Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-10-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| coaches were first used IN England
in 1869.
The average human life is thirty
one years.
The hotel business in New York is
! oyerdOne.
There are l23 incorporated clubs in
New York.
Queen Victoria has nineteen grand
daughters.
The first steamboat Piled the Hud-
son in 1907.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1902.
There are $50 distinct varieties
| of the banana.
Five railroads now run into Jack
sOnville, Fla.
The first newspaper WAS published
in England in I5SS.
London has society to promote
window gardening.
In Sierra Mojalia, in Mexico, water
sells for > per barrel.
The first use of locomotive in
this country was in lS29.
! Horse thieves are operating extern
| sively in Chester county.
Birmingham, Ala, has gained 4 900
I population within year.
"A certain cOrnlield in Georgia will
yield l15 bushels per acre
Savannah harbOr will soon be TWEEN
/ ty-twO feet at mean high tide.
-FreemasOnry, the world over, EN-
braces II l6U, 5i3 members.
The postal service of the United
States cost SO, 22J, 800 in 1888.
Montreal policemen are required to
speak both English and French.
There are said to be l ,S1I. .2l7 Hit
| crate voters IN the United States.
Savannah is now the largest ship
per of naval stores in the world.
1t IS said that S,OOO,OO0 meteOrs
pass through the atmosphere daily.
The entire city of Cumberland,
Md, Is to be lighted by electricity.
-Lehigh county, Pa, boasts of the
first church organ built in that State.
"A man at Reno, Col. has had his
tongue paralyzed so that he cannot eat.
-Thirty-six men and nine women
committed suicide for love in Italy in
1883.
The last battle fought on the soil
of England was on SedgemOOr, July 6,
l6Sj.
1t cost the United States S5,ij6,-
3S9.3l to take care of the Indians in
lSS3.
Near Norwich Comm, there are
Sald 10 be two square miles of pond
lilies.
The wool clip of 1884 is estimated
at 3OO, 100000 pounds and IS worth $50
900, 900.
Experiments in raising tobacco
near Quakertown, Pa, are proving sue
ceSSful.
"A Bucks county, Pa, man owns 4
dictionary printed In the sixteenth CEN
tury.
Mime. Albani, 1t is announced, will
sing in concert here early in the COM
Ing year.
In Canada, one per on in every IT,
23O is an inventor; in South Carolina,
one in ,1S2.
For the purpose of transportation
to America the Bartholdi statue will be
divided into three hundred distinct
parts.
"A Paris physician is quoted as say
ing that lit is a legend, not Il fact, that
cholera hastens the corruption of Il
corpse.
"A prisoner in jail at Louisville is
said TO have no less than ten wives liv-
ing, and he is not a professional Nor
mon, either.
Pennsylvania manufactures $685.
S54 gunpowder year; also in paper
bags, SS54 AS; uphOlstering materials,
SIG, 900.
-AlligatOrS' teeth are now used for
buttons, bracelets. earrings and BAN
giles. They take high polish and are
very durable,
The Indians who were found on
this continent east of the Mississippi
by the first European settlers did not
exceed 100000.
The Worcester (Eng.l, Musical
Festival recently held, netted go over
that of 1881, the total receipts being
el066, Is. Al.
Sharks, some of which are nine feet
long, have become so numerous in Long
Island Sound that spearing them is now
a popular pastime.
The ball which surmOuntS the dome
of ST. Peters at Rome. is hollow, and
has room inside for 13 persons. 1t bears
alOft mOnstrOus cross.
-One-third of the population of Jeru-
salem are Jews. They number $1,000,
and devote themselves exclusively To
occupations.
"A movement, 1t is said, is on foot
to expunge all traces of English con-
quest in Dublin by substituting Irish for
English names to all the streets.
There are seventeen quinine factO-
ries in the wOrld-six in Germany, four
in the United States, three in France,
two in Italy, and two in England.
There are three Sundays every
week in Jerusalem. Friday is observed
by the MOhammedans, Saturday by the
Jews and Sunday by the Christians,
"A Los Angeles fruit grower has
several banana trees in growth, con
tanning nearly 100 punches, and believes
The raising of the fruit is an assured
success.
"A bill will be presented to the next
Vermont Legislature fOrbidding the
Importation of OF manufacture of oleo-
or any of the limitations of
butter.
"A white pine forest, containing les
1,OOO, 900, 600 feet of lumber.
s situated i'll the centre of the Terri
.Ory of Arizona, which is supposed by
many to be a treeless waste.
Discovered among the ruins Of the
Luni and Aztec cities are spindleS and
whOrls remarkably like those employed
by the Highlanders in Scotland The
position of some would indicate an an
.iquity of at least 1000 years.
Six thousand tons of silver money
in round figures Sl36, ,00O, 900 are now
N the U. 5. Treasury, the bulk of it
being stored in New York. Only about
$, ,OOO, 900 of it, it is stated. IS actually