Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-06-04
NEWS IN BRIEF,

in clothes closets and boudotrs.
The ancient Britons wore leather
cuirasses until the Anglo-Saxon era.
Eighteen colored teachers are en-
ployed in the Nashville. Tenn, schools.
AN industrial exposition will be
held at Raleigh, n. g., next Septem-
Der.
For the year 1888 the South spent
s., ,0OO, 900 for new railroad locomo-
tives.
There are 3l5 cotton mills in the
Southern States, against $50 four yeas
ago.
A Chicago widow ordered her fu-
neral outfit before death, paying 5000
for it.
There are twenty-eight direct
heirs TO the succession to the British
throne.
The seml.annual dividends pava-
hla in Boston IN Nay aggregate So
19S, ,0S0.
Mrs. Quincy Shaw. of Boston, Is
said to spend $4,000 a year il
charity.
Jay Gould expects TO build a
winter DIV, ling house at st. Angus
tine, Ella.
Saw mills are said to have besn
first used in Europe in the fifteenth
century.
There are eleven States. it IS as
serted. in which women vote for S;hool
Directors.
About 125, 900 elephants are an
nually slain in Africa to supply the
ivory trade.
Turkey Imports about 81 l,000, 900
worth Of petroleum from this country
annually.
1t il expected that the Panama
Canal will he opened for business as
early as 1892.
| The people of this country con-
sumo 100000 900 worth Of patent
medicine rear.
The French originated the indus
trial exhibition; the first wis held IN
Paris in 179S.
The japanese entangle whales In
nets and then kill them with Earpoons
and lances.
There are hundred students in
the Irish College Of Paris. all " whom
are Iaish by birth.
The houses luilt in London In 1883
would cover a street for distance Of
over seventy-fve miles
The game Of curling was intro
duced into Scotland from Holland In
the sixteenth century.
"A leather cannon was proved at
Edinburgh IN 1715. fired three times
and pronounced COOL
Depression in the English ship
building trades hd. thrown p, 900 men
out Of employment.
The new imperial palace at Stras-
bucg is to he COMPLETED in three years,
at a cost $3.50, 900.
In India he natives have hoared
81, 900, 600, 900 in gold, which cannot
be got into circulation.
About two million sheep are at
present in COloraco. The clip this year
will be ten million pounds.
james Rilly founded the Unlver-
salists in England in 1850 and John
Murray in Boston in ITO.
| Queen Victoria saves annually from
her Parliamentary allowance, five
hundred thousand dollars.
The Spanish army averages ons
officer below the grade Of brigadier-
general 10 every five privates.
-Four million three hunTred and
forty thousand boxes of sardiues were
packed in Lubec, Me-, in 1888.
Homeopathy was first brought to
the worlds notice in 1910. 1t was In
troduced INTO England in 1877.
Chicago, according to one Of her
newspapers, has 100 more saloon keep
ers and bartenders than preachers-
"A Committee of Safety has been
organized at Los Angeles to rid the
place OF burglars and petty thieves.
There are several sCrts of fishes
which are armed with poisonous spines,
and many which have poisonous fesh.
Only 30 of the III divorce applica-
tions now before the Massachusetts,
Supreme Court this term are uncon-
tested.
The old ballad of The Babes II the
Wood was covert account OF tie
murder of his nephews by Richard
Ill.
Louisiana has school accommoda-
tions for but Is, 900 children, though
there are at least 2jO, 900 little ones In
the state.
"A wealthy citizen Of Cleveland,
whose name is not disclosed has given
Sl50,000 for the erection of a new
building for the Cleveland Medical
Society.
The members of the German Com.
mission express the opinion that there
will be no outbreak of the disease in
India this year.
The low price of wheat has led
farmers in South Mic ligan to pay
more attention to grass and Corn In the
production Of stock.
-Intwo years there were left IN New
YORK Elevated carriages 1207 lack
ages, 1904 umbrellas, 1S0 vali5vs, books,
canes. and small articles.
The earthen pitcher out Of which
John Brown drank while in jail at
Charlston, Va, Is still in the posses
sion of family in Albany.
The total number Of cattle, affec-
ed with foot and mouth disease in
Ireland IN 1888 was SO l73; sheep, I9,-
SOB; swine 6S2-a total OF la 36J.
Since the establishment of the New
York Fish Commission in 1865 over
s., ,000, 900 young shad have been hatch
ed out and placed in the various rivers
of that state, at total expenditure Of
but s215, $50.
Near Heppner, Oregon, recently,
Al Weir, herder, l. id down to sleep
and tied the rope of his saddle horse
to his wrist. The horse became fright
ened, ran away, and dragged Weir TO
his death.
AT the recent annual meeting OF
the American Bible Society, the report
showed that 2.1I5.I65 copies of the
Bible were printed or purchased during
the year; Of which nearls 2,0OO, 900
were distributed ; the circulation IN
foreign lands was 510, ,246 copies. The
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