Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-04-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Paris has 1,026 ballot dancers.
Jews own more than l $50, 900 acres
of Russian land.
Ohio has thirty-fve colleges and
leads the country.
England consumes five times as
much tea as coffee.
Russia IS to construct railways
throughout Siberia.
The Bank of England now covers
three acres of ground.
Denmark spends $50, 900 a year for
agricultural teaching.
San Diego, Cal exported l, los, 600
pounds of fish last year.
Australia has four universities
equal to Yale or Harvard.
-Sixty-fOur women engravers earn
their livelihood in England.
Sugar is reported to be selling at
two cents pound in Cuba.
Helena, MT. has a calf 10 months
old that weighs $50 pounds.
The annual revenue of the British
government is e21O.O00.0OO.
-Esquimaux dogs Will draw sledge
a distance Of 90 miles day.
There are ,162 women missiOnar-
les and preachers in England.
American steam brakes are usedb by
French and English railroads.
Rabbits damage Australia to the
extent of $40 100000 per year.
Farm rents in England have de-
clined six per cent. in five years.
There are 600 professional beauties
in London who don't work at all.
There are 452 women editors in
England and l, ,309 photographers.
Every member of the Texas Land
Board is said to favor its abolition.
One town in North Carolina ship
ped last year 103, 600, 600 cigarettes.
The postal cards sold in this cOun-
try last year numbered 1862 SIC, $50.
The number of postoffice clerks in
the United States is placed at S,240.
San Francisco has 1000 Chinese
children ineligible to public schools.
Not a solitary young man IN Ogle-
thorpe, Ga, it is said, chews tobacco.
-Barnum says his show took in ST.
100000 during the past tenting season.
In Baltimore recently. 10000 ca
ses of canned corn We're sold in one
day.
"A Massachusetts physician has in
iuced forty young men to stop smOk-
ing.
There are 55S persons engaged in
the PostOflice Department at Washing
ton.
Kit CarsOn's monument at Santa
Fe Is to be unveiled on Decoration
Day.
There are l12 995 English school
teachers, nearly all of whom are SPINS
ters.
There were 1858 uostofices estab-
lished last year, and 1921 were discon-
tinued.
A pearl has been found on the
western Australian coast valued at
$4,000.
The Queen is worth SS5. 600, 600 and
works harder than any woman in The
kingdom.
"A gentleman of Rockingham, n.
C., has pair of elks that he drives to
buggy.
The fiber of the hop vine is substi-
tuted for rags by French paper manu-
facturers.
Nearly 8. 900, 900 worth of print
ing ink is used in the United States
every year.
"A reversible boot, which NAV be
worn indifferently on either foot, has
been patented.
Ten thousand five hundred women
bind English books and :, ,302 assist in
printing them.
The number of pOstofices robbed
last year was 467, while 2S7 others were
destroyed by fire.
There were 46S pOstmasters who
died last year, while there were 7O5 who
were suspended.
Winnipeg, Man, has 912 trading
establishments, doing an annual busi-
ness of S23,000,000.
The number of farmers in State
Legislatures is said t. be decreasing
from year to year.
The number of postal notes issued
last year was 3,6S9. .237. amounting in
money to S7,4l1, 992 As.
The fire record for 1884 shows los
ses in the United States and Canada to
the extent of SIP, 100000.
BY a small majority the Trustees
of the British Museum have decided in
favor of Sunday opening.
There were ], ,450, 76S AGO ordinary
postage stamps sold last year, the value
of which was S20,077, ,444.
There are 90, l3S women nailmak-
ers in England. The nails are used in
fastening hOrSeshOes in place.
The free delivery system is now in
operation in 1j9 cities in the United
States, employing $500 carriers.
There are 16.OOO,OO school child
ren in the United States, 10000, 900 of
whom are enrolled in the public schools.
In 1881 PrUIssian scholars were di-
vided as follows: PrOtestants, 73 6 per
cent; Catholics, 1852 and Jews 10 per
cent.
There are :, 5,OOO, 900 widows in Eng
land who long to do any kind Of work
that will tend TO make a like number of
men unhappy.
London Bridge is tramps' lodging
house. A seat in one of it's recesses is
as much sought after as a stall IN the
theatre on first night.
The British army has now a field
the fires of which Will 90 ike
that of a steam fire engine, and do its
work while ON the march.
"A eOlOred man who is worth $50
900, and has reached his sixty-sixty
year, is filling the position of turnkeh
in Cincinnati police station.
Loud talking. laughing or smoking
in OF near the vestibule of any church,
during divine service is now prohibited
by local ordinance in Atlanta.