Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-01-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Asbestos WAS Grst mined an al
article OF commerce in Canada IN 1873.
In the first year the shipments At the
mines had risen to 4,6l9 tons.
I'm the picturesque psrlance OF Ok
lahoma a sooner" is man who en-
tered the Territory and occupied land
before tie hour named in the Presl-
dents proclamation.
The arsistic wealth or the Paris
munigcipap.ity in paintings, sculpture,
eHgravings, ETC., is estimated at s.,
SOC, 900, outside of the great treasures
owned by the nation.
1t will be curious to note next
Spring, remarks a New England sI-
change, what has been the result OF the
all-winter growth OF grass on lawns,
especially where fertilizing matter has
stimulated il.
Collecting addresses. The Detroit
Journal is endeavoring to collect BY
postal card the addresses of all living
male and female descendants Of revolu-
tionary officers and soldiers OF 1776.
There are no prisons in Iceland,
aud such things as locks, bolts or bars
are unknown. The history of the na-
ton, extending over !, 900 years, records
but two thetts, and no policemen exist
on the island.
President Carnot, of France, has
learned to waltz in the American fash
ion. He has always been fond OF dane
ing, and his recent intimacy with the
American colony in Paris has led him
to adopt our mode OF waltZing.
Laundering operations are almost
at a stand still about the White Noun
tain region. There is next to no snow
in the woods, and In the valleys and
clearings the ground is entirely bare
with the exception of patches Of ice.
The total coal consumption of the
world is said TO amount to upward Of
1000, ,0O0 cwt. per hour; Of this guam
tity about 240, 900 cwt. are required per
hour In order to heat the boilers Of
stationary and marine engines and loco
| motives.
Probably the youngest editor in the
country is Rodman DeKay Glider, the
inspiring genius OF the Chimney Seat,
publication whose first number has
! just appeared in New York. It's mis-
sion Is to help the Washington mem
orial arch.
The embryo Republic Of Brazil Is
getting on, or, rather, those who have
| Undertaken TO start it are. General
| Deodora Fonseca's salary has been
! liked at $50, 900 year, and the salaries
or the ministers and other officials have
been considerably increased.
The European country possessing
the largest number OF public libraries
! IS Austria, which has no fewer than
577, containing 5,475,0OO volumes,
! without reckoning maps ana manu-
scripts; making an average twenty-siI
volumes per 100 OF the entire pOpUIs-
! lion.
"A new building, designed a memo
rial or Henry Ward Beecher, is 10 be
erected on the site of the present lee
ture rooms and parloT of Plymouth
| Church in Brooklyn. John Clahin, =
V. White and Thomas G.. Shearman
have offered TO pay the entire cost,
about S25, 00).
The town of Frankfort, KY, may
be congratulated upon banishiug from
its limits the ose-OffendIng cigarette
Yet even cigarettes may be the cause
of virtue, or they may provide the
same. An Alabama man died of Gig
srette smoking recently, and left Sl0,-
600 to the Y. NJ. {. A
! Objects discovered in and near
Rome by eXcavatOrs will hencefoTth be
placed in the Baths of DiOcletian, there
to form a Museum OF Urban Antiqui-
/ ties, while those found In Z ruria. La.
tium and elsewhere will be placed st
the Villa Glulia, on the Flamlnian Way
beyong the Port del POpOlo, named
from the famous art patton, Pope Ju-
lIus III.
| Two more cases of an unknown
fatal sease have occurred 10 Clear
Lake, Iowa, making eight deaths from
the malady within a short time. A
post-mortem on tie body of the latest
victim shows the same condition as 10
previous cases-numerOus plugs of pals
yellow fibrin filing the cavities Of the
heart. The doctors there are unable 70
classify the disease or cure 1t.
/ Or an eccentric Old man OF a penu.
rious disposition, who recently died IN
MillingUOn, Conn, il Is related that hs
was once asked 10y bold nelghbOr for
S25. The would-be borrower WAS not
allowed to enter the miser's home, but
the desired amount WAS handed from
the window IN clean b lis Of the old
East Haddan, Conn, bank. The IN.
stItution had gone out of existence and
the money was worthless.
} Stanley Is reported to have already
sold the publishers right of volumes, II
which he Will tell the story OF tn,
Emin Relief Expedition, for the sun
of $500, 900. There WAS a great com
4 petition among publ hers for the work
Ole firm going To the expense Of seDd
ing a special agent to treat with th,
explorer on his arrival at Zanzibar
Several German houses have dispatched
agents there to treat with EmIn Pashs
Oh his arrival
What is said to be the largss
organ in the world is building at the
Roosevelt organ work in New York fol
tie Auditorium building, Chicago. Il
viii be operated by electricity. Elec
trio motors are now used for the pump
] ing the organ in eight churches III New
! York city at a cost of $40 per mOntl
per horse power. The water mOtol
, consumed too much water, ard the gas
! engine was too noisy.
William X. Vanderbilt, who hsi
somehow been classed by the public a:
the head of the Vanderbilt family
though his brother is a more import
ant financial figure, looks almost lik'
J boy. He moves about town briskl,
and amiably, and his popularity among
9 people of all sorts is veTv great. There
is none OF the ostentation about hin
| that most very rich men display. HI
! is OF medium height, ruddy checked
:, bright eyed and has an endless fund o
good humor.
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