Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-10-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

London has an average or 2,UVO
births a week.
Six new Persian war vessels have
Iust been launched.
Vanderbilt household expenses
are $50, 900 year.
There are 29S German officers
domiciled at WeiSbaden.
California produces hgs eight
inches in circumference.
"A mica mine has been opened in
Orange Co., New Jersey.
-Rubenstein is 10 give twenty-five
concerts in this country.
"A balloon that will carry leo
soldiers is a new invention.
Connecticut has been visited with
frost every month this year.
The records of the GreeIy expedi-
tiOn Gil three large chests.
The ROthchilds own $500, ,OOO, 900
of United States bonds.
The most fashionable ladies' now
wear scarcely any jewelry.
The famous Dark Day OF New
England was May 10, 1850.
One third of the land surface o.
the globe is covered with trees.
"A terrible drouth has depOpulated
a number of districts in Mexico.
Crossing stones on her avenues are
pressingly needed in Atlantic City.
The rents of French flats are on
the diminuendo scale In New York.
The annual mortality in Great
Britain from intemperance is 40, 800.
The University of Tennessee has
made Talmage Doctor of Divinity.
Seven hundred skulls were found
in sand bank near Columbus, OHIO.
There are Us O6j masonic lodges
in the world, with IA ,l60, ,543 members.
"A cave full of honey is said to
have been found near Santa Barbara,
Cal.
New York marke;men say the
crop of potatoes will be very short this
year.
1t is said that over three million
trees were planted in Great Britain in
1889.
The confectionery trade of the
United States amounts To 81. .O0O, 900
yearly.
1t costs about S425, 900 annually 10
pay for the transportation of OurfOreign
mails.
There Is new town in Tom
Green's county, Texas, called Dam
sight.
In the United States there are -,
900 paupers. These are paupers in aim
! houses.
Consumption causes more deaths
than any other disease does in New
Orleans.
The wholesale cost of the oysters
consumed in New York yearly is 81
1000.
Thousands of canary birds are
being shipped from Mexico to Europe
almost daily.
The postal service of the United
States costs the Government this year
SIC, Do, 900.
The Oat crop of Southern Georgia
has been harvested and the yield Is
satisfactory.
Symptoms of failure in PATHS
vocal powers, are being discovered by
well-knOwn critics abroad.
The number of visitors to the read
ing room of the British Museum is
15O, 900 per year.
We have now 100000 school
teachers, and an average of more than
So pupils for each.
The payroll of the army and ex-
penSes of the service amount TO Sl2,-
600, 900 per annum.
Arizona, which gave us 1900, ,UOU
pounds of copper last year, expects 10
make it $4,000, 900 this.
In Canada, one person in every L.
DO is an inventor; in South Carolina,
one in every 21,lS2.
New York city has twenty-widOWs
whose wealth is estimated at from 81,
600, 900 to 5000, 600 each.
France has but ~, ,O46 naturalized
persons out of population of over
thirty-seven million people
The Louisiana Legislature has in
creased the appropriations for public
schools by $40, 600 this year.
1t is estimated that the mines of
California alone have added 81 2UO, ,0OO,-
900 to the gold supply of the world
"A HOllander has on exhibition il
New York table composed of 2OO,035
pieces. 1t took him thirteen years 10
make it.
"A queer horse plague has mani
tested itself at Winnemucca, New.
The animals fall dead without apparent
disease.
Prof. A. II. Sayce has deciphered
an Assyrian tablet which gives an
account of transit of Venus l 600
years b. G.
The railways of Pennsylvania, it
is said, carry about One-fOurth of the
freight transported by all the roads
throughout the country.
Since 1862 the United States Gov
ernment has collected from distilled
spirits taxes amounting to the enOr-
nous sum of 81 ,0l7 100000.
The total superficIes of the seas IN
the world is given as 23l, ,9lj .9Oj square
miles, and that of all the continents
and islands as "a, 354 $50 square miles.
According to the latest results of
the finest instrumental tests, as TO
the propagation of electricity, an
electric signal travels at the rate Of To-
| 600 miles per second.
Fly stlngs have caused the deaths
| of three persons at st. Petersburg,
recently. 1t is supposed the insects
had previously settled on cattle infect
ed with the rinderpest.
The United States Agricultural
Department reports taat 100000, 900
/ bushels of winter wheat have been
harvested in the United States this
year.
-Twenty-nine per cent. Of the acre
age of Europe, it is estimated, is still
in timber, and forty per cent. Of the
| territory of Russia is in forests.
Twenty-seven per cent. of Germany Is
in timber, and, 1t is said, but four per