Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-01-07
NO. 3.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| pays well in Alabama.
1t is said that far more women tbs
men fall victims to cholera.
Rev. ID. Erskine, Scotland. tnirtj
three children, wear 1860.
Mime. Frescobaldi, Florence, fifty
two children, year 1870.
A new sensation in ST. Louis is sal
10 be speculating 10 babies.
Mr.. Greenhill, AbbOts Langley
Hrrts, thirty nine children.
-German immigrants are said :.
avoid settling IN cotton States.
"A Newton, Ca, man has paid 70
a farm with the melons of it.
The Gainesville, Georgia, mattel
factory can't keep up with orders
Twenty ladies are doing jur
service in Columbia sounty, W. T.
"A Philadelphia firm has contracts,
for ,, 500 tons Of Alabama-made iron.
About l 600, 900 tons of paper ar
manufactured annually in the world
In 1880 there were eighteen clerk
III the General Land Office. Now there
are 367.
The honey crop of the country las
year was estimated at rising COCOON
pounds.
Since lS23 cholera has visited Eu-
ropean Russia three times and killed
100000.
Three hundred Thousand dozen ui
eggs were destroyed by tire at Water
loo, Iowa, recently.
during the dry season now abOu
to begin, 80, 600 men viii be elnplOye,
on the Panama canal.
Lewiston. Maine. has already had
case Of boys drowning, by breakin,
through lee, this season.
Even rs late rs the time Of Henr,
VIII all foreign artificers were prOhib-
tied from working in England.
OF l33 male children recently bJrr
in Dallas, Texas, l29 Ot them, il IS STA
ted, were chTistened Grover"
1t Is estimated that the wool clt
Of this year will amount to 300 00U. .ON
pounds, and be worth s., 200, 0UO.
during 1884 Massachusetts la.
paid her militia 81, ,5l7 for special duty
spring and fall drills and camp drill.
The people of Hancock county,
Georgia, have decided to hang the frs!
man caught at house burning there
Plank sidewalks are disappearing
in tallahassee, Fla, and more substau-
tial payements are taking their place.
In February, 223 slaves, worth
Sj7 600, were freed i'll Brazil. TheIt
ale still | 800, UUO slaves iii the empire
The corn crop this year is estimated
al l,29I 900, ,OUO bushels, against So.
$4,000 last year and Sl2, ,77l 900 in
lSS2.
A sixteen-year-Old New Hampshire
Lad hanged himself i'll his room a few
nights ago while IN a state Of somnam
bulism.
Another attempt to swim the Nj
agara Falls Is proposed by a noted Eng.
lish swimmer who is coming to thi:
country.
-Niuety-fiye Thousand sheets Of pa.
per are daily consumed in printing IN
Gle Sans money and internal revenue
stamps.
The United States raised nearlS
half of the number of hogs produced
in the world. Iowa takes the lead with
), 5,1O7, AS.
AS late as 1910 there were but seven
vOcatiOns into which New England
women had entered; in 1884 the mum
Der was 81.
"A monument to Kit Carson was
unveiled at Santa Fe., New Mexico,
December lst. Col. Ingersoh delivered
the Grafton.
Key West tFla.) smackmen do
quite trade by selling fresh fish iH
Havana, where their stock brings nine
cents pound.
The fiber of silk is the longest con-
tinuous fiber known. An ordinary CO.
coon of well-fed sIlkwOrm will often
reel 900 yards.
The American ship y e.. Ropes,
said to be the largest wooden vessel now
afOat, spreads $3.50 square yards Of can
vas under full sail.
RUSSIAN engineers claim that Sc.
bastOpOl is stronger than ever, owing
to its monster guns, tOTpedOes, and im.
proved eaTLhwOrks.
"A hunter in the Black Lake region
of New York State recently accom-.
plished the remarkable feat of killing
two deer at one shot.
If all the locomotives in the United
States were placed in line they would
make a train more than 200 miles long.
worth S30,00O,OOO.
Up to November u the cholera
epidemic iii Naples had lasted seventy
four days, during which time 1925 peO-
pie died from the disease,
Most of the more than 1000 women
IN the Government rvice at
are from the Middle and
New England States.
Mt. Mitchell, in North Carolina, iI
declared to be the highest point OF land
east Of the Rockies, being G6SS feet
above the level of the sci.
Herds of cattle and focks OF sheep
were showed in on the mountains, saws
a despatch from Hill. n. H., during q
recent heavy snow storm.
A Chinese doctor at Victoria. II.
c., is reported to have made some re-
cures in cases where whits
physicians had given them up as incur
able.
Boston now Possesses that literary
Bureau of matchmaking.
and authors need no longer worry about
the indexes so necessary to a well-mads
bOOh.
In The cotton States there are 49,
JO, 900 acres of land in farms. of which
81 ,3jO, 900 are improved. The cotton
area actually titled was about A 900, 900
acres in 1879.
The Third Avenue Theatre. in
New York, IS again trying the expert
ment of that present great theatrical
nOyelty-a stock company and popular
prices.
Abilene. Tex, which was a wilder
ness three years ago. IS now flourish
ing town, Inhabited by thousands Of
people and with - 7sss-sed valuation
Of s1. 100000