Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-12-03
NO. 40.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-lhe value Ul minerals exported
from Australia last year was 81 1884,
40.
Prof. Max Muller Of Oxford Uni
yersiIy is an accomplished tricycle. IL
der.
-Mackerel, 1t is reported, swarm ia
the surf at points on the California
coast.
johann Strauss has celebrated his
fOrtieth anniversary as Il director IN
Vienna.
! One single oyster will produce I2S,-
OOO,CN young oysters in the course or
one year.
An Alabama farmer obtained eight
gallons of mOlasses from 100 water
melons.
In Pittsburg 25, 900 pupils are ell
rolled in the public schools, with $50
teachers.
There are over 10000 persons ln
England who now use the bicycle and
tricycle..
President Arthur pays taxes in
New York this year to the amount of
S637I.Sj.
One grain of Dakota wheat in three
years produced two bushels OF grain.
This is authentic
The lightest, plessantest article in
the world is said by Englishmea to Dc
the American buggy.
Dynamite is drug in the Mexican
/ market. 1t has fallen IN price from &
to . cents pound.
! 1t is asserted that about third Of
the banking done in the world Is done
in the British empire.
William Miller IS a Wisconsin tar-
mer who has made II 900, ,0c0 out ot tie
products of the farm.
Hiram Grubler, a miser in Klingers-
town, Pa, has become insane over the
loss by theft, of $500.
"A citizen of Des MONIES, IO!sa. has
donated the city sixty acres OF land 20
be used as public park.
An Ohio Ex-Governor, once a man
of large wealth, is now selling cigars by
sample to retail dealers.
There is a tree in California 45V
feet high and 81 feet in circumference
at the base of the trunk.
Hundreds of German children "a.
chrlstened Elsa now in honor of Wag-
ner's LOhengrin heroine.
1t is estimated that an average OF
| 500 thImbleS are annually swallowed
by the babies of America.
The Senate House at Kingston. y.
\ ., was erected 1876, and is the oldes.
public building in the country.
sweet Snow died in Cleburn county,
Ala. He, his wife and two children
have all died within four weeks.
"A Boston savings bank cashier SAYS
1t is the poorest dressed people who de-
posit the most money as rule
The island of Cuba is threatened
with the cocOanut bugs which the plan
ters fear will devaState the crop.
England makes 900, ,OOO, 600 gallons
of beer every year, Germany 900, ,OOO, 900
and the United States GO, 100000.
Wild geese are passing south =
month earlier than usual and this is said
to be indicative of an early winter.
Five years in the penitentisry Is the
penalty Just inflicted on negro at Lees
burg, Florida, who stole little over
$40.
lieutenant Schwstks is going 10
employ himself, after his arctic work.
in cattle raising in the Aleutian Is
lands.
The oil tanks OF the PennsylYalia
oil region are uniformly 2S feet high.
90 feet in diameter, and cost 5000
each,
People who have buffalo robes
would do well to hold on 20 them
They Will soon he valuable as curiosi-
ties
There is such a glut of apples In
New York that farmers are selling
their crops as low as eight cents per
bushel.
The temperance societies OF New
York will celebrate Father Mathews
birthday anniversary with great enthu-
siasm.
The cotton seed which is shipped
from the Mississippi Valley to EurOps
IN crude state comes back 10 the South
as pure olive oil.
The abolition of the business tax is
being agitated in PIttsburg, and licsn-
ses for the different classes of business
proposed instead.
The first persons Ia the world 10
protest against negro slavery in America
were the English colonlsts at German
town as early as 1868.
-Bdffalo bones, gathered from tie
Westerns plains, to make fertilizers OF
are said TO bring more per cwt. at the
factories than wheat
Americans hand 81 ,0OG, 900 per year
in small change to street mendicants
and vagrants, and no one can see that
bit of good has been done.
The Episcopal denomination has
been growing very raply in Scotland
during the past thirty years, having
gained oyer 0,000 members.
A fine of shilling::each was I'M
posed upon two London newsboys for
offering their papers for sale to people
going to church on Sunday morning.
"A man in Greenyille, S. c., has
been blind FOR years, yet drives alone L.
a buggy, and runs both sawmin andu
gin mill-that is, cotton gin mill.
One thousand Chinese sailed in one
vessel from San Francisco for China a
week or so ago, to celebrate the New
Year. All were provided with certif-
Gates.
After December the Germans will
be taxed for insurance purposes. The
money is to be given to sick and dis
abled wOrkmen and for the burial OF
those who die.
There Is stone called Centre Rock
located in the rotunda in the Capitol al
Raleigh NC. III man stands squarely
upon il bis words become inarticnlato
TO those aronnd him.
The rough and uncut diamonds eK-
ported from the Division OF Kimberly,
in South Africa, during August last,
weighed 1e7, 800 29-32 carats; tts
declared value was e235, ,9l2.