Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

4 OF bcdC0eIS DcluE, 10, SfOs OF C-tTks IN
civil service, 2,260; of painters, 1,1s0i
OF students, 1000, and Of engrayers,
"a
Trailing arbutus, with buds almost
ready to burst into bloom, were found
in sheltered woods at Lakewood, n. J..
! on Sunday, December 22d, by visitor.
/ DandeliOns were in bloom every
where.
/ The negroes of Texas own l,000,-
900 acres OF land, pay taxes on $50, ,0O0,-
/ 600 worth of property, have 2OOO
! benevolent associations, $500 common
schools, fifteen newspapers and 125, 900
children being educated.
The snow storms have been so
heavy IN Austria this winter that in
the rural sections bears have been
driven by hunger to the villages, where
they were killed and eaten.
Pennsylvania has a big trout farm
near Emmaus Station, on the East
/ Pennsylvania Railroad. There ara
eight ponds at the farm. (which num-
Der by actual count "a, 700 brook trout,
and p, 900 California trout from enc 70
four years OF age
"A remarkable town. indeed. Is
/ Hanover, Me, if the following, which
J is making the rounds Of the New Eng
/ land papers is true: Hanover is with
out a minister, doctor, lawyer or
pauper, and had enough money left
over from last year to so without as
sessing new taxes.
The last and 10y all odds the finest
mansion in Washington Is Sawyer
Palace" the new house Of Senator
! Sawyer, Of Wisconsin. Sawyer Pal
ace a West End Splendor and the latest
acquisition to Washington's most Rris-
tocratic quarter. 1t Is only two blocks
from stewart Castle"
Earl Spencer's library, At AIthorp.
Northampshire, is to be disposed of. II
comprises one of the finest collections
OF rare and curious books in England,
numbering over $4,000 volumes, OF a
quality and value sufficient, as Diblin,
the king of bibliophLles, sail, to cause
a ''heaTt-warming glOw'' in every man
who beheld them.
More than 10000 plated Roman
coins, dated between 26O 4. D., and
800 \. D., have been found beneath a
tile at st. Pabu, FinIsterre. The ques-
tiOn Is were these the result OF a queer
private enterprise or did NalerIan.
. DlOcletian and other emperOrs play off
these plated limitations for the true coin
of tie realm.
1t seems clear that Robert Brown
ing was Cf Hebrew orig IN. His mothers
maiden name was Wledemann. His
, father was a trusted clerk of the Roths-
childs at time when the famous firm
was supposed to employ none but per
I sons of their own faith. But the family
passed for DiSSenters. The poet al
ways took the keenest interest in Jewish
history and legend
The past year has been an ''on''
one in fishing followed by the New
England, Nova Scotia and Newfound-
land fleets, and the catch at most OF
the leading fishing ports, from Pro
YincetOwn TO st. Johns, shows a falling
off of more than One-quarter from the
average. Gloucester shows a smaller
reduction than almost any other port.
There is much excitement, it is re.
. ported, il the neighbOrhOOd Of the so
called Swift river gold mines, in OK
ford county, Maine. Zone who has
had experience in the Western mines
has been inspecting the region, and re-
ports that there are sure indications OF
gold all along the course Of the stream.
lie found considerable OF the metal,
which was assaYed, and yielded Sl9 10
10 the ounce.
| Excessive cigarette smoking Is held
responsible for yet another death. The
latest victim OF the habit, a school boy
named Walter Fletcher, has died in
, Louisville. "IIe was tie brightest boy
in his class, but about a year ago be-
came an excessive smoker of cigarettes,
sometimes using fifty 10 sixty in a day.
Recently he was stricken with heart
/ disease, directly brought on by smOk-
ing"
-Apropos to a discussion as to whep
shad was 0rst used as food, new
Rochelle ~. y correspondent writes
to the New York Tribune. my uncle.
Judge Oliver l. Lay, of Lyme, Conn,
who was born in November, 1893, as
sured me that it was never eaten in his
youth except by the poorest people, and
then IN shame and in secret, aud that
TINS was true of the entire Connecticut
/ Valley, and not until as late as 1888
was it favorably regarded 10y all
classes -
Confusion arises oc casionaIly when
R year like 1900 Is discussed, as to
whether or not it Is a leap year. This
is tile rule: Every year of which the
number IS divisIDle by without a re-
mainder is a leap year, excepting the
centesImal years, which are leap years
only when so dlvisIble after suppress
ing the two Z-TOes. Therefore, l6O.
was a leap year, 10 being divis.ble by
without remainder; and so 2OOO will
be leap year. But 100 and 1870 were
common years; and so Will 1890 be, be-
cause II, Il and l9 are not diyisible by
4 without a remainder.
Sister Katherine, a novice in the
Order Of the Sisters of Mercy at Pitts
burg, better known 10 the world as
Miss Kate DreXel, the millionaire
heiless, has decided TO build a convent
near TOrresdale, Pa, after She has
Iassed through her uOviiiate. Torres
dale is about twelve miles from Phila-
delphla. Sister katherine will be at
the head of it., and it is her intention
10 educate and train a slsterhood to
work among the cOlOTed and Indian
races.
One of the latest inventions. and one
that has not yet been made public, SAYS
Modern Light and HeGt, is the electri-
cal register. 1t is intended to be used
for variety of purposes. a series Of
buttons along the inside of a horse car
within easy reach for the conductor
connect with the register at the end OF
. the car In somewhat the same manner
as the present existing arrangement
by pressing one OF these buttons the
fare is registered and the announcing
/ bell rings simultaneously. In the sys-
tenn used at p. esent the conductor pulls
the leather strap which u2gs the Tell
and the fare is registered by the return
action or the belt. 1t is said that in
the present method the gong can be
rung without registering the fare by
skIllful mduipulatfOu a uaIu IN ~,