Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-10-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 80, 1876 pOstoflices in the
United States.
Florida now has within its limits
1902 miles of railway.
1t is estimated that one voter in
seven cannot write.
Bavaria has a beer brewery to every
1000 of her inhabitants.
"A 95-year-Old resident of New
Bedford, Mass, rides bicycle.
"A fashionable revolt against late
dinners is reported from London.
Two gallons of alcohol can be
name from bushel Of corn or rye.
H-Queen Victoria during her reign
has added 1S5 titles to the peerage-
One animal in every 10 dies in the
cattle cars between Chicago and New
York.
The annual payroll of the United
States Government amounts to so, Co.,
$685..
-Trufies are found in California
under the oak trees, at depth of one
or two feet.
Dried orange peelS are now being
used IN Paris as substitute for kind
ling wood.
In fifty-six years Mexico has had
fifty-four presidents, one emperor and
one regency.
The milk supplied in Boston has
improved in quality under the new milk
inspection law.
"A twelve-year-Old girl IN Nevada,
herself an expert shot, has opened a
shooting gallery.
Female students are to be allowed
to compete for positions as surgeons in
the Paris hospitals.
1t is Illegal to catch Holsters in the
waters of Maine between August 10
and November -.
"A common sign in British India
eads: animals of all kinds stuffed on
the shortest notice.
The coming corn crop is estimated
at !, ,291 ,OOO, 600 bushels, fifty per cent.
greater than last year.
An early autumn IS indicated by
rich various cOlOred tints in foliage in
many rural localities.
The French Senate has voted to
abolish the offering of prayer at the
beginning or its service.
Three lepers live within a radius Of
10 miles of Granite Falls, in Yellow
Medicine county, MINI.
"A former citizen of Georgia, his
daughter, and two sons all died on
August in different years.
The peanut crop of Virginia will
reach $500, 600 bushels, an increase of
30 per cent. over last year.
southern people are beginning to
use the Tennessee mountains somewhat
/ extensively as summer resort.
in 119S the Bgnk of England issu.
ed small silver pieces worth five shil-
| lings; they were called bank tokens.
The French savings bank now con-
tain an aggregate of over seventy-two
and half millions of pounds sterling.
On an average, twenty-fOur post
/ age stamps to each person we're sold In
the United States during the last fiscal
year.
Berlin Oculists asst that the dust
from the elevated railroads has added
hve per cent. to the profits of their pro-
feSsi0n.
No less than fifty-seven exposi-
tons, it is said, are to be held in the
United States during the remainder Of
the year.
There are said to be more than a
quarter Of million women in London
who work with their needles for a bare
subsistence.
One hundred and fifty thousand
dollars is estimated as the sum spent
daily in the twenty-five thousand beer
shops of Paris.
The wheat crop of the world for
1884 is estimated at $40. .0OO, 900 bushels
or 100000 bushels more than last
years harvest.
Because they couldn't get along
with the Chief of the Department, the
tiremen of Gainesville. Texas, recently
resigned in body.
Greek fire was invented by Calm.
icUs, an engineer of HeliopOils in
Syria, in the seventh century, to de.
strOy the Saracens' ships.
Thirty thousand twO-horse buckets
are employed in the business of New
York city, upwards of $4,000, 900 are
invested in this industry.
"A girl only II years old was arrest.
ed in Boston a day or two ago for
bigamy. and she admitted that she had
two husbands, both living.
The Falls of Foyers, in Scotland,
is 200 feet high, and Niagara l64 feet.
The highest in the world is the Fall OF
Orco at Monte Rosa, 2, 400 feet.
Two fOrtresses, well known in
modern history, are shortly to be razed,
viz, KOeniggratz, IN Bohemia, and
Sonderburg-Dueppel, in Schleswig.
The assessed valuation of the rail.
road property in Iowa is completed.
The total mileage is 71O5, and the
assessed valuation is s29, $50, ,SO9.26.
In England alone it is estimated
that there are nearly %, 900 women and
girls who gain part at least OF their
daily bread by the making of gloves.
"A log cabin In which he spent the
earher years of his life from necessity,
has been used as an abode this summer
from choice by one of OregOn's wealth.
lest citizens.
i -JealOusieS about stock, land, ETC..
between the white settlers and Umatilla
Indians in Oregon threaten to cause an
outbreak. The Indians are reported to
be very restless.
From recently published tables il
appears that the average time of sick.
ness among males is about nine days IN
each Of their working years. In women
it is a trife more.
The splitting of tree near Redd.
ing, Shasta county, Cal, ., by lightning,
recently, disclosed in the hollow trunk
skeleton. Three bullet holes were
found in the skull.
The ordinary expenses Of Pope
Leo XIII amount to 5000, 900 francs
yearly, and other expenditures may
bring the amount up to 100000. He
spends 100000 Of it in aims.
"A kite, 16 feet high and II feet wide,
whose covering required 2i yards of
muslin, was raised from a Grand street
N Y, house top recently. 1t took
four men with gloved hands to hold it.