Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-04
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latest freak brought out Of the Main,
woods.
! There IL an historic wen In Rutland
vt It was built during the revolution
and was used by soldiers Of Burgoyne'
army after being removed from Boetol
In 1888.
A writer in the Edinburgh Scotchman
In dealing with the causes Of intemper
ance. mentions as one Of the prindpa
ones the "want of sympathy at hom,
and a scolding, sulking, nagging wife.
Two Russian battle ships, the Ruri1
and the Dimitri Donskoi, have harboret
In Portsmouth ON their way to the Med
iterranean. It Is the first time thi!
privilege has been granted for a quar-
ter of . century.
Robinson Crusoe's musket, "a nne ole
specimen, with long barrel, flint lock
and beautifully balanced" Is offered
for sale In Edinburgh. It came into
the possession Of the present owner
through Alexander Selkirk's grand
niece.
II has been noted that serpent charm
ers continually talk, sing or whistle
or have an attendant to play upon some
shrill musical instrument during the
time exhibitions are being given. That
these sounds have their influence there
Is not the least doubt
A Philadelphia reporter who had q
tip that a patient in a New Jersey
insane asylum had died from punish
ment inflicted by his keepers secured
admission to the asylum as q lunatic.
and gathered the evidence that has sent
two Of the keepers to the penitentiary
for fourteen years.
Bert Clough, of Surry, Me-, returning
home in the cleaning after an unsuc-
cessful days hunt, saw a buck and doe.
He fired, killing the buck. In the
morning he started on the trail Of the
doe and had gone but a few rods when
he found her dead One bullet had
killed both buck and doe.
Diphtheria Of the skin, q very rare
disease, has been cured by the use Of
antitoxin In a little 2-year-Old Berlin
girl recently. She had been badly scald-
ed with boiling water. and as the skin
was healing she was kissed by her
mother on the wounded spot. The moth
er had diphtheria, and thus communi-
Gated 1t to the baby's skin; the throat
was not affected.
George Ebers, the Egyptologist, has
that many Of the queer med
lcal recipes found in old English and
German books came from the ancient
They were not known to
the Greeks, but were spread from Sa-
lerno. the great medical school Of the
middle ages, to which they must have
come through the Coptic and Arabic
A peculiar incident occurred in New
York. While a policeman Of that city
was trying to see what was going on
in suspected" saloon he soiled his
he noticed a sink in the ante
room Of the saloon, and when he turned
on the faucet he was surprised to find
that he was washing his hands in beer
The keeper OF the saloon was, Of course
arrested.
The movement toward the municip
Of Quasi-public works seems
to be spreading. Before the Boston City
Council is q petition from the East Bos.
ton Trade Association for the establish
ment Of gas and electric light plants in
that section Of the city to be maintained
by the municipality. 1t Is supported by
many prominent citizens who think the
experiment worth trying.
New Orleans Is discussing the feasI-
bility of commemorating the purchase
Of Louisiana In 1903 by a grand expo
sition In 1908. At a recent meeting OF
the New Orleans Chamber Of Com.
merce, called to consider the question
were adopted urging the
Of such an exposition. and
q committee Of 100 was appointed to
and devise ways and means.
A method Of silvering mirrors, pro-
mirrors Of much greater brill
lancy than those made by ordinary
processes, has been discovered by Herr
Hans Boas, Of Kiel. 1t is based on the
fact that when a heavy metal forms the
Of a vacuum tube containing
q trace Of hydrogen. the electric current
volatihzes the metal, which Is deposit
ed as a firmly adherent and highly pol
lshed layer ON the walls of the tube.
The fact that Egypt is going to be
more fashionable this winter than ever
before Is shown by the number Of book
Ings at the hotels. The hotelkeepers
say that Eve years ago they had about
|, 900 people in Cairo for the winter
nine-tenths Of them English. Last year
there were 5000, one-half of them
Americans. This year the hotelkeepers
estimate that they will have at least
10, 900, and the American influx will be
arger than ever before.
A man who claimed to have seen
and really believed that
he had, no matter how other folks
treated his assertion, died recently in
Baker County, Georgia. He was q ne
ITO known as Jim Hall, and was reput-
I'd to be at least 125 years old. There
b no doubt he was an exceedingly old
man. He used to declare that he had
driven his master to the polls to vote
'or General Washington on the occasion
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was in every way honest, and worked.
himself, up to the time of
his death.
Judge James F. Harvey, Of the Mont
gomery Circuit Court, Crawfordsville.
Ind, L. about to establish a new court
rule which will practically do away
with the professional juryman," who
has been such an annoying curse to all
,ourts In Indiana from time immemori-
Il Judge Harvey proposes to guarf
against this class Dy ordering the jury
to draw the regular
,anel Of twelve, and then either four OF
,ix additional talesmen who can be
allied in to take the places of those OF
he regular panel excused by the court
The sheriffs declare that the profession.
Il Jurymen become more numerous ev.
ny year, and are most annoying, rem.
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