Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-08-13
NO. 33,
NEWS IN BRIEF

, A young alligator was rained down
from the clouds at Dallas, Tex.
, The total number Of Indians at
, tached to agencies is now 246,000
Over S750.0o was paid last year as
duty on patent medicines IN England.
Natural Gas has been struck at
| Steubenville, Ohio, in immense quanti-
ties.
} The State Lunatic Asylum at
Austin, Tex, now has about 523 in
; mates.
M ore than one half, and probably
two-thirds, of the lawyers of Berlin are
: Hebrews.
Texas comprises 2SS organized
counties, and territory enough to form
100 more.
There are IL, ,412 miles of railroad
track In this country, of which 10Y ,15S
are in operation.
Wisconsin now has population of
l,5OO, 600 and taxable valuation of
S456, ,325, III.
The citizens of Baird, L ex, have
voted tax of 20 cents on the S1OO for
school purposes.
Over 400, 900, 900 gallons of petrol
cum, valued at S60, 900, 900, were ex-
ported last year.
The railway system of Prussia COW
ers about 5000 miles-a little more
than that of Canada.
Over 10000 Polish Jews, who fled
from Russia because of persecution,
are living in London.
An average of 20, 900 cases of scar
let fever each year is reported for the
metropolis of London.
Utah has now 10000 small farms
averaging twenty-five acres, and the
whole must be irrigated.
1t is estimated by breeders that a
canary bird consumes about twenty
pounds of seed annually.
France is said to have in her na-
tional library l, 900, 600 more books than
that of England contains.
Upward of five thousand persons
slept on EPSON Downs on the night
preceding the recent Derby race.
Pueblo, COL, as means of ridding
the city of unlicensed dogs, pays the
police dollar for each one they kill,
The worlds tin production last
year reached 45, ,170 tons, one-third of
which was consumed In the United
States.
Wooden sailing vessels are being
rapidly superseded by iron steam craft
for even coast-wiSe trade in Great
Britain.
"A crematorium, which was built
in the time of the Roman invasion, has
recently been discovered in Lincoln,
England.
Alligator skin is now being used
for watch cases. The leather is fast
ened to metal backing and highly
polished
According to a recent census 17.0j
of the male population Of Italy between
the ages Of 20 and % can neither read
nor write.
Only one small herd of bufTaloes is
said to be left in Texas, a remnant Of
the great Southern herd" of a few
years ago.
Thirty States and Territories have
more men than women, and seventeen
States and Territories have more wo-
men than men.
-Geraniums and calceolarias, used
in window gardening" are said to
exert a powerful influence in keeping u
room free of flies.
The Royal Agricultural Society
has decided that the English climate
renders the profitable cultivation of to-
bacco impossible.
There are more colored people in
Georgia than there are Indians in the
whole country. Georgia's negro pOpu-
lation Is about 725, 600.
The Navajos, of New Mexico, are
said to be very rich. These Indians
own large drOveS of cattle and horses
and about million sheep.
-Type-writing has been introduced
IN the Chicago public schools in an ex-
perimental way. A class of twenty
five practises two hours week.
M. Louis Pasteur, the eminent
chemist, proposes to extend his re-
searches to cattle, which he says are
more susceptible to rabies than are
dogs.
Great Britain consumes annually
100000 tons of potatoes, of which
200, 600 tons are imported, while the re-
mainder are raised on 541, 600 acres Of
land.
Since December 10, 1888, sixty-five
post-otiices have been established in
Dakota Territory, and 200 business
houses have been established sin the
same time.
One of the plans to make Paris a
seaport Is to convert the River Seine
INTO a canal ninety-eight feet wide.
The cost of dredging, ETC., is estimated
at SO, 100000.
oil speculation has gained such
magnitude that the sales In the differ
ent exchanges aggregate $4,000 900
daily, and there are 81, 200, 900 pipe line
certificates outstanding.
Senator Beck is said to be the fast
est speaker in the present Senate, and
Senator George the slOwest. The aver
age of speaking has been estimated at
15O words per minute.
Robert HebertOn Terrell, one of
seven commencement orators of the
graduating class of over two hundred
at Yale is colOred man, q years old,
and was born slave in Virginia.
For seventy-four wears the present
Of st. Michael's Church, Cow
entry, England, has held that position,
longer, perhaps, than any person has
ever held similar position before.
For each 100 miles of railroad in
the United States there are %. u miles
of second track, sidings, etc.; 1928
locomotives, 1894 passenger-cars, 4.76
baggage and mail cars, and 62l.4
freight cars.
j. A. J. GoolSby, OF Franklin
county, Ga, has four children, all born
on the same day of the week-Wednes-
day. The first was on the 14th, the
second on the 18th, third on the 18th,
fourth on the 18th, but different wears,
of course, two of them being born In
the same month, but not in the same
year.
The Alps contain two peaks above
1900 feet, six or seven above 1900
feet, and In all about thirty which ara
called frst-class peaks. The Htma-
layas, on the other hand, or rather the
limited part of them with which we ara