Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-05-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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--SilkwOrms were taken Into Europe
from India IN the sixth century.
London miikmen and newsboys
use tr:cycles in their daily rounds.
"A Vermont man has a parrot that
can recite nearly half the twenty-third
psalm.
Switzerland, by recently published
return, has 1902 hotels with 5S, 137
beds.
The origin of borrowing money on
| pledges is referred to Perugia, Italy,
about 1852.
Over fourteen million dollars are
l invested in the manufacture Of gas in
Massachusetts,.
Germany has increased its beet
crop in ten years from 5000, coo to s.
1000 tons.
The Princess Louise of Wales is
seventeen, but will not be presented at
court this year.
Rhode Island savings banks have
$50, 460, 205 entrusted to their care by
/ 120, 4S2 depoSitOrS.
-Munkvcsy, the great Hungarian
painter has been made baron by the
emperor of Austria.
London now receives from italy
flowers as fresh as If they had been cut
only an hour before.
Stanley says the Congo valley,
Africa, has a dense and enterprising
population of 4O,000,000.
"A machine that makes seventy-twO
pretzels a minute is said to be run by
Lancaster county man.
California is at present producing
not far from SIS. S.00O,0 600 of gold and
silver bullion annually.
Michigan now has O75 insane
people in its asylumS an increase Of 1872
over the same time last year.
Half the sugar consumed last year
in the United Kingdom was made, il
is said, from European beets.
Michigan is credited with raising
one-half of the total supply Of pepper
mint. or about 10, 900 pounds year.
The woods of the Uni ed States
are estimated to cover 800, 900, 600 acres,
or sixteen per cent. OF the total area.
1t is said 60O0 boys and 2OO0 girls
under ten years of age are employed in
Chicago factories in violation Of law.
Mr.. Irving sailed for England re-
Gently. The receipts during his Ameri-
can engagement have been over $780,
0OO.
When fifty four people dine at the
White house the number of wlneglaSSeS
on the table is 376, or seven for each
person.
In Sweden, it is said, there is a law
taking away the right of suffrage from
every man who has been drunk three
times.
Mrs. Dubuys, of Pass Christian,
daughter of General Vim. 7. sherman,
is the owner of one of the loyehest rOss
gardens in Mississippi.
The feat Of transmitting two tele-
graph messages along u wire at one
time was first accomplished by Doctor
Glntl, an Austrian, in 1853.
The whaling schooner Charles
Colgate, Of New London, recently
brought home 100 barrels of sea ele-
phant oil from DeSOlauOn Island.
The calico and printed goods made
in Lowell, Mass, in 1So2 would twice
encircle the earth at the equator, and
then all would not be used To do il.
The first tame cattle were brought
to America by Columbus in 1893. Tuey
were irst imported into Virginia IN
! 1907, and into Massachusetts IL lO21.
The Romans introduced eOck-fgnt-
ing into England. 1t was forbidden
- 4 ~ ITa.trr~ 4 III
Cromwell, and by Queen Victoria in
1919.
Dogs in Tennessee, it has been
calculated, number 300, cost $1,000
900 year to keep, aud prevent the
raising of 1000, 900 sheep whose mutton
and wool would be worth 50 O00. UO0.
The dress of the different orders Of
monks is the same as that of the low
est orders of the population at the time
the orders were founded.
Michigan contributes as her block
to the Washington monument a piece
of polished mass copper, twenty-five
inches long by six thick and foot III
| width.
"A New Londcn whaler has killed
the largest whale ever caught. IL
| yielded los barrels OF Oil and $500
pounds of whaleDone. 1t was killed in
Cumberland Inlet.
Having lost his nose a Norwegian
residing on Greenwich street, y. Y.
advertised Tor the same the other day.
1t is made of silver, with steel spring.
| IaStenmgs.
Stamford, Conn.,, has living within
| its limits eighty persons over 50 years
of age. Twelve are over "a years old,
the list being headed by eX-UnIted
States Senator Truman Smith.
"A few days ago the Washington
Monument had reached height OF 4l0
feet. The total height of the shaft
will be 555 feet. which will make it the
highest monument In the world.
"A Georgia gentleman whose son
spent from $40 to $50 in ''gin palace''
at Pores Hill, Townsville, recently
bought out the bartender's license as
business investment.
The Baltimore Fire Commissioners
have forbidden the playing OF cards in
fire engine-houSes of that city, even for
amusement, but allow checkers, chess
and dominoeS.
"A single cattle ranch in Texas, at
the head OF Red River, is said to con-
tam nearly p, 900 acres more than the
entire State of Rhode Island contains
in territory.
The mines of the Black Hills, IN
Dakota, have mined and mllled, l,512,-
037 tons of good ore, yielding slU,434,-
116, an average of only S5.7o per ton,
making profit and paying IN dividends
3, ,142.
The first Lats were made in Paris
| BY a swiss IN l4U4, and became fashion,
able after l449, when Charles VII,
making a triumphant entry into ROusn,
Wore red velvet hat with "a plume OF
| feathers.
"A reduction of 20 per cent. in their
charges is reported TO have resulted
from a convention of japanese inn
keepers, held some time ago, the de-
crease being based upon a fall III the
prices of neeessares Oh life.
The police force of England and