Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-11-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

toba engaged as farmers.
Louisiana has about eighteen bill
lion feet OF pine III her forests.
Chicago is complaining Of the over
crOWding of its wide sidewalks.
There are 900, 900 more men in the
United States than there are women.
Electric tricycles, it is expected,
will soon be in common Use in Eng
land.
Vermont has buried sixteen repu-
ted centenarians during the past three
years.
The average sale OF postage stamps
in this country last year was y for each
person.
-Louisiana's rice crop for 1884 will
be 20 per cent. short, and the sugar crop
about %.
There are over 5000 untenanted
houses in Havana, Cuba, and neighbor-
ing towns.
A "horse-swappers'' convention
WAS announced to meet at Admission.
Ala. on the 18th.
-Ulm Cathedral, after remaining
unfinished for nearly 400 years, will
soon be completed.
On the Pacific road there are towns
where Sunday is said To be the busiest
day of the week"
1t is announced that the total num-
Der of known Australian fishes now
amounts to ,29l species.
An underground stream lows be-
meath the city of Birmingham, Ala. 1t
is To be used for sewer.
Some sections of the South are sur-
fering from what are declared the worst
drOuths in their history.
Over $4,000 600 is said TO have
been spent in attempts To solve the pro
blem of perpetual motion.
Instead Of designating single ladies
a. old maids, the indianapolis Journal
calls them "bachelettes.
An Essex Conn. druggist poisoned
his baby the other day by giving it SUI
gar of lead for sugar of milk.
-Wnnipeg, the metropolis of Mani
tOba, is a go-ahead city, sure enough.
II has debt of =, $50, 900.
Sarah Bernhardt has 10 pay 300
francs daily To her creditors from her
salary TO avoid the sale Of her effects.
The latest census Of Paris shows 4
population of 2,239. .92S, Of whom TO-
79S are English and j,9S, Americans.
Fully 1918 per cent. of our exports
OF bread and breadstuffs consists or
wheat, wheat flour, corn and cOrnmeal.
Kidderminster, Eng. Is suffering
| from an epidemic of typhoid fever. Tho
mortality is chiefly among young per
/ sons.
A Young medical student of Mis-
/ sissippl has been rendered temporarily
/ insane by the sights III the dissecting
/ room.
The City Council Of ThOmastoWn,
Ga, has raised the liquor license 10
| 5000. and the license on billiard tables
to $500.
Bears are 80 plenty in some parts
/ of New Hampshire this season that
they are seen In couples by daylight DC.
casiOnally.
A couple In Oxford, Miss, married
on a months probation, and at the end
of that time dissolved by consent Of ali
| concerned.
The price Of the two Rubenses
sold to one Of the ROthschild family
| from the Blenheim collection is said ID
be S250,0
The electric light will be tried in
the Evening High School of New York
next winter, as being steadier and bet
ter than gas.
The profit of the cattle business Of
Texas this year, the yield being eSti-
mated at from 500, 600 TO IOO,O 900 head
is Sl0,00O,00O.
Since the development of tree cul-
ture the forests of Europe have In
creased from one-sixth To One-tifth OF
the entire territory.
The area of the cOal-feldS Of the
world Is estimated at $4,000 geOgra
phical miles. One twenty-fifth part il
in the United Kingdom.
No less than twenty-five persons
ascended Mount Blanc during August,
the largest number of ascents, it IS said
ever made III that month.
-Goetz's poSthumous opera, "Fran-
cesca de Rimini,n is t. be brought out
in London this season, with Mile. Min
nie Hauck in the title part.
The exhibition of historic relics Of
their line of business is becoming u
somewhat popular mode of advertising
among London stOrekeepers.
"A few years ago the women of In
dia were not allowed to learn TO read.
Now there are 12G, ,3iS girls attending
schools established for them.
Damages amounting to over .44,
600 have been paid by Des MOiBes, Ia,
during the past four years for accident.
caused by defective sidewalks.
The district around Galena, Kan
sas, is credited with being the largest
zinc producing locality in the world.
Last year 10000 tons were mined.
The new Japanese Minister 10
Washington, Kuichi Kuki, is only 80
years old, but Is regarded as the author
of Japan's present school system.
jefferson DAVIS has had returned
to him the saddle on which he rode
while endeavOrIng to make his histori-
cal escape through Georgia III 1865.
Assaults on policemen are quite a
common occurrence in London, no less
than 23O0 people having been arrested
there the past year for this offence.
The Sutlej, large river in British
India, with descent of 1900 feet III
$50 miles, or about 81 feet per mile, Is
the fastest flowing river iii the world.
Russia possesses 1904, ,728 horses.
and yet is 50 alarmed at the export
which has risen from 5000 in 1873 to
30, 900 in 1882, that a tax is talked of.
| The average yield of wheat in the
United States Is about ii bushels pei
acre. In England, according TO the
best authorities, the yield is 2S bushels.
The United States possesses 65, 900
clergymen, who yearly preach 8, 160, ,OOO
sermons. Their talk in book form
would make 152 ,220 volumes of 800
pages each.
The exports of mauufactures from