Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-08-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Chinese written language con-
sists of 100000 characters.
-Mackerel. it is said, are never
found south of Cape Hatteras.
A Vallejo, Cal, farmer has mich
COW that weighs almost 1900 lbs.
Augusta, Me-, is discussing the ad-
visibility of readopting local time
In France only sixty stock brokers
are permitted by law.
The cost of the German army now
amounts to 116,OO0,0OO.
Bears are reported In Essex county,
n. Y.
Japan has fishing population of
1,60l, ,406.
-Pittsburg, Penn, has banished
hand organs.
There were eight eircusses in
Rome, B. G.
Italy is about to send out Polar
expedition.
There are 10000 deaf mutes in
Great Britain
California produces fgseight inches
in circumference.
There are 346 anthracite coIlieries
in Pennsylvania.
-Meissonier's only family consists of
his grandchildren.
An abundance of good honey this
year is promised.
"A boot black in New Orleans has a
proud record Of 1.47.
The U. S. Signal Service employs
500 tornado reporters.
-The population of Texas, ,59l 600
in 1SS0-haS grown to 2, ,25O, 900 in
1888.
A Jacksonville, Fla, man has made
$3.50 from a single rose bush this
season.
The United States has become the
fourth largest beer-drinking nation in
the world.
of the 100000 Masons in the
world one half are on this side Of the
Atlantic.
"A DenisOn, Texas, man secured an
advance OF % cents on his cork leg in
pawn-shOp.
-Em;grants are leaving Silesia and
POsen in very large numbers for Texas
and California.
Glove making alone gives employ
ment Ill England to nearly twenty-five
thousand women.
"A single apiary in Texas is said to
have produced 5000 pounds of honey
this season.
There are over 10000 stitches to
take, says an English seamstress, IN
making a shirt.
zf
port that there are 2l1, ,2l1 qualified
voters in the city.
Japan now has, in round numbers,
$4,000 common schools, 5000, 900 pupils
and 81 100 teachers.
Mr.. Spurgeon the great London
preacher, who is not yet 80, Is COM
pIetely broken in health.
-FCur million barrels are estimated
as the extent of the apple crop of
Western New York this year.
The perceptible earthquakes of the
civilized world are estimated to average
i'll number 110 per annum.
Penny dinners for school. children
have been instituted under the direction
of the London School Board.
In changing the style of clothing
for eOnvIcts in Ohio penitentiary,
striped goods have been abandoned.
Birch, until lately considered of
little value, is beginning to be sought
for to make floors for skating rinks.
10000 900 pounds of maple sugar
were produced in this country last year.
Pennsylvania supplied 2, $50, 900 lbs.
Six hundred million tons of white
paper, it is stated, are required annually
to supply the newspapers of the world.
The number of emigrants who left
Irish ports in 1888 was los, ,9l6, an in
crease of Is, $50 as compared with 1882.
The cathedral at Ulm, Wurtem-
burg, the largest Protestant church in
the world, is to have spire 524 feet
high.
Nine Of the members of the British
House of Commons are OctOgenarians,
the oldest Of whom is eighty-three years
of age.
of the 2299 counties contained in
the United States, Texas has the lar
gest number, 151; Georgia, with 137,
comes next.
Much mutilated and spurious coin,
it is reported, is worked off in the
SlawsOn boxes of bOb-tail cars in New
York for fares.
There isa tree near Danbury, Mass.
which is over 200 years old. 1t is 100
feet high and twenty-five feet in cir
conference.
Louisiana has school accOmmOda>
tiOns for but 74,OOO,O0O children,
though there are at least 80. 900 little
ones in the State.
The dwellings and farms of widows,
minors, and spinsters are exempted
from taxation in several States of ths
Mexican republic.
-HOlyOke, Mass, is expected soon
to become not only the greatest paper
manufacturing, but the greatest paper
exporting city in the world.
In Plumas county, California, quail
are so plentiful that they run around
Ike chickens, come into dOOr-yards,
and even enter houses.
Unless the court issuing the decree
gives It's sanction, a person who pro-
cures divorce under the laws of Maine
cannot re-marry within two years.
While plowing corn the other day
William George, of Worthwhile, H.,
found Spanish silver coin about the
size of quarter, with the date of 1880.
Engine 137, on the Boston and
Albany, between Springfield and Bos-
ton, has run 5000 miles in 375 days.
1t was in the shop only two days out Of
this time,
There are in the United States SO
yaritles OF oak, "a of pine, of 6r, 5
of spruce, of hemlock, of persim-
mon, II of ash. Is of willow, and Q Of
poplar.
-Four hundred and thirty.seven Of
his descendants survive a veteran Of
the war of 1872, who died near Mon
treal recently, at the age of little
over 100 years.
The total number of separate
farms in the United States is 4, ZOO, 900,
the value of which is G., ,00O, ,OO0. 900.
The value of the annual products of
these farms is e6O0, 100000.
The present registered British
voters are as follows: England, 2.61S.-