Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-07-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington Territory.
A colored woman IS studying med
icine in Paris.
This years cotton crop in theSouth
is figured at 500, 900 bales.
There are $50 women enrolled as
students in the University of Michi-
gan.
The total number of recognized
species of Australian fishes now reaches
1921.
The school teachers of Vermont
are prohibited by law from using tobac-
co in any form.
Prairie dogs, it is estimated. de-
stroy annually ten million dollars worth
of grass in Texas.
The value Of the fish caught by
Canadian fishermen during 1888 is
placed at ST., 100000.
"A poorhouse at Mars Hill, Me-,
was 105 years old.
Females in Great Britain are in ex-
cess of the males to the number of seven
hundred thousand.
Citizens of Victoria iB. c. assem-
bled in mass meeting recently, and de-
nounced gambling.
The total number of separate farms
in the United States is 4 ,0U0, 600, valued
at SIC, ,0O0, 100000.
The great mass Of the people Of
Mexico are Indians. The ruling class
es are mainly Spanish.
One million boxes of matches are
produced daily by one machine in use
at factory in Sweden.
In both Germany and Austria paper
| is now being extensively used for the
/ manufacture of bottles.
War is being carried on in several
cities in thiscountry against the ''swing-
ing sign nuisance" just now.
-Worchester is stocking her city
reservoir with 20, 900 land-locked sal
mon from the State hatchery.
Ten cents a word is now the highest
rate paid for telegraphing from one
/ point to another in this country.
A new geyser Dasln has been dis
covered in the Yellowstone Valley, ten
miles south of the petrided forest,
Fifty thousand dollars a year Is ex-
pended by the Bank of England In feed
ing its clerks during business hours.
The entrance to st. Johns harbor
has been nearly closed, it is reported,
by from nine to ten miles of icebergs.
Petroleum, as a fuel on the locomo-
tives of Russian railways, is said to be
| 90 per cent cheaper than coal or wood.
The United States raise nearly half
of the number of hogs produced in the
world. Iowa takes the lead with 5, no.
445.
The Paris police arrested about 200
vagabonds in one haul recently in the
Tuileres Garden and the Louvre
Square
Women it appears are at premium
in Washington Territory, S100 being
offered by CosmOpolls for the first wo-
man settler.
Within the past twenty-one years
the number of female doctors in the
United States has increased, nearly
1000 per cent.
The number of electors now on the
register in Great Britain is $50, IA in
England and Wales, 230, ,156 in Ireland,
and 33l, ,264 IN Scotland.
The total number of separate farms
In the United States is 100000, and
their aggregate value is estimated at
nineteen billion dollars.
Denver, Col, has 300 foot arte-
sian well that is said to yield water al
most exactly the same (by analysis) as
the famous Spa water in Germany.
1t cost S66, ,226 per mile to build the
Pacific railroads. The New Mexico
| Central has been built at cost of S24,-
600 per mile. The latter was fully as
difficult to contract and as expensive.
"A telegraphIc message at the rate
| of from twelve to fourteen words a
minute. was recently sent over 7000
miles of wire from London to Calcutta.
New York imports on an average
about 30, Geo bushels of bananas week.
! None come from Florida, which barely
raises enough for its own consumption.
The AbOrigines of the Chatham
Islands dispose of the remains of de-
ceased fisherman by lashing him fast in
a boat, with baited line in hand, and
sending it adrift to sea.
The liability of the American peo-
pie for the public debt is $3.50 per cap
ital; at the end of the war it was SIS.
25; the interest liability is ninety-ive
cents, as against s4.29 in 1865.
"A company of Englishmen and
Scotchmen have bought % 900 acres Of
mineral land near Chattanooga, Tenn,
and will put up two blast furnaces,
with capacity of $50 tons day.
1t is said that in the Mesilla Valley
in New Mexico apple trees bear the
second year after planting, peaches the
second year from the seed and grapes
the third year.
"A sawish was captured near Jack
sonyille, Florida, q few days ago,
measuring IA feet in length, with saw
three feet three inches long and about
seven inches wide.
"A strange method of disposing of
the dead is practiced by the Parsees,
who, instead OF buryiDg the remains OF
deceased persons, allow them to be de-
veured by vultures.
The Duke OF Marlborough has
offered to let the National Gallery have
twelve of the Blenheim pictures for
g, ,000,0 The Raphael and the Ru-
bens family picture" are included.
London has seventy-six guilds en-
dowed by wealthy benefactor for the
benefit of different trades, and their
trust property alone yields an income Of
one million dollars annually.
Sugar, which is the chief staple of
Louisiana, employs in that State, it is
estimated, ninety million dollars Of
capital, and is the almost exclusive sup
port Of four hundred thousand people.
The cabinet of manuscript of the
National Library of Paris includes o.
600 volumes, either bound in boards or
portfolios. as well as Ia. 900 medals c.
all periods, both French and Foreign.
) Y Word comes from Los Angeles, CAL,
of a terrible destruction of fruit by lin
nets. More damage has been done in
i thst vicinity by these vicious little
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