Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-10
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

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nearly 300 books, Transitions AMI mo-
nographs.
The anti-bilious American tomato
are shipped largely to London for the
use of her clubs.
Baptist statistics show an average
of somewhat over 17S6 baptized in the
United States on each Sunday.
In Italy and Japan water from hot
springs is used extensively in gardens
for the production of early crops.
Assays of the nickel ore discovered
in Churchill county, New. are said 10
have yielded 30 per cent. of pure metal.
The oar is mightier than the saw.
Hanlan has rowed $4,000 together in
six years, while Courtney saw no such
chance.
copper is recommended by the
American architect as material great
ly superior to tin, in point of economy,
as a roofing material.
Eight of the graduating class Of
the University of Virginia this year
have been called to prOfeSSOrShipS i'll
other colleges of the South.
The Marquis of LOrne and Stuart
Cumberland, the mind reader, are said
10 resemble each other in personal ap-
pearance to a remarkable degree.
"A steady decrease in the impOrta-
ton of foreign wines and whiSkieS and
corresponding increase in the impor-
tation of foreign beer is noticeable.
Professor GoOde says that there
are l, 400 kinds of fish in the waters of
the United States, and 800 of these are
useful either as food or in some other
way.
The mold in which the balls weigh
ing lbs each were cast for the old
John Brown cannon is now in posses
sion of the Iowa State Historical SOci-
ETY. in Iowa City.
According to the Ebers pIpyrtJS.
which was written at the latest in the
sixteenth century B. c., the Egyptians
knew that the heart was the centre of
the circulatOry system.
In the Casa del Labrador, OF Ia
borer's cottage, the little palace erected
by Charles ". of SPAN, at AranjueZ
nearly all the ornaments are of gold,
out some are of platina.
According to the latest census Of
Japan, taken the first of the present
year, the population of the empire is
36, 100, ,110, of whom 1S,59S, ,99S are
males and Is, l02, l12 females.
There must be some pretty large
apiarieS in Florida. Olaf OleS1n, of
New Smyrna, is said to have extracted
forty barrels of honey, when he had to
suspend operations to wait for more
barrels.
Glass slabs, about Is inches square
by an inch and half in thickness, are
coming into extensive Use for flooring
i'll Paris business houses. They are
rOughened on the surface ami are laid
i'll iron frames.
-Gllsgow has -, 500 houses Of one
room each, y, 600 of two rooms, 100
of three rooms, $500 of four rooms and
5000 of five rooms or over. TWO-thirds
of the people live in houses of not more
than two apartments.
In Philadelphia, which produces
One-fOurth the total supply of hosiery
and wOrSted goods made in this cOun-
try, American machinery is used.
English machines are used in other
worsted and hosiery mills.
There are in the United States in
the neighborhOOd of 100000 natives of
Bohemia, Wisconsin has the greatest
number; next in number Illinois, Iowa,
New York, Minnesota, Ohio, Kansas,
Texas and Pennsylvania.
Erie, Pa. has started ''National
UniOn,' the members of
which are to be instructed in the prin-
ciples of sanitary science and to have
medical attendance free of other char
5es than dues, which are 81 per month
for man and wife and 10 cents for each
child.
The Tobacco Seed is smaller even
than that of the mustard, but it rivals
the acorn in a certain kind of eXpan.
Siyeness and growth. Last year lend-
ing June 3Oth), the revenue received by
the Federal Government from the pro-
luct of the seed amounted to Si2, l04,-
$40.
1t is estimated that the yearly cut
ing of pine will, If carried on about
.en years longer at the rate that has
been maintained in recent years, ex-
laust the supply, except the short leaf
md ''lOblOlly' pine, which Will then,
t is calculated, be worth more than
he best pine OF to-day.
The total estimated cost of the
building operations in New York city
Turing the first eight months of the
present year was Si4, ,O12, ,92O. The eS-
imated cost of new buildings during
he first six months of the year WAS
81, 792, 500, against S27 800, ,3Oj for the
irSt six months of lSS2.
"A Juvenile prodigy, thefye-yedr-OI
gypsy cymbal player, JOska BalOugh,
treating quite sensation in Vienna
lie has repeatedly played before tn
Marie Valerie, also il
nigh aristocratic circles, and the Arch
bishop Haynald has presented him
with a silver medal.
The Free Public Library of San
francisco, according To its recently
published annual report, circulated its
IL 900 volumes among 320, 900 takers
Turing the past year, about three-ffths
icing for home reading and tine remain
ler circulating in the library rooms.
The apple crop of Kansas is So
arge this season that it is expected TO
lield more bushels of that fruit than
;yer before, despite the destruction
;auSed by wind and hail storms. On Il
single twig, about nine inches long, re-
Gently, nineteen apples were counted.
A bust of VOltaire discovered
lmong the old models of the royal
of porcelain, has been
ldded to the special collections Of Vol
airean relics at the chateau of Sans
Souci. 1t is believed to have been
presented to Voltaire by Frederick III.
View York has, according to the
United States census of 1880, !, 1,2O6,5T
inhabitants, of whom so, ,762 are males
md 6l5, ,Sl5 females. New York has
ioating population of about 10000.
This includes sojourners at hotels,
boarding and lodging houses, and
temporarily stopping in town.
A destructive insect with the
alarming family name of DomeStide,
md which iS said In bq able IN chavv nm