Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-10-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The dryest hOur contains from
To Z per cent. OF water.
-Croton water is purified by keeping
fish in the reservoirs.
Germany is fitting out four Arctic
exploration expeditions.
Most German army officers, it Is
/ reported, wear corsets.
Silver is scareer than gold Ia the
Nevada mining camps.
One and two dollar bills bring d
premium in New York.
-Semi-milItary discipline is 10 be III
/ troduced at VaSsar College.
"A Rochester druggist has cOustruc
ted safety jar for morphine.
The estimated losses by the cyclone
at Charleston foot up 81, ,69O, 600
Cotton seed hulls are made into
kindling in an Alabama factory.
-Thespire of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
New York, is 10 be $50 feet high.
The new postal cards will cost the
Government s47. Il per Thousand
-BOswO:th battle field Is cut into
quarters by canal and a railroad
AT least one ton of gold is burled
in the graves of the dead every year.
The product of the mines Of Boil
via is estimated at 10, 900, 900 ounces.
Political gossips in Europe have it
that Italy IS preparing 10 seize TripOli.
According TO late estimate there
are 200, 600 Adventists in the United
States.
Within the last twenty-five years Al
daily newspapers have died III New
York.
The manufacture of roller skate;
employs thirty thousand hands in this
country.
The City of New York, 1t is est.
mated, has at present no fewer than 40J
millionaires.
The Bolivian government leyies a
tax of fOur-sixths for each ounce Of
silver mined.
The ore output of Leadyille for
July reached 1000 tons day for every
working day.
The weight of 900, 600 dollar bills
in greenbacks is within a fraction Of
2,S41 pounds.
The WOman's National Industrial
League has decided that Chinese lauu-
dries must go.
The circulation of all New York
papers is steadily falling away in tho
West and South.
The payroll Of the Comstock
mines for the month of July will be not
far from S115,00O.
The output of the mineral products
Of the United States in 1884 was val
ued at S403, I04620.
-Adolph Sutro, the millionaire, is
about to establish a free scientific library
in San Francisco.
The Chicago bankers and moneyed
men are unanimously opposed 70 fur
ther coinage Of silver.
Attempts to introduce American
brook trout into English waters have
not met with success.
The depression of the coal trade in
South Wales Is so serious that nearly
10000 men are affected by it.
Fire has not left the hearthstone Of
one farmer in Georgia since it was KIN
died with flint and steel in 1872
The total number of Self-suppOrting
women and girls over ten years of age,
in New York State, is 2,647, l5I
"A New York lawyer says he would
have no trouble in getting 1000 men la
that city to swear falsely ID Il case.
The death is reported Of Sultan
Abdul Munln of Bruncil, in the island
of BOrneo, at the age of l4l years.
An average of 1913 letters fOr
every working day are received at the
Dead Letter Office in Washington.
1t is said that $50 farms in Iowa
are owned by women, aud that twenty
dairy farms are managed by women.
The bones of PizarrO lie in the Ii
ma Cathedral, a building that WIS i'm
ished in 1910 and cost nine millions.
The ''brOther-in-law is the Chicago
name for the bogus bell punch employed
in ''beating" the street car companies.
The popular suppOsitiOn that an
ostrich never lays but one egg, and
drops that anywhere upon the sand, is
nonsense.
The ruins Of HierapOlis, III the
Delta of Egypt, once above inundatiOn,
are now beneath deposit of seven feet
of mud.
The American Bible society ex-
pends Sl5, 600 ayear in tIanslating pub
fishing and distributing the Bible ia
foreign lands.
The people of Boston place great
confidence III their newspaper men
Twenty of them hold State and muui-
cipal offices.
Fifteen hundred telephone in5tru-
ments IN Buffaioare supplied from cleo
tricity made by the water power Of
Niagara Falls.
The stenographers in Buffalo as
sembled have decided that speed OF
250 words per minute IS unattanable
and undesirable.
The Australian authorities have es-
tablIshed offices where all patent medi-
cines intended to be offered for sale in
the country must be tested.
More than fifteen firms manufactur-
ing and dealing in crOquet goods have
gone out of the business within two
years. The game is dead
When potatoes were irst intro
duced into Connecticut it was held that
if man ate them every day he could
not live beyond seven years.
Statistics furnished by the Cinciu-
natl Chamber of Commerce for the past
fifty years show that the average rain
fall is gradually decreasing.
-Four vessels in the United States
navy named Boston have come to disas-
trous ends. SuperstitiOus officers. there
fore. dislike 10 go into service on the
new and fifth one.
The laws of propriety are 50 rigO-
rously strict in Mexico that man may
not ride IN the same carriage with the
lady to whom he IS betrotned.
The recent sale of unclaimed aIti-
cles left in the New York elevated rail-
road cars comprised 500 umbrellas and
parasOls, $50 books, 80 hats and 25O pur-
ses and money bags.
Eugene G.. Blaekford, Fish Com
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