Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-08-20
NO. "a.
NEWS IN 3RIEF.

Texas has gained $1,000. 600 in
taxable value assessment of 1888.
The hay crop in some parts OF
Western Massachusetts is failure.
-Ninety-four Indian children attend
Catholic school near Fort TOtten.
Vermont school teachers are pro-
hibited by law from the use Of tobacco.
The births in Spain during 1885,
numbered 453, 900, and the deaths 49,
0O0.
The first torpedo boat ever known
was launched IN New York harbOr in
1776.
1t is estimated that 10000, 900
bushels Of wheat will be harvested in
1884.
Since the war over 600 cOlored
Bspti-t churches have been established
in Texas-
The fve-cent piece is the smallest
coin Tin value) in circulation in New
Orleans.
Nearly 5000 wom,n are employed
in the various government offices in
England.
"A London World writer declares
that no epidemic ever got hold of a
Swiss town.
Over fifty thousand pOst-Ofiices are
required to handle the mail matter Of
this country.
philadelphia has 40 Presbyterian,
SO Baptist and 1l2 Methodist Episcopal
churches.
-Lincoln's tomb, at Springfield, ILL.,,
is reported 70 be in danger OF falling
to pieces.
The annual loss by fire in the
United States is estimated at about
S1O0, 100000.
The New York elevated railroads
carried nearly 100,O00,0O0 passengers
during 1884
I'm fifty-six years Mexico has had
fifty-four Presidents, one Regency and
one Emperor.
The French originated the indus
trial exhibition; the first was held in
Paris in 119S.
During 1888 450 lives were saved
on the British coasts by means of the
rocket apparatus.
Iowa has new law under which
the keeper of a disreputable house can
be sent to prison for five years.
mississippi is credited in scne
quarters with having the third best
State library in this country.
"A sturgeon caught recently at Pitt
River, British Columbia, was IL feet
long and 732 pounds in weight.
There are not less than 1850
persons locked up in the various jails
and prisons of New York at present.
Arizona taxes drummers $500 a
year, and Montana SI00 a year for
each county, with 80 extra for Butler
City.
The Hungarian Band, which has
been very popular in London, has been
engaged for a series OF concerts in this
country.
The black Sea is again infested by
pirates, who lately plundered two small
merchantmen and robbed them of their
cargOes.
"A blue heron measuring five and
half feet from tip to tip Of its wings,
was shot the other day on mill-dam at
Armville, Pa.
-Sixty-nine of the citizens of
Rochester, n. Y, who fifty years ago
voted at her first charter election, are
still living there.
The only definite feature about the
news concerning the next italian opera
season is that it is decidedly unreliable
and confusing.
The present strength, numerically,
Of FreemasOnary throughout the world
is placed at 13S.065 lodges, with A.
100, ,5i3 members.
At present there are, it is stated,
thirty-fOur rich mineral and agricul-
tural counties in Tennessee without a
foot of railroad.
"A Liverpool bicyclist who was rid
ing down steep hill near that city was
fired through a cottage window by the
breaking of his machine.
Aberdeen, Mass, derives its water
| supply from artesian wells, which are
} several squares apart and bored in the
middle of the main street.
( -Thirty-eight million barrels Of
! petroleum are stored in tanks in Penn
sylyanla, enough to make a lake mi 10
square and ten feet deep.
Out of Japan's total population OF
80, 600, 900 there are only 10,O50 paup-
ers, and of these more than 1,C00 are
at Toxic in the work house.
Honey raising is a prosperous
French industry; 1871 ,S65 hives are in
operation, and the value of the honey
and wax surplus is 5, 100000.
The district around Galena,
Kansas, is credited with being the larg-
est zinc producing locality in the world.
Last year 10000 tons were mined.
-Type-wrlting has been introduced
In the Chicago public schools IN an eX-
perimental way. A class Of twenty
five practices two hours week on the
machine.
-Thevalue of the annual butter-pro-
duct of the United States is $3.50, ,400,-
600, and Of the echeese-product S35, ,200,-
600, with eggs and poultry about the
same.
Queen Victoria has issued a COM
mand that when the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales dine out in London. the
number of guests to meet them is not
to exceed fourteen.
Since 1S77-7S the expectation OF
wheat from India has grown from 3l7,-
600 tons to nearly 1,O00, 600. There
| still remains vast tracts of suitable
land to be placed under cultivation
Taylor, the noted sculler Of Pitts
burg, has grandson, or fOur-and-a-
half years old, whose talent for
acquatics' is so precious, that he is
about to give an exhibition in England
The trial Of the electric light,
which was made in a proportion of the
House of Commons, has given such
great satisfaction that it is the inten-
ton of the authorities to extend it all
over the building.
Berlin has ''Municipal Building
Commission" and it has made re-
QUESTION on the Berlin City Council
for an appropriation of 100000
marks, ''out Of the surplus of 1885,
S4."
of ninety.si railroads in the State
of New York, only fifty paid dividends