Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-09-03
NO. SO.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Thirty-six men and nine women
committed suicide for love in 1888.
-Burglaries have been extremely
numerous of late in Salt Lake City.
About 40,0O0,000 pennies were
coined in the United States in 1888.
There are now in England A ladies
duly elected assGuardians of the Poor.
The wood pavement being put
down in Paris is United States pat
ent.
Florence, S. C., has abolished its
tax of 81 day on commercial travel
lers.
The births in Spain during 1888
numbered 453, 900, and the deaths 4lS,-
600.
Two cannons, buried since 1872,
have been dug up in South street, New
York.
London has three theatres man
aged by women. They are crowded
nightly.
I'm Shubuta, Miss, the boys take
the girls out driving in buggies drawn
by oxen.
The wOrsted industry of England
employs 3, ,225, $50 spindlers; in France,
2,765, 900.
Long Island woods and swamps
are said to be unusually full of snakes
this summer.
An Oglethorpe, Ga, boy has In
vented a cash drawer for which he has
refused $4,000.
Farmers near the alleged diamond
farm at Palmyra, Wis are selling out
at high prices.
The greatest ocean depth ever
ascertained by sounding was five miles
and quarter.
1t is estimated that the yield of ap-
pies in Western New York Will be A.
coo, 900 barrels.
Dakota has 400 square miles of
water surface and 147 100 square miles
of land surface.
Only five genuine signatures of
Shakespeare, it Is stated, are known TO
be in existence.
Canada exported last year SI,705,-
s17 worth of butter and S6,45l,S.0
worth of cheese.
Sturgeon fishermen along the Hud-
son have been complaining of an un-
usually light catch.
There are 100 prisoners serving
under life sentences in the Concord,
Mass, State prison.
The French postal authorities have
adopted a device for the mechanical
stamping Of letters.
Chicago now compels shopkeepers
to maintain seats for their feminine
clerks and attendants.
The town of Tunbridge, Dakota,
celebrated the Fourth of July by hang
ing six horse thieves.
Senator Bayard is the father of
twelve youthful Bayards-nine daugh-
tiers and three sons.
twenty-five Indiana jails, it is
stated, have been condemned by the
State Board of Health.
The conquest o. TOnquin has al
ready cost France 100, 600, 900 francs.
Such theft is not profitable.
For The past thirty years Denmark
has contributed yearly average of l.
500 people to MormondOm.
"A volume is about to be published
at Shanghai, it is said, containing the
lave Maria' in $40 languages.
in the Atlantic States, it is said,
the life of an apple tree is 40 years,
while it is only half that in the West.
"A ffty-one pound watermelon and
a one pound tomato are what fernando
County, Florida, has done this season.
The woods of the United States are
estimated to cover over 3S0,000,000
acres, or sixteen per cent. of the total
urea.
Texas grows, it is stated, a
''drought-prOOf" grass, that can be
cut every four weeks from May till
frost
New nitre-beds are being constant
ly found in Nevada, and they are de-
clared to be of greater value than
those of Peru.
"A professor" advertises in a
Newark paper that he will instruct
persons how to swim without going
into the water"
The population of Chicago, accord
ing to the school census recently COM
pleted, has increased about twenty-five
per cent. since 1880.
The bricks used in the construction
of his Church in Tennessee, are said to
have been all made by Rev. w. III. Key,
colOred, the pastor.
"A New York scotsman has a fifty
four pound box of caulIflOwer seeds,
which he calls worth S2700, and keeps
in safe-deposit vault.
Six hundred pond lilies were
recently distributed by a citizen of
Concord, Mass, among the prisoners
in the State prison there.
of clergymen in the United States,
according to the figures of the last
census, there are Ga 96S-about $50
more than there are lawyers.
"A raft Of walnut logs, valued at
$4,000, has recently reached New
Orleans, where it will be sawed into
boards and then shipped North
The latest faith-cure reported IS
that of lady living IN Newark n. j.,
who had been bed-ridden with spine
disease and paralys is foF eight and
half years.
The highest salary now paid any base
ball player in this country is said to be
S32OO year, and he is said to have re-
ceived an offer of 5000 to catch for the
Chicago nine next year.
Somebody who processes to have
got reliable data Of the shakes announ-
ces that there is an average of 10 pre-
ceptible earthquakes throughout the
civilized world every year.
1t is said that there are over no.
600 tons of sugar in the bonded ware
houses of Brooklyn, an amount in
store never before known in the history
of Brooklyn bonded warehouses.
"A San Francisco woman is suing a
man for SO, 900 damages, because, on the
2Is tof last month. he promised to marry
her within "a reasonable time" and
has not yet fulfilled the agreement.
"A tricycle. trip from Italy through
France has been made by two English
ladies from Porto Maurino, On the
Gulf of Genoa, to Boulogne. They
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