Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-11-12
NEWS IL BRIEF.

From twelve to eighteen suicides on
an average have been registered daily
at the Paris Police Office.
The ex-Emperor of Brazil is occu-
pying himself chiefly with studies in
SanscTit, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek.
"A Russian Lieutenant. p years old.
has just completed trip 10y bicy o. from
st. Petersburg to Paris inside OF thirty
days.
"A Chicago paper SAYS that George
NJ p ullman will build 81 ,OOo,O ,ODJ ho-
tel at HYDE Park in tine for the Worlds
Fair.
in Belfast, a few days ago, George
and Swallowing both seeds and
skins"
1t IS expected that the numbar Of
bodies cremated in Milan will soon
average one a day, as nearly two thCus-
and bodies have been cremateG there
during the last thirteen years.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde is a plainly
dressed, pretty little woman with an i'm
mense GainsborOugh hat, heavy witt
droop ug plumes.
y Clarion (In.) has uueartheJ a cab
bage that weighed eighteen pounds,
measured three feet i'm circumference
and one foot two inches in diameter.
1t Is of the fat Dutch variety.
F. B. Sackett OF Heath, Fla. says
that he has sold his crop of coffee for
tins year, which will he about five
pounds from one tree 10 the AgIigut-
urdi Department at " ashingtun, for s.
a pound.
"A new toy IS a plain sheet Of paper
on which the figure Of some animal has
been traced with an invisible Ere-proOf
solution. The paper is set on fire
AMI burns away, leaving the figure in
tact.
On the occasion OF the recent fete
at the country seat Of a wealthy woman
all tie cows on the estate wore nsckla-
ces O. wide, yellow satin ribbon and had
their horns tied with narrower ribbon
of the same color.
The municipality Of Genoa has, it
Is reported consented 10 restore the
house i'll which Christopher Columbus
lived. 1t is rapidly falling into
decay and has long st ood in need Of 10
pair.
Henry NJ. Stanley VIII begin his
lecture season i'll this country next
month. He will find no hostile tribes
here. The great American pocket-boOk
is waiting lmpdt.ehtly FOR him 10 eN-
plore II.
\ New Haven gentleman has a
couple of tame wasps. They have
built nest in his pdIlOI AID live un-
disturbed and uud>tgIb.ug. This Is
the irird season the insects have Occu-
pied the same quarters.
While passing Blue Canon, Cal,
the other day, a rLilr, al emp oye threw
a piece of coal from an engine. killing
a ty tauder. The authorities have
relel~ei tie railroad man declaring
that the death WAS accidental.
An ordinance in Sterling, Conn,
eXempis blind persons from taxation.
TarmsT Barbour claims eNtml tlou un-
der tie law, ard proved To tue tlsfact.
ion Of an intel Igeut Judge aud jury
that, though he could NOW, hoe and
load hay on cart, lie was stone blind.
Jacques Pirou, adrum-major in the
army OF the first Napoleon, died recent
ly in the French town of la Suze at the
sge of lOl. H. was iu nearly all the
bat les of tie great Emperor and was
wounded thlrly-Jw3 times Though
a mere piece OF surgical patchwork he
was aln ays in good LumOr and good
health
During September = certificates OF
uatur IiZBtI0u were granted 10 aliens by
q e British Home Secretary, The for
eiguers came. eleven from Germany.
SIX from Russia, 6 rec from Austria,
two from Denmark, and Turkey, and
one each from Russian Poland, spain
and Sweden,
DR.. RouchaTsky, aIrofessOT OF med
iciue III ~. Petersburg, con pleted a lee
ture on &C ds, and then poured some
drops from a al IN a glass. Then he
said 10 his class: Attention, young
menl In two minutes you Will see a
man diel GOOd-by T. YOU all'' He
drank the liquid, took out his watch and
counted the seconds until lie dropped
lead.
Frank \. Whittier, Of Boston, IS a
sufferer from an attempt at an acrobat
ic feat, which resulted unfortunately.
While on his way from Thompsouville,
Mass, whore he had imb bed lnspira-
tiOn, lie tried to amuse tie passengers
on the accommodation train by turning
back handspring. lie turn ed over all
II ht, but in landing on his feet he frac-
tuged a small bone in his ankle,
-BuffaIoes are every year reaoming
more and more scarce, the Indians are
approaching determination, and We are
told that soon there viii be 10 more
seals. 1t may not be long before these
distinctive products OF this hemisphere
VIII have become mere memories, The
/ world and its inhabitants are changing
more rapidly than we imagine, aud the
/ reality Of to-day becomes merely the
tradition OF tomorrow.
This years mimic wars, conducted
/ in various lands on an uupTecented
scale, have not, Is a rule, ended in
smoke. Almost every country las been
experimenting with suOkeless powder
/ with the net result that it viii be oSvi-
ously IN universal use at the opening Of
the next big war. OF its peculiarities
/ We get the most detailed accounts from
( France, where opinions differ as TO the
balance OF its benefits and short
cOmlHgs.
"A remarkable proceeding is reported
from Chicago where a father was ar
rested for not taking out theatrical
license for a little theatre which his
Z children ran in the cellar, charging Eve
pins for an admission,
Il. Y. Blankinshlp, of Marion Mas,
has clock which was made IN 1872.
/ The works are of brass, and the clock
keeps as good time as it d Id when it was
made, los years ago, but the accounts
vary as TO the kind Of time il kept in
1872.
Several old villages in Cass County,
. Michigan, have clUng to the ancient