Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-02-21
NO. s.
NEWS IN BRIEF

Denver, Col, is to have an at ex-
hIbition III the spring.
, An international Exposition Is be
] ing arranged for Rome.
British STATISTICS lately compiled
prove that the danger OF travel by sci
? Is increasing.
: Atlanta claims to have young lady
with the finest and prettiest hair IN the
United States.
LESS ehOIr music and more con-
gregatlonal singing r. cries a Western
religious newspaper.
Several hlgh-rooming Harvard stu
dents have prOyidcd themselves with
ropes for a case of fire.
The population of SYRIA and PaIes-
tine Is estimated at 2,076, ,321. OF these
only 5000 are Protestauts.
Miss Mary Dickens, eldest grand
child OF Charles Dickens. age nineteen
Is about to become an actress.
The new regulation snare drum
adopted for the use of the United States
Army Is to be l6 inches In diameter and
s inches long.
The total exports of breaIstuff
from the United States during the wear
1882 amounted III value to S1S2. $50 '734
against 1924, l24, S32 during 1881.
From observations made in the
Geological Gardens, London, it seems
probable that the extreme lease of life
lof the hlppopotamus is thirty years.
Silk production is said to be in tn
following proportions Italy, 3 q Der
cent. China, 36 France, s East In
dia (BengaD, 7; Japan, =; Persia and
the Levant, 4.
r aetory operatives IN New England
are unltedly asking for weekly payments
OF their wages, while their employers
are as unanimously III favor of the
monthly system.
The rag business in New York
amounts to $50, 1000, 600 per annum.
There are 5000 rag-pickers in the city.
Last year there was over $40. 600 worth
OF rags imported.
OF the 11.000 grain mills in Hn!-
land, 10000 are driven by wind. The
bulk of wheat meal is consumed bv the
public without passing through auv
tiour-dresing machine.
Beef COWS are DOW selling at S2S
and -year-old steers at S}j to St5
at Austin, Texas. Stock rnisers are
happy and consumers of beef CORES
pOndinsly miserable.
The sugar crop of Louisiana proves
to be much larger than had been antici-
pated. 1t Is alleged that of the portion
OF the crop received at Morgan CITY
two-thirds OF 1t go to Texas.
The English Postmaster-G General Is
totally blind, and MIR. George Richard
son, who has just been appointed Re
ceiyer and Accountant-G General to tine
Post Office, Is totally deaf.
The old mansion built by Gen.
Philip Schuyler in 1850, upon Cliaton
street, Albany, is offered for sale in the
expectation that it will be replaced bya
building for business purposes,
The American Peace Society has
now invested funds to the amount of
about $4,000, having lately come into
possession OF a legacy of $4,000 from
the late Rev. Dr. George G.. Beckwith.
Recent tests of yarn made from
different hemps gave the following re-
lalye average strengths Manila. 24J
Italian, 22l New Zealand, l43 Rus
sian, rs. Manila Is evidently the yarn
to be hanged with.
Near PictOn, Ontario, is aremarka-
BILE freak of nature. Two elm trees
stand about twenty feet apart, and one.
at the height of twenty five feet, bends
over and joins the other, forming a per
feet and magnificent tree. 1t IS then
perfectly round, and extends upward
about twenty-five feet.
during the past year I47I new
companies were registered in London
under the limited liability acts, with an
aggregate capital of G2l6, sci, ,926 in
1881 the number was 1885, with a capi-
tai of Gl67, 1872, ,941.
England pays Lord Lyons. her Am
bassador to France, $50, 600 year, and
makes no fuss about it. If the salary
Oh the President of the United States
were fixed according to English notions,
1t would be a million year, at least.
An Australian Tom Thumb has
been on exhibition in England. HIS
real name Is David John Armstrong.
He was born in 1851. He is 3 feet .
inches in height. and weighs 10 pounds.
His limbs are in perfect proportion.
He Is very intelligent.
The annual report of the Supervis
ing Inspector General of U. s. shows
that the number of accidents to steam
vessels during the year past was forty
one, involving loss of 2G5 hyes, being
an average of one life lost to each l.
IA, 172 passengers carried.
Hamburg Lake, near Lake CITY.
Fla, sheet OF water of about forty
ACRES, Is being drained by an under
ground outlet. The water rises again
In stream SIX miles from the lake.
Another lake near by ran dry in 1852.
but has since filled up again.
A Japanese newspaper states that
according to recent census there are
in the Empire of Japan 113 newspapers,
one of which has circulation of 80
600 daily. Thelaws require that the
publisher be Japanese, aud that the
thief editor be held pecuniarily respon-
s'f,ie for slanderous publications.
The ice bridge at Niagara Falls is
commonly supposed, by those who have
not seen 1t, to add much to the beauty
of the winter scenes there. BUTT does
not. Instead OF great arch of glitter
ing crystal spanning the stream above
the falls, 1t is an expanse of rough ice
across the river at their foot.
All the Prussian Barons. on or be-
tore the lst day of April next, will be
required, says German newspaper, to
vindicate their right to their TITLES, for
the reason that within the past two cen
tures many abuses have grown up. 1t
is said to have been proved that, III a
number of cases, second, and even
younger Sons and daughters of baronial
titles, have assumed the titles when 1t
belonged only to father ora brother.
Herman +. Staus, tine brave Mil
waukee fireman who rescued several
lives at the burning of the Newhall