Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-05-03
.fDDITIONHL LOCALS.

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Tortoises have been known to live
300 years.
A stock company has been formed
TO build a $4,000 hotel at the State
College
James DSysr, Of Genesoe, n. Y,
aged IS wears, proposes to make a
trip on his blcyle to the World s
Fair
THE recent frost in Mississippi
has either killed or greatly injured
the cotton. There ia time to replant.
but in many sections there is no
seed"
The Methodist church people of
Clrwensvills have finally decided
that the proposed new church shall
be built of stone and that the cost
of the building, exclusive OF the fur
niture, shall be $4,000.
Edward Williams, a respected col
ored man, has been steward at the
Methodist church for quarter of q
century. Dnring that time he has
collected for ministerial support the
sum of s., ,512, an average of 500 a
year, every cent of which has been
faithfully accounted for.-Hunting-
don Globe.
On Thursday evening, Rev. B. n.
Harl, Of Huntingdon left his horse
and buggy stand at his gate while
he went into the house. Just as ha
was about to return from the house
he was surprised to seq his tssm
driven off He started to run after
the vehicle, bat the thief or thieves
whipped up ths horse and wsre soon
lost to sight in the rain and darkness
Some three hours later the horse
WAS recovered a few miles north of
town, badly worn and ovsrheoted
A handsome robe received by Rev.
Hart as a present few years ago
was not Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
Harriet E. Hall of Wsynetown,
Ind, says: 81 owe my life to the
great South American Nsrvine. l
had been in bed for five months from
the effects of an exhausted Stomach,
Indigestion, Nervous prostration and
general shattered condition of my
whole system. Had given up all
hopes of getting well. Had tried
three doctors with no relief. The
first bottle of the Nervine Tonic i'm
proved me so much that I was able
10 walk about and few bottles cur
ed me entirely. believe it is the
best medicine in the world. [ can
not recommend it to highly" Sold
by l.. Banks & Co, Druggist, Mif
fiintown, Pa. Feb. 8 '93, 1y.
A New York daily paper, taking
up the idea conveyed in Flammarion' S
exciting novel, Omega: The Last
DAYS of the World" has interview
ed number of the leading men in
all professions as to what they would
do if science were to predict to o.mor,
row that the end of the world would
arrive within the next thirty days.
The answers are various and curious,
and heigthen the interest which is
felt in the second part of Flammar.
ions great novel, which appears in
the May Cosmopolitan. 1t is a ques
ton which everyone will find inter
esting to ask himself: WHAT would
you do If within six weeks the end OF
the world were certain ? Probably
no novel which has ever appeared in
an American magazine has been
more elaborately illustrated by more
distinguished artists. Laurens, Saun
ier,..Vogsl, Meaulle, Rochegrosse, Ger
adm and Chovin ali contribute to the
explanation of the text.
A clever story of another kind is
that of the new English novelist, Gil
bert Parker. in the same number
American Society in Paris" is an
article of another kind, but one which
will interest all who have had occa-
sion to make even d short residence
in the French capital. The Cosmopoi
ltan scores a success in producing in
its May number, almost simultan
eously with the daily papers, ar
elaborate description of Professor
Gray's marvellous invention of the
Telautograph, which reproduces the
hand writing, or the work of the ar
tist, simultaneously, thousands OF
miles distant from the place where
the writer or artist is sitting Mr..
Howells purpose in The Traveller
from Altruria, is, month by month,
becoming more evident, and is now
receiving wide attention at the hands
of the critics all over the world.
Dominsco Peccerelli, the foreman
of gang of lillian railroad laborers
at Ryde Station, in Miffiin county,
shot Giuseppe Damis, one of his
men, through the brain on Sunday
night, April %, without the slightest
provocation, He fed Immediately
after the shooting and has not yet
been captured. The whole party of
Italians had been drinking when
Foreman Peccerelli suddenly turned
on Damie and, drawing his revolver,
ssi t bulk into his brain. The in
jured mad was taken to his home in
Philadelphia. The officers are ham,
pered In their efforts to spprshend