Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-09-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

! llmateu at 4OU,UUO,OUO.
An inch of rain Is counted loo tons
weight Of water to the acre.
New York contains fl square miles
of territory and Chicago 30.
The title of ''eOunt" can now be
purchased in Spain for 3. 30.
1t is affirmed that China will declare
war if Russia InvddeS COrea.
The Romans never adopted long
hair, considering it eifeminate-
The annual gold bullion product OF
Georgia is estimated at $4,000
An asparagus diet is now recon-
mended for certain kidney diseases.
The Masons Of Cleveland are erect
ing temple at cost of 100000
Norwegian beds are short and mar
row and double beds are unknown.
There are 10000 families in Lon
don. each of which lives in one room.
The olive crop of Italy Is estimated
TO be worth about POO, 600, 900 francs.
The trade Of Thibet in musk
amounts TO half million dollars year
ly.
1t is said that such thing as
good-lOoking Arab woman does not ex-
! ist.
The free lunches served at New
York saloons cost about Sll, ,OOO, 900 i
year.
Birch and lockwood spoons to the
number of l26. 200 600 are made in Rus
Sla annually.
-MitterwOnzer is the name of Ger
man actor who is coming 20 this country
before long.
The United States raises half the
total number of hogs annually produced
ia the world.
The South Church in Peabody,
Mass. has not been closed for yaca-
tiOn since l7l3.
"A Durham, y. G., tobacco factory
sends 5000 cigarettes TO ali church fairs
that it hears Of.
There were over 5000, coo inhabit-
ants IN Ireland in 1915; there are less
than 1000, 600 now.
"A new rifle, capable of dlscharging
,hree bullets at the same moment, has
been made IN France.
The Brazilian production of dia-
monds amounts in yearly value from
81, 900, 900 to sl,5OO 900.
Lincoln county, Tenn, boasts of a
wOman-Betty Frantham-whO is re-
puted To be 149 years Old.
The population of the United
States is divided into 25,jlS, $50 males
and "A ,636 964 females.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills of the
issue of 1873 have appeared in Pitts
burg and nearby towns.
-Twenty-eight States have adopted
laws restricting the practice of medi-
cine to educated persons.
The amount OF capital invested i'll
the clock and watch interest in the Uni
ted States Is 100000, 900.
-Steubenville derives its name from
Fort Steuben, which occupied the site
OF the town IN early times.
AT the Waltham manufactury each
watch undergOes no less than 3,746 op-
ersoOns before it IS finished.
The smallest salary minister in the
Presbyterian Church of Australia is
permitted to receive is 81 500
Montreal is to have botanic gar
den seyenty-fve acres in extent in the
beautiful park on Mount Royal.
The British Government spends
over 5000 sterling per year IN photo
graphing the faces of criminals.
The United States Government has
400 John Smiths in its employ. and SEQ
each of JOneses and JOhnsOns.
The potato, introduced in England,
in 1000, was first eaten as a sweatmeat,
stewed in sack, wine and sugar.
1t was an old Japanese execution
er's sword that suggested to Mr.. W. 5.
Gilbert the idea of the ''MIkadO."
There is a society in Memphis the
object of which is to furnish cotfins To
its members at greatly reduced prices.
With ,57j miles of navigable rivers
and 1900 miles of canals, the French
railways encounter some competition.
The thirty-eight States of the Un-
Ion contain ?, 300 counties. Texas leads
off with 151 and Georgia follows with
127.
The newspapers of the world have
Just been reckoned up at about 35, 600,
thus giving one to every 10000 inhabi-
talts.
"A new recruit is charged with at
tempting 10 poison number of soldiers
of the Tenth Cavalry at Fort Whipple,
4. L.
-Dvorak is said to be composing his
music for an opera that is being ar
ranged from Shakespeare Twelfth
Night"
The annual consumption of impor-
ted and domestic cigars is sixty 10 every
man, woman and child in the United
States.
The battle of MOntmorenci, Lower
Canada, which preceded the capture of
Quebec by two months, took place July
81, 1859.
An election for a champion liar is
to be held at Giles, Arizona, and the
successful candidate is to get a medal
and a serenade.
Hungary has an insurance company
which pays married men from 100 10
500 forms in the event of the elopement
of their spouses.
Paris, Ill, which has been without
police for fifteen months, owing 10 4
hitch between its Mayor and Councils,
now has force.
"A colored woman only 81 inches
high, though 27 years old, lives on
Florida plantation. She claims never
to have been sick.
The army and navy of Great Bri-
tain furnish full pro rata of that na-
tons cOnviets and a due proportion Of
them are commissioned officers.
An esthetic st. Louis Judge has de-
cI1ed that three chrome Autographs,
bust of LongfellOw and s. oil PANT
ing, legally constitute an art parlor.
The hardening and tempering Of
copper is supposed to be one of the lost
arts, but a Boston inventor has shaved
bimself for years with a copper razor.
Only about $50 pounds of each beef
animal is it for canning. hence to pro
vide 5000, 600 pounds of canned beef or
500. .000 cans would require 10000 cat
tie.
Europeans find the heat OF Algeria
a great obstacle 10 agricultural work,
aud to avoid much of il they propose
making harvests at night by az II elee-
tric light