Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-10-22
NO. 43.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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year for cut flowers.
Japan has only 10000 paupers in .
population of 80, 600, 900.
Ireland pays eight millions per an
mum in taxes to Eng land.
Mr.. Blaine has six children-thres
sons and three daughters.
-Window-glass blowers have received
an advance of 10 per cent.
Louisiana has about A., ,000, coo, 900
feet of pine In her forests.
American sewing machines and
plows sell rapidly in Mexico.
The standing armies of Europe
number over 2, 100, COO men.
New York city has a Jewish popu-
lation of about sixty thOus and.
IL inois has 252,47l farms, Ohio
257, lS9 and New York 24l ,05S.
The Bank of England pays $50, 900
year in dinners to its employees.
About four thousand comets have
been seen since the records began.
Joliet, ILL.,, now demands 81, 900
cash down for all saloon licenses.
-Somers' Point, on the West Jersey
Railroad, ships 40. 600 clans daily.
"A combination of Minnesota farm
ers has built eleven grain elevators.
Cremation has become a fixed
institution in some parts of Europe.
The first printing press i'll the
United States was introduced in 1929.
Rhode Island sends the only
Quaker to Congress, Jonathan Chase.
st. Louis wants to get its letters
from Mexico in less than three weeks.
Measures 209 feet on each side and
you have a square acre within All inch.
Until 1776 cotton spinning was
performed by the hand spinning wheel.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Howe, Jr, in
1916.
The last pilgrimage TO Mecca con-
sisted Of $1,000 pilgrims and 10000
camels.
Italy has 1900, 900 lemon trees,
which produce, loo, ,000, 900 lemons
annually.
Six thousand yenders of fruits and
vegetables are licensed to walk the
streets OF Paris.
Troy, n. Y, manufactures 81, ,000,-
OOO linen collars every year, besides
3. .3G0, 900 shirts.
Since the patent Office was estab-
lished IN 1886, nearly 800, 900 patenst
have been issued.
The United States, it Il said con
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of the whole world.
There are at least 250, 900 children
i'll louisiana, and school accOmmoda-
tions for only $1,000.
The male school teachers of Yer
mont now receive an average salary Of
So.5o week, the females S5.0l.
The West Hotel, opened at Mime
apolis, Mimi. recently, cost 81 2,OO0, 900,
and occupied two years IN building
John Hastings is still efficiently
discharging his duties as Town CLERK
at Oncndaga at the age of SO years.
In 1852 the United States produced
=, 100000 tons of coal, while last year
about 10000, 900 tons were marketed.
"A pest as dangerous to orange and
lemon trees rs yellow fever to man is
thick on the trees at Los Angeles, Cal.
Russians, who want to live In Ger
many, will hereafter be obi ged to ask per-
mission of their paternal Government.
Twelve petrifed clans were found
at depth of $50 feet, a week or 50
ago, while boring for oil at Purissima,
Cal.
Nearly 10, ,OOO, 900 pounds Of high
explosives are used annually in the
United States east of the Rocky noun
tains.
The amount of counterfeit paper
money now in circulation is said TO bo
less than at any time in the last twenty
years.
Milk contains about Is per cent.
of dry substance. 1000 pounds Of dry
food will therefore produce l30 pounds
Of dry milk.
The amount of money paid for rid
ing on railway cars in this country dur
ing 1888 aggregated almost 81 for each
The ship canal from the Mediter-
raneaH TO the Atlantic across the
lberian peninsula is expected to be
finished in 1889.
Naples is the dirtiest, most ragged
and squaled city In Europe. 1t hasa
population of 500, 900, of whom about
iOO, 900 are priests.
The army and navy of England
furnish their full pro rata of that
convicts, and due proper
ton were officers, too.
The importation of bananas to
New York in 1888, consisted of l55
cargoes by sailing vessels, and parts OF
cargoes of 1l3 steamers.
There are 236 carDet mills in Phila-
telphia, which. when running to the
full capacity, produce $1,000 worth of
carpets per working hour.
Cotton mills in Mexico consumed
5,5I7 900 pounds of raw cotton i'll
1888, of which 20, ,500, 600 pounds were
raised in the United States.
The founder. of cooperation in
Germany, Sehulze-DelitzSch, has left
romance dealing with the
The social problems of the day.
Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is
)nc OF Ine greatest art centres IN
Europe. About three hundred AmeTi-
;an students are in the art school.
The famous theatre La Scala at
Milan, which has been permitted to fall
INTO a dlsgraceful state of structural
iecay, is at last to undergo restoration.
Statistics are quoted to show that
here Is less crime in the United States,
IN proportion TO the population. than In
any other country of the world except
Ireland.
"A young SOutherner who lately
moved into the Indian Territory has
married an Indian girl, daughter Of
chief, who is reported to be worth
over 100000.
Austria has eighty-four trade
schools, comprising schools for textile
for wood and stone
trades, for ceramic and glsss work and
for small industries
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