Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15
NEWS IN BRIEF

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-Minnesota's population has in
creased 33 per cent in four years.
A druggist mt Rockfort. Indiana,
in one day sold sl25 worth of quinine.
The owner of the London Times
made half million dollars last year.
A Pennsylvania has stove which
has wirhstood the profanity of one hum
dred and five years.
Mrs. Butts, of Hudson, Mich, over
seventy years old, has woven 43o yards
of rag carpeting this season.
A Swedish school house, for exhi-
bition at the Centennial, has been
shipped from that country to Philadel-
phia.
1t is estimated that 5000 speeches
were made in Ohio during the canvass.
Wind enough was expended to drive
the windmills of Holland for century.
A South Carolina grocer publicly
praises a member of the Legislature of
that State for not stealing jar of lard
when he had tirst-rate chance to do
so.
The length of deep sea cable laid in
the world is 10000 miles. The world
telegraphic lines extend over 100000
miles aud there are 10000 miles of
railroad.
-Janette Parker, Delta (Michigan)
township girl, who weighs four hun
dred pounds, picks up barrel of Hour
by the chimes and plays with it over
her head.
New York has a man dressmaker
who bids fair 10 become as distinguished
as Worth. His name is Lanonette, and
they say his dresses are marvelus Of fit
and taste.
The original hegnlock log founda-
tions of long wharf at Boston were un-
earthed a few days ago, and found to be
rs solid as when first put down, l6i
years ago.
Feminine thrift. A Kansas wife
with the help of three daughters made
more money raising silk than her hus-
band with three boys made with farm
raising wheat.
A Pennsylvania man left a will
which bequeathed S20, 900 to a hospital
for friendless dogs, and jury has de-
cided that his children are legally en-
titled to the money.
The New York Postoffice building
has already cost s., 400, 900 and Mr.. Pot
ter the architect calls for 81 900. 200
more, and yet this is called frugal,
economical government.
Apples are only 10 cents bushel in
some parts of Pennsylvania, and man
of modest means can sit down and eat
four or five bushels and not rob his
family Of any of the necessaries of life.
-Louisiana's last orange crop num-
bered $780, 900 and brought net
profit of $4,000 The custom there is
to sell the fruit on the trees. so thou
sand. and have the shipper to do the
picking
Mrs. Gen. Hendrick Van Rensse-
lear recently celebrated her one hun
dredth birthday at the residence of her
son DIR. ID. 5. Van Rensselaer, (who is
in his eightieth year, at Randolph, Cat
taraugus county, y. Y.
Tine coinage of the new trade dol
lar in silver from July, 1873, to June,
1879, amounted to So, ,2s6, 400, while the
entire coinage of the old silver dollar,
from the organization of the mint in
1898 until the appearance of its success
sor, was only Ss,0i5,s.ss-
--One year ago Vermont breeder
sold a thorough bred shOrthOrn COW
and calf to party in Kentucky for
$500. A few days ago the Kentucky
party sold them at auction, the cow for
$4,000, and the calf for Shops.
j. Henri Burch, the eolOred Sena-
tor from Louisiana, will soon marry
the widow of the late Lieutenant Gov
ernor of that State. She is at present
an inspector of ladies' baggage in the
New Orleans Custom-llouse.
Three cadets have been dismissed
from the Naval Academy ut Annapolis
for hazing. The eolOred cadet, Henry
T.. Baker, .Jr., from Mississippi. has
also been dismissed at the request of
the superintendent of the school.
Maine has ten ex-Governors living,
and all residing in the State. Their
names are Crosby, Kent, A. r. Morrill,,
| Hamlin, Williams, l.. VI. Morrill,, Wash
burn. Coburn, Chamberlain, and Per-
| ham. Four are over seventy wears old.
/ "A mans toes cut of by the ears
/ hereafter will have an adjudged value
of enc hundred dollars per piece. A
/ Young man in Brooklyn thus lost five,
which hc valued at 81 900 each, but the
court said that one hundred each would
answer.
| The superintendent of the Canas-
tota, y. Y, knife factory has pair of
buffalo horns which weigh twenty-five
pounds, are 10 l-2 inches in eircumfer
enee at the butt, and II inches in length.
! They are eight times as large as those
of the American bison
DIR. Peters, of Hamilton COLLEGE,
\ Clinton, y. Y. has just presenti d
to the museum of that institu-
tion several rare specimens of birds,
shells, and minerals from Japan which
he obtained while with the expedition
TO observe the transit of Venus.
There are irreverent ribalds in
Dudley, Mass. Two old crows are in
the habit of perching on a tree there
every afternoon, aud eawing until they
have called hundreds of other crows
about them; and the Dudleyites call
those two old crows Moody and Sankey.
Crawford county Pa, has In oper-
alton IS factories, producing 6,3l0,OOO
pounds of cheese; Erie County % fac
tories, producing 2,610,000 pounds of
cheese; Mercer ard Venango counties
IL, producing 6i7, 100 pounds ofcheese;
the aggregate in the four northwest
counties of Pennsylvania is 10l facto-
ries. producing 9,551 100 pounds of
cheese.
AT Logansport, Ind. an interesting
hog case has just been decided by the
Circuit Court. The title to two hogs
was disputed by two neighbors. The
jury after being thirty-siX hours out,
rendered verdict in favor Of the origi-
nal claimant. The costs of the case
are already $4,000, or 81 pound for
the whole amount of pork; and the case
may yet be appealed.
The original "UDcle sam" was
sam Wilson, of Troy. New York, who
used to brand his fish brrrels, in filling
army contracts in 1912, "U. s." "a he
said for Uncle sam. his soubriquet-
n.