Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24
NO. Al.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


to the acre.
ID. o. Mills, the new President of
the Bank Of California, started in life
by vending soap.
A carload Of apple-jack is shipped
from Terre Haute, Ind, every day to
st. Louis or New York.
"A 5000 slander suit in New York
had its origin in a quarrel over an old
tin coffee pot, not worth ten cents.
The hog disease is playing sad
havoc in Ohio. Six thousand have died
in Franklin county within 4 month.
"A man eighty years oil has applied
for admission TO the German orphan
asylum in Baltimore >ayi"g he is an
ORPHAN
-Pocahontas' veritable portrait has
been found i'm England. Ii should be
secured by the Virginia Historical
Society.
| New York has reduced the salaries
of female school teachers about $500
per year, while their labors have in
creased.
Nearly $275,OO0 a month is paid.
out for labor in the silver mines of
Houghton and keweenaw counties,
Michigan.
| There is a sweet potato on exhibi-
tiOn ut Madison, Ind, which Is four feet
eight inches in length and is not thicker
than pipe stem.
"Mush and milk festivals" and zap
ple-buttar parties" are social events
frequently chrOniclcd of late in Penn
sylvania papers.
A sweet potato plantation Of about
seven hundred acres near Atlanta ,Geor-
gia, is expected to yield forty thousand
bushels of the favorite edibles.
General Garfield says that he in
tends to move a repeal of the law in
creasing the postage upon newspapers
rs soon as Congress assemblies.
A Boston judge after a woman had
been before him fifty-one times for
drunkenness, got out of patience and
sent her 10 prison for ten days.
Mr.. Hen is nominated for office out
in Nevada. The only objection We
should have to him would be his dispo-
sition To be always ON the fence.
1t Is reported upon the authority of
experienced miners that extensive gold
fields have been discovered in Alaska,
and that it is second California.
Pennsylvania has 107 newspapers
and periodicals, rs being dalies. The
aggregate yearly circulation of these
publications is stated at $685. .52O.
AT the Connecticut State Fair lately
held, it was discovered that the barley
which took the premidm had been
swollen unnaturallv by soaking it.
A clergyman 80 years cid is num-
bered this term among the Students at
Dartmouth College. lie is good ex-
ample to many others of mis- profession.
Sarah III. Brayton, NJ. D., has re-
ceived the appointment to the chair of
Materia Medica and Therapeutics in
the New York Free Medical College for
Women.
Baron Won Kalehstein and number
of ex-officers of the Prussian army are
travelling through Georgia, prospecting
for location for a large colony of Ger
man artisans.
Harriet HOsmer will contribute a
group representing emancipation, TO the
women's department of the Centennial
exhibition-the largest ideal work she
has executed.
-Sharkey the murderer, about whom
there has teen so much talk, has been
released from Cuba and allowed to go
to Spain on promise of enlisting i'm the
Spanish army.
The proposed lake, to be built in
Congress Spring park Saratoga Springs,
will cover nearly an acre of land, and
the music stand will be on an island in
the middle of it.
Dartmouth College now has about
$40, 900, the income of which is annu-
ally given to students needing pecuni
airy assistance. The scholarships are
mostly of $40 and 800 each.
Germany with population of AZ 600
900, last year produced $50 ply sicians,
rejecting los applicants. In the same
time the United States, with a pOpula-
ton of 40, 900 900, graduated 5000 ply
sicians.
The distance around Lake Mendoza
WIS, is about % miles, but two young
ladies of Madison recently swung
around the circle in little over seven
hours. They just kicked their pull
backs loose and stepped out like little
women.
Ou tsiit buN al tuAut-t ehi odh
Francisco for sixty-five cents, provided
her nose is crooked. Ii the nose is all
right however, and the face otherwise
unblemished, she may cost you five
dollars.
MIR. Willard Carpenter of Evans
vile, Ind, has signed the deed trans
ferring $500,000 worth of property
given by him for the new willard col
lege, and the trustees will begin work
at once.
Chicago wreckers have found n
schooner laden with whisky which was
sunk in twenty three feet of water in
Lake Erie, near Monroe, Mich, twenty
three years ago. The cargo is worth
$3.50, 900 to 100000.
The waters of the Au Sable river,
between Lambton and Middlesex, Ont,
have been turned into q new channel
cut for the purpose. 1t is claimed that
IL, 900 acres of submerged land will be
reclaimed by this work.
Rev. W. III. Mnrray's book on ''The
Perfect Horse" was recently refused
place on the shelves of the pnblic
library at SOuthbridge, Mass, beceuse
of the supposed unseemliness Of a eler-
gyman writing on such topic.
| Leave has been granted to the
dairymeh's association of New York to
erect a building on the centennial
grounds at Philadelphia Lovers of
cheese will be able 10 see the whole
process of it, manufacture therein.
An immense ledge of isinglass is
reported discovered in Ada County,
Idaho Territory. The ledge is in the
mountains near Horse Bend, on the
Snake River, is about thirty feet wide,
and is encased in wall of barren
quartz.
There is lively fight in St. Louis.
The bridge company refuse to let the
Atlantic and Pacific telegraph companys
wires be run across the bridge. The
wires were spread one night against