Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-09-26
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


: beans.
"A crown of rel h)s iron WI; al
" ancient puliShm nj for re5elSal re .i-
cides.
a The Gauls loved to decorate their
5 helmets, swords and bucklers with
coral.
) -Celluloid Is a com Dlex combination
formed by mixing gun-cotton and cam
/ phor.
The hair of the beard was some
: times added 10 the seals of ancient deeds
and characters.
: The famous Marshal MacM ihon,
now 10 years of age, stands erect AM
! sOldierly as ever.
Oil or essence of pine apple is Oh.
tanned from product of the action of
puUrid cheese and sugar.
"A hornets neSt-being the finest
woody substance knOwn-iS the bey
poliSher for glass lenses.
The elephant was put upon tn,
coins of Cesar because that animal wJ-
called Cesar in Mauritania.
The average wages OF wOrkingmea
in France are only 6)I cents a day;
According to seamen a green hue
of the ocean indicates SOundingS; an
indigo blue profound depths
The annual cheese product is about
400, ZOO, 900 pounds, and the butter pro-
duct l 200, 600, 900 pounds.
The brick walls of Libby Prison
are covered with thousands of antO-
graphs of Northern visitors.
1t costs SO in California to pre-
pare an acre of land and grow grdps
vines to the period of production.
The old TOurO Jewish Synagogue
at Newport, Il. l., will be reopened un-
der the charge of Rabbi III. z. Mendes.
Among the Indians in the Indian
Territory there are ninety Baptist
churches, with nearly 5000 church
members.
The Jewish papers are rejoicing
over the fact that two Jews are mem
bers of the municipal council of Sophia,
in Bulgaria.
The value of the rIjlrDII' in OIiJ,
as assessed by the State BJIrl of Rlil-
road EIualizItiOl, is So, 9,T3J, ,Sij.Sl
This is an increase Of ) t,629, ,jj2S over
the valuation for 1882.
Our imports averd gel SfS1, ,30S, 4Jl
/ for the first five years of the pl5s de-
cade, against SJ1l ,3S) ,6j7 FOR the five
Years just clos I'll. This increase Is 1t
per cent.
Mrs. Alma Tadema, Mrs. f. W.
GOSse and third sister are the daugh-
tiers of Epps, of cocoa fame, and are
known as Nutritious" Grateful" and
Comforting
In 1850, California prOIuceI from
her vineyards 100000 gallons o.
wine, $4,000 gallons of brandy, SlOJ,-
900 worth of rdiSins an I 5lJ), ,0)J worth
of grapes for table use.
The new cable rate b1twoen Biazil
and the United States via Galveston is
1922 per word B fore the establish.
ment of the American line the charge
WAS Si.60 per word from this country
via London.
Miles of spruce forests in Milne
are dead Lumbermen are no. greed
as to the cause. About eight yelrsago
the heavy autumn rains lOOSene1 the
earth, and that was followed b terrible
gales and a severe winter.
Next to Texas, WyOmin! is prOj-
ably the greatest StOck-yrOwng re- zion
in the United States. 1t is sliI tll5
about 1,000,0O0 cattle are now feeling
on the plains, the estimated value of
which is about S3),0)J.0)0.
The mutual benefit societies in
England are 1919 in number, witt "a
of 4,692, ,0JJ, AMI fu1ls t.
q bsa. , I -
ing societies have e2S, ,2jJ, ,0JJ in funls,
and the industrial AMI providelt 50; lie
ties about 100000
There has recently visited New
Orleans Mr.. Pdckenham, a grandson OF
the British General who lost his life
while leading the desperate attack upon
General JackSon'S cOtton-bale ramparts
on the plain of Chalmette.
One hundred chests of tea have
been rejected at the Bay of San Fran
cisco by the inspector, on the ground
of adulteration with foreign and ex-
hauSted leaves, sand and other impur-
tiles. The tea will be taken back to
China.
Canadian capitalists are talking
about the region lying between Lake
Superior and Hudson Bay. There is
said to exist in that region go, 900 square
miles of land, some of it valuable for
farming purposes, much of it covered
with fine forests, and some of it risa in
mineral wealth.
Humboldt has estimated 44,00O
pounds of bananas can be produced on
the soil that would be required for 1000
pounds of potatoes, and that the same
area that would be required To raise
wheat enough for one man would pro-
duce enough bananas 10 feed twenty
five men.
1t is estimated that whea c)rL
worth fifty cents bu5hel is fei to fat
ten hogs the pork produced costs the
farmer five cents pound. When corn
IS worth much over twenty-five cents
buShel it does not pay to turn il into
pork. The estimate Is a buShel of corr
for every ten and half pounds of pork,
gross.
The South now has nearly 300, or,
more exactly, 19l cotton factories in
operation and in course of erection
there, which Is more than half the num-
Der in the New England States, though
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smaller scale, and they manufacture
only the coarser yarns and fabrics.
The large order for steel rails
which the Burlington Road has given
to the steel works of the Colorado Coal
and iron Company is not only sign of
continued prosperity for the works at
Pueblo but an evidence that we can
make as good rails in Colorado as can
be made anywhere.
The largest cable ever made on the
Pacific coast was finished at the Cali
fOrnia Wire Works some time ago. 1t
is Is, 900 feet in length, and weighs 26
tons. Rolled ON a shaft it makes 4
bundle about 20 feet in diameter and
10 in depth. 1t is made of steel wire,
and cost S20.000- The cable is for the
California Street Railroad.