Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-09-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The Brooklyn Bridge is infested
with bundle bees.
The German laborer gets meat only
one day in the week.
-Of the $50 employees in the Patent
Office but one-half are men.
The Cherokee Nation have no laws
for the collection of debts.
Paper -four barrels are coming into
use IN some parts of the West.
Liberia, Afnca's eolored republic,
Is on the verge of bankruptcy.
More drunken men than women can
be seen on the streets of London.
"A one-legged roller skater is among
the attractions at Bar Harbor. Ne.
Sixty theatres have been burned III
TINS country IN the last twelve months.
The fertilization of red clover i,
mainly, if not entirely, performed by
bundle bees.
Europe, it is stated, has twenty 50.
cieties organized to oppose the eating Of
animal food.
Rome, in the days of Hadrian, is
supposed to have contained 1905. 900
inhabitants.
The first knives were used IN Eng
land and the first wheeled carriage IN
France in 1853.
The Irish Land League, which Is
in session at Dublin has received e, 900
from America.
One OHthe best cattle ranches in
the West Is owned by grandson OF
Edward Everett.
"A Virginia cat Is reported to be
rearing two young foxes along with her
litter of kittens.
The honey crop for this year Ia San
Diego county, California Is estimated
at :, ,l17 800 pounds.
Experiments are being conducted
by the government with a 10 ,OOO-candle
power electric light.
-BarthOldi'S mother was his model
for his statue of Liberty that is to adOTn
New York har5Or.
This years wheat crop bids fair To
reach go, 0,O00, 900 bushels, !, 900, 900 In
excess Of last years.
To manufacture 5000 tons of po-
tato starch it would require 1916, 900
bushels of potatoes.
Claus Spreckles Is on his way East
to put in bid for carrying the United
states mails 10 Australia.
-'GlObe trOtters'' IS one of the terms
for the tourists who take the beaten
track round the world.
The winters in Iceland are milder
than those in Iowa. This modification
is due TO the Gulf stream.
India produces the latest wonder
in the person of 13-year-Old lad who
has one head and two bodies.
-Twenty-nIne bear and four cougar
scalps have been brought into Olympia,
w. l., this season for bounty.
"A shoal of Goldfish one mile long
and containing 120, 900, 900 fish will eat
$40, ,OOO, 900 herring in one week.
The home industrial schools in New
York have sheltered 10000 children
and found country homes for 5000.
The first viOlins in the celebrated
Brussels MOnnaie orchestra Of 80 MEN,
bers, receive, it is stated, only so per
month.
"A garbage-sifting machine in New
York dispOses of l40 tons of rubbish
daily. One hundred tons is found To
be valuable
DIR. Jaeger, of Munich, maintains
that those people who wear wool, and
nothing but wool, winter and summer,
never catch cold.
The Red Sea is the hottest place ou
the globe. Three of the passengers on
the steamer Siguria died from the heat
on her last trip.
The latest dude agony is to shave
the mustache down to narrow fringe
One-eighth of an inch along the curve
of the upper lip.
1t costs $500 to equip locomotive
with a Westinghouse AIR brake, and
800 for each of the cars. This in-
cludes the royalty.
The earliest cannon are said to have
been breech-loaders, and hammerless
guns were known long before the day
of percussion locks.
All the animal inhabitants of the
coral islands of Micronesia are very
small, not one, IT Is said, being found
there larger than pig.
The process of fish Matching is 10
he shown in actual operation by tho
United States fish commissioner at the
New Orleans Exhibition.
Handmade envelopes cost origin
ally cents each. The envelOpe-making
machine ROW turns them out 50 that
l 900 are sold for 30 cents
Two companies are to he added to
each infantry battalion and one squad
ron 10 each cavalry regiment in Eng
lands native English Army.
"A rough statue of a man wearing
a tall hat, and bearing the date 1910,
was found recently in the ruins of the
old fort at Pemaquid, Me-
"A plan is on foot for utilizing the
flow of the San Diego III
yer by bedrock dams. The proposed
works will cost some 500, 900.
An English authority states that
unless swine fever is absolutely exter-
from the United Kingdom the
disease will exterminate the pigs.
Nine golden weddings have been
celebrated in Castleton, Vt, in the last
ten years, and all but one of the golden
brides and grooms are now living.
Bavaria leads all nations in the an
nual per capita consumption of beer
with 260 quarts, Russia bringing up the
funeral procession with four quarts.
In the cholera infected districts
both the French and italian peasants,it
Is said, repel the physicians, and seek
remedies in professions and old relics.
Baltimore, says the Boston TfaUeler,
has produced mOre actors than any
other city, Philadelphia ranking second
and Boston third. New York produces
least of all.
The average depth of the Pacific
and Atlantic oceans is 2500 fathoms.
Bottom has been obtained at 44S0 faith
oms short distance south of the banks
Of Newfoundland.
"A man-eating shark, rarely seen
outside the tropics, twenIy-seyen feet
long and seventeen feet in circumfer-
ence, was caught in a net of Mount
Desert. Me-, recently.
Paris green to the value of $685.
IS said to have been Spriukied over tho
potato fields this year by the farmers VI
Maine. Ole Portland dealer says be
mas sold ten tons this SeaSAl.