Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-08-29
NO. 80,
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Miss Mary Anderson is in Paris.

owns five mission ships.
The income of the Church of En-
land is put at so, ,62j 900.
This country turns out ,, ,450wItche )
every twenty-fOur hours,
From 800 to 1000 berry baskets ar.
turned out in day by an expert maker,
and by hand.
The post office in New York does
a business, involving directly over SO, :
900, 900 per year.
The Juice of the red onions is said
to promptly allay the sting of bees.
wasps, hornets, ~.
"A Chinaman has purchased the
water works at Elko, New, and will,
doubtless, make them 90.
Madame Etelka Gerster sails for
this country, for six months tour
under MaplesOn, in September
Mrs. Abby Clark Ford is re-en-
gagged with Alfred DE Seve's concert
company, for the coming season.
In Boston, which is now one of the
most important Eastern markets of the
trade, coal WAS an '-untriel luxury" id
1880.
| Boston has fifty three national
banks, with a combined capital of $50
4J0, 900 and total outstanding circu-
alton of $50, AL ,1S2.
| The Mexican revenues, which in
1879 were but Sl6, 900, rose last
year to nearly S32. 200, 900, and are ex-
pected to reach $40. zoo, 900 this year.
| The 1860 saloons of Missouri last
year paid licenses to the amount of
Sl51 900. The same number of saloons
under the new law will have to pay
100000.
"A negro killed 1919 rats in a single
day at Clarksville, Tenn, recently, and
Won prize thereby, which was trough
on" the other fellows who had cOmpet-
ed with him.
| -MarwoOd, who owes his fame to
his vlrtuoSO executions on a single
string, recently occupied seat in the
gallery during session of the House
of Commons.
The programmes of the S.enger-
bund concerts at Buffalo contained the
names of few but German composers,
RoSsini and Donizetti being among the
rare exceptions.
The ''gas war has ceased in
Brooklyn, and the price of gas will be
raised to S2 per 1000 cubic feet on and
after August 1st. The two circum-
stances have close connection.
Boston has 3O4 electric lamps. which
cost the city siXty-fiye cents each per
night. They displaced about on.
thousand gas lamps that hal cost les;
than SIX cents each per night.
No more mysterious assassination
OF haekmen have been reported fr)u
the city which recently fur1iShed two
cases of that kind; but the avenger is
believed to be prOwlin around Niagara
Falls.
The ISthmus of Corinth Canal
Company expect to use :, SOC, 900 pounds
OF dynamite in prosecuting their work,
which will probably take four years.
The entire cost is estimated at So
100000.
In the course of excavations in the
Via ;. lgnazio at Rome. several Egypt
ian antiquities have recently been dis
covered. They include an ObeliSS bear
ing the cartOuch of Rameses III, a
sphinx of basalt, and a cynOcephalus,
Herr KOffell has devised a new ex-
plOSlve substance, which, he declares.
will be less costly than any other, AMI
which will not be liable To explode by
shock or friction. 1t is com DoSeI prin-
clpally of s;iltpetre, SO1a, sulphur, saw
dust, chlorate of pOta 81 and charcoal.
Japan takes to the newspaper most
kindly. There are now 1l3newspapers
published in the kingdom, besiIes I33
miscellaneous publications, and in the
three wears, 1S75-lS71, the circulation
increased from {, 6,410, ,269 to g, AS, ,529.
The annual rate of mortality in the
towns of England and Wales for the
week ending with the 18th inst. aver
aged 1913 per 1000 in an estimated
population of S,62J,972. Tne rate was
20, Il per 1000 for the same week in Lon
don.
AT the three stations in Northern
Europe from which special attention
was given last winter TO studies OF the
aurora borealiS, efforts were male to
photograph the phenomenon, but no
impression on the sensitive plates could
be secured.
Germany has 205 inhabitants to the
square mile, the United States I7.29.
When the density OfpOpulatiOn isequal
to that of Germany, the United States
will have 595, ,534 so inhabitants, not
including the Indian territory and SOM
tracts now unOccupied.
The Associated Railways of Yir-
Cripia .anJ tho (tarnlinac will .,gt,.-
August lst to check piece of baggage
in excess of 30 lbs. BIg5lse over
that weight may be divided into two
or more parcels, otherwise it will not
be accepted for transportation.
Two men, hameI MOrum AMI
Costa, the former Belgian AMI the
latter Frenchman, succeeded, early
i'll the present month, in crossing over
the English Channel in a balloon. They
ascended at CourtrIi, Belgium, ami
made the landing near Bromley.
The number of paupers in London
for one week in various years is shown
below: Fourth week of June, 1885,
81, 800; fourth week of June, 1882, 3S,-
054; fourth week of June, 1881, So ,4J4;
fourth week of June, 1880, S4,l2j.
These numbers are exclusive OF luna
tics in asylumS and vagrantS.
General Torres annual report on
the Italian army levies states that on
september 80 last, 7l4,9jS men were
enrolled in the permanent army, of
whom 500, ,S25 were privateS. or these
699, ,S2J men, however, only l62, ,346
were actually under arms, including
Il, 900 earabineers.
Preserved milk. sealed by Nagilli
in 1872, has been opened. Ii had be-
come brownish, and acquired a bitter
taste. Sufficient proof was obtained
that heating to l2J degrees under a
pressure of from two to four atmos-
pheres is inadequate to destroy germs.
Primary education In America has
not yet produced such good results as
might be expected. OF the 80, 100000
inhabitants, more than 3j,OJJ,OO0 are
over 10 years of age. OF these, 1925
COZ, or 13.4 per cent, cannot read,
while G, ,239 ,95S, or per cent, cannot
write. Pennsylvania, the busiest OF