Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-11

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A woman Of Bowling Green, KY.
sith . family Of twenty-one children,
Q suing her husband for divorce.
A rattlesnake seventy-nine inches
ong and having twenty-one rattles was
oiled near Jefferson. Ga. recently.
Van Buren County, Michigan, made
, record last year Of one divorce to
very seven marriages. There were
hirty-six divorces In the county during
he year.
An Arctic owl, measuring Q little
more than three feet from tip to tip Of
ts wings, was shot on one OF the ISL
lnds In the harbor Of Portland, Me-. .
.ew days ago
At an election in . Masonic lodge In
Richmond. KY, few days ago. ]. ID.
reeney Jr. was made senior deacon
ind his father, J. D. Fseney Sr. was
made Junior deacon
An omnibus for smokers and non.
Imokers has been plying for some time
n Berlin. There are NO outside seats.
but the inside II divided into two conl'
partments BY . glass partition.
A red rabbit was caught near East
nan. Ga, a few days ago. 1t Is alive
and on exhibition in that place. and the
farmers living thereabouts say 1t 10 the
arst Of the kind they ever saw.
Forty girl students of the State Nor
nal School In Warrensburg. Mo-, have
rganized an athletic association. They
ire going to devote much attention
TO outdoor sports, and will wear bloom.
srs and sweaters.
A telegraph line 10 being laid from
Cape Town, Africa, to Lake Taganyika,
and DR.. Laws, who is In charge, has
Atonga converts trained to act as Ope-
rators. Chinese operators are at work
IN the China overland wires.
A Denver paper has collected statis-
tics which show that the number Of
men now employed in Colorado mines.
mills and smelters is 26,359, as COM
pared with 22.951 just before the panic
II 1893 gain Of about Is per cent.
Hawaii of the Sandwich Islands il
10 thoroughly Christianized that the na-
nves themselves send out missionaries
Ill over the Pacific. At the same time
they have an abundance of home mis-
donary work, for there Is q population
II $4,000 Portuguese, 13,60O Japanese
and 10000 Chinese.
Justice Brewer was born In Smyrna,
Asia Minor, Of parents who were among
the earliest missionaries to Turkey.
That the root Of the matter" Is still in
him Is evident from the fact that JUS
ice Brewer IL the teacher of a Bible
class In the First Congregational
Church Of Washington.
One Of the ablest and most popular
editors Of the religious press is DIR.
s. Isaacs, of the Jewish Mes
Ienger. DR.. Isaacs is probably better
known outside OF his church than any
other of his editorial confreres of the
Jewish faith. He is a man Of broad
culture and liberal and progressive
IDEAS, qualities which show themselves
in his paper.
The japanese are right up to date,
In the usages of war or reli2-
on. A japanese church at Kioto has
ately adopted individual communion
ups, with the hearty Endorsement Of
Ill the members. A somewhat novel
,lan was adopted in distribution, dea-
.on and deaconess serving the cups,
which were gathered by another deacon
Ind deacOness who followed.
The Danish girl Of society y con-
irmed between her fourteenth and six
eenth year, and Is then considered
out" The result Of this early entry
nto society can hardly be deemed salts
factory, for as soon as a girl has reach
ID the age of % and is still ''in maiden
fancy free" she ceases to
De asked to dances or youthful gather.
ngs, and is, so to say, ''on the shelf"
Berlin has had built within its lin.
is during the past ten years twenty
I've Protestant churches. There are
Iome monster congregations in the Ger
nan capital. At present there are sixty
tour Protestant parishes in the city.
Or these, Holy Cross numbers 12O,Sl3
Iouls; the Emmaus congregation num-
sers $1,000, the Thomas congregation
81, ,271, the Twelve Apostles es.576.
Among the questions which will prob
ibly 60 over into the next century for
along with such other prob
ems as the authorship Of the penta-
.euch, is that concerning the oldest re-
hgious newspaper in this country. The
claim lies between the New York OBJ
server, of the Presbyterian faith, and
the Herald Of Gospel Liberty, one of
the exponents Of the Campbellite de.
The Methodist Episcopal church Is
the only one Of the larger denomina-
lions which owns and controls its own
Journals. These official organs there
Ire eighteen in this country are all
Known as christian Advocates" The
support of the Advocates is laid upon
the membership Of the churches as a
part Of their religious duty, and for
his reason they are generally we'll sus,
aimed and profitable publications.
It IL not generally known that the
ehildren's department Of the Christian
the organ Of the Dutch
Reformed Church, has been edited for
many years by Margaret e. Sangster.
The poet and editor Of Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Sangster did her first literary
work on the Intelligencer. and many
If her best and most popular poems