Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-08-13
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BEILt.


TO the other. -
There are 201, ,0OO more Germans
in New York than in any second class
city of Germany.
"A census enumerator In San Fran
cisco discovered ten club-fOoted chill
dren in one family.
A Wild Westerner, in Winnipeg
Manitoba, lit his pipe IN church, and
was fined SO for it.
"A concert given recently in Read
ing was listened TO in Philadelphia and
Washington by telephone.
There have been eighty-six de-
signs submitted for the great tower in
London. TO sarpass that of Eifel's.
Emperor William, Of Germany, la
his meals conveyed from his kitchen
his dIning-room on an electric railway
Ancient fans had long handles, SO
that ladies used their fans for walking
sticks, and it was by no means unusual
for tasty danes to chastise unruly chill
Hren by beating them with their fan
sticks.
The danger to life and property
from sparks emitted from electric wires
has been so Well recognized in London
Jhat it is recommended that the city
authorities take the matter in hand and
see the wires are properly insulated.
Mrs. Catherine Sharp, of Philadel-
phia, when little girl sold milk to
| General Washington and his staff from
her fathers farm. she is now ll2 years
Old, and her mental facilities are un-
! clCuded.
"A new and popular development Of
electrical science is the electrical hair
curler. 1t is said to be equal TO the
most eXacting demands of the feminine
| coitGure, and the beard or mOustache
can be curled III any style III two MN
utes.
AT the celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the invention OF the post
| age stamp, held recently in England, a
stamp was shown worth lO) guIneas.
1t was from the British Guinea collec-
ton and showed 4 rude pOStmark on
pink paper.
An Australian musician has IN
| vented trombone that is played by
steam. Its ''God save the Queen" can
be heard at a distance of four miles.
lie had hard luck with it, however, for
the people of ms own town drove him
| out as nuisance
Henry Fawcett, the blind English
! postmaster general, who died in 1884,
was greater man 10y half after the
| unfortunate accident which deprived
him of sight than he ever was before.
Il lie was born in 1898 and lost his eyes in
! ISIS, at the age o. =, from the effect OF
a gunshOt wound.
! The discoveries made by Stanley
show that the Nile is the longest river
in the world, being at least /, 100 miles
in length. Were the Mississippi re-
garded merely as tributary TO the
Missouri, as some geogTaphers contend,
the latter would surpasS the African
water course, having length OF 4 800
miles.
Throughout the most elegant per-
iOds of the ''age of chivalTy" handker-
chiefs, or any substitute for them other
than such is nature provided, were
utterly unknown. Elaborate books Of
| etiquette and treatise5 upon manners
were written long before either hand
kerchiefs OF table forks were thought
Of.
Miss Caroline Whiting, Il years Of
/ age, has been te. cher III New 1Ork
! city for Gfty-three years. For fifty
years she has not spent a day in bed;
| has taught always III the same school
! (No. l4), and worn out two school
buildings; has been forty years princi-
pal, and has twenty teachers under her
care and has had not fewer than u, 90
| pupils.
"A monument is being constructed
! by the Vermont Marble Company at
Rutland, Vt, to commemorate the loss
OF the Inflated steamer Jeanette, Of
Arctic fame, her commander, the gal,
liant De Long, and his company. 1t is
to be paid for with funds raised from
subscription among officers and men Of
the navy, and VIII occupy cOnspicu-
GUS place IN the Naval Academy Gene
terry, at Annapolis, Nd
John Cough, totally blind from the
age of 3 years, became quite celebrated
as botanist and writer on subjects
! pertaining to natural philosophy. He
/ arranged, by the sense of touch alone,
and without the least aid from any liN-
Ing human being, one Of the largest and
most valuable collections of dried herbs
and grasses 1T that time 1880 known III
Britain.
Mr. Herreshof, the blind president
of the Herreshon Manufacturing Com
pany, of Bristol, II. l., seems as much
out of his element in his present capa-
city as either the blind sculptor or the
| blind postmaster general. Aside from
Ellison, the government has recognized
him as being one of the greatest in
ventors of the times.
The Americans who are exploring
and excavating in Mesopotamia have
every reason So far to be satisfied with
the results. at Niffer, the NIpur Of
the ancients, they have laid bare the
temple of Bel-a very fine One-and
have found inscribed tablets which date
back to about 1850 b. C., and at UT,
in the great temple library, they have
discovered many inscribed tablets,
cylinders and bricks Of first-rate relig-
ious and historical Importance
This little story is from a New
Orleans journal: Little FloTibel Deitch,
Z years old, died suddenly at Morgan
City, and her pet pigeon flew into the
room while the corpse lay surrounded
by weeping relatives and friends. The
deep grief of the mourners 20 impressed
the bird that it drooped its head and
died. 1t was placed in the coffin and
buried the next day with its little mis-
tTess."
The Japanese are gentle, sensl-
tive race, very much under the in6u-
snce of their emotions. Love with
them is a serious matter; often one OF
life or death. Disappointment in love,
or dc sertion, frequently ends in suicide.
The passions which thrill and torment
the human soul are as intense in far
away heathen Japan as in those lands
which boast a higher civilization.
-Jewelry is constantly being twisted