Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-10-13

drawn from Cube.
IHE Government of Peru has adopt
ed the gold standard.
THE king of Korea has declared TO
independence of China.
LANCASTER is to have a silk mil
That VII! employ 300 people.
GoLD it is said has been found il
Saratoga county, York State.
Ii some Republicans behave badl,
1t does not affect Republican princi
pies.
EMPEROR WILLIAM sued a newspa
per for criticising his public acts and
lost the suit
The Swiss Legislature has passed
an act to buy all the railroads in
Switzerland.
A CHICAGO man sailed in the air in
bus air ship last Friday for a period
of thee hours.
SUIT has been brought against q
number of dealers in Pniladelph;a for
selling short weight coal.
IF Peary has found a mountain of
meteoric iron his trip in search OF
the North pole will not have been in
vain.
OPERATING a railroad in the Klon.
dyke from this time in the year to
April would be Oh par with a trip
to the North pole.
The Berks county gold bearing
rock assays only one dollar and nine
ty.six cents gold and eighty eight
cents silver to the ton.
The Democratic party never inves.
ugate anything They talk investi
cation till they get into; power, then
they shut up like an oyster
ENGLAND has not yet given her
answer to the bimetallic proposals.
Everyone knows what her answer
will be. II will be an answer against
bimetalism.
SFArs says we'll give you reform af
tel peace has been declared. Cuba
says give Us reform before We throw
down our arme, and that's the situa
ton.
DUs's REVIEW of October 9 SAYS:
The failures were the smallest ever
known in any quarter since 1892,
and business payments through
banks the largest by S26S, 100000 ev-
or Known in September.
CONGRESSMAN HICKS of Altoona, is
said to be against civil service a, it
now stands. Integrity and capabil
ity are said to be the watch words of
his civil service creed. Good, Mr..
Hicks, that's the creed the people be
lieve IN.
The Swiss Government is to oper.
ate the railroads in Switzerland. If
tLey succeed with the railroads as
well as the Democrats succeeded in
operating the canals in Pennsylvania,
it will require only about a genera
ticn II time to bankrupt Switzerland.
Ir is a nasty bird that befouls its
own nest, which was the case with a
lot Of tramps, who were allowed to
sleep IN John Beisel's barn, near
Esstop, last Friday. They set the
barn on fire. The loss is $4,000 Two
tramps were so stifed with the smoke
that they failed to get out Of the
building.
The horseless carriage will come
into general use before many years
The expense of keeping it will not be
nearly as great az keeping q horse
The more Eorselsss wagons invented
the lower goes the price OF horses,
erd corn and oats for the horses will
not be needed, and when horses are
10 longer needed there will be just
tnat much less demand for oats and
corn, and the less the deinand the
lower the price.
RAILROAD highwaymen held up an
express train within six miles of Kan
sas City, on the 9th of October. 1t
is down right baseness to be engag.
ed in such work and heavy penalties
are imposed upon all, who engage in
snch thieving, but for pure unadul.
terated depravity it scarcely equals
the watered stock business in trac-
ton operations, whereby a number
of citizens In this country were rob-
bed of honest earnings.
SWITZERLAND has taken charge of
tie railroads to get rid of company
or corporation rule, but if the Swiss
Government runs the transportation
lines like the Democratic party ran
the canals in Pennsylvania their gov
ernment must needs end in bank
ruptcy. The canals had to be sold in
Pennsylvadia to keep the State from
scoming bankrupt. The Democrat
&c experience in running transporta-
ton lines cost the State $4,000, 900
IN cheap times, and every year the
debt grew bigger. If the Republi-
cans had not come into power the
State would have ':broke up"
"WHAr did you marry that old
fellow Tor, who hasn't a cent but his
pension. was asked young woman
who had married on old pensioner.
"Well, said the young woman, "ev-
eiy one must live and have place to
live IN. l found it difficult matter
to make an honest living, so when
.ne old veteran fell in love with me
and proposed marriage I said yes.
Now don't you see his pension isn't
big, but with it we can live in a little
house IN bye place, and keep the
wolf of worry and want from the
door I'm going to take good care
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