Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08
NO. 40.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

W tiic cANtflt VI FsoV.OVV.
The Emperor of Brazil respectfully
asks for eighteen months vacation.
Green Lake. Colorado, has been
stoekedwith 81, 600 mountain and salmon
trout.
| "A bear weighing 400 pounds was
captured on Chocura mountain at New
Hampshire few days ago.
Mrs. Foster of Muscatine, Iowa.
has beard three inches long and u
heavy, glossy, black moustaehe.
| Thrifty little Rhode Island has only
$50 paupers out of 25S, ,239 souls, and
has $40, ,000, 600 in saving banks.
w. +. Gill of Boston has the original
manuscript of Poe's poem, 1.-The Bells"
The handwriting is as clear as print.
The aspiring city of Denver is
erecting a watch tower, eighty feet
high, from which to observe and give
notice of fires.
The Kentucky tobacco crop is re-
ported as being in an excellent condi-
ton, with an acreage 200 per cent bet
ter than last year.
AT Sauk Centre, Mimi, after five
lawyers had been engaged ia lawsuit
for two weeks, the plaintiff was given
verdict for 80 cents.
There are sixty stores en- Broadway,
Boston, that have given up gas and taken
to kerosene. That's one way of dealing
with monopoly.
The Indiana Supreme Court has de-
elared unconstitutional the State law re-
quiring legal notices to be published in
German newspapers.
AN Indian canoe that will hold 100
men easily, is TO be sent to the centen-
NAL from British Columbia. Ii is 60
feet long, wide and high.
We milk 1900. 900 cows in this
country, keep 5000 ereameries and
cheese factories, and have cheese and
butter product of $3.50, 100000.
The trial of Piper the murderer of
little Mabel Young in church steeple
Boston, last summer, has been again
postponed, this time till January.
North Carolina will be represented
in the centennial by 20 varieties of
pine timber, nine boxes of minerals,
and over 100 varieties of herbs and
roots.
There are in the United States
seventeen establishments where loco
motives are built, thirty-six-caI- wheel
manufactures, and ninety-two car
shops.
"A tall signal post. The officers of
the Coast Survey have erected weather
signal on the summit of Mount Shasta,
California, ii 400 feet above the level of
the sea.
Nom payment Of taxes in Massa-
oh TO- IL. IL
In Boston, p, 200 names have been
dropped from the voting list for falling
to pay up.
-Unfavorable reports are received re-
garding the ravages of the hog cholera.
which is taking off thousands of swine
in Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, and other
Western states.
"A small terrier in Meriden, Conn.,,
year ago lost part of his tail, which is
now growing out again at right angles.
so that he carries behind him kind of
stove-pipe elbow.
The office of the Territorial Enter
prise, recently burned in the great ire
in Virginia city, Nevada, is the one in
which Mark Twain commenced his
newspaper career.
business is recovering in Lawrence,
Mass, and the worsted dress goods mills
are being run night and day. Now for
more oyer-production after the usual
American fashion.
-Ex-Treasurer Spinner is in doubt
whether he ought to accept the present
of a clock rendered him by the en-
ployees of the Treasury Department, but
his gratitude is just as deep.
Emily Parker, the English SWIM
ming champion, is coming to this
country to exhibit herself. She will
perform at variety theatres i'm IA glass
tank, aud be billed as the lady frog
Two owls attended service at the
Episcopal church in Georgetown, ). c.
last Sunday. They took up positions
on the reading desk and communion
table, and behaved with great propri-
ETY..
"A snake was killed in Arkansas re-
Gently which measured twentyfeet long.
twenty-four inches around the girth,
three or four inches between the eyes,
and which made track of eight and
three-fourth inches.
The National Gold Bank and Trust
Company of San Francisco will 90 into
liquidation. The liabilities of the insti-
tuition have been reduced To $500. 900.
and the depositors and stockholders will
probably be paid in full.
"A mineral bureau has been estab-
lished at Alexandria, Virginia, for the
purpose of collecting specimens of ores
found in different sections of the State,
and of ultimately developing mines
which are believed to exist.
The Pioneer Chicory Factory, Yolo
county, CAL, is in full operation. The
proprietors cultivate this year 400 acres
of chicory, 70 acres more than ever be-
fore. The crop is unusually fine aud
the result will be at least 400 tons of
chicory.
George Metzger, of Carlisle, Pa.
now in his ninety-fifth year, is the oil
dest person who has served in the Le-
gislature. He was a member during
the years 1913 and 1914. He is said to
retain his powers of body and mind al
most unimpaired.
A curious basket picnic and ball was
held recently in LeavenwOrth Noun
tain, Colorado. Ii was held in sub
terranean chamber, and the cards of
invitation stated that dancing would
be continued until ten boxes of wax
candles mad been consumed.
Some planters in the San joaquin
valley, California, have been expert
menting in cotton culture, and have
raised from one-quarter of bale to four
bales per acre, 800 pounds 10 the bale,
on land that was not irrigated. An opeu-
ing for 'Chinese cheap labor"
The increase of the number of in
sane committed from San Francisco the
present year is % per cent. over the cor
responding period last year. During
the year 1874 the number committed
was 1875, while for the nine months of
1873, ending Sep. 80, the number reached
2l0.
The first child named after George