Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-07-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.


London has IS theatres, including
the suburban houses, an increase Of
p in about twenty years.
"A leather cannon was proved az
Edinburgh in 111S, fired three times
and pronounced good.
"A Chinese doctor is reported to
have been thinning out the vicinity OF
DeadwoOd. Dakota, lately,
There are several sorts of fishes
which are armed with poisonous
spines, and many which have pOisOnou'.
flesh.
Vanilla. Unfortunately used. "A French
savan is said to have discovered, leads
to disease which is called ''Yanil-
lism."
Twenty years ago the number ot
Protestants of all denominations Ia
Paris was l., 600; the total is at pres
ent "A, 200.
There are 209 varieties Of cherries,
60 of apricots, 239 Of peaches, 1857 Of
pears and 291 of plums, a pOmOlogica
writer says.
Twenty years ago there were bue
twelve women doctors in the United
States, and now there are more than
eight hundred.
Baltimore, it is said, possesses q
master of a vessel who has acted in thar
capacity for sixty years without losing
a boat or man.
The whole import of frozen meas
for last year was about 20O, 900 carcasseF
lnuol n l. y
tiOn for London.
While the debt of our republic has
been reduced to 81, ,543. 900. 600 that of
France is almost 1900, ,000,000 ana
still rolling upward.
New Mexico embraces 1864
acres of land, on which about 5000. 0CU
head of cattle, over 100000 of which
are sheep, are kept.
South Georgia and Florida.lt is ec-
pected, will throw upon the market
this season about three thousand car
loads Of water-melOns.
There are more colored people iD
Georgia than there are Indians in the
whole country. GeOTgia's negro popU-
latiOn is about 72j, 900.
"A poor yield of castor beans in 1892
has discouraged their planting IN Kan
sas this year, and the area fell off nearly
10 per cent, or SO. .223 acres.
The piano-fOrte used by Beethoven
during the latter part of his life is OF
sale at Zurich. Its genuIDess is vOuche1
for by documentary proofs.
The loss of life by the Ischia earth
quake is now estimated as high as s..
600. The precise number Of lives lost
will perhaps never be known.
An RrOnautic detachment Of en-.
gineers has been formed IN Berlin, and
is hard at work learning the art and
practice of military ballooning.
Between two and three thousand
tons of salt are used annually on ths
Pacific coast, in the reduction Of silver
ores and other metallurgicaI operations.
--Seventy-nine geographical societies.
distributed throughout the world, were
in existence as the beginning of this
year, with total membership of 3S,-
600.
The "Bo'' tree, in Amarapoora,
Burmah, is said to be the oldest tree on
earth. The date of its planting, 2SS B.
C., rests, it is claimed, upon historic
documents.
Frank Johnson, of Osceola. H., HID
in a cave a year ago on the approach os
a cyclone and cannot be made to leave
his retreat. His wife carries provisions
to him.
Suicides are increasing in France.
Last years statistics show that the
of women who died by their
own hands was one third more than tie
for 1882.
London has seventy-six guilds. en-.
dowed by wealthy benefactors for tha
benefit of the different trades, and their
trust property alone yield an income OF
600, 600 annually.
In the five years from 1917 to 1881
the average annual loss of British sea-
men was 1,692. In 1882 it had risen to
3, ,113, and had reached $500 at ths
date of the latest returns.
The Lord Mayor Of Dublin. Charles
Dawson, MP, is a baker, and of his
wagons that are to be seen
daily on the streets, one serves the
Mansion House regularly.
From the complete returns OF the
last French census it appears that the
female sex exceeds the male by 122. .25I
thus, males, 1866, SIS, females, IS.
as, ,112. Of the males IL. 11O,G0I ara
The German railways have tOta,
length of 30, ,002 kilOmeters-equal to
about is, $50 English miles-and an
aggregate capital of about three hun
dred millions sterling. Three-fOurlhs
Of them are State lines.
1t is stated that on one of the arms
Of mummied countess buried in the
lead chamber in the Cathedral at
Bremen, and who died 80 years ago.
IS well-preserved glove of the styls
known as the Sarah Bernhardt.
AT Bingera, New South Wales, the
discovery of a new diamond field has
been reported, which promises to riva!
he Kimberley diamond deposits OF
South Africa y considerable number
'f fine diamonds have been discovered
N the last few months.
Six thousand mummies are believed
70 lie in some one hundred catacOmbs
N an immense metropolis, whose dis
;Overy by Prof. MasperO, at Ekmeen,
between AssiOCt aud Thebes Is reported.
Much papyri, jewel and funeral treas
Tres are expected.
The Mayor of Oakland. Cal. has or
lered the revival Of the Old custom of
inging the curfeW bell every evening
It O'Clock, with responses from thu
'ells on the engine houses, and the po-
Ice are to arrest all boys under 10 in
he street after that hour.
The National Library Of Paris. Oy
recently completed inventory, con
aims 100000 volumes. The cabinet
If manuscripts contains %, 600 volumes.
,ither bound in boards or in portfolios.
Is well as IA 900 medals of all periodS
both French and foreign.
Out Of a total area Of nearly q. 600
700 acres, the woods and cOpse5 OF
ireland are now less than 800, GOO acres. ~
In Great Britain. out of nearly 57,O0U.
100 acres, 2, 500. coo are now thus re-
,urned. The forests of Europe are es-