Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-12-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| dy Tor colds.
General Butler smokes fifteen Of.
gars day.
Vienna has an International Fish
cries Exhibition.
-Belva Lockwood is said to be an
expert rifle shot.
Portland, Ore, has lost 81 900, 600
by fires this year.
Sacramento is shipping sweet pota-
toes to Montana
"A woman has been fined $40 in
Seattle for tending bar.
The East Will hold the baseball
championship for 1885.
Lyons silk manufacturers are lOcat-
ing mills IN this country.
Geo. Wm. Curtis favOrs the useful
ness Of Arctic explorations.
The Metropolitan Railroad in Lon
don runs 1,2l1 trains daily.
The towers of the Cologne cathe-
dral are 5ll feet in heighth.
The fine dust Of tea will stop the
dow of blood from tool cuts.
Captain Eads is enthusiastic over
his Tehuantepec ship railway.
Rabbits damage Australia to the
extent of 10000, 600 per year.
In Egypt provisions are scarce from
the River Nile TO the Red Sea-
The French vintage for 1884 nearly
exceeds the famous one Of 1874.
The deRtIst to the court of Italy Is
an American, DIR. Chamberlain.
The number of Quakers in the Uni
ted States is put down at 100, 900.
Baltimore boasts more pretty young
ladies than she has had for years.
England sends 100000 barrels
of rum every year to Madagascar.
"A Georgetown, KY, duck has three
legs and feet, all fully developed.
The population of Paris, accord.
ing TO recent returns, is :, 1886, ,92S.
Baroness Burdett-C -Coutts is in fall
ing health, and rarely enters society.
The Russians are reducing their
war expenditures by s.. 800, 900 yearly.
Among the last victims of cholera
at Naples was an old woman aged 103.
More than half the voting places in
Chicago were located in liquor saloons.
The Grecian Prince George has ell
tered the naval academy at Copenhs-
gen.
Opium has increased twenty-five
per cent. in price since the Chinese
war.
-Yale's champion clog dancer Of
last year has become student of di.
yinity.
Southern California is at present
the abode of about three thousand In
dians.
New York shopkeepers say that
collections now do not pay for shoe
leather.
Far more women than men are said
to have fallen victims TO the cholera Ia
Naples.
infant mortality in France is COM
puted at from 20 TO 20 per cent. OF tho
population.
During a review at Berne, a sol.
dier stepped from the ranks and shot
himself dead.
jefferson Davis has no male de-
scendant to bear his name, although
twice married.
1t Is said that there are only five
persons of foreign birth in the United
States Senate.
AT Regents park, London, about
$1,000 plants are given away yearly 20
poor applicants.
-Buenos Ayres is opposed to the
ever increasing arrival on its shores Of
Italian emigrants.
Although Canton, ChiDa, has pop
ulatiOn Of ], 800, 900 there is not news
paper in the place.
"A popular sport IN Red Bluff, on
the Pacific coast, is fishing for rats with
a hook and line.
Steel pens and blotting paper are
despised by Bismarck, who uses quill
pens and blue sand.
"A New York artist exhibits a stu.
dy from still life and the name Of it Is
"a Tramp at Work"
The Social Science Congress has
recommended the abolition of all
private lunatic ssylums.
Oranges, both foreign and demes-
tic, will be cheaper this winter, it is
thought, than ever before.
The electric light Is said to have
been found cheaper than candles for the
illumination Of British ships.
Somebody who alleges he has made
the count says that music is mentioned
Just los times in the Old Testament.
-Dahlias, which are Of Mexican ORR
gin, were first introduced into Germany
by Dahl, and were 50 named after him.
Since 1900 the total appropriations
for the erection and maintenance Of the
White House TO date amount to 81, 70O,-
600.
Chess is the oldest game now In use
1t was originally played in India, where
tradition says it was invented 5,o0l
years ago.
An immense bluff, half 8 mile in
length, near Benton, Montana, recently
fell into the Missouri rIver, filling that
stream half way across.
Violence Is feared by the Governor
of Arizona unless unless the extended
immigration Of Mormons into that Ter
rltory is restrained by law.
"A Lynn Mass man, who has been
president Of a gas company for thirty
two years persists In lighting his own
premises with candles and lamps.
The restoration of the front Of st.
Marks Church at enice has been com
pieted, and its modern appearance dis
gusts every true lover of the antique.
A band of from 200 to 500 bisons
were seen in. the National Park some
days ago. They were watched By u
gamekeeper, 50 that hunters could not
molest them.
An organization for the suppression
or regulation of noisy trades in locali-
ties where residences predominate is
among the societies recently started in
Leeds, England.
An Indian In the Cascade Noun
tains shot and wounded an elk some
days ago, and, before he could reload
his gun. the elk charged and killed him
with his sharp feet.
"A young Finnish songstreSs, Miss