Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-05-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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. parts of North Carolina.
New Orleans wants a railroad
bridge across the Mississippi.
An Ohio physician is preparing
medical lexicon in 42 languages.
$4,000 bushels of wheat are used
. avery day IN the United States.
1t costs $4,000 year to light the
United States Capitol and grounds.
Settlers in Yakima, W. T., are to
test the benefits of aytesian wells.
Pennsylvania has a larger number
Of Post Offices than any other State
The bay leaf was formerly supposed
to protect the wearer from thunder.
In Harrisburg they make the
tramps clean the street crossings.
Florida oranges are cheaper in
Hartford than at the Florida groves.
The Post Office Department uses
$50, 900 worth of wrapping twine a
year.
The Western New York Farmers
Club thinks eggs should be sold by
weight.
Mr.. Mapleson says that he has
made $40, 900 clear by his San Fran
cisco trip.
1t is estimated that only two in
in every one hundred Berliners are
church-goers.
The State railways of Germany are
experimenting with American paper
car wheels.
Insurance publications state that
the losses by fire in the United States
in 1888 aggregate Sl03 00O,000.
Mrs. Cunio, an Italian woman OF
Boston, has a babe which at birth
weighed 24i pounds.
The Spanish army averages one Off
Ger below the grade of brigadier-general
to every five privates.
Queen Victoria saves annually from
her Parliamentary allowance, five hun
dred ousand dollars.
| One Hungarian out of 200 in Beth
lehem has paid his tax. The tax-cOl-
lector feels greatly encouraged.
A company of Scotch capitalists
have bought 500, 600 acres of land in
the western part of Florida.
Craig Co., Va, has a citizen who
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weight, and of boys stature.
-Four millions three hundred and
! forty thousand boxes of sardines were
/ packed in Lubec, Me-, last year.
The orange crop of Florida this
season is estimated at 60, 600. GOO Oran-
ges, netting the growers 81, ,2J0,U0O.
! "A Kansas woman has died from
blood poisoning received by wearing a
green veil over scratch ON her face.
The Quebec Legislature, it is said,
contains but twelve EngIish-speaking
members out of the siXty-tive who COM
pose it.
"A Mrs. Renney, of Rochester. n.
Y, who was % years old last month,
walked to church, one mile, and home
again, recently.
Minnesota lumbermen cut 81, ,00O,-
600 Ieet of lumber last winter, thus
making total supply now on hand Of
52S, 500, 600 feet.
A citizen of Butte county, Cal,
has been rendered temporarily blind by
using a tOothpick which he cut from
the twig of poison oak.
An old bachelor died at East Al
burgh, VT. the other day, and 500, 900
in bonds, notes and certificates were
found in the Innings of his clothes.
France has among E1ropeal coun-
tries the largest number Of electors, its
percentage beng twenty-six in every
100 inhabitants; England ranks fifth.
I'm Boston the stock of Wagner's
programme books was exhausted at the
opening of the series of concerts, and
copies commanded a dollar premium.
California temperance people have
begun crusade against grape culture,
it is reported, on the ground that grape
growing tends to increase drunkenness.
-Four of the seven persons who
assisted in eating fat pig. raw. at
Loyalhanna, are now dead. The others
will probably die. eaten alive by trichi-
nae.
Barbara Fr1tchie's clock is SAID to
be in existence yet, with its hands fixed
at 10 O'Clock, the hour at which its PEN
dulum was shot away by soldiers
bullet.
1t requires three day, In which to
complete the marriage ceremony in
China; but when it is done, it is a
strong job. Nothing short Of death
can break it.
"A banana eating contest between a
young man and young woman at Mon
teruDa, Ca, recently, was won by the
former, who ate 90 bananas to the other
contestants Is.
C. G. Schwabe, Of Liverpool has
presented to his native city OF Ham
burg his splendid collection of paint
ings, containing, among others, some
of the masterpieces of the modern Eng
lish school.
The Governor of the State of
Colima, Mexico, has commissioned
Emilio Mahlo to map the lake of san
PedritO with a view Of draining it. 1t
is supposed that this lake Is the cause
of the annual yellow fever epidemic.
The Austrian Government has
finally consented to the removal Of the
remains of Beethoven and Shubert
from the "Wahringer" Cemetery,
where they have so long reposed almost
side by side. They are 10 be re-inter-
red in the Central Cemetery.
Dancing is permitted on Sunday
evenings in some parts of Northern
Sweden, while on Saturday night it is
considered a crime. The sabbath, as
once was the case in Connecticut be-
gins at six O'Clock on Saturday evening.
The latest use devised for paper is
the making of carpets. A Connecticut
man is reported TO have taken out pat
ents for processes by which beautiful
and substantial carpets can be made Of
paper at very low prices.
M. Pssteur and his assistants have
to The French Academy of
Scleuces the fact that by incubation
they can render all dogs absolutely
proof against the effects of rabies, in
whatever way or quantity the viru, may
be administered.
Great numbers of bats recently
took possession of a church in SOlanO,
COL, and 50 thick and aggressive did
they become that the service was neces-
sarlly postponed. The deacon inaugu-