Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-04-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The population of Belgium is about
$3.50. 600 souls.
The State of Texas now has 112 Of
ganiZed counties,
The Governor of Massowah, Egypt,
is a Maryland nan.
For every novel printed in England
ten are rejected.
-Grave-yard insurance has reap
peared in Fall River, Mass
-Georgia's penitentary now contains
1,322 prisoners.
Savannah has the Oldest opera
house in the United states.
-Canada's net debt is SIS, 45G, ia
about $50 per capita.
New York City has one church to
every 5000 inhabitants.
"A tramp cut off an Ohio girls long
hair and fled with it.
Boston is importing wool direct
from Australia.
An Australian, exhibited as Gu
riosity, died in Cleveland.
On sea and lake there are 755
United States light houses.
There are 100000 depositors In
New York savings banks.
"A young woman of MOundsville,
w. Va. eloped with tramp.
Russia produces annually about
s., 600. 600 worth of honey.
The Oldest log cabin in tbs country
is near Montgomery, Ala.
"A bill to fog wife beaters passed
the Massachusetts, House.
The imperial family of Japan has
genealOgy Of l24 emDerOrs.
J -Meerschaum has been discovered
in Paris of North Carolina.
"A whale sixty feet long has bean
killed off Beaufort, 5. c.
The loss CT property by the Ohio
Hoods is over $4,000, 900.
"A ten-foot alligator was captured
near Waxahatchie, Texas.
There are nearly 10000 directors
Of companies in Great Britain
There are 160 pupils In the Indian
government school in Nebraska.
-Chicago's new public buildings sra
to be twelve stories in height.
Eighteen thousand hOmestead3
were entered in Florida last year.
George Grain, founder of the Oneida
Community, is dead, aged IS.
-Furstenfeld, in Germ my boasts of =.
the oldest tree in the country.
| An Edinburg fish dealer has paid
s76, 900 for Scottish salmon rentals.
Montreal claims to have made
about 81 900 900 by her ice carnival.
During 1888 43l0, 900 boxes of sar-
dimes were packed az Lubec, Milne.
The street cleaning brigade of Paris
numbers thirteen THOUSAND mel, wOm-
Ell and children.
In the room OF a single umbrella
liend, in London, over nine hundred
stolen umbrellas were discovered.
Sims Reeves, the tenor, has ar
ranged to come to this country on
farewell tour.
The Spanish Army averages one Of
icer below the grade of brigLlier gen.
eral to every five prlvates.
-Buckhorn, Texas, claims to have
a ten-year-old girl that weighs 155
pounds, and gains pound every four
days.
"A bill has been introduced into the
House OF Commons to humdnIZe the
children, computed at GOOD, who
live on barges and in travelling vans.
"A block of ice found on the bank
of the TuScarawas river after the break
up contained five unusually large water
snakes frozen fast.
The fishermen of the Firth Of
Forth, on the east coast of Scotland,
believe that it is unlucky to make their
first sale for the day to d brosd-thuabed
person.
| -Nine-tenths of the inmates OF hos
pitalS for the Insane who recover ara
said TO be those who are sent within
year after the first manifestations OF
their in trinity.
The storm cloud that preceded the
recent fearful cyclone in South Caro-
lima is described as having been "a
dense rOund cloud, perfect Ted and
ablaZe with electricity.
The hillsides north and west Of
MarShfeld. Oregon. were recently
strewn with dead robins that persisted
in the cold and snOW-stOrmy weather a
few weeks ago.
Boston wants an elevated railroad.
The Legislature mas given its permis-
sion for the erection of the structure,
but the City Council IS retIcent.
Some of the older business men Of
Cincinnati express alarm that ths yield
Of lard in that city has fallen of :, 296,-
900 pounds since last season.
"A Rochester inventor has obtained
a patent on a bowl-shaped toOI as a
substitute for an inclined plane In
places of amusement.
An oyster-opening match in New
York, day or two ago, was won by a
nan who opened 100 oysters in i've
minutes and fifteen seconds.
In the Hotel Dieu, the largest hos
lpital in Paris, the Edison system Of
lighting is to be introduced experiment
tally in the halls occupied by patients.
ALI scene-shifting on the stage Of
1.-THE German Theatre in Berlin is now
done with the curtain raised, the thea
tire and stage being simply darkened
temporarily.
Israel Phillips, of Greenfield,
Mass, is said to be the Oldest CONNER
lGldi lldNCICl ia aJkAfO SCANiNC III NiAA9
Ior any other country. HIS age Is
lightweight years, and he has pursued
his vocation ever since it first became
a feature of domestic trade.
The habit of smoking and eating
opium has rapidly increased in the
United States within the last few years.
According TO statement recently
made the importation OF opium has in-
creased in two years from 5000 TO
about 300, 900 pounds.
I'm France two thousand of the
: elementary teachers are said to receive
yearly salaries of from 800 To 100
francs each, or about sl20 to $40.
There are nearly eight thousand others
who are remunerdted on different
scales, but whJ in no case receive mole
than 1000 francs a year.
One hundred and fifty incandescent
lamps have been introduced into a
! portion OF the Bank of England, in
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