Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-03-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Chicago, H., will have q police

uldue lu IuiS country last year was oYeI
| 100000 tons per mo1th.
"A whale, thirtv-three feet In length,
was tOwed into the port of Santa Bar
bara, Cal, recently.
The net profits Of the Harvard Col,
! ege football team last year were some
thing over ten thousand dollars.
Civil engineers report that Lake
Nicaragua, Central Amer. ca, is full OF
sharks, and it is q mystery how they
have gotten there.
-Birmingham, Ala, has pressed
resolution taxing and licensing almost
every trade, occupation and profession
in that city for municipal revenue.
| "A mans life was saved in Lin,
[ ;oln, Penn, by a harmonica which
kept bullet from going farther than
the vest pocket.
An Arkansas pig has scent equal
Co a dogs. HIS wonderful Instinct
saved his owners child from drown
ing recently,
"A WaynesborO lGa.l man blessed
! with cork leg went duck hunting.
He fell overheard and his artificial leg
saved him from drowning.
| -Ex-City Treasurer Bardsley OF
Philadelphia, Penn, has found hh
hearing since going to the Eastern
Peni entiary, He had been nearly
deaf for years.
Squire Johnson, a Justice of tho
Peace at GraysoG, KY, has enrolled
| himself as a scholar in a country school
near his home. He is forty years
old.
-Leprosy is increasing to an alarm,
ing extent in Spain. In one village
there are said to be eight families, every
member of which has the dread dis
ease.
"A hotel-keeper on the upper shore
Of Lake Michigan proposes to transport
his big hotel over the lake on a raft Ia
Chicago in time to open in the spring
Of 1898.
"A descendant of General Jane,
OglethOrpe, the founder of Georgia. il
suing for large portion of Savannah
real estate, to which he believes him.
self entitled.
! Chinese annals as remote as 200G
q. 9. speak of the cultivation of tea
and classify It almost as perfectly as il
done to-day. Its virtues were dis
covered by accident.
The death of BROOKLYN On. VI
druggist calls attention to the fact thai
he was the proprietor of the "Alwayi
Open Drug Store" During his twenty
years pToprietorship of the store no
lock has ever been en- the door.
Though deer are not abundant In
| ~. J.
at from Sl.75 to 81 80 each. An un-
usually handsome skin may cost s..
TaXidermists charge from S3 10 So for
curing them and furriers charge 81
high as SO for the cured hides.
Birds have horns sometimes. The
horned scTeamer (wh ch is related to
the duck) has a single horn attached TO
its skull, spTinging from a cartilsginoui
base and curviLg upward.
| -Pheasants first came IN to England
turing the Roman period; they did not
make their appearance in Scotland
much before the seventeenth century,
or in Ireland before the fifteenth.
Wood cut down in winter is con.
SideTed more durable than fellej In
summer. In many countries the forest
laws enjOm the telling Of trees only be.
tween November 10Th and February
18TH.
Among the weavers employed In a
BIddefOrd Me cottOnmIll Is woman
who stands six feet aud three inches,
and is large ard strong in proportion,
She is more than a match for any map
about the mill.
The Persians are of opinion that
! lion will never hurt person of their
religion which is somewhat different
from that of the Turks. They firmly
believe that the lions would devour q
b Turk, but that they themselves are
perfectly safe if they take care to let the
lion know by some exclamation of what
religion they are.
The name White House, given to
the residence OF the chief executive of
. United states IN Washington, Is de-
rlved from the fact of the Virginis
freestOne Of which 1t is built. being
, painted white to conceal the diScolors
tIon caused by weather and smoke.
An English lady who d'el not long
since left money to pay for sprinkltns
Tower Hill, London, daily with ashes
and gravel, so as to metigate its slippery
condition for the benefit Of horses
heavily loaded.
The Empress of Japan has a strong
! liking for European and American ways
and customs, and is said TO aiopt then
; / whenever it is possible for her to do 80
without violating any of the canons ol
her religion.
n Princess Victoria Mary, of Teck,
! che promised bride OF Prince "CollarI
= and Cuffs, - Is a good musician and vo.
calist. She is the best looking young
, woman in the British royal family, and
- is twenty-five years old,
, Speaker Crisp's wife is thorough.
n ly domestic woman, preferring the at
4 fractions of her home to the gayeties
Z of society. Yet she has made her house
- noted throughout Georgia for the hos
pitalify that is dispensed there.
Take one ounce of white wax and
Y melt TO a gentle heat. Add two ounce.
1 of honey, two drums Of rOsewater and
= a drop OF two of att IT of roses. Apply
this twice day. rubbing the wrinkles
$ the wrong way. Use tepid water t.
= wash the face. The wrinkles soon dis
D appear.
8 -Anotl er woman has decided 10 Tisl
5 the hardships of a journey In Africa
On one of the last vessels which ar
: rived at Zansibar a few weeks ago wal
n ! Baroness Anna Won Yietinghoff-Sche
= The daughter OF a well known German
i policeman. The Baroness intends u
T join an expedition to the interior OF the
country.
t The Woman's Baking Company o.
t Chicago has just been incorporated
: with capital stock of S250,0 1t 4
!. composed of Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union women of Chicago an,
! is pledged to use only the purest mater
j ials, to have the work done entirely b.
= wumen and to run the establishment