Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

/ l'tIS.
Boston has 100 gallons of water
day for each inhabitant.
| Some land in the city OF London
was lately sold at the rate of s., 500, 900
| an acre.
John Guy Vassar of Poughkeepsie
has made a gift of S2j, 900 more to Vas
sar College.
-Penitentiary convietS at Laramie,
Wyoming Territory, turn out 90,001
bricks week.
Earl Spencer is first-rate cricke-
ter as well as horseman. lie was Il
prominent member of the eleven when
at Harrow.
"A South Carolina inventor, named
McClain, purposes making wash tubs,
buckets, etc., of annealed glass.
Street cleaning, repairing and
maintenance in Paris, official returns
show, cost 1850. 400 year.
"A new substance as brilliant AMI
hard, and withal fireproof, has been
invented to supersede celluloid.
In the coral fishery, it is reported
to the italian Ministry of Commerce,
1000 men annually find employment.
"A Club Barber Shop is sustained
in Lowell, Mass, and no one else is
allowed to use the exclusive chairs in it,
: New York Schools are attended by
10000 pupils. The appropriation to
the department for this year is S,000,-
600.
They have gold mine at Dalton,
Mass. the yield of the precious metal
thus far is said to have netted over ten
dollars.
One section of the National Exhi-
bition of Architecture opened lately at
Brussels, contains the almost priceless
of RubenS.
-The'oldest member of the Legion
of Honor, Pierre Jean, died lately, aged
"a. He was in the retreat from Mos
cow and at Waterloo.
"A grange cooperative store ut
Meridian, Miss which started business
in 1879 with capital of $50, sold last
month $500 worth of goods.
"A coin issued by Lord Baltimore
was recently dug up III the principal
street of Waterville, Maine, three feet
below the surface of the ground.
Twenty thousand pages of tssti-
mony have been already taken ina
mining suit that is before special COM
missioncrs in San Francisco, and the
.nd is not yet.
On account of its representation of
a conspiracy, Strauss Operetta, Prince
" has been interIicted Ill
Russia.
Six widows, the oldest 9S and the
youngest IS, and with an average age
of nearly 80 years, live within a short
distance of each other near New Haven,
Conn.
The registered debt of Berlin is
about IL 200, 900 marks, on which the
surplus profits of the gas works pays
the entire interest.
One firm in Gates county, North
Carolina, OWLS thirty miles of narrow
gauge railway, connecting five of its
saw-mills. 1t does the largest lumber
business in the State.
The first steel rail successfully
made in this country. and which was
rolled at Chicago May -, 1865, is said
to have represented over 100000 in
and outlays.
"A Cincinnati publication repre-
sentS the total number of newspapers
and magazines now published in the
United States at II, ,179, an increase of
102S over the number published last
year.
WIN. III. Spear, clerk of Chief En-
gineer Cuyler, of Prospect Park, y.
y, has horse that hal part of its tail
shot away by cannon ball at Frede-
and which lost an eye ut An
tietam.
There are IL 100000 horses in this
or about one to every five hui
man beings. According to the census
of 1880, Illinois has most horses (over
l ,000, ,0O0), and Pennsylvania comes
fourth on the list, with $50, ,5S7.
Elias Dockey. of Northumberland
Pa, the other day found a turtle
on his farm with the date and initials,
''1777-J. D." scratched on its shell.
The initials are those of Mr.. Dockey's
grandfather, who owned the farm at
that time. They are also those of the
words Jokingly Done.
-CdIutIS have Dtcu Dlcu Ill lldll lOl
over 200 years, it is stated, and the stud
Of four Arabian camels sent by King
Humbert to Mr.. j. w. Garret, of Bal
timore, are of native breed, from the
Ducal farm of San RoSsore, long IA
vOrite country seat of the rulers of TuS-
cany
"A way to measure the speed of
trains is to count the number of fish
plates passed in 14{ seconds i'll the case
of ordinary rails q feet long, and in the
case of steel rails, which average i'll
length 80 feet, 20t seconds-the mum
Der of plates passed in the time stated
being equal to the number of miles ira
yelled per hour.
"A syndicate III Galveston proposes
to build wharveS out to deep water in
the Gulf of Mexico. To do this they
will try to borrow S5,000,000 of the
States surplus. which will exceed
s., 600, 900 two years hence, and will be
$40, ,000, 900 within five years, if the
State sells the school lands.
I'm st. Petersburg, Russia, the tele-
phone wasonly introduced year or so
ago, but the most distant parts of the
city now connect with the centre, and
numerous public stations have been es-
tablished at which persons can converse
with each other at a distance at the
small cost of 2ld. per message.
London, 1t seems, Is TO give up the
wood pavement and return to the Ma
cadam system. The former, according
to a report by Professor Tyndall, be-
comes saturated with filth, which is
given off in fine dust, under the infiu-
ence of the hot sun, bad alike for the
eyes and lungs.
There is a man living in Walton
county, Georgia, who is 30 years old,
and has never ridden in a carriage or
railway car, and has never ridden across
bridge in any vehicle. He lives ill a
house sixteen feet wide and seventy
feet long, and SO low between floors
that full-grown man cannot stand mp
right in it. The furniture of the sit
ting room consists chiefly of a bed and
barrel of homemade syrup.
"WHAT influence has the moon on the