Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-09-24
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
There are a $50 distinct varieties

The postal service of the United
costs Si6, %, 900 this year.
1t is said that 100000 meteors
ASS through the atmosphere daily.
The entire city of Cumberland,
Md, is to be lighted 10y electricity.
Montreal policemen are required
to speak both EEglish and French.
There are said to he 1,ST1.21T
illiterate voters in the United States.
-Thirty-six men and nine women
committed suicide for love in italy in
1853.
The last battle fought on the soil
of England was at Sedgemoor, July .,
1855.
1t costs the United States s, 49,
$50. 81 to take care of the Indians this
year.
Near Norwich (COnn.), there are
said to be two square miles of pond
lilies.
The growing tobacco crop is said to
be the largest ever planted iii this
country.
Gainesville Ga, has colOred dwarf
who is y years old, and just 46 inches
in height.
1t costs S1z, ,OS6. 200 to improve the
rivers and harbOrs OF the United States
this year.
The manufacture of postage
stamps will cost tine government Sli6,-
600 this year.
Eighty million dollars is spent
annually for public schools in the
United States.
"A negro whose age was stated at
113 years voted at the recent election
in Abbeville, Ala
The wool clip of this year is esti-
mated at 800, ,0O0. 600 pounds and is
worth So, 100000.
-Germany and Russia are both push
ing forward experiments III flying ma
chimes for use in war.
During the last five years New
Workers in Paris purchased s. SO, 900
worth of paintings.
Great Britain had 800 war vessels
in 1SS3, France 3j6, the United States
139 and Germany 100.
Claims for squirrel scalps in Napa
county. Cal, for the past three months
have aggregated $4,000.
Rum is made from sweet potatoes
in Louisiana. Seven barrels Of pOta-
toes yield barrel Of rum.
Prairie dogs, it is estimated,
destroy annually ten million dollars
worth of grass in Texas.
The census of 1850 gave the popu-
latiOn Of the United STATES of 10 years
and upwards as 36, 1Gl 601.
Insanity arising directly from IN
temperance, is said to be rapidly in
creasing in New York city.
There are $4,000 miles of tele-
graph lines in the world. of which the
United States has 143, $40 miles.
The mines at Tombstone, Ariz.,
have yielded 1900, 900 worth of metal
since they were opened in 1879.
The California grape crop is TO be
very large this year, and yield l., co.,
600 to Il, 900, 600 gallons of wine.
The people of the United States
are said to be greater chewers of tobacco
than any other nation in the world.
An ocean steamer consumes all the
way from 1j0 to 325 tons of coal dur
ing a voyage across the Atlantic.
PENNSYLVANIA has 3 SIC pOstOfliceS,
more than other State in the Union.
New York comes next, with 3,13l.
A ninety-year-Old citizen of New
Bedford, Mass, Morris Sergeant, is
said to take bicycle ride every day.
There are 700 different works pub
liShed in German ON vegetarlanism, in
addition to a monthly magazine on the
subject.
Richard WagGer's heirs have re-
fused an offer of $50, 600 for the ex-
elusive right to perform ''Parsifal'' in
America.
There are 10 600 periodicals pub
lished in the United States, and the
country has an army Of 215, 600 school
teachers.
German carp, the New York State
Fish Commission say, thrive as well i'll
the waters of that State as in their
original home.
The gallOws during the present
year has filed more graves than any
other previous year III the history OF
the United States.
"A Virginia lady, 90 years of age.
attributes her longevity To the use of
strong coffee, of which she drinks i
dozen cups daily.
Berlin is to have an exhibition of a
Japanese village of forty houses, with a
Japanese workman engaged in differ
ent handicraft in each.
The wealth of the United States
is so, 900, 100000. or 5000 to each in
habitant; that of Great Britain Is $40, :
OO0,0O0,000, or $1,000 to each inhabit-
ant.
American milk and cream have
been successfully shipped from New
York to London by steamers, arriving
IN 4 perfectly fresh and palatable con-
| ditiOn.
In making infants shoes fifteen
| different machines are used, costing
between $3.50 and Si00. These turn
out ten pairs in the same time as one
pair made.by hand.
The AustTo- German-l}uS
ian alliance could muster an army OF
10000, 900 men, thoroughly armed and
drilled. The army of the United States
numbers 25,00O, the navy about 5000.
1t is said that every person arrest
ed, convicted and sent to the peniten
tiary in the United States costs, ON al
average, 81, 200, while every boy eduea
ted at the expense of the State cost:
only S400.
I'm consequence OF the recent
floods new river has formed at the
mouth of the Mississippi, which, i:
said TO be more important in size anC
depth than any stream south of th'
Red river.
Dakota is said to have 10000 heaC
of stock valued at 81 900, OO0) chief!
on what are termed the ''bad lands
west of the Missouri river, but wha
are really very good lands for stool
raising.
Recent exploration in the SOutl
Carolina mari beds have disclosed tn
fossils OF over l 900 different species o
animals. These beds now take pre-