Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
NEWS IN BRIEF

boston has one hundred and eighty
nine newspapers and periodicals.
The New York Tribune has devoted
800 columns to the Beecher trial
-Barnum's hippopotamus has baby
and it weighs more than ten pounds,
too.
The Lake Superior mines since 1856
have yielded nearly 100000 tons of
iron.
"A Boston philanthropist has left .
fund to supply theatre tickets for the
poor.
The jute growing Interest promises
to become very great one i'm South
Carolina.
Col. John S. MOsby is going to prac-
tice law in Washington during the COM
ing winter.
-Lr. Learning is candidate for
Superintendent of Public Instruction
in Wisconsin.
Chinese are sold at auction in San
Francisco. At the last sale s. was the
highest price.
Over 500 tons of old rubber shoes
are manufactured into ear springs in
Boston annually.
"A school for eolored children is 10
be connected with the new convent at
Key West, Florida.
business is reviving in Chicago.
Since July the city clerk has issued
900 saloon licenses.
Chicago has a WOman's Hotel,
which consumes two car loads of hair
pins and chalk daily.
1t costs Canada So a piece per an
mum to board her Indians. IL costs the
United States over 500.
The United States has four hundred
religious journals, and still shows few
signs of improvement.
A burglar in Ottawa went through
six houses lately in one night, and took
up a collection of s125.
Chicago viii have 10000 more
dwellings the first of next year than
she had the first of this.
instruction in swimming is to he
added to the curriculum Of the Holyoke
Mass, female seminary.
Charles y. Ross, the nominee for
treasurer by the democrats of New York
graduated at Yale in 1853.
The greatest depth of the Pacific
ocean as found by the British ship Chal-
lenger was about five miles.
The Good Templar Lodges of Mas
sachusetts number nearly 200. and con-
tain nearly 1900 members.
Postal cards don't diminish in pop
ularity. The factory at Springfield is
turning out GOO, 900 per day.
The Archbishop of Canterbury re-
eeives $4,000 a year. Even an Indian
Ring Chaplain doesn't make that much.
An aspiring lady of Utica, y. V, is
expending $4,000 to put spire 250
feet high on one of the churches of that
citv.
Over fifty thousand boxes of new
German cologne have been exported
from one factory in Connecticut since
July.
-Alcorn university at Meridian has
cost the state of Mississippi during the
ths i.st e"V vi three yvorr tho sun, of
S23o. 900.
w. r. Allison of the Steubenville
(O) HerdId, has paid $40, 900 for a control
ling interest in the st. Louis EreafHg
Telegraph. .... ...-.
The oil springs of Pennsylvania
were known to the whites aS early A.
1929, but the full uses and value of pc
troleum were not known for 200 years
afterward.
Gov. Osborn says that the surplus
grain raised i'm Kansas this year, if
loaded in cars would make train 900
miles long.
There were 1874 deaths at Grand
Rapids. Mich, last year, an annual ay-
erage of seventy-four in each Thousand
population. a.
Northern Pacific Railroad, has perfectly
honest city officials. There are no
public funds to steal. ....
Reno, New, will be heard from
some of these fine days. A powder
mill and nitro-glycerine factory are
being established there.
Nearly one-half of the bridges in
Washington county, Nebraska, were
either washed out entirely or rendered
impossible by recent rains.
La Crosse has gone mad with eX-
travagaDce; the purses offered for a
horse trot at the conntry fair were
eight, six, and four dollars.
The good do not die early. There
is Mrs. Finch, of Rutland, Vermont,
who has had but one bonnet in twenty
years, and never complained
Joseph Powell, of Georgetown Col.
dropped into mine, head foremost, a
distance of 30 feet, and received nothing
more serious than a bruise or two.
Mrs. Collins, widow of the late
Charles Collins, ID. D., succeeds her
husband in the presidency of the State
Female College at Memphis, Tenn.
-First-class Chinese hotels have
raised the prices of board to twenty
eight cents per day and tourists should
make their arrangements accordingly.
A thief in Montreal has been sent to
Jail for three months for stealing the
Grape from the door of a neighbOr
where there was death in the family.
East Rock, which overhangs
number of cottages near Great Barring
ton, Mass, is so shaky in its balance
that the cottagers are becoming alarmed.
The hard times have made grave
stones 80 cheap in Vermont that thrifty
people there are dying off rapidly, just
to take advantage of the bargains Of
fered.
An Ohio man named his daughter
Proclamation Emancipation. "IIe might
have done worse" says Il crusty old
commentator, she might have named
her Maud"
"A Troy, y. Y, woman, determined
to love somebody. has ensnared a poor
old man who is in his ~ | year, and who
had to borrow some clothes to wear at
the wedding.
On charity patient in Baltimore
hospital recently, more than $1,000 in
money was found. He is an owner of
two farms near the city, but had been
living by begging.
John Wise, the balloOnist, is going
10 enter the field as a weather prophet
against Prof. Tice and Mr.. Mansill. In
case his theories prove correct he will
be acknowledged TO be weather-Wise.
The name of ''Towne Scientific
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