Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-06-20
NEWS IN sRIEF.

o Missouri ascending acornS To Europe
|, to improve the forests.
d The Venezuela COW tree Yields 4
# liquid with the flavor of cream.
y There is said to be one physician to
L every thirteen families in the United
, States.
e In 1164 England had over 10000
q negro slaves, and they wore collars like
e dog collars.
OF the |, AZ. .SS7. 800 inhabitants on
. earth about S50,O00,0O0 are Idolators,
= 40, 900, 900 MOhammedanSo or Jews.
: In 1852 the United States produced
only 2,00O,0O0 tons of coal, while last
year about 70,000,000 tons were pro-
. duced.
r Arrangements for the work of
Moody and SInkey in London i'm the
5 autumn are already making.
! "A Jewish synagogue of the third or
: fourth century has been discovered near
J Carthage and about ten miles from
Tunis.
Miss Clara Barton has declined the
superintendency of the Massachusetts
WOman's Prison on the plea of ILL
health.
The pension list viii till forty-eight
! volumes of 600 pages each. The public
will soon be informed who draw the
pensions.
Isaac Quinn, cOlOred youth of
CASTOR County, y. c., Il years old, is
6 feet inches in height, and is still
growing.
| According to an Ayrshire paper
there is not single copy of Burns
poems in the Free Public Library at
Manchline
The Australians, who wish to eX-
terminate the English SparTOwS, paid up
to November last for - ,3lj heads and
1S1, ,2l2 eggs.
"A young lady of Bamberg, Germany,
has been punished by fine and cOstsfOr
the offence of playing the piano ut night
by an open window.
An English inventor has patented
process Of making straw ncombustible,
and now proposes to build cheap straw
cottages for the Door.
The town Of Grinnell. Iowa, which
suffered SO much by a tornado last sum-
mer, has just sent 500 To the sufferers
by the cyclone in Mississippi
The number of umbrella makers in
Paris has increased from llj in 1880 to
Hos in lSS2, all the value of their pro-
duct from $4,000 to S2,6J0,0JJ.
The largest vessels in the English
navy cost a million and a quarter To
build, and nearly thousand dollars Il
day to keep them at sea afterward.
OF thirty-nine femIIe students of
medicine attending the lectures of the
Paris Faculty last year, eleven were
English, five American, and one Indian.
A pearl worth $4,000, now in the
possession of the Princess YoussOpOf.
was brought from India in 1860 by Con
gibuS of Calais and bought by Philip
Nv.
The Baltimore Sun states that of
the 600 tOrnadoeS recorded since 1896
there We're 16i in the Southern States,
and OF these 30 were unusually deStruc-
tive.
An English traveller in America
records as one result of his observations
the general sadness on the faces of our
men of affairs as they go about the
streets.
-BargUe, a painter of exquisite little
pictures, the best of which are said to be
in the hands of Miss Wolfe and Mr..
Vanderbilt, died lately in Paris luna
tic asylum.
Sir Henry Maine has been elected
Corresponding Member of the Frerch
Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences, in the place of Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
Following the Chinese plan, the
British Government has conferred title
upon dead man. That is to say, it has
made the late Sir George JeSSe{'S son
baronet for his fathers sake.
The Empress of Austria has been
writing poetry, and has had a printing
office set up in the palace, and is learn
ing To set type and manage press, 50
that she can print her own poems.
john W. Garrett has spent $500 in
experiments on the Druid Hill Park
Aquarium in Baltimore. His latest
gift Is i'll the shape of sea lions, which
are on their way from san Francisco.
-Maekerel are decidedly earlier this
season than last. Last year on the Cape
Cod coast the first date of catch in weirs
was rs late as June 10Th. The earliest
was in 1SSO, when they were taken April
10th.
"A tree standing perpendicularly
has been discovered at depth of 80
feet i'll boring an arteSian well ut San
BernardnO, Cal. Great pieceSOf wood,
which appear to be sycamore, are brought
up.
The people of Mound City, near
Cairo. H., have employed an engineer
to make estimates of the cost of buildin
their levees one foot higher than the
highest flood line. The work is to be
done at once.
More than 1900 floral crowns were
heaped around Gambetta's coffin in the
Palais Bourbon, and writer in FigdrO
estimates their value at 100000. Paris
and it, envirOnS produced them all, nat
ural as well as artificial.
The latest papers from South Aus.
tr5llia gives an account of wheat harvest
ings and thunder storms.
England possesses a Society for the
Preservation of Funeral Monuments and
Epitaphs, which takes record of the de-
structiOn of memorials of the dead and
repairs inscriptions that are IN danger
of being effaced.
"A tramway is about to be construct
ell for the transportation of visitors To
the summit of Pixies Peak. The cost of
the work is estimated at 100000, and
the ascent, which now requires about a
day and half, Will then be made i'll
three hours.
In one of the public schools in BOs-
ton a room has been fitted up for instruc-
tion in woodwork, and two classes have
given two hours a week to manual study.
The boys are delighted with the carpen-
try, and the experiment is said to be
great success. The marks of the schOl-
ars are all high, averaging rs well as or
better than before.
Some very fine specimens of ashes
tos are being found in Nevada. The