Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pacific coast sailors say that the
winter in Alaska has been rs balmy a.
i'm Florida.
AS reform the Constitutional Con-
vention of Nebraska has dispensed with
the services of a chaplain.
-''Old and New" and Scribnsr's
Monthly have been consolidated, the
latter absorbing the former.
The net earnings of the Erie Rail-
road last year were $S47, 900 less than
the interest on its bonded debt.
Six Cinnamon have become deacons
in the Maine Methodist Church. In
time this will be great country.
"A slight decrease is noticed i'm the
receipts of grain and tiour ut Baltimore
during the four months ending May lst.
Baltimore has a new marble City
Hall, which occupies an entire block.
Ii was furnished ut a cost of $1,000, 200.
The Cashier of the Farmers
national bank ut Mansfield, Ohio, has
been arrested for embezzling 1913 900.
The Cincinnati May Musical Festival
was one of the most successful enter
tainments ever given in this country.
The grasshoppers have accom-
plished wonders in Missouri. They
have induced the people to fast and
pray.
Beet sugar is made in California at
seven cents a pound, including every ex-
pense. There are two beet sugar mills
i'm the State.
Hartford claims to be one of the
healthiest cities in the country. That's
on account of its flourishing life insu-
rance business.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
and its dependent lines have subscribed
half million of dollars To the Centen-
nial celebration.
The Chicago Times calls the late
whisky raid of Secretary BRIsTow,
''BRIsTow's cocktail" It is more prop
erly whisky sling"
The commissioner of customs esti-
mates that Sl2S 900 of dutiable merchan-
disc is Smuggled into this country In
year as passengers baggage.
Now ii appears that the MARYLAND
peach crop is TO be so unusually large
that the steamboat lines are increasing
their facilities for transportation.
The New York Evening Mail says
that the spring bonnet of this year is
more ridiculous than any that has been
in vogue since the days of Mrs. Noah.
There are eight-milliOns of German
speaking people in the United States,
and they have three hundred newspa-
pers and periodicals in their own
language.
Hon. David Sankey of Newcastle.
Penn, is the father of the revivalist
Sankey, and feels as if he were the pro-
genitor of whole regiment of ordinary
ministers.
San Francisco proposes to obtain
drinking water from the Calaveras
river, about fifty miles in the interior,
the estimated cost of the undertaking
being Sll 100000.
Baptism has its STYLES "a well as the
spring bonnet and the nobby thing
is to do it with tepid water,
although we should think that would
make the converts lukewarm.
The Board of Managers of the
Adams Express company have voted
81 900 in gold to George III. Price, who
recently killed a robber in his ear on
the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne road.
Mr.. +. ID. Wirslow has bought a
interest in the Boston
Post for $500, 900. This does not include
the building and machinery which are
held at an additional valuation of $3.50,
300.
San Francisco has just organized
Fire patrol with elegant aceommoda-
tions, such as a reading room, bath
room, billiard-rOom, smoking-rOom,
etc. The boys will doubtless have 8
good time.
An old house in Danbury, Conn,
built in I'll, has been sold for two dol
lars. As il was the house in which
Zen. Wooster died after the battle of
the price is considered
rather low.
The new building of the New York
Tribune is nine stories high. When a
nan comes in and wants To know who
wrote that article, he is told that the
author is on the top floor with the ele-
yatOr broken.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has
voted the immense sum of $25, 900 to
secure that State a representation at the
Centennial. The Yam
KEGS are proverbially ecOnOmical-with
their own money.
A living tree toad was found EN-
bedded in the heart of a gigantic syca-
more near Lexington, Ky., the other
lay. He came out OF the tree quite
lively, although he had been impris-
oned there for 300 years.
Jefferson Davis, in an address at
Houston, Texas, to the Texas Veterans
of the Mexican War, entreated them to
be rs loyal now to the stars and stripes
as they had been Jealous and brave in
the defense of their first flag.
Now is the time To subscribe for the
Imperial Chinese Encyclopedia. There
will be one hundred and sixty thousand
of it, but you can pay fifty
cents a week and not feel the expense.
For further particulars, let an able
bodied book agent see you for an hour
and half.
For several reasons, the date of the
coming regatta of the Grand Haven
and Spring Lake tMich.) Rowing As
sOciation has been changed from July
and to August 10 and II, at which
time present indications promise an af-
fair on a. successful and extensive scale
as has ever before occurred in the North
west
Mrs. Appleton, Of New York,
daughter of General Armistead, the
brave defender of Fort McHenry, at
Baltimore against the British in 1914
has possession of the identical fag
which floated over the spot, and Of
which Keys, the poet sung: "Oh, Say,
Does the Star Spangled Banner Yet
Wave."
Prize fighters seem to enjoy almost
as much Immunity in Nevada as
gamblers do. A bloody contest took
place recently near Virginia City, the
stake being 81 900 and the gate money
which amounted to about 800 in addi-
ton. The fight was witnessed by about
800 people, including some forty or
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