Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
NO. 40.
NEWS In BRIEF

, Growing crops of hops are being
bought at Pc. a pound.
There are over 5000 blind persons
in the state of Arkansas.
Orange trees are being planted all
along the Mississippi coast.
Paris has telephone tOevery 1000
and London one for every 5000.
In London there are now thirty
nine theaters giving performances.
1t IS found impossible to raise the
Cimbria wreck. 1t will be blown up.
The Buffalo public schools have
used the same text books for p years.
Some fashionable ladies have maids
who can spell to do their letter-writ
ing.
A firm in New York sells four-leIf
clovers at 50 each, and has agoo1 trdte
in them.
The total value of all taxable pro-
perty in Nevada for the year 1892 was
S27, 1863, ,S35.37.
Dakota has 81 national and 81 pri-
vate banks, with an aggregate capital
of over S10,00O,0Ot.
New Y York 'sSunday-School scholars
of all denominations number 1885,
in AS Sunday-Schools
Kaiser Wilhelm has bestowed a
patent of nobility upon Professor Helm
hOlZ, the celebrated scientist.
The new Northwest, Alaska ald
Washington territory, promises to be
the charcOal-irOn region of the near fu-
ture.
--On the 1st of next August an in
teInatiOnal Electric Exhibition will be
opened at Vienna, AMI fine display is
anticipated.
In drilling for an arteSian we'll ut
Chesterfield, Iowa, a stream of milky
substance was struck, which is believed
to be magnesia.
An English paper says: OF the
269, ,547 owners of land set down in the
new dOomsday book, no less than 3D.
500 are women.
The Galveston Ne,CS thinks the
cotton crop in Texas this year Will be
800, 900 bales less than last years crop.
1t estimates the product at l,0OJ,0JJ
bales.
The wooden and wOrSted Industry
in Germany employs about 2)J,0JD per-
sons, that of England and Irelall over
300, 900 and that of the Unitei States
about 10000.
-Ismail, the ex-Khedive, is going to
live in England. lie has purchased
Caen Towers, Highgate, a luxurious
mansion, with twelve acres of ground,
for $50, 900.
sumner Shepard has held Office in
WindSOrville, Conn, for fifty-One years
continuously, is now "a years old, and
is regarded as the oldest postmaster i'll
the United States.
The recent report of the death Of
Tamberlik, the famous tenor, is now
contradicted. He is said to be on IL
starring tour in the south of Spain, and
in excellent health.
The Princess Louise occupies Il
large house at Bermuda, pictureSquely
situated, and an adjoining dwelling
found scarcely large enough for her
baggage-thirtY-fiv1 trunks.
"A mOnkey-faced owl was captured
a short time ago by Capt. Pitts in the
Florida Everglades. 1sle plumlge is
that of the owl family, but the head and
face are those of a babOOn, except that
the eyes resemble closely those of an
otter.
Steamship captains report that
they can discern the electric light i'll
the new lighthouse at South Head,
Macquaire Harbor, distance of from
30 to go miles, according to the state of
the weather.
Experienced lumbermen say that
the supply of walnut is rapidly dimin-
ishing, and that fully tnree-fOurthS of
the good stock throughout the Urited
States has been consumed within the
last ten years.
The exhibition of coins, which is
to come off in the Vienna Mint next
month, on the occasion of the Third
Congress of German numismatlSts, pro-
misses to be one of the finest and most
interesting ever held.
"A catalogue published by the Ger
man Pomological Society enumerates
$50 kinds of apples, 9l2 kinds of pears,
235 kinds of cherries, 2S9 kinds of
plums, los kinds of peaches and 80
kinds of apricots.
Naples has about as many people Us
Chicago, and Milan rather more than
Baltimore, Turin and Palermo would
rank with Cincinnati and the eternal
City has population Of3OO, 461. POpu-
latIon in Italy increases little less
| than 4 mar nor aunum
New YOrk's organized charitable
societies disbursed 81, ,O0J, 900; anu III,
765 persons were committed b. the
| Commissioners of Public Charities and
Correction to the almShOuSeS, prisons,
hospitals, nurseries, schools and asy-
lumS.
The only place where jute is manu-
factured into grain bags in California
is at the State Prison in San Quentin.
The operatives net monthly profit of
between $1,000 and $1,000. Stocking
knitting is the most profitable employ
ment given eonvicts in the Eastern
Penitentiary in Philadelphia.
The Normal School, IN Columbus,
Ohio, is free to pupils intending to be-
come public school teachers; Others ar
charged forty dollars per annum for
tuition. No preference is given
Normal School graduates, however,
filling public school teacherships.
Nine hundred cigars and 400 cigar
cites were shaken out of trunk full of
clothes belonging to passenger by the
Havana steamship Saratoga, at New
York, some time ago, by a customs in
spectOr who refused to believe they had
been put there to keep moths out of the
garments. The owner paid the duties.
The combined wealth of the men,
bers of the California Senate is about
So, 0,0O0,0 900. The Senate is composed
of four editors, eight farmers, one mi
ner, four capitalists, two merchants
five mechanics, one CONTRACTOR, one
physician, one viticulturist, and four
teen lawyers.
The value Of the poultry consumed
, in the United States annually Is esti-