Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-01
NEWS IN BRIRF

The London police force consists of
{, ,292 men.
Iowa City is to have a new butter
factory which is to be run by steam.
You can ride all day i'm Arizona
and not see a baldheaded man or any
other man.
The uniform of the Shelbyville
(Tenn.l militia company is blue and
gray, mixed
Senator Anthony owns two-thirds
ofthe Providence Journal, which cleared
$40 900 last year.
Foxes are so plentiful in the vicin-
ity of Richmond, Ind, that they are
sometimes seen in the streets.
Twenty-Five hundred men and go
teams are at work on the construction
of the Southern Pacific railway.
Two hundred and fifty fishing
smacks are constantly employed sup
plying Fulton market, New York.
Joseph Foster, who recently died
at Keene, N. H., made the first reed
organ ever used in the United States
"A narrow gauge railroad is to be
constructed from Shelburne Falls to
North Troy, VT, distance of 246
miles.
The Michigan University has, in
the first quarter of the college year,
eleven hundred and ninety-three
students.
The Government receipts last year
were $2SS, ,000,O 900, and the expendi-
lures $274 900, 900, showing surplus
of $14, ,00O, 900.
Won Moltke says Generals Sherman.
Mcclellan, Lee and Johnston were the
only real geniuses of the late war in
the United States.
twenty-five thousand pounds of
grape sugar are manufactured in Dav-
export, Iowa, every week, and ready
sale is found for it.
Josh Billings alminax have brought
in $4,000 20 the publishers in few
years, though the price for a single
number is % cents.
There are said to be 1,0O0, 900 bees
in California. There may be one more
or less, but for ordinary singing he
wouldn't be missed.
-Pittsburg is going to erect monu-
ment in memory of the author of ''Old
Dog Tray" The organ grinders should
contribute literally. rs
The Detroit Free Press fignres that
a political speech four hours long, with
a brass band, etc., changes exrctly l.
556, ,1S4 votes to the other side.
An indianapolis philanthropist dis
tributes barrel of apples TO the Jail
prisoners every day, and wishes he
could live near the penitentiary.
An old resident of Portland, Me-.
has selected rock. weighing forty tons
as monument for himself, and will
have it placed in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Increase Mather wrote IS books,
and Cotton Mather wrote 3S7. In their
stormy times there were no big daily
newspapers to write communications
to.
"A subterranean passage is being
constructed leading from the county
Jail in Indianapolis to the new court
house, through which prisoners are to
be taken.
Sewing has been taught in the
public schools of Boston, for % years,
and it is just now discovered that it is
Illegal TO expend public money for that
purpose. .
| Mr.. B. F. Buck, of Clayton, Lena
wee county, Mich, recently killed
genuine porcupine weighing Is pounds
and measuring 2 feet 0 inches. Some
of the quilts were three inches long.
1t is related of Wisconsin editor
that he appended to his notice of con-
cert by the MendelssOhn Quintet club
the statement that Mr.. Mendelssohn
himself would positively appear in a
solo.
| Three railroads have been ordered
to be sold i'm Iowa by decree of court
within as many weeks. III things go
on in this way no person in Iowa will
be respectable unless he owns rail-
road. -.
Hon. Gideon Welles is hale and
hearty, and appears to bear lightly his
seventy odd years. He lives in a de-
llightful part of Hartford and sur
rounded by all the comforts and luxu-
ries of life
William Cullen Bryant, Whitelaw
Reid, and George William Curtis, will
again be the judges OF the intercollegi-
ATE oratorIcal contest which takes place
at the New York Academy of Music,
"ahuil IL
Mr.. Wylie, the noted checker
player, has just finished a trial of his
powers at Rutland, VT, where he won
one hundred and fifty-seven games and
lost only one. Twenty-four games
were drawn.
Springfield, VT, has a cooperative
factory. The forty-five people live al
together in one house. Men are re-
quired TO save one-fourth their wages
and women one sixth. The capital in
creases 5000 a year.
There is a two-faced pig at Waco,
Texas, preserved in alcohol by the Ex-
aminer man. IL has two heads, two
tongues, two separate and distinct sets
of teeth, and three eyes, one being in
the middle of the forehead.
The boundary line in the far North
, west is being marked by cast-iron pill
lars, s feet high, set in the ground 4
feet, at distances of a mile from each
. other. The English and American
Governments set the posts alternately.
There are 1,793 fewer saloons in
. Michigan than there were year ago.
Michigan whisky is too much like
/ vaulting ambition, that o'erleaps itself.
, | 1t kills the consumer too soon, and thus
cuts off the demand and ruins the busi-
r ness.
: Africa annually consumes 100000
bottles of champagne; Spain, 300, 600
: Belgium, 500, 900; Italy, 100000; Hol-
land, 800, 600; Germany, 800, 900; Eng
land, 100000; Russia 1900, 600
|, France, 2,0O0, 900, and North America,
!, 10, 700, 600.
General W. ID. Washburn, of Min
neapolis, Mimi, made an assignment
of all his property for the benefit of his
7 creditors year ago, and now the as
l signees, after paying all debts in full
l have restored TO the General assets tc
the amount of $300, 900. Ii man must
fail, that's the way to do it.
1t Is not generally known that the