Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-11-12
NO. 46.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The most fashionable ladies now
wear scarcely any jewelry.
The famous Dark Day of New
England was May 10, 17S0.
The "a saving banks Of Maine now
have s32, ,275, 74j on deposit.
"A North Carolina Postmaster To-
ceives yearly salary of cents.
! Oregon is said to send 10, 900, 900
feet of lumber to China every year.
The rents of French fats are on
the dIminuendo scale in New York.
The Association of German Engi-
neers numbers about 800 members.
Insanity, Southern authorities re-
port, is increasing among the negroes.
There are 13S, ,06j masonic lodges
in the world, with IA, 100, 543 members.
| New York marketmen say the crop
of potatoes will be very short this year.
The manufacture of pins is SAID to
now reach the number of 5000, 900 dai-
ly.
"A girl OF five years six months has
travelled alone from England to MIchi-
gan.
1t is said that over three million
trees were planted IN Great Britain in
1888.
oil is now extensively obtained
from the seeds of grapes il Italy, it is
stated.
Portions of the petrited forests of
Arizona are now being worked up into
jewelry.
Ten million years is the age fig
uTed out for this planet by the Duke Of
Argyle.
The wholesale cost of the oysters
consumed in New \ ork yearly IS S.
900 900.
India is threatened with a small
wheat crop in consequence Of severe
drought.
The Manufacture of matches re-
quires annually over 5. OO0 dollars worth
of wood.
The confectionery trade of the
United States amounts to So, 900, 900
yearly.
1t is proposed to punish German
soldiers who attempt suicide with in
slant death.
Virginia Will contribute 1,100, 900
bushels of peanuts to human happi-
ness this year.
A perfect opal with movable drop
in the center was found in California a
few days ago.
AT a free ce-water tank in New
York over 1870 pounds of Ice were
used in one day.
The Assessors of Philadelphia re-
port that there are 2l1 ,2ll qualified yo-
tiers in the city.
1t is estimated thai the wheat crop
of California this year will amount to
81, 1908, 900 bushels.
There are now about 1906 miles
of railroad in the United States. The
cost was 500, 900.
"A new counterfeit ten dollar note
with = Webster head, issue of 1876, has
appeared in Boston
| One Of the most saline hot springs
in the world has been discovered at
Idaho Springs, Col.
The chief figures of the Garfield
monument at San Francisco are made
at foundry at Nurnberg.
In st. Louis, says one of its news
papers fOur-hfths of the inhabitants
have taken to chewing gum.
Two hundred head of cattle and
horses were killed byaterriic haIlstOrm
at JaliseO, Mexico, recently.
Indiana has no less than 2O6 coal
mines, which produce annually two and
one half million tons of coal.
The price of gas in London Is only
siXty-six cents per 1000 feet and there is
prospect of a further reduction.
-Twenty-One thousand widows of
soldiers of the war 1872 are stated to
be still drawing pensions from the Gov
ernment.
Dakota, it is said, is the only Ter
ritOry that yields revenue to the Post
Office Department. But ten States do
likewise.
Louisiana has the veritable lotos of
the Nile. \ pond near OpelOusaS is
covered by the umbrella shaped leayes
of the plant.
Steel casks and barrels are now be-
ing manufactured by an English firm.
| They are said to be lighter and more
durable than wood.
For the last ten years a woman in
one of the mountain towns of Kentucky
has held the office of Justice Of Peace
without legal authority.
Scarlet fever has been alarmingly
prevalent in Boston during the recent
months, but the mortality reports show
it to be of a mild type.
IN some provinces of Brazil iron
ore is used in large quantities as build
ing stones, so abundant and ready to
hand is it to be found.
Smuggling at the port of New
y Ork during the year ending June 80
has increased siXty-five per cent. over
any of the three previous years.
The etiquette of funerals in Mexi-
co, it is said, does not permit the female
relations of the deceased to attend. Only
men attend the departed to the church
and the tomb.
In a single game of lacrosse, at
Toronto, one man was knocked sense
less, a second had thumb broken, a
third injured his collar bone, and
fourth his arm.
r I'VE large springs OF water IN The
County of AimeneS, Mexico, have sud
denly burst forth on the open plains,
where there has been continued drought
for ten years
The Cars wife, sister of the
Princess of Wales, is extremely fond
of jewelry, and possesses the most an
cient patterns and artistic sets that
money can secure at Rome.
In his superb garden at VarZIn,
Prince Bismarck makes speciality Of
roses of all varieties, and whenever at
home takes great pleasure in attending
to them with his own hands.
Natural gas was found few days
ago five miles from Birmingham, Ala,
issuing from fiSsure5 in the rock form
ing the bed of Village creek. \ large
vein of gas is believed to exist in the