Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-09-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Paris is to have a baby show.

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-Vanderbilt's household expenses
are $3.50, 900 year.
California produces figs eight
inches in circumference.
The most fashionable ladies now
wear scarcely any jewelry.
The famous Dark Day of New
England was May 10, 1850.
Crossing stores on her avenues are
pressingly needed in Atlantic City.
The rents of Frerch flats are on
the diminuendo scale in New York.
There are 13S,O masonic lodges
in the world, with II, 100, ,543 members.
A cave full of honey is saidto
have been found near Santa Barbara,
Cal.
New York marketmen say the
crop of potatoes will be very short this
year.
The confectionery trade of the
United States amounts TO So, 900, 900
yearly.
1t is said that over three million
trees were planted in Great Britain in
1888.
Consumption causes more deaths
than any other disease does in New
Orleans.
The wholesale cost of the oysters
consumed in New York yearly is 3d.
000.0OO.
Two slight earthquake shocks
occurred at Santa Barbara, Cal, ON the
4th inst.
Over four hundred silk mills, it is
estimated, are III operation in this
country.
"A church at COwela, Ga, has in It's
membership % members who all belong
to one family.
-Leadville, Col, contains seven
churches, all ''high''-oyer IL, 900 feet
above sea level.
Some of the medical professors of
Vienna are delivering lectures in the
English language.
"A prairie wolf, captured in Epping
Forest, has been added to the collection
i'll the London Zoo.
In 1919 there were lj6 newspapers
and periodicals published in Japan.
Now there are 1000.
Louisiana has in the neighborhood
of fOrty-eigit billion feet of pine
timber in her forests.
The five Peers who are members of
the English royal family never vote on
political questions.
Seven Chicago policemen, 1t is
said, have been sent to lunatic asylums
during the past year.
"A sheet of fire from 10 to so miles
long was recently raging on the prairie
near ShOshOne. Idaho.
There are 55O,Si1 miles of tele-
graph IN the world, of which los. $40
are in the United States.
Hartford, Conn.,, which covers a
large territory, is to have mounted
letter-earuers in a few days.
The palace which the city of
Marseilles presented to Napoleon III Is
now used as cholera hospital,
"A gold nugget, worth s1.5O, was
found in the craw of chicken killed
few days ago at Sacramento, Cal.
-Pickerel are said to be so rapidly
dying off in Umbagog Lake, Me-, that
the shores are lined with dead fish.
The agricultural statistics of Ire
land continue to show steady decrease
IN the number Of separate holdings.
The gold mining fever Is rising in
the vicinity of Villa Rica, Ga, where
three companies are already at work.
-Rubenstein's new opera, ''The Par
rot" (llbretto by Hugo WIttmann), is
to be produced in Hamburg, November
1st.
The property Of the Trinity Church
Corporation, New York, is said to
reach the immense figure of $500, ,OOO.-
00O.
An odd sort of straw hat is made
from sea grass. The maker SAYS tnat
ram strengthens and improves the
fabric.
1t is estimated that typhoid fever
causes 10 per cent. of the annual
number of deaths in England and
Wales.
-Wife-beatlng never gets epidemic
at Stockton, Cal, where 80 days in the
chain gang is the penalty for that
effence.
OF the AL laundries doing busi-
ness in Chicago, 1S0 are owned by
Chinese, a by married women and %
by widows.
Oysters two feet in diameter and
weighing sixty pounds, including the
shells, are said to be found occasionally
in Puget Sound.
-SeYenty-three tons of raspberries
We're shipped from North Troy, Texas,
this season. Seven and a half tons
were shipped in one day.
1.-The manufacture of ice seems to
be an important industry in Texas,
nearly all the larger towns having
factories forsits productiOnI
New York, with seven gas COM
panies, still continues to pay the same
price for the illuminant that IL did
when only one was In existence there.
The Mayor of Carrolton, Ga, has
published notice that "disSOlute men
and women" will not be allowed to
live there ''except in the chain gang.n
Virginia City, New, has Just
adopted a curfew ordinances. The fire
bell taps at eight Z. NJ, and all minors
NhO uO lOl Stl uOLlc dl lUdJ HOuT must
suffer arrest.
The tomb of Thomas Jefferson,
according to Charlottesville paper, Is
again suffering ut the hands of relic
hunters who have resorted to the chip
ping process.
"A collection of water snakes found
at sea, ten miles from land, has been
presented to the California Academy
Of Sciences by the captain of a
Hawaiian vessel.
The WINE drank in Paris last. year
would give an appOrtIOnment of forty
seven gallons to every man, woman
and child in the population, total of
107, ,426, 600 gallons.
-Four and a-half millions Of letters
were sent to the dead-letter eflice last
year. and of that number nearly 200, 600
had been mailed without stamps and
l., 900 without any address.
The number Of dogs kept in Great
Britain appears, from the return of the
dog licenses, to be decreasing. Last
year, as compared with 1882, the
licenses fell from from 90S, 800 to S94.-
903. .