Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-05-20
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Spain are also running behind In rev.
enue.
A Tombstone merchant, doubtless
very successful one, with an eye to the
eoibles Of womankind, advertises
.Beautiful ladies' dress goods"
A few days ago a Wilmington, Del,
| woman received little box by mail in
which was q watch and chain that
were stolen from her twelve years
ago.
1t seems, according to the latest sur
vey, that Mount st. Elias, the great
| peak Of the Pacific coast, Is evenly
divided between the United States and
British America.
The Empress Eugene has presented
Arts all the plans and drawings for the
prnamentation Of her private apart
ments in the Tuileries.
The old chair that Governor Benning
Wentworth of New Hampshire occu-
pied while he filed that Office in 1741 Is
still to be found in the council cham
Der at Concord in good condition.
Sawdust Is turned into transportable
fuel In Germany by a very simple proc
ess. 1t is heated under big steam pres
sure until the resinOus ingredients be-
come sticky, when 1t Is pressed into
bricks. One man with a two-hOrse
power machine can turn out 5000
bricks a day.
The collection of Hawaiian idols be-
onging to the American board. and
which were sent to this country as Gu
.iosities by the early missionaries TO
the Sandwich Islands, has been sent
back to Hawaii to be deposited in the
National museum. They are said to
be the only specimens Of the original
1t is stated by one who has investi-
gated the subject that the average
yearly expenses of a cooperative build
ng and loan association of Philadelphia
Is $3.50. In most cases no salaries are
paid except to the secretary, and he
receives about $50 per annum. There
are over 400 associations in Phiia.
| lelphia.
aimed $3.50, ,0OO. 600 more at the close
IF the year 1895 than they did at the
End of 1890, without any corresponding
Increase In their loans or notes of is
sue. The decrease in the amount of
lew capital placed in London was
over $1,000, ,OOO, 900 for the years 1S91-5.
compared with 1886 90.
| Professor Woodrow Wilson, who has
| Jeen delivering series of lectures at
Il. yah Univ
lends that American city governments
ire inefficient because they copy too
| closely the structure of the federal
government. with its two chambers
and executive. The system of checks
and balances and division of power is
7ot suited to municipal needs.
| BY order of the Supreme Court OF
Ohio II. A. Harrison. Columbus; w.
5. Groesbeck, Cincinnati; S. N Owen,
Columbus; +. ]. Dickman, Cleveland,
and l.. L. Neal, Chillicothe, have been
appointed a committee to prepare and
submit to the Supreme Court n men,
orial on Allen G. Thurman, deceased,
for publication in the fifty-third vol.
ame OF the Ohio State reports.
An analysis Of 1900 accident poll
eies on which benefits were paid shows
531 persons injured by falls on pave
ments, 243 by carriages or wagons, sew
lenty-five by horseback riding; III were
cut with edge tools or glass; ninety
six were hurt by having weights fall
on them. and seventy-six were hurt
Sin bicycle accidents, while seventy
two were hurt by falling downstairs
A New Orleans paper reports that
while the South has gained 81 per
cent. in population during the last
Twenty years, the enrolment of its
school attendance has increased $50
per cent The value Of Southern school
property In the same time has increased
from $16,OOO,OO to $51, 100000. 1t Is
ESTIMATED that Of the $500, 600, 900 ex.
pended for education in the South in
the last eighteen years one-fourth has
been for colored pupils.
J. w. Steers, son of the famous de-
tgner Of the America cup, In a talk
about his father which has Just been
published, states a fact that was prob
ably known to but a very few peo-
pie. 1t Is no less a revelation than
that the renowned America cup has
no bottom. This fact was not known
| to the New York Yacht Club itself until
| some years after the cup was brought
over, and it was proposed upon occa-
sion by the club to drink a bumper
from 1t.
A curiosity which Is attracting the
/ attention Of the folks around Crofton.
in Marion County. Kentucky, ia a calf
covered with fine coat Of wool in the
place Of hair. 1t IL the property of o.
L. West The mother Of the curiosity,
small Jersey COW, has no unnatural
characteristics. The calf, too, has the
appearance of any commonplace calf,
with the exception Of its coat, which Ia
as woolly as that of sheep. 1t is Der.
tecty healthy.
James Morris, serving two years in
the penitentiary at Columbus, O., for
[counterfeiting, having been sent up
from Newark, O., Is In the prison hos.
II pital under peculiar circumstances. Az
the age Of IL years he swallowed a
Ipin. Recently, after roaming about
his organism forty years, the pin ap-
peared in his left breast to such an ex.
tent that he IL in q serious condition.
The pin was extracted. but the patient
IS still dangerously ill.,
The equine "roarer" Is no longer ,
sother to English veterinary surgeona
who now perform tracheotomy on the
Torso SO afflicted, and thereafter he
'reathes easily and well through a
, white metal tube. silver-plated. Many ,,
nrriage horses may be daily seen In
london and elsewhere wearing thase
nbes, and in the hunting field, IN GER
ain instances. horses. which without