Washington 60 nty,
Georgia, was noted for tradI z Jack
knives. On the handle Of every knife
he ever owned he made a little private
mark, by which ne could recognize it II
1t ever came into his hands again
-Mwanga, King of Uganda, who
has accepted Christianity, is the man
who used to have a few wives slaught-
cred before breakfast now and then. He
has also k ed a number of mission
aries. His reformation gives ciyiliZa
tiOn a great boost in Africa.
Mime. Emma Nevada, with her
husband and little daughter, has re-
turned TO Paris from Madrid 20 try
what change Of air will do to remove
the last traces Of the violent and reit-
Grated attacks of influenza which have
kept her prostrated throughout the Ell
tire winter.
The London papers print the opn-
ion of "a distinguish EgyptOlOgisL"
that the vatican collection Of Egyptian
antiquities las been greatly damaged
and its usefulness largely destroyed, by
the manner in Which the broken pieces
were restored" and repaired by igno
raut guardians.
A private letter from England
says: ''It has been stated that the
Duchess Of Marlborough Is not noticed
by the nobility. This is not the fact,
as she IS most popular, and Is dong
much good in the Village of Wood
stock, but people still look cOldly on the
Duke, and hope that she may be able
to reclaim him. "
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