Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-05-06
NO. l9.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are II, 900 hotels in the State
of New York.
Germany has no hOd carriers Bricks
are passed by hand.
The roller skating craze has struck
the Sandwich Islands.
The Zuni Indians have smoked ci-
garettes for 700 years.
"A street railway will soon be IN op-
Grafton in Macon, Ga.
Berlin has but one church to every
50, 900 of its inhabitants.
-Quails in Montana are exempt from
the sportsman's gun for six years.
"A millionaire Chinaman Is among
the residents of Rockford, Dakota.
The ROthchilds never employ man
who has the reputation for i'll luck.
The volume of Southern travel this
season is said TO be unprecedented.
-Fifty-five per cent. of persons dying
in Paris are buried at public expenses.
"A five-year-old child was choked to
death IN Cincinnati recently. on pea
nut.
Missouri produced last year the lar
gest crop of corn ever gathered in that
State.
Forest fires have been quite numer-
Gus in the vicinity of Wildwood, Fla,
of late.
Capital is being raised in London
for new American cable via the Az
ores.
General Earle, killed in the Soudan,
is to have memorial in Liverpool, his
native city.
Gases of small pox and scarlet fever
are reported from various points on the
Pacific Coast.
"A sash and blind factory with S50,-
900 capital has been established at Bir-
mingham, Ala.
"A plate glass insurance company
reports 76l losses during 1884 out OF
about 5000 risks.
Napoleon BOnapaTte is the name Of
a colOred man now living in Lancaster,
South Carolina.
Large crowds of cOlOred people con-
tinue 10 leave South Carolina for Ar
kansas and Texas.
Coulter and Barton. large farmers
of GraysOn, Texas, have 700 mules, 692
of which are gray.
In SacO mill a man recently sawed
49, 100 feet of boards in one day, thus
beating the record.
-MeIssOnier' pictures In his late
Paris exhibition were issued at the rate
OF 500 per square inch.
To encourage Irish manufactures
the Lord Mayor of Dublin cOntemplates
giving ''pOplin ball"
The value of real estate in Birm-
ingham, Ala. has increased S47S, 400 in
the past twelve months.
"A boa constructor, Is feet long, has
been presented TO the Sydney, Austria
liza, Geological Garden.
Stark W. Arnold, a nephew Of
''StOnewall' Jackson, is a membef Of
the West Virginia Senate.
The ties and wood fuel used by the
railroads of the United states cost an
nually about S25, 100000.
The authorities of Dalton, Ga, have
prohibited marble playing upon the pub
lie thOrOughfares of the Town.
An Americus, Ca, citizen carries
an open face watch, the chrYstal Of which
was placed on 1t 40 years ago
AT a recent election for town OH
GERS in SmithtOwn, l.. l., there were
Smiths on the Republican ticket.
An original Raphael will soon be
placed on exhibition in New York city.
1t is said TO be worth 100000.
-Alpharetta 4 young Georgia city
with population of 200, has five law
yeIs, OF one tor every 80 persons.
The artesian well in Atlanta, Ca,
has been sunk nearly oIe- third of a mile,
but without encOuntering any water.
The Hudson river ice crop wiz
reach 1000, 900 tons this year, and of Q
quality which has never been surpassed.
-MOcking birds are being trapped
and shipped by the hundreds by q party
of Indians encamped near Anaheim,
Cal.
The great screen of Winchester
Cathedral, built in the 18th century, a
to be restored with its SO marble stat
ues.
Twelve wagon loads Of letters and
papers are delivered daily at the Capitol
for members of the House of RepTesen-
tatives
in a glass works near Paris air
stored under pressure has been made TO
successfully supersede gas blowing by
the mouth, except in few cases.
Portland, Me-, has 994 boys who
recently signed the triple pledge against
intoxicating liquors, tobacco and pro-
family.
The Legislature of Alabama has
passed an ac. prohibiting State, county
and municipal officers from getting
drunk.
"A citizen of Stockton. Cal, died
of lock-iaw recently, being the last Of
four brothers, all of whom died of that
disease.
"A juvenile farmer, eight years old,
who plOws almost as well as veteran
tile of the soil, is boasted of by Henry
county, GA.
"A pair of shoes measuring Dos have
Just been made by Milford, Mass,
shoemaker for female resident of San
Francisco.
"A Puoghkeepsie gossip was fined
500 for circulating reports preiudicial
to person in that place. This Is an
age Of reform.
Little speckled trout come up with
the water of the artesian wells in the
vicinity of Austin, New, from depth
of 2G0 feet.
Water in the Hooded COmstock
mines ebb5 and flows with the regularity
OF ocean tides, the Virginia, New,
Chronicle says.
The Sexton OF a New Y Ork church
has crank in his pew by turning which
he regulates the temperature Of the
house during service.
The use of Teturn-TequeSt envelopes
BY all business men, it Is thought, would
reduce the business Of the dead letter
office to minimum.
The British Columbia militia are
drilling twice week in anticipation
that their services may be required by
the mother country.
-Over ten thousand dollars in cash
and bonds we're found after his death
secreted in the bed Of a Biddeford, Me-,
man who died recently.