Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-09-19
NEWS In BRIEF

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= New York city has 5000 teachers
: in elocution.
, There are $4,000 French people in
New York city.
Americans are returning from
Europe early this year.
The first Scotch missionary of the
Reformed Kirk began work in Calcutts
in 1880.
The Maine hay crop this year will
equal 150, 900 tons-one-half more than
last year.
Within year Savannah, Ga, has
erected $50 houses, costing an aggre-
gate of 100000.
. San BernadinO county, California,
does considerable business in drying
potatoes for market.
The signal station on Pixies Peak,
ii, 156 feet high, is the highest building
in the world inhabited the year round.
The first mention of puppet shows
IN England is found in ''Gammsr Cur
toms Needle" which was written in
1517.
The receipt of the Patent Office for
the current year will exceed 81, ,20O, 900,
according to the estimates of Commits
sioner Marble.
The immigration for the fiscal year
falls little short of 100000, against
nearly $4,000 in 1882, and $4,000 in
| 1881.
The Kansas crop of castor beans
was so poor in 1892 that tie acreage
this year was reduced nearly 40 per
cent.
MIR. w. III. Bull wishes he had
more pea and bean vines for cows; he
| finds that this feed increases the flow OF
milk.
The area devoted to spring wheat
in Kansas has steadily decreased since
1878, this year to the extent of over
80, 600 acres.
Mr.. Charles Brigham, Marlboro,
n. Y, is out of pocket to the extent of
four cows, killed by Paris green bought
for use on potatoes.
"A new bath sponge so poisoned the
eye of DIR. COrbett, of Montreal, that
loss of sight in the injured optic is
feared.
1t is computed that domestic ami
mails TO the enormous value of Sf2, ,0)O,-
900 are killed annually in Russia by
wolves.
In Virginia they are mixing flour
of peanuts, and it is praised. 1t is
customary in Georgia to pound the nuts
for a pastry.
-Marseilles and Paris are now con-
nected by an underground telegraphic
cable laid in a cast-iron pipe six feet
below the surface.
Allan p. Morris is named as the
first man who drew pension under the
Tennessee law granting $40 month to
Confederate soldiers.
-Tangier, Africa, still has Il slave
market, and recently mulatto girls have
been sold as low as S2l. A negro boy
of years brought S3S.
Paris has twenty-three libraries,
which it is p; opposed to increase in num-
Der to forty. More than one-half of all
the books read are novels.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho,
have been spared visit from even one
of the 600 cyclones reported by the
The Egyptian census has just been
completed. The total population is
given at &, 6,19S, go, of whom 3,393,9lS
are males and 3, ,404, ,312 females.
Roman gates were so doubled as to
make two passages, one for egress the
other for ingreSs, and were covered by
heavy llntels resting on the vertical
joints.
The semi-annual report of Names
savings banks shows that the total de-
posts are $50, 0,147. .703, ,13-an increase
of nearly 81 900, 900 since the last state
mtnt.
The latest statistics give the popu-
latiOn of Mexico at 10,001, ,SS4, which
is divided as follows: Caucasians, l.
So ,522; American Indians, 3,765,05i
mixed blood, A. ,354 1908.
The immense crematory in Rome
is in almost daily use. Cremation is
daily becoming more popular, and bids
fair soon to dispose of more corpses in
the Italian capital than old-fashioned
burial.
An Italian manager, POllini, has
offered the widow of Richard Wagner
S250, 900 for the exclusive right to per-
form the opera of ''Parsifal," this to
cover all countries. She unhesitatingly
rejected the offer.
Prof Baird, of the Smithsonian
Institute, and President of the Fish
Commission, can name at sight, and iii
most unprOnouncable terms, any spe-
eies of fish, but is said to be frequently
at a loss to remember the names of close
personal ac cGuaintances.
"A broken needle, about / of an
inch Ill length and perfectly bright, was
taken recently from the shoulder of w.
L. Beard, gunsmith, of Kimball block,
Salt Lake. 1t had entered at his heel
III years ago.
Captain Paul Boytoa, the aquatic
artist, told reporter the other day that
he has now about completed a marine
dress in which he will be enabled to
make excursions on the beds of rivers
and lakes.
1t appears that Wilmington har-
Dor, the seaport of Los Angeles, has
never been properly, if at all, surveyed
by the q. ;. authorities, and British
man-of-war is now engaged III that
work-a rather anomalous state of af-
fairs.
The imports at New York for last
week were $40, ,S02 ,374, of which S3,-
pa, 132 were dry goods and s, ,52S, ,242
general merchandise. The total i'm
ports since January l were S295, 49,
3l9, against S32l ,232, 725 for the same
period last year.
The present form ofthe Cornthian
column first appeared about 150 b. c.,
in the temple of Olympian Zeus in
Athens. 1t was built under the di-
rection of Cossutius, a Roman, and
soon after its completion Sylea carried
the columns away and used them to res
tore the temple on the Roman Capitol.
The latest estimates by German
scientists of the total population of our
earth are, in round numbers, as follows:
Australia. on 9,00O,000 square kilome-