Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-08-06
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Oeing built at san Diego.
All newspaper men in Louisiana
have TO pay license Of -
Nearly 5000 women are employed
N the government offices of England.
London has pauper population Of
g, ,223 outside of asylums and aims
houses.
in 1920 eggs were but seven cents a
1Ozen.
London has 26, GOO acres of forest
parks; New York, 1854; Philadelphia,
p, 7,00O.
In Sweden a man who has been
trunk three times loses the right Of
suffrage.
james Russell Lowell received the
degree OF L. l.. ID. from Harvard re-
Gently.
Frau Materna says she IS delighted
with America and hopes to return and
sing in opera.
Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, has
received the degree of L. l.. ID. from
Williams College.
"A gas well has been struck on the
Insane Asylum grounds, at Stockton,
California.
Winter wheat has been selling
recently at prices lower it stated, than
in thirty years.
The Princess Louise is to execute
the statue of Queen Victoria for the
Litchfield Cathedral.
| -Four bushels of Irish potatoes
planted at NewmansyIlle, Fla, return
cd ninety bushels.
Since 1868 over S5,0O0,000 young
shad have been Matched by the New
York Fish Commission.
Fires involve a yearly loss in the
United States of 100000, 600, or per
cent of the products.
There are Jhirty-five MOnuOns and
/ fOrty-fOur GentileS confined at the
U tah penitentiary.
Russian advices from the lamar
:and district say that clouds of lOeusts
are nfeSting that region
Durham, Conn.,, is intensely ex-
cited over the supposed discovery of
rich vein of coal there.
A curled mustache is the latest
fashion. New York BARRIERS produce
beautiful curl for % cents.
Colorado is compelled to by 81 .000,-
000 wcrth of grain from outside sources
every year to feed its cattle.
More than sixty per cent, of the
adult male population OF New Mexico
can neither read nor write.
The potato crop of the United
States in 1888 was 10000, go bushels
as against 16S, 900, 900 in 1882.
London supports an eight-page
penny monthly, the sole contents OF
which consist of selected poems.
1t took 1000 lbs. of meat and 250
lbs. of salmon to ''go rOundn at the re-
cent alumni dinner of Yale.
There are 81, 900 growing trees in
Washington, placed at regular intervals
along lbs miles of fine streets.
Complaints about the wearers of
colOred stockings being troubled by the
dye stuff5 in the latter are being reviv-
ed.
The $1,000 bill presented by a New
York dentist has drawn the fire of the
paragraphists from the overworked
plumber.
"A company of $50 French priests
have Just set out for Jerusalem, prepar-
atoTy to a somewhat extensive tour of
the Holy Land.
"A live oak tree at Indian River
NarrOws, Fla, measures twenty-three
feet and ten inches in circumference
six feet from the ground.
oil prices at Pittsburg are said to
have touched a lower mark within the
past week or two than since 1S61-62,
except In June, 1882.
Since the year 1850 sixteen baron
etcies and thirty-fOur knlghthoOds have
been conferred upon the physicians
and surgeons of Great Britain and Ire
land.
Some time ago a champagne house
at Epernay offered prizes for the best
five poems on champagne. No fewer
than eleven hundred poems were sent
in.
The greatest distance ever ridden
on a bicycle without dismounting Is
stated to be 80 miles 469 yards. The
feat was accomplished in London in
1880.
The United States FishCOmmission
has made the experiment of transplant
ing full grown Holsters, taken at the
eastern end OF Long Island, to Chesa-
peake Bay.
A gold fish, purchased twenty-five
years ago by lady of Frederick, Nd.
died recently. 1t is said that the old
fish had not grown particle during the
whole period of its captivity.
The excitement over the recent dis
coyery of a $40, 900 diamond at Eagle,
Waukesha county, Wis, has been
revived by the discovery of three more
gems making seven found thus far
I'm consequence of the Socialist law
the singular case has happened that
the Royal state PrOcurator in Berlin
has brought complaint against the
Royal Prefect of Police before the
Minister of the Interior.
"A hundred-ton cannon that was
being fired for the first time recently at
Gibraltar, split OF burst at the muzzle, in
consequence Of the shot not having
been rammed home. Nobody was
hurt.
The manufacture of cotton seed oil
is one of the great Industries in the
South. With the exception of Florida,
there are factories in every Southern
State, Texas having twenty. The oil
is used for the table and also for Illumi-
mating and other purposes.
The lawrequiring the closing of bus
mess places on Sunday is strictly enforc-
led in Toronto, milk and apothecary
stores being the only places allowed to
remain open, and those only for few
hours in the morning and evening.
Statistics of Mexican trade show
that the exports from Mexico to the
United States increased from S4.346,-
900 in 1874 10 S8, III ,00G in 1888, while
the imports of American goods and
products rose fromS5, ,046, 600 in 1874 to
S16, 5S7, 600 last year.
The occupations of the members of
the house Of Representatives at WASH
ington are: lawyers, 1875; professional
politicians, 10; merchants, II; edjH~.S
u; farmers, IL: manufacturers ios
doctors, 5; railroad officials, 3s eivl
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