Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-30
NO. Is.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ira S. Todd died in TOlland, Conn,
of CHAMBERS, caught from horse.
-Itha a. the largest village in the
world, has become charter ed city.
Chicago dailies are driving out st.
Louis papers in Southern Illinois.
Kansas City packe 5000 more
hogs than Cincinnati the past winter.
Greek Wines are now introduced
into France for admixture with the
native wines.
The Prince Of Wales last year re-
ceived from the Duchy Of Cornwall the
net income of s325, ZOO.
London has 100000 houses and
nearly 100000 inhabitants-abous
seven people to each house
In France gardening is practically
taught, it Is said, in more than twenty
thousand primary schools.
Sam Kee, a Chinaman, declares
that Mrs. kee must go. He has h.ed
a bill in divorce in Kentucky court.
Fruit, hop and other crop reports
from the Pacific coast section are very
encouraging.
There are twenty-four POrtlands
in this country to bother the post
masters
Platinum wire has been drawn so
fine as to be absolutely invisible to the
naked eye.
The Pension Office expends more
than $4,000 a year investigating
alleged pension frauds.
The revised version of the Old
Testament will be issued complete, 1t
is said, in September.
The agricultural wealth of Illinois
for 1888 was SG7, ,404, 600 less than the
previous year.
Sergeant Mason has stopped exhib-
iting himself, and is now living at his
Virginia home.
The University of Lewisburg. Pa,
has received a gift of 100000 FROM
William Bucknell. of PHILADELPHIA
"A firm at Tullahoma, Tenn, is
said to ship 1000 dozen of eggs per
week to The Northern markets
An Idaho man has Just been mar
ried again to the woman from whom
he was divorced twenty years ago.
The Government has sold mors
than two hundred million dollars
worth of public Lands in eight years.
Of the present City Government of
! Belfast, Me-, consisting Of sixteen
members, only three are natives of that
city.
With great ceremony last stone
was laid in the harbor of Trieste re-
Gently. The work has taken fifteen
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English pennies, silver plated.
have been made TO answer for Ameri
Can half dollars among careless Bos-
tOnians on recent nights
1t costs Turkey over fifteen NIL
lion dollars wear 10 support the Sui
tan and his harem.
The spectacle of large party Of
school teachers out rowing, ledacynical
chap on shore To observe that IL was
"a whaling fleet"
"A newspaper at Cherokee, Iowa,
is owned, managed and edited by
( man W o is totally blind. He is assis-
ted by his wife.
Mayor Low has been demonstrating
with BroOklyn's street cleaning con-
/ tractor about the dirty condition Of
the highways of tsat city.
Artificial ice made from distilled
water is the final luxury for New York
cocktail drinkers. 1t Is of course very
pure, aud as clear as crystal.
The German Government, for tho
encouragement of electric lighting,
/ has ordered the admission of Edison
and Swan lamps on payment of nomi-
nal duties.
! Almond growing in Northern
California has been declared failure
the fruit blOssoming too early and not
bearing full crop.
"A Montana paper relates that in
Butte the other day a man fell to the
bottom of shaft l2O feet deep without
receiving serious injuries.
Rhode Island savings banks have
So, 460, ,205 intrusted TO their care by
10, ,5S2 depOSltOrs.
California is at present producing
not far from SIS, ,O0O. 600 OF gold and
silver bullion annually.
Ohio has coal in thirty of thirty
eight counties, and put out 8, 220, ,229
tons IN 1SS3-a gain of 1,OOU,0O0
tons.
Statistics show that there are at
present about 1,O00.000 people in
Great Britain who receive charitable
relief.
When the territory of the United
States is as densely settled as that OF
France there will be $50, 900, 600 people
here.
The New York Young Mems
Christian Association has a member
ship of J, ,356, of whom ], $50 were ad-
ded last year.
The Niagara Suspension Bridge Is
2,260 feet long, that of Klef. Russia,
is 2,552 feet, and that between New
\ York and Brooklyn $3.50 feet.
ALREADY the new Iowa prohibitory
law is marked for the supreme court.
IL is claimed that two members who
voted for 1t were ineligible to their
seats, or something of the sort.
Canyon CITY, Colo, has the largest
arteslan well in the world. At the
depth of 1,220 feet a stream was tapped
which flows 400 gallons minute.
A dramatic performance in which
all the actors were deaf ana dumb was
recently given N London, and IS rep
resented TO have been sustained with
Intelligence ana spirit"
The value of the telephone patent
is enormous, and We very much doubt
if it could now be purchased for S25,-
000,00 1t is probably by far the most
valuable single patent which has ever
been issued.
A town in Ohio has adopted the
plan of posting a list of habitual
drunkards' names IN every saloon, so
as to give efficiency to the law prohiti-
ting the sale of intQxicants to such
persons. 1t is said to work well.
of his native country Ireland,
whence he has recently retained,
Senator Jones, of Florida, says: While
enjoyed my visit to the old country
could not live there again. That
is the country of the past this is the
country of the future"
The Nevada county of Clam has at
, last built a gallows. They had got
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