Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-10-23
NOTES OF THE DAY

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Maine that do nothing but manufacture
butter the year round.
A man In Gilsum, n. H, whiie clean
Ing out a racsway recently, found
gold ring which his wife had lost sever
years ago.
A herd Of 1000 horses was bought OF
l Washington ranch the other day by
the Portland Horse Meat Canning
Company at So head.
About 1000 grammar school gradu'
ates Of Brooklyn are unable to fnd
places in the high schools, SO crowded
ire those buildings.
Boston is said to have spent SIS, 5,OOC
to entertain the knights Templar. and
the Knights left behind 81 100000 iI
the city of baked beans.
1t Is estimated that the city OF New
York contains fully $4,000 children Of
school age who cannot be accommodate
ed in the public schools of that city thii
year.
The record of attendance at the pub
lie schools of the United States during
tho last year gives total of 15,536.26s
pupils, figure larger than that of any
other nation.
Many efforts have been made by At
lanta BARRIERS to induce the authorities
to allow then to keep open on Sunday
during the exposition. The matter IL
now settled with a positive negative.
In California it has been found that
peach stones burn as well as the best
coal, and give out more heat in proper
ton to weight. The stones taken out
Of the fruit that is timed or dried arc
collected and sold.
Professor F. II. Gushing asserts THAI
Dne of the most ancient things man has
made is the arrow. 1t antedates even
the bow, and in it's embryonic state is
older than either the stone az or thf
shaped knife or flint.
The Kansas City Board of Educa.
ton has promulgated an order forbid
ding the smoking of cigarettes by pu.
pills during school hours ION penalty OF
eXpulsion) and instructing teachers u
tlSluly eulOICe tIie lult.
When the commission of cardinals
for the administration of Peters pence
proposed to Pope Leo NIII. recently to
invest 100000 francs in foreign Sc
curities the Pope insisted that the
money should be put into Italian gov
ernment bonds.
1t Is proposed to erect statues Of
Siemens and of his colleague and
friend, Helmholtz, in front of the tech
nical high school in Charlottenburg, in
the same manner as the statues of the
brothers Humboldt were erected in
front of the Berlin University.
The highest speed ever attained upon
the water is credited to the new Rus
sian torpedo boat Sokol (Russian for
hawk, just launched In England, which
went thirty-five miles an hour on her
rial trip. At that rate an Atlantic liner
would cross the ocean in three or four
days.
The death rate of Berlin for 1894 waI
17.2 in thousand; that oe London, III
Brussels and Hamburg, 1S.1; Amster
dam, 1873; Copenhagen, 1871; Turin.
lS.S; Rome, 1876; Glasgow, 200; Paris,
20.2; Manchester, 20.4; Vienna, 22.S,
Liverpool, 23.s; Dublin. PAT; St Peters
burg, 31.4, and Moscow, 34.1.
At Mystic, Conn, sheep owners are
arrayed against the dogs, which have
been devastating their fiocks for some
time past. Many sheep have been
killed, some of which cost $50 to I'm.
port, and others are valuable animals
Several dogs have been caught among
he flocks and several have been
killed.
A curious outcome is reported of the
great robbery of the Buda-Pesth post
office eleven years ago. The two
thieves, who got away with 25O.OOO
forms have been caught The princi
pal has been tried in Buda-Pesth and
released under the ten-year limit law
His accomplice will be tried in Austria
where no such limitation exists.
A movement has been projected al
Vincennes looking to the establishment
pf university at Lincoln City, Ind, on
the site where Lincoln spent his boy.
hood. The general Idea is to ask for a
subscription of 10 cents from each
school child in the State, the inceptors
figuring out that the giving would be 9
patriotic inspiration to the children.
In Spain exemption from military
service may be obtained by the pay
ment of 1,5OO pesetas. The other day a
worthy man presented a petition to thu
queen regent stating that he had al.
reauy paid $4,000 pesetas for ten of his
sons, and requesting that he might be
excused from paying for the other
fourteen, as he had no money left. Hit
request was granted.