Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-05-27
EEWS IN BRIEF.
Florida claims a meershaum mino.

-fiorida claims meerSnaum minc.
New York was incorporated a city
in 1864.
An Indiana girl sneezed 1000 times
in four hours.
"A Frenchman is going to walk Oh
stills from Paris 10 Moscow.
The German cavalry is AIMED at
present with lance. saber and carbine.
The Chilian insurgents have wal
ship bearing the name of "O'Hig-
gins"
"A teg is a sheep or doe In its
second year. The term is used in Eng
land.
Jean Moot, who introduced tobae-
CO into France, is 10 have a monument
in that country.
Two deaf mutes were married at
Marion, Ind. A Typewriter was used
in propounding the questions.
"A green tree frog In the London
Geological Gardens perfers wasps to
other food, despite occasional stings.
Reputation is the mean of life;
some men have to live up to it, othert
to live It down.
TO forgive when we have forgot
ten is easy; to forgive when we know
we can never forget is noble.
If some men rad the nine lives of
a cat they would waste them all IN folly
and then have nine death bed repent
ances.
Nearly every one rates himself at
his true valuation, but he is careful
not to take the world into his conf
dence.
"A home for broken down bachelors
has been founded il st. Louis.
The discovery of nickel near the
village of Pieova, In Ontario, has
created much excitement.
Poisoned grain has been scattered
in the courthouse yard at Sou City,
and it is expected that the English
sparrows will eat it and die.
The city council of Santa Barbara,
CAL. has ordered every eucalyptus tree
that stands within one hundred feet OF
q water main to lie cut down.
L. X. Tannock, of Pratt Mines,
deep. There was not enough water in
1t to drown HIM, and he was taken out
alive but badly bruised.
"A schoolh0use in which Susan B.
AnthOnJ taught for three years, up in
CanaiOharie, in central New Y Urk, has
been advertised for sale at action. 1t
was built in lS49.
III f1,s.a a,-1t
woman physician appointed TO visit DIR.
; Rocks laboratory, and enjoyed equal
advantages with the other doctors In
investigating the case.
Recently the Princess of Wales sp-
peared in long white lace boa, en-
broilered with real pearls, the cost OF
which, ondon society papers give as
over g, 500
When you construct or order your
next gown, see 10 IL that the sleeves
come quite down to your knuckels. II
not, your gown Will stand chance Of
looking old fashioned
kansas City's Chief of Police is
| looking for an embeZZler who is only Is
! years old, six feet three inches tall and
weighs 100 pounds.
"A crazy spectator In court at
, WOonsocket, r l., recently seized
some copies of tue general statutes and
smashed glass panels In judge BellonI
bookcase and window lights to the ex.
tent of thirty-tive dollars before he
could be Sc zsi and locked up.
-Rhoda Broughton lives at Oxford,
! England, where she took up her abode
! just ten years ago. In all she has writ
! ten about thirty books, but she has al
lowed only half of them to be pub
lished.
The practice of employing women
| Gle ks in the Government service origi-
mated with Secretary Chase, who ap-
pointed Miss B. I. Wilson to place in
the Treasury Department September
10, 1861.
Miss Elsie Stanley is an Australian
girl OF fourteen who has great musical
| talent, and has just won a scholarship
at the London Royal C.llege of Music,
which entities her to a free education
| for three years.
Linen lawns promise to be much
worn. They are usually printed In
black figures and flowers on a white
ground; and when laundry work is not
matter of serious consideration, no
material is neater or more durable.
Mrs. a. Caxton, an English wom-
an, has invented a patent ear cap, and
henceforth no one need be disdgured
| by ears that stand out too far. The
cap Is like skeletod of tapes, which
effectfully converge over the ears.
The cap Is intended to be worn at
night,
-Crickets are au article Of COM
mercs in some parts of Africa, and
people make business Of rearing
them, The natives are very fond
of their music, thinking that it induces
sleep.
While W. K. Vanderbilt's Alva
was steaming through MedIterra mean
! storm on her way to Villefarnca, an
enormous wave deposited a seventy
! five pound turtle on the deck. 1t was
good to eat, and therefore was eaten.
The other day Windsor( Vt farm
er on going out to Lis sheep pen noticed
a bunch on one of his long wool sheep,
and upon examination found
rat which had got its tall woven
into the wool and was unable to get
away.
Mount Pilatus has heretofore been
saved from having railway built up
its side by the perpetual cloud that
rests on its top. IL has been discovered
that this cloud is never more than nIne-
ty feet high, so now the company is
ready to build the railroad and raise an
Eiffel tower 300 feet in diameter at it's
base. $40 feet IN eight, with platform
at the top 120 feet square. Krupp is to
supply the steel, aud the building is
hoped fo- In 1895,