Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-11-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Alaska is TO have a newspaper.


Maine has 1000 farms.
General Gordon wants 81, ,510, 900
in Egypt.
Cleveland, Ohio, is troubled with
are-bugs.
AT Chicago corn is steadily improy-
ing in price.
Spain holds Grst rank as lead pro-
ducing coUn ~.
-Cast-iron chilled tools will soon
take the place Of steel.
American cattle and breadstufs
are wanted in England
The French are making leather TO
initiate alligator hide.
Female horsethieves are surprising
Pennsylvania farmers
swamp fires are laying waste New
Jersey cranberry bogs.
In trade circles, business Is better
10 anticipation than IN fact.
The NorristOwn, Pa, Insane Asy-
lum has organized brass band.
There are said to be ,87l ,2I7 illit-
crate voters in the United States.
The Emperor Of Austria has the
finest collection Of pipes in Europe.
The Russian Government has bor-
rowed $50, 10000 to build railways.
Two whales were captured at Mon
terey, California, on recent Sunday.
Tho Mormon Church in Utah re-
ceives about $1,000. 600 year in tithes.
The students of Yale College smoke
between 1000 and 5000 cigarettes a
day.
The number Of oxen Ii Vermont
IN 1850 was AZ, 900; there are now only
1900.
-"GraveyardH insurance cases keep
turning up in some Of the Eastern
States.
The large Italian iroHclads are now
pronounced utterly unSeaworthy and
unwieldy.
One a. iary in Texas has already
furnished D OU0 pounds Of honey this
season.
-Pittsburg proposes 10 prohibit the
erection of wooden buildings within the
city limits,
1t costs the bank Of England So.
coo gear to feed its clerks during Uusi-
ness hours.
So far this season no less than 50
horse thieves have been hanged by Ne
yada viguantes
There are nine establishments IL
the United States producing 1850
watches a day.
Pennsylvania wool growers e5ti-
mate their loss by tariff reduction at
over $500, 90.
In 1888 the United states exported
44O, 10 6lO gallons Of kerosene oil val
ued at $50, Az, ,352
The desertions in the British army
last year were BIZ, almost exclusively
very young soldiers.
"A certain cotton planter IN south
east Arkansas has between 500 and
1900 acres under cultivation.
Mexico pays S65 premium for COO
lies, and expects L, 900 OF them this
year 10 work on the railroads.
There are 419 tyPe-settsrs, besides
the apprentices, III the Government
Printing Office at Washington.
Out of Il, 500 Canadian cattle sold
IN Glasgow last year, 1000 were taken
by farmers for feeding purposes.
The proportion of the trade Of New
York for 1888 was of the entire trade
Of the United States 543 per cent.
Egypt has to pay 50, ,5J0,O 600 in
demnlty 70 property holders for the
British destruction of Alexandria.
The charter Of Atlanta, Ga - for
bids any person from holding the otics
OF Mayor for two Consecutive terms.
The Carlos Theatre in Naples Is said
To be the largest, and La Scala AZ Milan
the next largest theatre IN the world
The outlay for the Royal AgricUl-
tural Show at Y York. England, last year,
reached $4,000, yet they made profit
of $4,000.
"A Washington lady is having made
into belt the skin OF d TattIesnake
that she killed while on a summer trip
To North Carolina.
Nelson Miller, of Stephentown, Y.
y. who is reported 10 be lG4 years or
age, recently walked ten miles 70 attend
camp meeting.
French journals allege thar mer
chants IN China have trieI hard, sinae
the Tonquin difficulties, 20 export poi
soined tea into France.
The number of cattle slaughtered
in Chicago for the year ending March
l. 1854, was !, ,lS2, ,9J5, as couIpared with
ga, ,51S for the previous year.
-Earlham College, at Richmond,
Ind, the leading Quaker college in tho
West, is TO have a new SIS OyU building
and three additional professors.
Dishonest miikmen TO the number
OF twenty-five were bned from SO to
500 each recently in the New York
Court Of General Sessions for watering
milk.
From Jan. l 70 May %, the Union
Pacific Railroad sold !, ,459, 900 acres or
land for 5,54Z, coo; this land has been
considered barren and was sold to cattle
men.
-Tornadoes, 1t is stated, occur ex-
clusively in the afternoon, and when
the temperature Is very high, saturated
with moisture and charged with cleo
tricity.
The furniture interest in the Uni
ted States is enormous. Three years
ago it amounted in New York to 300
factories and product Of nearly SI0,-
coo, 900.
The Emperor of China recently
the destruction of $1,000
OUO worth Of opium, and emphatIcally
refuses to accept any revenue from the
odious traffic.
"A Connecticut company manufac-
lures II 900, 900 pounds of liquorice an
nually, 1900, 600 pounds heing used for
confectionery and medicines, the bal
snce in tobacco.
Gold was discovered in Dennison,
Texas, few days ago by workmen en-
gagged in digging a well. On testing
small fragments of rock gold to the
value Of forty cents was extracted.
The city Of Paris has leased 81
acres OF the low-lying forest of St
German and the adjoining meadows.
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