Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-05-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| AcIOScuc OIL IS SOllQlQeQ IN RuSSi
and made into candles.
1t is claimed that the population o
the Black Hills is 40. 1000.
-Ireland's population Is $1,000
$685. 600 less than in 1871.
-Richly-carved dining chairs ar
upholstered in alligator skin.
Thus far Uncle Sam has receives
500, ,OOO, 900 for public lands.
Natural gas il to be used fer fue
at the Pittsburg water works.
Fire destroys an average Of ninety
churches year in this country.
The costs of ths Behaves cas-
amount to little Ovec e25, 900.
There are now 160 miles of shelye:
of books in the British Museum.
Within five wears Denver has grown
from % 900 to 75, ,0O0 inhabitants.
| The oldest peer in Great Britain
Is the Earl of Buckinghamshire.
"A ten-foot alligator was captured
recently near Waxahatchie, Texas.
The Latin languages ceased to bs
used in the English courts in 1871.
Six sawmills in Minnesota hope to
cut 100, 600, 900 feet of timber this year.
! Six thousand slaves were liberated
IN single province in Brazil last year.
"A catering company in New York
Is a success; its customers are families.
There are stored in the vaults in
Wall street not far from 81 900, ,000, 900.
w., MNIfI-a Il. II
who can be silent In seven languages. {"
I'm nineteen private galleries OF
New York, are pictures worth Sc, ,000,.
600.
The marble quarries around Eli.
jay, Ga, are among the finest in tn
world.
Tennessee has 80 cotton mills in op-
Grafton, with ], ,161 looms and 1887
spindles.
Hundreds Of young women work
fOr 45 cents day making shirts in New
York city.
The American turquoise is usually
blue when found, but turns green from
exposure
-Rumors are again ahOat to tho
effect that the Pope will seek an asylum
in France.
Cuba. it is reported, produces ct
present one-third of the cane sugar used
in the world.
Brutality to mothers, says a lead
ing Massachusetts, Judge, is more COM
non than wife-beating.
Henry Guy Carleton has resigned
the editorship of Life, but Is still a
contributor 10 the paper.
About 2,COO pictures have been ad.
mItted TO the Paris Salon. More than
3 600 have been refused.
-Terrapin is said to have increased
about 500 per cent. in price during the
past twenty or thirty years.
1t is said that Prince Victor Of
Wales will be raised to the peerage with
the title OF Duke OF Dublin.
The calico and print goods made in
Lowell in 1888 would twice encircle the
earth and some would still be left.
Among the wives of Utah there
may be found, it Is said, women from
nearly every nation except France.
Men from 81 to 65 years of age
may frequently be seen playing mar
bles in the street of Angels Camp,
Cal.
In twenty years the sales of single
packages of patent medicines in Great
Britain have increased from 6,661 ,6i7
to Is, 451 900.
f,arIOc kruaro tba C,,bo,, -a,,oi,,
tionary leader, is a man below the
medium height, aud weighs only about
lis pounds.
Nearly 10000, GOO pounds of maple
sugar were produced in this country
last year. Pennsylvania supplied the
largest amount.
During 1888 the importation of
coffee reached 525, 1853. 479 pounds, or
about 1O9 pounds for each nhabitant
of the United States.
The DShebel Naibs, an isolated
mountain in Algeria, 800 feet high, is
slowly sinking into the earth. Already
there Is a deep hollow around its foot.
The announcement Is made by for
eign papers that cigarettes are rapidly
going out of favor-fourteen million
less having been consumed last year
than during 1882.
"A famous Irish piper, Patrick Bo-
han. who played before the Queen and
the Prince Consort in 1851, aud after
wards before the Prince of Wales, died
recently In Dublin.
Mime. De Cuzien, long known as
the most eccentric inhabitant OF Lyons,
France, died recently, and left her for
tune OF 15,OOO, 900 francs to benefit, in
various ways, the women of that city.
Gable Dickinson, an eccentric of
fairfield, Mass, who died recently,
left will giving $780, 900 to founding
a hospital for the INDECENT sick OF Hart
field, Whately and Northampton.
-StuyveSant's pear tree, at the cor
ner of Third avenue and Thirteenth
street, New York is the oldest living
thing in the city. 1t was planted by
Governor Stuyyesant in l647.
The capital acquired by Henry r.
wing during his two American tours
will, it is said, be largely devoted 10
In London new Iheater of his
OWN, on models and plans designed by
himself.
"A bean-eating tournament at Tona-
n. Y, under the auspices of
he Grand Army of the Republic, was
won by J. Baker, Of Tonawand;i, who
levoured six pounds of beans in forty
In the town of York, Name, is to
be seen birch tree, about 40 feet high,
.wo roots of which have lifted block
If granite computed to weigh 20 tons,
about II inches. The tree is still
growing, and the rock continues to be
raised and pushed sideways at the rate
Of nearly an inch year.
"A bill has been passed by the Bel
yian Chamber of Representatives, by
vote of 81 to q, forbldding soldiers to
vote at elections, and allowing clergymsn
70 vote only at the places in which they
lived before they entered the priest
hood.
-Electrlcity as an Illuminating power
s extensively used In the cotton mills
Of Fall River, Mass, and so well is it
liked by the operatives that recently In