Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-10-08
NEWS In BRIEF.

1900 men are employrI on The
Panama canal.
There is less drunkenness in Paris
since the cholera.
The dogs of the Greedy party we're
left at Fort Conger.
-ColOred stone is worn now ia pre-
ference 10 diamonds.
--Luling, Tex, saloonists have been
having rate war"
-Unaccountable sinking of the
ground occurs out West.
Chinese fishermen use giant powder
TO kill fish in the Sacramento river.
Out of 125 miles of railroad in
Japan III belongs to the government.
The births in SPAN during 1888
numbered 4J3 900, and the deaths 4l8,-
600.
The value of minerals exported
from Australia last year was lll 1884,
l4U.
-Mackerel, it is reported, swarm IN
the surf at points on the California
coast.
In PIttsburg 25,0O0 pupils are en-
rolled in the public schools, with $50
teachers.
Philadelphia mas 100 Presbyterian,
so Baptist and il2 Methodist Episcopal
churches.
The introduction of cable cars is
now proposed by Pittsburg railway
company.
The annual loss by fire in the
| United States is estimated at about
800, 100000.
The wool clip of this year is esti-
mated at 100000, 600 pounds, worth
tSj, 100000.
There is not a single lawyer among
the 1000 cOnvicts in the Virginia
penitentiary.
Over $4,000 patens for agricultural
inventions have already been granted
in this country.
Santa Barbara, Cal, has forced the
Chinese wash houses outside of the
business streets.
Water is twenty-five cents per
barrel and milk fifty cents per gallon in
Lordsburg, New Mexico.
Twenty million dollars worth of
precious metal, it is estimated, viii be
mined this year in Montana,
The cOlored race is counted at =
0O0,00 strong, and their property
holdings exceed Sl00, 100000.
The lead pencil for which we pay
at retail 10 cents costs the manufacturer
little over quarter of cent.
"A trade paper is authority for the
statement that $500, 3S4, 600 pins are
annually made in this country.
An italian nObleman on wager
recently travelled 81, ,040 miles on a
French railway in thirty days.
Sandwiches are great staple in
London. Forty thousand men are said
TO be daily engaged vending them.
in the city of Canton, China,
which has population of SOC, 600,
there is not newspaper of any kind.
The number of locomotives in the
United States is set down at $1,000,
and their total value at S400, 100000.
Greenwich, Conn, has had seven
cases of accidental (careless) shooting
within few months past, four of them
fatal.
There were 432 suicides reported
in this country during the three spring
months of the current year, against 81
in 1883.
-Germany is the largest sugar pro-
ducing country in Europe. 1t produces
annually over 500, 900 tons, and has 81
Teiineries.
The cost of the sanitary Gordon on
the Adie, the Lake of Garda, and along
the Tyrolese frontier, is estimated at
s., 400 day.
"A Goldfish y years old recentlydied
in Maryland. 1t is said that during its
captivity no appreciable change In it
size took place.
The present strength, numerically,
of freemasOnry throughout the world is
placed at 13S,00j lodges, with IA ,l66.-
j43 members.
jackson claims to have hOrrid-
looking wild man, seven and half feet
high, hairy, and a frequenter OF the
lakes near the Capitol.
"A church at Toronto is in need of
an organist and baritone, to fll two
vacancies caused by an elopement of
the last incUmbents.
Paris expects this season to hear
BoitO's "Mefistofele" and Penchlelli's
"GiocOnda. Neither opera has yet
been produced there.
The Chinese at Eureka, Col, are
divided into two factions which hate
each other so cordially that an ont
break, it is feared, will result.
"A spring of water where there had
previously been no sign of water was
opened in garden near the town by a
recent earthquake at Lower Lake, Cal.
Handmade envelopes cost origin
ally five cents each. The envelope
making machine now turns them out
SO that thousand are sold for thirty
cents.
-Diphtheria has again broken out on
the COmstOck, and there are many
cases in Virginia City. 1t is supposed
the fresh outbreak was caused by the
late wet weather.
The restoration, now advancing, of
the great north door of Westminster
Abbey, is said to have cost $50, 900.
This gives notion of the cost at pres
ent of Sucn fabric.
At a crowded seaside resort in
Rhode Island woman S5 years of age
astonished the guests by coming to
breakfast one morning last week in
white Mother Hubbard dress.
II. A. Crafts has sold an interest
in The Fort Collins (Col. Express to
III. =. Crafts, and the latter gentleman
has discontinued the publication of his
paper. the Loveland Col Leader.
Notwithstanding he has been so
hard up of late, that extraordinary
pOtentate, the King of Bavaria, has
lately bought Falkenstein Castle, a
ruin on high bluff near to the Tyrolese
frontier. Hundreds of men are at work
making a fine road to it.
Last year the women of the United
States gave 5000, 600 toward Christian
iZing the heathen. OF this large sum
women gave nearly $780,
600 Baptist women SljG. 900; Congre-