Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-06-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A nine mile wide swarm of locusts
is reported to be devastating Texmalea
Mex.
The supply of spiritual consolation
for the English soldiers costs S2S5, ,0OO
yearly.
Turkey imports about S1,OO0. .O0C
worth of petroleum from this country
annually.
Adirondack Murray is said to be
keeping second-rate restaurant in
Montreal.
Women can be, and many of them
are, nOtaries public in the State of
New York
The Crown Princess of Prussia
has necklace of thirteen pearls which
costs $4,000.
Finds of precious stones, near
Waukesha, are reported by 5. 5. BOyn-
ton, of Milwaukee.
New York has now 107, 800 build
ings, and is increasing the number at
the rate of 26O0 a year.
In Washington county y. Y,
potatoes have been selling at 20 cents
per bushel to the starch mills.
-Distillation and the various kind
ed processes were introduced INTO
England by the MOOrs about 11j0.
The first statute forbidding clergy
men to hold more than one benefce Is
dated in the reign of Henry VIII.
The total number of separate farms
in the United States IS 1000 00G, and
their aggregate value is S19,000.000,-
900.
In Ireland, several of whose cOun-
ties possess superior coal and iron, there
is some talk Of a revival of the iron
trade.
The English and German syndicate
has purchased l ,00U, 600, acres of land
in Florida, and Will divide it up into
small farms.
The famous Flat Rock Spring, at
Saratoga, which disappeared about p
years ago, is said to have again COM
menced to bubble.
Count TOlstoi is credited with hav-
ing begun a reform in Russian prisons
that will make them more like those of
other European States.
The Coliseum was cOnsecrated in
l15O by Benedict XIV, in honor OF
the early Christian martyrs who had
died for the faith within its walls.
Of the 2,30O,OOO,OOO francs voted
by the French government for extra
ordinary war expenses since ISL no less
than 3OO, 900, 900 remain undisbursed.
An o,arora Jov-- ,,-,,.I- e.. q .r
graph operator is the sending of 500
average messages, and to do this re-
quires about 100000 distinct motions.
The French ministry asks fox a
credit of 5000, 900 francs on account
of the TonquIn expedition and of L.
SOC, 900 on account of the Madagascar
affair.
New York stands first in the list
of beer brewing cities in point oil
quantity produced, Philadelphia comes
next, St. Louis third and Milwaukee
fourth.
Daniel Burkett, of Big Creek Gap.
East Tennessee, 10 years old, 80 pounds
in weight, and Is inches high, rises, VI
to take the places vacated by poor little
Tom.
News dealers in Austin, Texas.
have agreed to discontinue the sale of
certain New York publications that
they deemed detrimental to public
morals.
Euclid flOurished about 800 B. C.
The Elements" are not wholly Lis.
for they contain demonstrations taken
from Thales, PythagoraS, Eudoxas and
Others.
Statistics recently issued by the
Dutch Government show that an area
of at least 81, 900 acres has been reeov.
cred from the sea during the last three
centuries.
delaware and Maryland promise
100000 baskets of peaches this sum-
mer. Delaware will also have 500. .OOC
quarts OF Strawberries a day TO spare
during the season.
Philadelphia has the name of charg.
ing the biggest commercial travelerS
tax lsJOOl known to the country; but
1t Is not very important source OF
revenue for all that.
-1SS3 California produced 2 G6O. .OOC
pounds of dried fruits, besides I25. .OUt
boxes of raisins, % pounds to the box
IOOO,UUO pounds of almonds, and 500.
OU0 pounds of walnuts.
The cost of railroad ties used
every seven years in the United States.
according to statement made before
the Forestry Congress, is not far from
fifteen million dollars.
The municipality of Rome has re.
fused to give to the Minister of Public
Instruction the Convent of the Car
thusians. The Government wanted the
convent for sculpture museum.
The changes of level of the Caspian
puzzle, geographers. 1t has risen and
fallen at irregular intervals since 1870,
but was 10 feet lower in 1890 than in
1870. In 1882 it was 105 inches higher
than in 1880.
The first regiment of Dragons was
raised In England in 1851. The name
Is supposed to be derived from ''dra-
gOn," because mounted the soldier
with lighted match seemeth like a
fiery dragon"
Cinnamon, 4 species Of laurel, is
mentioned among the perfumes of the
sanctuary (EXOd. xxx. 23), 1491 B. G.,
1t was found in the American forests
by Don Ulloa, 1736; was cultivated in
jamaica ana Dominica, 17SS; and is
now grown in Ceylon.
The statement of the United States
Treasurer shows gold, silver and Unit
ed States notes in the Treasury on lst
June as follows: Gold coin and bullion,
SOP, ,9S4, ,460, silver dollars and bullion,
S11l ,97O,5TI; fractional silver com,
81 ,96l ,31S; United States notes, S53,-
156,5l5. Total, S4O2, ,052, $50. Certi-
hcates outstanding, gold, S59,013,0I0;
silver, S73,609, ,021, currency, s12.395
000.