Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

furnishes cleanliness and pure air for
over 800 babies per day.
The Good Templars of Michigan
gained one hundred and one lodges and
$500 members the past year.
I'm Lewiston, Me-, butter has not
been so cheap before for years. Country
dealers are generally paying from 20 to
23 cents per pound.
DIR. Hammond, of New York, at
one time surgeon-general of the army,
is said TO have an income of $50, 900 q
year from his medical practice.
I'm the Jordan River, Upper Michi-
gan, trout abound in such numbers
that recently party of four persons,
after six days fishing, caught 1000.
Chief Justice Edmund l.. Cushing
of Vermont, has been the organist of
the Unitarian church in Charleston.
VT. for more than forty years.
The receipts for a years license
fees from gamblers in Virginia City
were $29, 1000. The money Is collected
monthly, and gambling is in no way
restricted.
Spain is ahead of America in one
thing at least, for while we puzzle over
street locomotion, Madrid's omnibuses
are drawn over ordinary pavements by
steam engines.
When the war of the Revolution
began there was but one man in Massa-
chusetts who was worth more than
$50, 900; there are now forty-five worth
more than million.
Connecticut won the championship
in American skill last year, having 200
patents. or one to 16l inhabitants. Ar
kansas is at the foot of the class; Mas
sachusetts next 10 the head.
The New York yachtsmen are
afraid TO 90 outside of Sandy Hook
since the Mohawk disaster. and the
ladies who had engaged for Summer
cruises are all backing out.
Utica is to have another baby show
1t the Central New York Fair, Septem-
Der Z. Nine prizes, varying from IS 10
S25. are offered for the prize babies
born on and after January /, 1876.
The king grasshopper was caught
at Owatonna, MINI. He was two inches
and quarter in length, five-eights Of
an inch across the back and one and
three-quarter inches in circumference.
San Francisco has a strong man
who, with 400 pounds on his back, 400
on his breast, 200 pound bar ON his
neck, and a man on each end of the bar
dances, wearing shoes that weigh IS
pounds.
John B. Gould, of Bellevernon, Pa.
has team of horses, one of which is
twenty-eight and the other thirty-one
years of age. Tney are still in active
service. Their driver is eighty-twO
years old.
1t is not generally known that
Oliver Wendell Holmes is the inventor
of the common hand stereoscope, but
such is the fact, and his work has been
given to the world without the prOtec-
ton of a patent.
Mortimer Benedict has been stead
lily employed as driver on the road from
Troy to La singburg. N. Y, for 26
years-ll years on the stages and Is on
the horse-cars. His trips in that time
will aggregate 95l ,525 miles.
A white quartz rock has been dis
covered in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan which promises TO find a
ready market among Bessemer steel
manufacturers, BY whom it is pulver-
lied and used to line the steel conver-
tiers.
I'm the presence Of Colonel Benton,
U. 5. A., General Franklin, DIR. CAT
ling, and others, one of the improved
rapid-firing Gatling guns was recently
fired at the rate of 10 shots second, or
2,400 per minute. The gun is 20 barrel,
45 calibre.
A lifebOat recently tried in London
is 30 feet long, weighs two tons, and
righted itself Immediately when cap
sized into the water. Eighteen men
could not upset it, and the inventor
claims that il will keep 200 persons
above water.
The wool clip of the country last
year was nearly two hundred million
pc-.nds. whereas in 1860 it was only
sixty-five millions. In 1879 the country
bought about fifty million dollars worth
of woOlen goods and eleven millions
worth Of wool.
The new postal law is now in oper-
alton. Consequently all mail matter
of the third class, including transient
newspapers, can be transmitted through
the mails at the rate of one cent for
two ounces, instead of the late rate of
one cent an ounce.
The Raleigh On. c. Sentinel men,
tons it as an encouraging fact that
there is hardly city in the South
which is not increasing in population
and wealth, though times have been
hard and the Southern states have been
under shadow for years.
1t is claimed that at the Oceanic, Isles
Shoals, the thermometer always ranges
ten or more degrees less than at the ad-
jacent beach-houses. One of the me-
thodical BOstonians, who has kept an
entire seasons record, voucles for the
truth of the assertion, and the fact Is
worth noting.
The remnant of the wreck of the
.Nerrimac has been raised and placed in
the dry dock at the Norfolk navy-yard.
The timber what there is left of 1t, will
be utilized as the pews of the Old South
Church are being, in supporting the
tottering steps of those who are wealthy
enough to purchase walking stick for
a relic.
There are fifty-five saw mills in
Washington Territory, that cost s92l,-
500, and cut about 100000 feet of
lumber per day. The twenty-five flour
ing mills in the Territory include 80
run of stone, with capacity of s3i
bbls per day, with seven nor specified,
and the cost of nineteen OF them Is
given at 1925, 100.
in Wisconsin. for the purpose Of
holding and managing their own pro-
perty, wives are, in effect, divorced FROM
their husbands. The separate estate OF
a woman at the time of marriage, IL ab-
solutely her own; and she may contract
and be contracted with, sue and be sued
in respect to her own property, IS
though she were unmarried.
AS forests disappear there is grad
uai decline in the production Of maple
sugar and molasses. In 1870 we pro-
duced %, ,443. .645 pounds of maple-sugar
and 6, sos. 1928 gallons of molasses; in
1850 we produced 40, l20, ,205 pounds OF
sugar and IA. .963, 1856 gallons of mo-
lasses-a decrease of IL ,616, $50 pounds