Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-09-25
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uo superintendent OI DulluiHSS tutTS
reports 100000 put into buildings dur
Ing the month Of July, following $780,.
100 in June.
Red tape is driving shipping from the
aew Baltic canal. 1t causes 80 much
unnecessary delay that the old way
around Denmark Is preferred, and be-
sides the pilots and officials are inpo-
lite.
A dog belonging to George Wilcox of
Canton. Conn.,, met q pOrcupine In his
wanderings few days ago. and came
home SO full Of quilts that 1t took a
long time to pick them out, and two
men to hold him during the process.
Brussels, where the vilest books in
the world are openly published and
sold. is appropriately selected as the
meeting place for an international con-
gress for the suppression Of immoral
literature next October, Of which Jules
Simon will be president.
The Paris Figaro calls attention to the
fact that three Of the principal inter-
prefers of "Tannhaeuser" at the Paris
opera house We're born in 1861, the very
year when Wagner's work was produc-
I'd for the first time in the French cap.
ltal with such disastrous results.
In the River Tay, opposite Enrol, an
ancient Caledonian canoe was recently
discovered and Ia now in the Dundee
museum. 1t is .ormed from a single
oak trunk, followed out, probably by
fire, is 20 feet long and 4 feet wide at
the stern, narrowing to 2 feet at the
bow.
A woman named Butler is the first Of
her sex to vote at general election in
England. Her name was put by mis-
take on the voting list at Barrow, and
the presiding officer at the polls held
that he had no authority to inquire into
her sex when the name was once on tho
ist.
A census Of centenarians recently
taken in France gives 213 persons of 100
or over, 147 Of them women and GO
men. The oldest was a woman who had
just died at 15O In a village Of the de-
partment Of Haute Garonne. Nearly
all the centenarians belonged to the
oweSt ranks in life.
There Is said to be only one settlement
In Massachusetts, located more than a
1ozen miles from railroad. Cumming
ton Is thirteen miles from the nearest
line. but is only little further away
from three other railroads, being near
the center Of a square formed by four
roads.
The bluejay is proving n decided pest
IN California by eating the eggs of other
birds, particularly quail and game
birds. So the Olympic Club of San
Francisco has appointed st. Bartholo-
news day on which every one who
can buy or beg or borrow a shotgun Is
% Join in the slaughter.
A Yorkshire plasterer, who was up
or bigamy before the West Riding as
size court, explained that he had sold
his first wife to another man some
years before for shillings and pence.
md as she had gone off willingly he had
iecided to have nothing more to do with
Ter. He was found guilty, however.
When the mahdi died, reports Slatin
9asha. he appointed three Khalifas who
we're to succeed him in turn. The pres
mt Khalifa was the first to inherit the
power, and though the other two are
still living he is intriguing to pass it
On to his son. He has 500 wives.
Among his female slaves many are
nearly white.
Slatin Pasha has just recovered the
sword that was taken from him when
he was captured. 1t was the one he
had when he first entered the Austrian
army. Five years ago Mr.. Cook Of the
tourist agency bought the sword Of an
Arab at Luxor, and when Slatin attend
ID the geographical congress In London
he restored it to him.
A new solar physics observatory is to
De: erected In India at Kodaikanal, In
the Palani hills, 800 miles south Of
Madras. 1t will photograph the sun
daily and will undertake a systematic
spectroscopic examination of the sun.
The temperature Of the station is very
even, and the number Of cloudless hours
each day unusually great.
Paris proposes to put an end to the
complaint that a policeman can never
be found, by establishing seventy po-
lice kiosks in different parts Of the
city. A policeman will be always on
duty there, who will communicate with
the nearest station by telephone, and at
night will have another policeman with
him to send out at once in case Of need.
Moltke's strategy at Gravelotte and
St Privat is severely criticised by a
person called Fritz Hoenig. He neg.
lected to reconnoiter the ground per-
sonally before the battle; he was inju-
dicious In his choice Of headquarters
and consequently lost control Of his SUBJ
ordinate commanders. The mistakes
were due probably to his extreme age
and the excessive Difference paid to
him. The old man got there all the
ame.
Robert Ross, ELI Lucas. Lucian Ad-
kins and John Albright, members Of
prominent and respected Caben County
families, have been lodged in Jail at
Huntington, w. Va, charged with dis
turbing public worship. The charge
Is that they went to the country church
ON Madison creek on Sunday morning
and practically took possession Of the
place. During prayer, 1t is alleged, they
cursed the preacher, and during the
progress Of the sermon produced Q
pack Of cards and played poker on one
of the benches till the service Was ever.
The preacher and members Of the con-
grsgation tried to induce ths young
men to leave, but they dsAsd them. and
went on with the game. There was
great excitement after services, and
some members Of the church wantsd 70
visit summary puuishmsnt upon the
s6sndsrs, but the preacher prevailed
apea he hot-hssdsd ones 70 let the
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