Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-10-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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/ The Bell telephone carried messages
$50 miles the other day.
At Pompeii, combs have been found
exactly Ike the modern fine tooth kind.
The Boston Public Library con-
tains 291, 1888 volumes.
OF the population of Ireland, 1856
per cent. are Catholics.
There are 10000 anti-polygamy
Mormons residing in Iowa.
There are 191s miles of sewers own
ed and controlled by the city of Boston.
Secretary Lincoln has little son
named Abraham.
Nearly all the ice imported into
Great Britain comes from Norway
Ex-President and Mrs. Hayes proba-
bly, will sail for England early next
month.
The Emperor William is growing
deaf. As he grows older he does not be-
come more social.
The annual raisin production of
California amounts to about 81, 600
boxes.
The Lord Mayor of London is a
devout attendant at the Methodist
Church.
1t is estimated that there reside in
London, England, not less than $4,000
thieves.
The average wages of workingmen
in France are only co. cents day those
of women are 81.
The cotton factories in the South
have, since the war, paid an average
dividend of %! per cent.
The superintendent of lamps in
Boston has charge of 1926 gas and
1868 fluid lamps.
"A book was recently returned to the
Boston Public Library which has been
missing for more than 20 years.
The ex-Empress Eugenie was at
Darmstadt on July 4, in the strictest
privacy as the Marchioness Brennes.
The elephant was put upon the coins
of Cesar because that 0Eimal was called
C9zar in Mauritania.
The late Lord BeacOnsfield at twelve
years of age was compiler and editor Of
weekly school newspaper.
"A Connecticut woman has given her
son large comforter male of hair cut
from her own head during ten years.
Kangaroo tail soup is now canned
in Australia and exported IN great guam
titles.
Thirty years ago it cost Massachu-
sets S4S1 to educate each child ;now it
costs $3.50.
-Celluloid is a complex combina ion
formed by mixing gIn-cotton and cam
phor.
In 1779 the British peerage contain
ed 21 dukes, and in 1879 precisely
the same number.
1t is said that in a recent canvass of
so towns in Connecticut, so, 900 people
were found who never attend church.
The will of the late Dean Stanley
has been sworn under 600, 900 as to the
personal estate.
Fresh bnttermilk is sold on the
streets of New York at three cents
glass.
The picturesque village of Reichen-
bach, in the Bernese Oberland, has been
almost destroyed by land slip.
Boston In 1880 consumed GIL ,603
barrels of lager beer-two barrels to
every man, woman and child.
Senator Fair has resumed work on
the ComstOck while the superintendent
of his company's mines takes vacation.
On March 81, 1850, there were IN
Great Britain il, ,212 places where let
tiers could be mailed. The staff of the
Post Office Is $4,000.
Bituminous coal is produced IN
counties of Pennsylvania,
and the estimated output of 1881 Is over
%, ,O0O, 600 tons.
The average peach crop OF the Della
ware peninsula is about four million
baskets this year il will not exceed one
hundred and twenty thousand baskets.
A man in Schoenberg has a vine
with three thousand punches of grapes
which when pressed will produce sixty
SIX gallons of wine.
A farmer near Bellefontaine, O., has a
pig 10 months old, weighing $50 pounds,
that was born with but two legs, and /.
walks around on them
New Orleans has six women to every
five men. This is said to be a greater
excess than in any other city in the
Union.
The people of Texas are in great
glee over the discovery of camel coal in
that State, and believe it will add
another to their already great resources.
Mr. Archibald Forbes, the we'll
known war correspondent, arrived In
New. York recently, by the City of Mon
treal, from Liverpool, and took up his
quarters at the Union Square Hotel.
One of the finest examples of crna-
mental statuary in the United States is
the monument erected in Chicago to the
of the late Senator Stephen A
Douglas.
Victoria, Princess Of Baden, the
young lady who is about to become
Crown Princess Of Sweden, IS having her
bridal veil made for her at a German
lace factory.
"A conspicuous increase of suicides
among the officers of the Austrian Army
has led to an investigation, and it Is
found that pecuEiary embarrassment Is
the cause in 80 per cent. of the cases.
The British flag at present controls
an aggregate of 16, 900. 900 tons of ship
ping, against II, q, 900, 900 tons of ship sail
ingunder the combined flags of other Ma
tions.
in all the mines in Great Britain
there are, it is estimated, 37S, Isl per-
sons employed, and the length of under
ground tunneling in which they work is
50, IA miles.
-Horatio Ross, one of the most noted
stalkers in the Scottish Highlands, went
out recently on his eightieth birthday
and shot two stays. Mr.. Ross is still
hale ald hearty, and is as keen sports
man as ever.
The entire debt of the United States
does not amount to the gross income
of the people for five months in the
year. In 1865 the debt amounted to
S7S. % per capita in 1880 it was S37.74