Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-08
NO. u,
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Duty Is souls ireside.

-OSedu CdoicS slretcn 1zU, 2OU mlie9.
The new year is only the old pro-
lcnged. =
Good resolutions ought to keep but
hey don't.
Every town in Mexico has pubic
oath house.
They refoot stockings in England
at small expense.
There are great many promising
people who never pay
Many a man who IS honest enough
TO apologize is too stubborn.
"A hO.sefly Will live for hours after
Its head has been lull-d off.
-Genius is independent of its tempOr-
al and material surroundings.
Let us resolve that We have done
better; and that we will do better.
The man who is too good for any
thing Is apt to re good for nothing,
Wine is frequently used instead OF
water in Spain in mixing shoe blackIng.
A little learning is a dangerous
thing, but not half as bad as none at all.
If man could have wife made
70 trder he would find fault with her.
An electric railway in Russia from
st. Petersburg to Archangel is being
planned.
The forests of Germany pay an
ANIMAL Government revenue OF nearly
SIS, 900, 900
An Alaska Indian declares that
within a year he has seen a live masto-
don running wild.
More mushrooms are raised in the
vicinity Of Paris than in any other
place In the world.
Brussels, Belgium, boasts of a clock
which Is never wound by human hands,
Wind power does it.
The receiving reservoirs OF the
CrOtoG Aqueduct have q joint capacity
llS0, 00J, 600 gallons.
Six localities have been proposed
for the Paris Exposition Of 1900,
Auteuil being apparently the favOrIJe.
Many of most appeliz.ng sOup@ that
deli hi the palate OF man are said to
have been invented In tie middle ages,
DVorak, the composer, thinks every.
body should learn TO play some sort OF a
musical instrumeht.
The claim is made that there is al
increasing number of willful bachelors
both in England ard this country.
An English grape grower has
twenty-five acres of vines under glass.
He gets titty cents pound for his
grapes.
The most perfect block system on
railroad will not secure it from accident
unless it is accompanied by ceaseless
human vigilance.
. "A huuting horn in Limoges enamel.
made in 1870, and believed u have fol-
merly belonged to Horace WalpOle, was
sold recently tor S3i 800.
The historic chateau, at Grey
France, has been sold 10 a rich manu-
/ factuTer for 500 OOJ. 1t was once the
/ hCme of VOltaiTe.
Captain Samuel Barron, who die d il
I Norfolk, Va, recently, was a grandson
! of Commodore James Barron, who
| fought the celebrated duel with stephen
Decatur in which Decatur was killed.
There Is tribe in Central Africa
! among whom speakers IN public debates
are required 20 stand on one leg while
speaking and to speak only as long as
! they can so stand.
There are 1876 students at the
! University of Berlin this term the larg-
est number in The history of the instI-
t4tion, This is about 20OG more tnan
are in attendance at Harvard.
| Boston is to have a new Union
Railway station for the north end
roads, which will have for notable
features twenty tracks and train
lobby nearly five hundred feet wide.
! -Ihe famous thoroughfare of Berlin
! Cnter den Linden, Is the best lighted
1
by three lines of electric arc lamps
which are separated oy two lines of lime
| tTtes.
"A tax on street organ grinders is
proposed ly two London VestrIes.
! They suggest that the holder OF the
license should exhibit number or
his organ for purposes of idebtfca
tiCn.
The Nebraska Commissioner OF In,
iustrlal Education has collected AZ.
swers to inquiries concerning the cost
per acre OF making Il crCp of corn from
every county IN the Stat. The aver
age of ali the figures is S6.44 per acre.
Agriculture in Hong Kong, China,
IS, and always will be, of small import
anCe. The rocky, mountainous uatWe
of the island aud its dependencies limits
the amount of arabic garden laud to
small patches, IN which only vegeta-
bles for home consumption eau be
raised.
-Tbe lague f wolves in Shensi, a
mountainous province of North Central
China Is becoming more and more
alarming. a correspondent in that
part writes that in the village In " hich
he is soJOuruing they had heard of
eleven persons carried off by these amt
No Is in seven days.
Two COWS, the property OF Hill
Costellow, OF Windsor, n C., were
found dead with the neck OF cue fast
betw- en- the horns Of the other. 1t is
supposed that they were fighting, and,
being caught in the above position,
broke one anotheT's neck.
Tom Malaua broke 1OJ0 glass balls
IN forty-fOur minutes at Rockford, ILL.,,
the other day. He stood thirty feet
from the thrower and his feat breaks
the worlds record. OLD marksman say
Malana is the steadiest man with a rifle
they have ever seen,
The shipping tonnage of the Cana
dian Maratime Provinces has fallen eff
frnu- S90.Sl0 tons In 1854 10 $50, 700
tons IL 1892.
John Lister, of Pa saic Falls, y. ].
(lgurgs in tie Wheel Us u o Oldest act
i've bicycler In the country. He Is over
sixty, veteran of the war, and o!ca
rode $50 m les o. his machine in two
days. Since last January he has COW
Ered nearly four thousand miles