Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-11-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

a movement TO place telegraph
wires underground IS now agitating St.
Louis.
-Immeuse shipments Of -four are
being made from San Francisco TO
China.
The average salary paid female
school teacher in Vermont is S5.01
week.
A 5000 brick house at Empire, =
suburb of Carson City, recently sold
Tor slO5.
The late lunar eclipse was most
satisfactorily viewed IN Paris, Rome,
Madrid, &c.
In Paris thirty thousand women
are engaged in tue manufacture Of az
tilicial flowers.
Emperor William is the oldest mon
arch in Europe and AlEhOnsO. of Spain,
the youngest.
1t is estimated that the WELD OF ap-
pies in Western New York will be
1900. 600 barrels.
Canada exported last year s1.705,-
81 worth Of butter and S6,45l, SO
SOltn OF cn6esc.
In Victoria. 3. c., a fine of $50 Is
imposed upon Indians f0uRd with in
toxicatiDg liquors.
"A twenty-six pound mountain
trout. fOrty-seven inches long, is on ex-
hibiuOn in Denver.
In one half of the theatres in Bos-
ton the performances commences at a
quarter before eight.
Steel rails are now going of IN
large lots at so per ton, the lowest
price ever known fOT them.
An English school girl lately died
from the effect OF being bitten on tho
arm by one Of her companions.
There are 40 orphans In tempo
rary asylum in Naples. Italy. They lost
all their relatives by the cholera.
"A citizen OF Columbus, Ohio, Is
said to have had 200 men fined for Us
ing profane language on the street.
"A Philadelphia dentist saws that in
mechanical dentistry women can find
Profitable and suitable employment.
South Carolina tea, cured in fruit
evap0rator, has been pronounced by
experts to be equal TO imported teas.
Over 1900 newspapers in the GeI
man language are published in Prussia,
snd have about ). 900, ,000 Subscribers.
The land of Holland is cultivated
by las, ,694 persons, OF whom sixty per
cent. are owners Of their own holdings.
The thirty eight States Of the IN
/ Ion contain :, ,290 counties. Texas leads
or With 15l, and Georgia follows with
l37.
"A 1Tty-One pound watermelon aud
a one pound tomato are what Herman
/ 10 county, Florida, has done this sea-
/ son.
A steam Touring mill at Madison,
Dakota, uses lay for fuel, OF which It
burns three and half tons svsry "a
hours
-Fifty.two skeletons Of Lapps, found
some time sgo in Russian Lapland, have
been sold 10 museums in Europe at $50
apiece.
No less than sixty-One manufactures
Of playing cards are located IN the Ger
man Empire, seventeen Of which ara ia
SdXony.
There Is a house in Berlin-Weber-
! strasse No. 16-wbich harbOrS no less
than $50 families, numbering in all
lO2j souls.
About a hundred Christian Chit
nese women have been maTred to Chris
tian Chinese in the MISSION chapel ia
San Francisco.
During the past four years no less
than ifty-seven persons have been saved
from drowning by dock watchman IN
San Francisco.
Owing TO the increased demand 10;
canned salmon, tie sardiRe-packln9
business of Maine has fallen OF one.
third this season
Herr Wuhemj is to open next yesl
a school for instruction II violin play
ing at his place Of residence, BlebTieh
on the Rhine.
A citizen of Albany, y. Y. Wa.
rendered temporarily blind and helpless
a few days ago by the stings OF a hcr
net on his head.
Sir Isaac NeWtOn's pipe Is exhibited
as an advertisement IN the window OF q
London tObacconist, not TO speak OF
several other places.
Five universities have been founded
in Dakota during 1883, and it is expec
ted that tive more will be founded dur
ing the present year.
"A store IN San Luis Obispo exhibit
ali srOlite weighing twelve pounds, con
tanning minute veins Of silver and oc
casionaliy cOlOrs OF copper.
The Indians in Union county, Or.
had a grand powwow and burned thr
remains OF one of their tribe the Othe
day who had been murdered.
-ArizOna's total production Of coy
per this year Is expected TO be nearly s.
per cent. greater than last years yield
: which amounted 70 II, 7,0OO,0O0 pounds
"A block of silica, four feet high an'
, thirty inches square, taken from min
, eral deposit near Virginia city, is TO b
: sent to the New Orleans Exposition
: The demand for opium as nerv
! stimulant during the cholera scare Il
: Europe increased the price Of the drui
: more than % per cent. even in Engiis
4 markets.
The assay OUlce n New 1Oia pul
3 ehases punched coins in sums Of Sl0C
but not less amount. The price pal
l is what the silver comes to IN the cOlr
less one per cent.
An old-time immigrant prairi
! schooner, with while-headed children
: a COW and DOG, passed through Nc
: desto the other day bound 70. Washing
: ton territory.
The total value OF the grounds
buildings and apparatus OF the 315 co
. leges IN the United States is estimate
by the Commissioner of Education 8
: S43, ,000,0 900.
{ Seven thousand dollars worth
a fine cows have been killed IN one count
/ in Ohio by being fed on dry SORGHUM
Y leaves. They had every symptom
: mineral poisoning.
d India pays 100000 each summi
l. for the purpose of keeping her ofilcia
from melting under the feryent hea