Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-17
NO. 3.
NEWS IN BRlEF,


meat, and 345. 600, 600 bushels OF graz
abroad this year.
The potato crop of Europe is re
} ported forty per cent. below that of las
season.
Out of the 6Is. 900 reople of West
Virginia there are 5000 who cannot
write.
Baltimore is endeavorIng TO take
the school commission out of the do
mann of ward politics.
The Washington monument grew
80 feet during this year Another
quarter OF million Is asked for to
continue the work.
| Among the new drugs IN use are
pear seeds, corn silk, elephant's foot,
and chewstick, in the form OF fluid ex-
tracts,
Two years ago Wesson. Miss, was
only pine forest. 1t has now cotton
mil employing l 900 hands, and nearly
5000 lima itauts.
The youngest mvcI tor on the re
cords IL Washington Is Walter Neyegold.
lad 10 years oi age, OF Bristol. Pa.
who has patented important improve
meuts II rolling mil machinery.
THAT want OF general courtesy and
universal graciJusness, which Is o very
real want among the English middle clas-
ses, y Is phrase taken from London
| QUeen.
The exports OF provisions from the
United States during Jhe eleyeu months
which ended on November 30th last.
apounted II value 10 Ss4 SJ3, ,UO3 against
Sl2O, ,345, ,OG2 during the corresponding
period Of loSl.
Two ninety foot lAthes. said TO be
aIeng the largest IL the world. have
been made by the South Boston Iron
Works. Each Lathe contains 6l0. 900
pounds OF iron. They sso to lie used
to bore out cannon.
-Manuiactures ct Hnseed cake IN
the north of France are alleged to ad-
ulterate their products with spent maize
from distillerles, and that, OF course,
the usual percentage OF oily matter Is
not present.
Suit was brought by the cityof San
Francisco against j. T.. Flood to re-
cover taxes ON $500, 600 worth OF min
ing stock III Nevada. He proved that
the mines are situated in California and
won the suit.
A diver, at coo yards distance from
the persons communicating with HIM.
can converse with ease with persons
above water by means Of the telephone,
as was recently proved by Nj. Ware, OF
the River Meare Commissioners.
the head-dresses Of the ladies IN
1776 were remarkable for their enor-
nous height. The c0iGure of belle
OF fashion was described as ''amomtain
OF wool, hair, powder, lawn, muslin,
net, lace, gaaze, ribbon, flowers,
feathers and wire.
Among the trees which grow in
Alaska Is Que called the yellow cedar,
which has fragrance somewhat like
that of sandal wood and nearly as
marked. 1t is a grsinless wood, of
straw color, and the Russians formerly
built many ships OF 1t, for which pUr-
pose 1t Is admirably adapted.
New Jersey has 343, 536 children of
school age. The average att enhance
upon the public schools Is 113. .5I2 A.
$50 children are III the private schools.
Tne school receipts Of the State during
the past year were S2.l4O, 7O4S ST. or
the 3,50S teachers =, 1894 are women.
Tue value Of New Jerseys school pro-
perty is So. 27O,7 ,77S.
In the year 1874 eight bales OF cot
ton grown III the United States were
sent to England, wheIe, upon arrival, it
was seized and condemned by order OF
the Prlvy Council, on the ground that
SO large al amount of cotton could not
possibly have been raised IN America.
THIS year the cotton crop OF the United
States viii be not tar from 10000
bales.
Mark Twain failed to answer letter
written to him by SERGEANT Bsdlantin9.
Alter waiting a reasonable time the lat
ter was so exasperated at not receiving
an answer that he mailed Twain sheet
of paper and u postage stamp as a gen
tie reminder Mr.. Clemens wrote back
on postal Paper and stamp received;
please send al envelope"
"A Gridley tCai. farmer hunts geese
with COW. 1t Is stated That he mas
trained the animal 70 walk out to where
IA flock Of geese have settled down on
the grain, browsing all the way along,
he walking alongside on the OFF side
from the geese, and when Mar enough
the COW lies down and lie shoots into
the flock
Ex-Governor Hosatio Seymour
has given to the Clinton collection Of
MSS. IN the New Yor., Stale Library
deed OF Ilnd from George
Washington and George Clinton, OF the
City OF New York, EsqUires," 10 Ma
thaniel Griffin, Of Whitestowu, Mont
gomery county. IL bears date OF July
22, 1890.
AT Rome bronze vOsive lamp, three
feet high, has been found with the
names of four Pious gentlemen, to wit
). Tettius, T. AlIuius, f. Tattius and
p. Tettienus. 1t IS shaped ike a cOruu-
cOpia. with thee wicks, is huted, and
mas large hole on top Tor pouring in
the perfImed oil. The sharp end of
the cornucopia fits into a kind OF scab-
bard, TO which 1t Is fastened with a
movable lOcket.
Queen Yictori4 has at length con-
sented to admit that "she Is growing
old, for the new Egyptian medal that
she recently distributed represents her
face OF 1882, and moi Of 1872, Is It has
appeared on the stamp, coins and
medals. In her own time she has dis
tnbuted medals for six Indian cam
pai2ns, three for South African affairs,
and one eacii for the Crimsan, Chinese,
AbyssiDian and Ashantee cORdlcts.
The Big Woods.