Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-09-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

100000.
Bismarck has had his beard shaved
OFF, and again appears with shaven face
and heavy moustache made familiar b.
popular pictures OF him.
Iowa, Republican, and Texas, De-
mocratic, are both free of debt, and
the latter State has an embarrassing"
cash balance in its treasury.
The largest man in the British SER
vice is Lieut.. Switzerland. of the Fifty
sixth Regiment. He is feet inches
high and weighs about 364 pounds.
in 1872 the British national debt
stood at S3,6j5, 100000; in 1882 at
So, "a, 100000. the present Cllncel-
lor of the Exchequer fayors a sclen.
for more rapid redemption.
The exports of petrOleu for the
twelve months which ende1 June 3Jth
last, amounted in value to Sli,9I3.U79.
against S51 ,232, ,70} for the twelve
months WHICH elIeI Ju Ie 3JJh, 1852.
Mons. Dieulafait has concluIed
that the evaporation of sea water in the
region of the Rhone delta must average
at the lowest estimate-about one
fourth of an inch day throughout the
year.
Tea culture is carriel Oh il several
OF the Southern States, and, according
TO letter from that section, the num-
Der of families that reg Ilarly use tel
OF domestic production is steadily III
creaSing.
The oldest printed blllaI in ths
English language was lately acquired
for the British Museum 1t is a con-
temporary record of the bItt.e OF FlOi-
den Field, printed by one ofthe earliest
typographers.
In France the largest number of
marriages take place In the sl)rte5L
month, February; the Sm tlleSt number
IN December Last yeic there were
81, l3I In February against less than
$4,000 in December.
"A quartz boulder, weighing l6J
pounds, and worth a0JIt 500, was
recently '-hydraulicAeI" ouC of a blnk
at GiDSonvIlle, Nevada. it hal tbs
appearance OF navIl5 been ,rJInI i'll 4
pot hole, being sm - .hlY wLSiei.
In 1889, the year befoce ths intro
duction of the Elglish Penny Post.
three letters per head of the p1 Jula.i1I
was sent: i'll 1873 it hui risen 10 -.
and now stands az -. In G.rAIny,
the number Is IL; in France, ID.
The walters fee nuisance Is report
ed to be particularly annoying this sea-
son at Saratoga. 1t is stated that the
head waiter at one of the leading Sara
toga hotels bought ut the close of last
season 5000 worth of Government
bonds.
1t is mentioned is a rather curious
fact that DIR. FrenOy, the leading ply
slclan at Alx-leS-BainS, where 50 mlny
people go TO be cured of rheumatism, is
martyr to that ailment, though he Is
very successful in curing others of the
complaint
The annual report of the BOlrI OF
Trade Of Cincinnati shOT vs. thtt tle To-
tai product OF the manufactures of
that city, during the last year, am1uaU- F.
ed in value to sl94, 4,513 ,O0J, an excess
OIL so,VJO,tOJ conplre1 VITA tn. prI-
duct of the preceding year.
Horn, the German statistician. sly,
that cigars are driving out tine oil
fashioned pipes. During ths past yeIr
there were consumed in the German
customs union $3.50, li0,0JJ cigars
weighing 81 ,J65 tons. ''OLly" $3.50
tons of smoking tobacco We're useI.
There has been found among
BedOuin tribe east of the JOrdOn, pieces
of skin containing portions of Deutoro-
nomy and the commandments, made
about 500 years before Christ, all the
British Museum is expected To ply "a
fabulous sum for it. There is little
doubt, among experts, as TO its gen
uineneSS.
Beer drinking Is done generously
IN this country, as completed statistics
show. The total sales last year amount
ed to IL 900, ,0OO barrels, or about 10
gallons per head of the population.
Alabama and North Carolina brew very
little beer, and Arkansas, Florida,
Maine, Mississippi and Vermont brew
none at all.
Paris has twenty-three municipal
some of which are located in
the communal schools. In roundnum-
Ders l2S, 900 books, of which II 900 were
novels, were borrowed from these librar-
les during the three months ending
J June 30th. Less than five in every one
thousand books borrowed are in foreign
languages.
The Government printing-Oflice,
SAID To be the largest establishment of
its kind iii the world, is valued at S.
OOO,OOO. The disbursements last wear
lending June Both were &, 2,635, 15J Is.
The daily pay of employees Is $500. 1t
Is estimated that from 1889 TO 1881, the
total outlay for Government printing
has been in the neighborhood of $780,
10000.
Chicago has 10J2 streets, 9S5 fire
boxes, 5 post offices, 10 public schools,
q asylums, 13 hospitals, IL public IL
OrarleS, y cemeteries, AMI about 500
saloons, according to a statistical para
graph atiOat. She has but one Mayor,
but by most accounts he is a Harrison
nearly all the people not included in the
aSt enumerated class.
Among the numerous tablets viii ch
now appear on houses in different parts
)f Paris, commem0rating events of i'm
pOrtance or characters illuStriOuS In
history, Is one which few days agp
was fixed on house in the Rue SOuf-
lot, at No. 9, AMI which bears the in
'crIption: ''Here formerly stood the
circular wall round Paris, erected in
-he reign OF Philip Augustus, about
l2UO \. D.-Slte OF the Porte Saint
Jacques"
Darwin tells us that the great pill
lars of Stonehenge have for years been
the slow process of inter-
ment by the accumulation of mould
around them, and that they are in dan
ger of being undermined as the result
Of the labors of earth worms. The
floors and walls of Roman villas i'll
England have in the same way been
lowered by the Withdrawing of the IN
deTlying soil.
The Mars family, descendants of
George Maris, who left England and
settled in Chester county in 1858.
have had bi-eentennial celebration at
the Home House." located upon
part OF the tract originally purchased