Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-31
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NEWS IN 6k f

about $4,000.
Niagara county, n. Y, is infested
by barn burners.
Kansas expects to be the banner
corn State this year.
-Caterpillars are seriously damaging
Louisiana 'scOttOn crop.
New York city has population of
| 1,300, 600. There are but 81 ,052 per-
sons who own real estate in the city.
"A bridge over the Mississippi, at
New Orleans, at cost of $4,000, 900.
is talked of.
During July sixty-three sailing yes
sells and four steamers were reported
lost or missing.
"A prominent violiniSt is SAID to have
purchased for S3400 the StradivarIus
once used by Paganini.
The fig is said to be a sure crop in
most of the Southern States. The cost
of cultivation is tritling.
1t is represented that New Mexico
contains 5000, 900 acres of land adapted
to fruit and cereal culture.
In several localities in North Wales
salmon spearing has become quite Il
habit of late among certain class of
fishermen
"A well-tO-do maiden lady in Pat
ten, Me-. worked tut her town tax
this summer with rake and hoe on the
road.
The number of immigrants who
arrived in the United States during
August was ,3SS, being 1858 less than
during August, 1882.
Among the curiosities in the great
caves of Luray, Va, is a birds nest con-
tanning three egglike pebbles rounded
by the action of water.
The authorities of the London Par
GELS Post have refuse, to recognize live
Holsters as articles which can be for
warded under their contrJl.
Statistics show that more than a
third of our ''butter" exports are sworn
to be oleomargarine. Great Britain re-
ceives about 500 tons of it.
The issue of standard silver dollars
for the week ended September s, 1885.
was Sj21 ,99S, against $40, 800 for the
corresponding period last year.
The Nashville people gave Mrs.
Polk, widow of the President, a hand
some bouquet, with the number 50 in
the centre, on her S0th birthday.
The Brooklyn Art Guild is here
after to be known as the Students
Guild of the BROOKLYN Art Association,
and to be managed by Board of Con-
troll.
Live" ostrich feathers repel sand,
and the dealers test is to rub the feath-
ers over loose sand, which clings to the
feathers if it be plucked from Il dead or
from tame bird.
The Dundee fleet of 0 vessels EN-
plOyed at the Greenland seal and whale
Asheries, captured during the season
just closed, LA whales, y, ,220s seals the,
total value of which is placed at e25,-
7Sj.
"A recent purchase of ground adj
Joining his already large vineyard at
V ina, Cal, gives eX-GOv. Stanford, of
that State, Il single ranch of over -, 900
acres, about fourth of which is planted
With vines.
Nearly seven hundred MOrmOns
were landed at New York by the GuiOn
inc of steamers, some time ago. The
gang consisted of English, Swiss, Ger
mans and Seandinavians. 1.-The Nor
mons must CO."
There We're more books and art
published in English last
7ear III Europe than in any other Ian
suage. Out OF total of S66, there
we're 31l in English, 269 in German and
~ in French,
In the German Empire there are
'lxty manufactures of playing cards,
which produced during the last fiscal
'ear 1924 $40 packs of less than thirty
'lx cards each, and LOSS, $50 packs of
more than thirty-siX cards Zach
The number of coins issued by
rational mint in a century is stupen-
lous, considering the durable nature of
! coin. Between 1885 and 1SS2, the
nInt of France sent out S,6jl, ,264, $40
rancs in gold, and 5,5l0, ,S46, ,617 francs
II silver.
In 1876, while digging On the site
If Fort Recovery, at which Gen. st.
lair was defeated in 1871, the flag
taft set up by Gen. Wayne In 1898 was
discovered. and now it has been taken
o Columbus to be put in the relie-rOOm
# the Capitol.
Timothy Shields, of Howard county,
Maryland, stands SIX feet two inches IN
lis stockings, and weighs 22O pounds.
lie has four children, three of whom
re sons, averaging six feet two inches
n height, and weighing 2lS, 30 and
40 pounds, respectively.
"A pear orchard in Thompson
ounty, Ga, was sold five years ago for
$50. 1t was next sold for 81 500, the
$50 having been recovered from cut
ings in the meantime. Amonth after
ward $500 was offered for it, and now
could not be bought for $4,000.
The Australian Government is get
ing rid of immense numbers of spar
ows by offering I'd. per dozen for their
leads. Restaurant keepers In this Sec
ion are said to give little more than
hat per dozen, but they get the bodies
# the birds. The heads alone would
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