Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-06-04
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

california anu south Africa.
The most elevated town In the
United States is Red Mounta n, Owray
County, Col, which is at an altitude sf
IL, l23 feet. The lowest land IS S.lltOu,
San Diego County, Cal , which Is 2G3
feet below the sea level
Young Jdps are regarded by AmerI-
can naval officers as the best kind Of
servants Oh shipboard. They are mar
vels of neatness. Intelligence, obedience
and courtesy. Some Japs Of excellent
position at Il me are performing such
services on American-men-ofw war.
The cos;liest ho- e barn in the
world belong to ID. +. Grouse, and is
located at Syracuse, y. Y. 1t has now
cost the owner something Ike 500, OuO
Incidental expense VIII make the sta
ble cost little short of a round $1,000
900.
1t is said that the annual incsme
of John ID. Rockefeller, the founder OF
the Standard Oil Company, is six mil
lion dollars. If this statement Is cor
rect, six hundred and elghty-fOur dol
lars roll III upon him every hour, night
and day.
In few sections of Iowa rats have
become a terrible nuisance, aud the
farmers have organized 10 hunt them.
Around Milton over /, 600 Of the pests
have been driven out Of their hiding
places and killed, but the farmers are
not satisfied, and intend keeping up the
crusade until the town has been freed
of the rodents.
1t is not generally known that
Wagner wrote the librettO Of The
Flying Dutchman" for Paris mana
ger, who entrusted the composing Of
the music to one Dietsch. His opera
was a failure, and a year later Wagner
set his own music TO his own poem,
first writing the spinning choT $. The
world knows that the Wagner Dutch
man" was triumph.
In TI1is, Russia, a club OF l2J
families, hired a doctor for $50 a year,
who agreed to visit the families regu-
larly and give them advice as 10 how TO
keep healthy, to tend them if sick, and
besides, TO give the club occasional
short lectures upon hygiene and physi-
OlOgy. Each family pays City cents
per month for this service, and twenty
five poor families are admitted free.
Similar arrangements have been made
with the druggists.
The admirers Of Prince Bismarck
in Germany are developing plans TO
found a Bismarck museum in Berlin
on the next birthday anniversary Of the
Chancellor. Collections have been
made already and requests sent out for
AL relics pertaining 10 the Prince or
his family. 1t will, In all probability,
lie arranged somewhat after the sty le
of the well-knOwn HOheuzOlleru Mu-
scum, which is one Of the palaces OF
Frederick the Great. The Chancellor
is fiatterel by the idea.
The survey Of the mouth Of the
Columbia River, recently made under
authority Of the Secretary OF War,
shows that great and beneficial changes
have taken pace upon the bar
since the survey Ot lNSJ, about the
time of the commencement Of the
construction OF the jetty. The same
channel depth over the bar v which WAS
available for width Of Is miles in
1850 is now available for width of 3
miles, with Indications that much
Geeper channel is forming through
about the middle Of tie bar.
"A postal card, written in al uucer-
tain, juvenile sort Of peumauship. con-
tanning an important message between
its up bin lines. found It's way TO Jus
uce Taintor, in the Essex Market
Court, New York, recently, and caused
his Honor 70 smile generously. This
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