Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-05-30
NEWS IN BRIEF

. 1927.
-Paraftine was first obtained from
coal in 1880 and from mineral oil in
1913.
A rich deposit of silver has just been
discovered nine miles from Gainsboro,
Tenn.
The total estimated supply of red
wood timber in California is y. 50 900
900 feet.
Alexander Mitchell has in his house
in Milwaukee probably the finest library
in the West.
The enewly-diScOVered placerS ON the
Aqua Fria, Arizona, are attracting con-
siderable attention.
Sir Charles Dixie has framed col
lection of caricatureS of himself clipped
from comic papers.
Emperor Louis Napoleon served as
Especial constable in London during the
Chartist riots in 1913.
-IIudson's Bay is to be explored to
see whether grain steamers cannot be
run in the brief summer.
AT a stenographIc exhibition at
Paris postal card was exhibited which
contained II 900 words.
M. Patrick rode a quarter of a mile
ON a Snow-Slide near Quincy, Cal, last
week, and escaped mhurt
"A garfish five feet long. weighing
sixteen pounds, was caught few days
ago in the Alabama river.
The March fires representing 81
30, 900. This is $1,000 More than
the March record of last wear.
! Wagons are being constructed in
Milan to convey Italian grapes direct to
the wine factories of France.
y thrteen-year-old girl in Leeds,
Ontario, weighs l1j pounds and is 20
pounds heavier than her father.
-WiIkie Collins is not very rapid
worker. and seldom writes more than
ten pages of manuscript a day.
The Hon. Oliver Ames expects to
spend Si0o, 600 in building his new house
on Commonwealth avenue, Boston.
The season in Canada promises well
for crops, the Snow having gradually
disappeared without destructive floods.
Two experienced French gentlemen
are perfecting arrangements to establish
an ostrich farm in Medina county.
Texas.
Seems as if they did nothing but
declare Semi-annual dividends in Boston.
where they announce a total of SS,144.-
I16 for April.
! The California wine production, as
measured by receipts at san Francisco.
has risen from ,, 3,:s4 500 gallons i'll 1879
| to 100000 IN lSS2.
There are 10000 square miles of
almost unbroken forests in North Caro-
lima, comprising pine, chestnut, oak,
maple, beech and hickory timber.
Louisa Il. Stephens Is the first
woman To become President of a bank.
She succeeds her late husband in the
First National Bank Of Marion, Iowa.
Mr.. Baillie of Dochfuor. one of the
largest landed PropIietors in Scotland.
died ut Florence a few day AGO. He
owned lj6,OOO acres. principally in In
IveneSS-Shire.
Frederick Douglass denies the state
ments that he is worth SlO0, 900. or $780,
| 900, and declares that both his fortune
and his annual income are very greatly
OvereStimated.
The police Of Minneapolis. Mimi.
have been ordered to halt pedestrians
found IN the streets after midnight and
To compel them to give an accurate
account of themselves.
An Englishmau who wears a corset
in order to reduce his waist, and who
laced it six inches tighter than his nat
ural size, declares that the sensation is
rather pleasant than otherwise.
DR.. Ziegler, the eminent Swiss car
tOgrapher, whose death has Just been
announced, was born in lS0l, and wasa
pupil of Carl Ritter, who has been called
the creator of modern geography.
Col. Cyrus NJ. Wheaton. who died
ut RehOboth, Mass, last week, aged 81
years, had been town clerk of that place
for more than 40 years, and at the age
of 81 was member of the State Legis-
lature.
"A painted advertisement in huge
white letters upon the rocks of Lookout
Mountain caused spirited horse to run
away one day last week, and horse and
driver went headlOng over a cliff and
were Killed.
"A very significant proof of the re-
duction in coal waste resulting from the
leffOrts of the Anti-SmOke Association is
seen in the fact that in 1SS2 there wasa
decrease of 1S3, ,173 tons in the coal
brought into London.
Not more than half the usual supply
of maple syrup has been made in Maine
this season, owing to unfavorable con-
ditiOns of frost and snow during the
which t,ratrar,s.I "a g,.,,1..,,s
of sap at the usual time.
Mrs. Fletcher Webster, who has
been very seriously i'll for many weeks
at hotel in Boston, has been removed
to her home in Marshield, Mass. Her
illness was partial paralysis, attributed
to a draught III railroad car.
"A capitalist offered to erect at st.
Paul $3.50, 900 hotel provided the citi-
zens would subscribe 500, 900, to be
paid on the completion of the building.
The offer was accepted. Kansas City
is now looking for a similar offer.
Mrs. Craycroft. the sister Of Sir
John Franklin, died last week at her
house at DOrking at the age of 30. She
spent the greater part of her fortune on
the expeditions which were sent to the
Arctic regions in search of the famous
explorer.
The venerable Archbishop Purcell
is again in seriously failing health, and
the grayest apprehensions Of his friends
are aroused. Paralysis has attacked his
organs of speech, and he can scarcely
articulate above a whisper He is living
at the Convent of the UrSulincs. st.
Martins, Ohio.
Angelo MariHnO, a pilot of Para,
Brazil, is the survivor OF three wives,
by whom he has forty-five children, still
living, and through which children he
is called grandpapa by 10 persons,
great-grandpapa by Isl, and sreat-great-
grandpapa by 25O more, his living des-
cendants numbering Gus persons.
$50 patents and designs were issued
recently to citizens of the United States