Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-06-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

in human scalp.
The Hungarian novelist Joksi is
said TO be millionaire.
Our spare hours are well named;
they seem the Shortests of the day.
On July 6, tile earth Is farther
away from the sun than at any other
time.
The latest Paris music hall sensa-
tion is the donkey which plays the vio-
loncello.
There are still fourteen different
places on this globe where cannibalism
is practiced.
In Germany's public school stutter-
ing boys are over twice as numerous ~
suffering girls.
The longest name in the Bible ID
Marhar-shalal-h hash-baz 1t occurs In
Isaiah viii, 3,
"A man never knows how much he
can do till he tries-Or how badly he
eau do it either.
The thinker must write so that he
that runs may read, In order to become
"a Ii yht and power"
Farm lands in the United States.
taking the country as a whole, occupy
only 2S9 acres in every 1000.
The Ne,O York World paid out
SlS4 0O0 for one months collection Of
news and publication of the paper.
Patti Is preparing her autobio-
graphy, which will be published simsul-
taneously in Paris and London.
Have at least two pairs OF shoes Of
the same weight, and do not wear the
same pair two days in succession.
Twelve of the slgners of the Declar-
alton of Independence were Irishmen.
or OF Irish descent-jt Is said.
Historian Bancroft rated the
American poets in this order. Emer-
son, Bryant, Longfellow and Whittier.
Linen that has become yellow from
being laid away may be whitened IL
soaked III buttermiik two or three days.
The Visiting Nurse association of
Chicago employs and pays four train
ed nurses TO visit the sick poor free Of
charge.
"A white pitch has been discovered
that can be run into deck seams hot,
and will stand the suns heat in any
climate.
-Twenty-six people named Mahoney
are employed in various capacities by
the city and county government OF
Chicago.
Mrs. Arthur De Vail, OF New
Y ork, possesses a necklace OF priceless
pearl ropes containing 100 pearls Of
large size.
The largest reservoir in the world
is the great tank of Dhebar in India,
which covers an area of 2l squire
miles.
The king of all Holsters was caught
recently off Monhegan, Me. He was
thirty inches long and weighed fourteen
pounds.
The largest beekeeper In the world
is Mr.. HARRISON, of California, who has
5000 hives, producing 10000 pounds Of
honey yearly.
p The discussion of the Affairs Of
pne's peighbors is an evidence Of pry-
ing disposition and of a mind occupied
with tTif1es.
/
oiS"ho y, onlol III Sno sutA5y nj
ne Gnu M, oa,i a.' ion ~" - "i1 o.
aS1 tr"c 'ny 30 ,or.n oan 1ULs ,o,ins ' Ao ''
Mrs. Philip r. Armour, the wife
of the Chicago millionaire, is potable
hOusekeeper, and prldes herself upon
'''i 0'''i'i' '"'
Some recently published statistics
sio" t.iaI ,, Saii'ica 10 s'ie Plouu pos-
SeSSol ,S. Ut o,uIi IA" ySls, "a ""oin ne"''
oiie-n -n"'i oo'ons " On'"'o'
Commissions in children shou be
treated with cod bandages 10 the head
anu neae W 'i'e ooay. N Tuo vi "aim
"ateI anu niuS'aiu 10 soou'
Mrs. f. ID. E. n. SouthwOrth's
full name is Emma Dorothy Eliza
Neuette SouthwOrIh. She Ia over
seyenty-five years of age and very
feeble.
-Tennyson was fifty when his idyls
-"Elaine, " "Viyien," " "Guinevere''-
were published, and was about sixty
two when he completed the series with
"Gareth and Lynette."
--ITnited States Senator PIatt esti-
mates that there are telegraph wires
enouqb To reach TO the moon and
back and then girdle the earth three
timess
Mr.. Ta,mage prides himself upon
being able to turn out an excellent ser
mon more readily than most men can
write letter. Sturgeon is an equally
qulcA coihPo'ei'
Friends of the mOrbidly irritable
should guard against increasing the
evil by their own conduct, Snd gen.
orally should take counsel with a ply
stefan.
/ Water which is drank is not the only
scource of danger. Many a widespread
and fatal epidemic has be n traced 10
milk from dairies where the pans rad
been washed III impure water, OF the
nllh lJseI auulJeIdIeu Will IL.