Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-02-12
NEWS IN BRIEF

Bismarck has a supersitltious dread
Of 1890. II was long ago published Of
him that he confidently believed he
would live till next year, but his in
Inmates say that he does not expect TO
go much. If any. beyond 1t.
A big Newfoundland In Alleghep,
City, by his persistent barking recently,
aroused his master, who, looking out
Of a window, discovered "A large build
ing close ny In flames. The occupants
Of the burning structure were notified,
and had barely time to make their es-
cape.
The base ball men in their conten.
tons are beginning to get irreverent
y despatch from Rhode Islanf IN ref.
erence to the New England League
says: They have assurances that, un-
der no Circumstances whateve, will
Providence have anything to do with
the Atlantic Association"
"A new story OF the familiar
Georgia type Is TO the effect that a resi-
dent of Elberton owns a pet goose that
patrols his grounds all night, and,
when a stranger approaches, sets up
noise that aUouses all the sIeepers foI
quite distance around. 1t Is added
that this remarkable biped has bean
known to attack intruders and tear
their clothing.
The dedication or new church in
Whittier, Cal, recently ELECTED from
the good poet in whose honor the town
is named letter, in which this passage
occurs: Il see your town is spoken OF
as an orthodox Quaker colony. l hope
there VIII be no sectarian fence about
Whittier, but that good men, irrespec-
tive of ther creeds, will tiud a home
there. Nothing would be worse for il
than TO have the Idea get abroad that
anything like intolerance and self
Righteousness was its foundation"
The students and teachers of the
Tuskegee Normal and industrial Insti-
tute, Tuskegee, Ala, are raising among
themselves and the cOlOred people Of
the State a permanent scholarship OF
$1,000 for that school, to bs called the
"Olivia Davidson Washington Menu
.orial Scholarship" Each student con
tributes one cent a week, and the grad
yates are TO give one dollar a year.
Another mummy laid Bare. Wal
lis Bridge, of the British Museum, has
Just returned TO London from Wa'es,
where he has been engaged in the in
teTesting occupation of stripping a IA
nous mummy that was presented q
short time ago to the Royal Institution
of South Wales. 1.-THE mummy turned
out to be all that was left of one who
held high rank in the Egyptian temple
at PanOpolis nearly a thousand years
before the Christian era"
The barn on the old Pierce farm,
now owned by Osman BAbsOn, was
burned recently. The building was q
historical one. It was built about the
year 1880 as the First Universalist
Church In America, Its pastor being
the Rev. John Merry. The centennial
celebration OF Universalism in America
was held in 1870, and thousands OF
Universalists who attended that gath
eung visited this old barn as the Mecca
Of liberal Christianity.
-Boswor,h Smith, in a report on the
KOlar gold field, IN Southern India, re-
cords some finds of old mining imple-
ments, old timLering, fragments OF
bones, an oI!-lamp and broken pieces of
eaTthenwaTe, including cruCIble, the
remains of ancient mining operations.
He expresses astonishment at the fact
that the old miners were able 10 reach
depths of 200 or 800 feet through hard
rock, with the simple appliances at
their command.
An official return Just published
shows that the number of foreigners
who were expelled from France i'm 1855
was made up as follows: SpauiaTds
1915 men and 81 women; Belgiaus, 1896
men and 12O women; Germans, 5t4
men and 50 women; Swiss. 347 men
and p women; Dutch and LuXembur-
gers, Is men AMI Is women; Austral-
ians, 53 men and women; English, d
men and 7 women; United States SUI
iecUs, 80 men and , women; Russians,
20 men and 2 women. and Turkish sub
iects, 10 men and 3 women.
"A peculiar death occurred at the
house of Charles Mutby, IN the suburbs
of Plainfeld, New Jer-ey, recently.
George Robinson, lad employed -
assist Mr.. Malby's gardener, entered
the butIer's store room soon after din
ner and fed himself generously on dried
prunes. He then drank largely Of
water. In a short time, IL is related,
he began to suffer eKcruciating pains
which medical skill could not lessen,
and, within an hour after physician
had been summoned. he was dead.
-Mlschievous college students turr
out to be the persons who have beer
tantalizing the New Haven police bl
carrying off the signs on the stree
lamps. They stored them In a room Al
the college. 4 city Official on learuinI
this sent for two Of the leaders and said
TO them: "We don't want TO Ds severe,
and therefore If you will bring back the
signs within 3G hours there will be no
further troub e. Otherwise the band
will begin to play. Now take your
choice" The boys made the choice
without stopping 10 discuss the matter,
and thu next evening POI glass signs
! were brought back ia bags and tu uued
over 10 the authorities.
A Bangor iceman has statistics
showing the date OF tie closing and
opening Of the hennshrC from 1885 t.
the present time. According to item
''the earliest date on which the river
froze is November 10, in 1903 1920 and
1928. On thirty-'Our years the river
closed during the month Of November,
averaging about the goth. On nins
years it did not freeze to stay frozen
until the first half of January, although
short nips took place earlier, succeeded
| by a warm spell that carried the ice out
again. In lS3O-3l the river did not
close TO stay closed until the llth or
January. The ice went out again on
the Both of March, so that the season
during which the river was closed tOr
vessels was seventy-eight days in
length. This is the shortest on T-corl.
with the exception Of 1905 6, when tie
| ice formed on the 81 of January ar
went out on March 18th. The seasvI
of 1901 was eighty-fve days long.
| The general run of seasons has be, a
from 81 TO l42 days"
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