Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-06-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Staten Island censuses 40, 900 resi-
dents.
Prince Lropold's widow will have
to struggle along on an annual income
of $4,000.
-Roweil has maie up!gard of $50
600 out Of the various walking MATCHES
he las entered.
The regining Duke Of Coburg is
student. The King Of bavaria IS an
artist dreamer.
"A scheme Is on foot for establish
ing turtle parks on the coasts Of Pro-
vence. Algeria and Corsica
More than sixtv per "ont. of the
admit male population of New Mexico
can neither read nor write.
The largest cotton grower in
southeast Arkansas has between s, ,0O0
and 1900 acres in cultivation.
-Whooping cough Is b 'the-ing many
old as W, II as wing persons on the Pa
slfic coast, it is reported.
Bismarck. II is said. speaks French,
understands English AMI italian. talks
Russian and is acquainted with Polish.
the control Of the G. ,vernment are %
be found In all the chief cities of Janau.
On the South Park Railroad. Colo
RADIO, is line OF tree stumpS of an up-
known kind in all stages of petritica-
tion-
-Five-cent cigars, a correspondent
who alleges accurate knowledge says,
are smoked by most CJngressmen in
Washington.
amounted last year to 4j.II0 tors. ab' ut
one-third of which was consumed IN the
United States.
Proportions OF gunpnwder as made
by the government are seventy-fivs parts
nitre, fifteen parts charcoal and ten
parts sulphus.
A missionary, who has completed
translation o. the Book of Mormon into
Spanish, has gone on proselyting tour
in Mexico with Ii.
-Italic tyne. 1t Is sad. was first in
troduced by Aldus Plus Manu;ius in an
edition of Virgil. prlnted in 1911, and
was first called Aldine.
The NJ iyor Of Vienna. Austriq. ra-
Gently received donation of 100 o 0
forms and a scale Litter. which is not
TO be opened until 1890.
According to the laws of Wyoming
there shall be no discrimination mvls
in that Territory with regard to sex N
the pay of any kind of work.
Mary Allen OF Decatur county,
Iowa, has captured fifteen Young
wolves, for which she has reeC we'd in
bounties the sum of SIS.
Dwelling houses at Hailev, Idaho,
are invaded by an insect which emiis
an odor, 1t is said. 81 sickeuing that
''all who smell it want to die
The cigarettes manurgturs1 in
Vera Cruz, Mexico, are all made by
women and children, and tney earn
only twenty-five cents per day
The Prince Royal of Greece ia
described as "a tai nobe-lopkiug
youth barely out of his teens. lie
looks like his noble and queenly
mother
| The Empress OF Austria is vi5itiLg
Amsterdam incognitO for the purpose
OF Consulting distinguished physicians
In regard to the nervous disorders with
which she has been afflicted.
Over 2100 lives, it is figured. wers
lost during the first quarter of the year
| by disasters which resulted in the loSs
of not less than ten lives each,
The greatest distance ever ridden
on a bicycle without dismUuntIng is
stated to be 230 miles, 469 yards. The
feat was ccOmpiished III London, IN
1880.
The Government has paid out
since the close Of the war nearIS $685.
0O0, 600 In pensions TO the soldiers OF
the Union, and is now distributing
among them over $50 900. GOO a Year.
The eldest daughter of Lord Lyt-
ton, though OILY IL, has taken up the
family pen and written one of the most
blood curdling ghost stOlies that has
seen the lght for MANY day.
"A society has been formed at Port
land for the purpose OF publishing rare
historical documents, especially those
relating to Maine, called the GOrges
Society.
DIR. Troitski says that the relative
frequency of the pulse in smokers and
non-smokers Is as 1lSJ To loo }, and
regards the danger of smoking as re-
siding in this fact.
The royues' album OF the Berlin
Criminal Court has been increased by
334 photographs during the past year.
thus swelling the saline To q total Of 3450
portraits.
An estate costing LOO 000fr. IS to
be bought in Algeria, where two hun
drcd poor children of the DeJ mens
of the ) Inc (Paris) will receive instruc-
tion in agriculture.
"A gentleman IN the French Consul
lar Service. NJ Pognon, viii shortly
start for the Lebanon, to copy the text
of the Assyrian inscriptions concerning
NebuchadnezZar's military operations
in Assyria.
The cigars consumed in Germany
during the past year amounted 10 a
total weight OF 81, sos tons. while The
quantity of tobacco consumed in ad-
dtiOn reached weight Of 50, sos
tons
The judicla! statistics OF France
for the last five years show that there
has Deen yearly average vi over 3JO
men tried for murder in various de-
grees, while the average lumber Of
execution amounted 10 but i've
year.
In 1882 the London gas coupauies
real zed net profit of 81 10 5Jl,
equal to 10 42 pei cent. Oil tire stock
and share capital raist,i. La 1851 rhs
net profit was 81 lOj,GJ equal 10 . 80
per cent. on the stock and Snare cdpI-
tai.
Berlin has population uf 126,-
392 as appears ny the ce!IsI, Uf 1853,
including 2O.5S7 Soiiers. The Iigu-e
was 4l9, 72J In 1SJu. in:IudmE IL 547
soldiers, An Increase Uf SUI .642 IN 81
years would satisfy even Il Chicago
man.