Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17
NO. 3.
NEWS IN BRIEF

trains between New \ Ork anu san
Francisco is - miles an hour.
Since the first day of last April
49, 900 emigrauts have entered Texas
by the way of Dennison, by aetuas
count.
New York has about twenty sugar
refineries, some of which can produce
as much as 1880 barrels per day, or
nearly SOC, 900 pounds.
"A Detroit card writer, having moth
ing better to do, wrote. in plain, legible
letters, no less than 1000 words on the
surface of a postal card.
If you are tired of city business
and its small profits, you might go 10
logging up into Minnesota, where
hands get 81 month.
Potatoes are in demand at the
Maine starch factories. Those at
Presque Isle and Maysville alone have
bought over S30, 900 worth.
Mrs. Belknap, it is reported, is
writing book, giving an account OF
society and political life in Washing
ton during the past six years.
The number of visitors TO the Cen
tennial from Iowa is given in round
numbers at Il 900, and the amount OF
money expended at s., ,OO0,0e0.
A Galveston (Texas) doctor raised
u sweet potato that weighs lSls pounds.
Two patients recovered while he was
busy watching the potato grow.
Australia, not to be behind the rest
of the world, will have an exposition
at Sidney early in the coming spring.
So far America has not responded.
Mrs. James Shelton, of Olympia.
was the first white child born ON
American soil north OF the Columbia
river. She is now in her 30th year.
-Americus, Ga, Is an independent
little town which issues her own eur
rency, and when that becomes mutt
lated redeems and replaces it with new.
A venerable HOosier of so makes
regular weekly journeys of 40 miles
each way to kneel at the feet Ofa widow
OF 30, whom he has been cOurting for
the past year.
Europe and Africa to be connected
by tunnel under the Straits OfGibral-
tar, Is the latest proposition. The sub
marine part of the tunnel would be
nine miles long.
Ira. l. Ibbitson, formerly General
in the Brazilian army, and subse-
quently Major General during the
American war, applied at the Ottawa
(Canada) Police Station the other night
for shelter and food.
Nelson's paroquet has Just died at
the Jardin des Planets at the ripe ace
nf lll 10 Il. a.
Admiral at Trafalgar, and after the
battle was never able to say anything
but "bomb, bomb, bomb"
-Ex-GOvernOr HOratiO Seymour has
been chosen president of Il new histor-
ical association which is to be called
1.-The Oneida Historical Association Of
Utica. " Senators COnkliDg and Ker-
nan are also officers of the association.
President Smith of Dartmouth Col
lege has offered his resignation be-
cause Of i'll health, but the trustees de-
cline TO accept it. They will give him
vacation, but he does not expect To
be able TO resume the duties of the Of
flee.
George W. Bruce met grizzly
bear near Santa Cruz, California, and a
fight began promptly. The man stabbed
and shot the bear, the bear broke the
mans ribs by squeezing him, and then
both retreated, apparently satisfied to
escape without victory.
The daugbter-in-law of General
Jackson, the wife of his son Andrew,
Is compelled by financial pressure 10
part with valuable relies collected by
her during her residence at the White
House. She Is now living at the Her
mitage, near Nashville, Tenn.
DIR. Spiers OF san Francisco has a
collection of ancient and modern coins
which DIR. Linderman says surpasseS
in rarity, antiqueness and beauty Of
specimens every collection he bad ever
seen, including those in the minis and
museums OF London and Paris.
ALFRED Russell Wallace, writer
on the Distribution of Animals, as
sumes that an animal which produces
but one at a birth will in forty wears
increase its kind to lO,O0J, 900. Good
enough in pigs, bat when applied to
pole cats ii Is not so pleasant a prOSpec-
tive.
The applications OF two old actors
have been favOrably received by the
managers Ot the Forest Home, Phila-
delph;a. William LOmas and GeOrg,.
u. Spear Will, it is supposed shortly
take their places in the Home, as the
first of Mr.. Forrest's heirs at Soring-
brook.
Paris is one of the most heavily
taxed cities in the world. It is stated
2 har tla lI,.
national tax paid by tile ParisIans i
Sl5. and that in addition 10 this their
municipal taxes amount to $22 per
head. The interest on the debt alone
is S., 10000
Miss Grattan, the adventurous Eng
lishwOman who ascended Mount Blanc
ON the 3lst OF last January, has mar
ried the Swiss guide who accompanied
her. She made the acquaintance OF
the hardy mountaineer when, only
fifteen years old, she first clambered
up the Alps. She is now about thirty.
Chinese popularity is not confined
to the male sex. The wife of Wong
Fui, an officer of one of the Chinese
companies in San Francisco, died re-
Gently under suspicious circumstances,
anu du ilNcSllOdtlOl SHOWED IudJ size
had stolen 81 700 from her HUSBAND;
lost it in gambling, and then tajen
poison.
The death from the Brooklyn fire,
as reported by the registratOr, shows
that 2S4 bodies were inferred, of which
number lS3 were identified; the bodies
were put in a common grave. \ por
ton Of the remainder we're subse-
quently recovered, so that no doubt is
left that the number OF people who
perished reaches at least 300. Seventy
five per cent. of the deaths were un-
married men.
Felix Belly at one time connected
with scheme for cutting canal across
the Isthmus of Panama, recently at
tempted suicide in Brussels. The cause
of his action was thought TO be pecu-
mary distress. He previously wrote a
note to his landlady apologizing for
the inconvenience his death would
cause her, and giving directions rs TO
the disposition of his effects. lie had