Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-06-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| several violent shocks Of earth
quake has been felt at Geneva recently
"A Pittsburg barber has gone to
Germany to receive a $3.50, 900 legacy.
AT Belfast, Me-, woman aged 20
has sued mau aged - for breach of
promise.
Montgomery, Ala, will not allow
no swinging signs on her streets after
May lst.
German female telegraph operators
receive a salary of $40 year and get
no vacations.
"A dollar, worth 5000, according to
a recently issued catalogue, is tie silver
dollar of 1904.
An acre, packed as at political
meeting, somebody has figured out, will
hold $4,000 people.
"A Kansas farmer realized over 500
from an acre of watermelOns which he
shipped to Colorado.
The Mexicans Of South California
carry all their water IN waterproof bask-
cts made of willow.
Canadians resident in New York
are moving in the direction of forming
social organization.
The deepest cOal.mine in Great
Britain is the Ashton COIlery. sunk to
the depth of l0JO yards.
There are now 1900 growing trees
IN Washington, laid at regular intervals
along l2j miles of fine streets.
The railway To the top of Lookout
mountain, projected by Colonel Cole,
viii I've completed by June, 1855.
An American circus is said to have
just taken in So, 900 in four perform
ances in two days i'll Toronto, Oat
The young women of Newark, n.
J., have bound themselves by oath not
TO kiss any man who chews tobacco.
The larger portion of an English
fortune, which amounts to 5000, ,UOO, has
been inherited by Chicago woman.
"A Cincinnati gambler, who in his
time had won and lost over 500, 900,
died among the paupers the other day.
The Chinese are reported to have
decided to test the rights of the people
of Tehama, Cal, TO drive them away
Mammoth, Cal, once a fourishing
mining camp, and pOpulous, is now
without soul within its extensive linn
its.
"A female lawyer, Mrs. Mary A.
Leonard, has been admitted to practice
law in the u. ;. District Court for Ore
gOn.
The proposal for doing away with
the Notifications surrounding Paris is
now meeting with a great many adher-
ents.
The Berlin police assert that they
have found proofs of an extensive plot
To enroll the soldiers in Socialist socie-
ties.
Where the gunboats lay when bonn
harding Vicksburg is now huge sand
bank, the course OF the river having
changed.
Mrs. Cynthia Griffin, of Waycross,
Ca, is the mother of 20 children, all of
whom she reared To manhood and wO-
manhood.
The odd spectacle of cOnvicts strik-
ing against reduction of wages is now
afforded in the Kings county, n. Y,
penitentiary.
Seven hundred and tweuty-One Ma
tional bank charters expire during next
year, representing IN aggrega capital
Of SlSO,OOO, 900.
The coming season, it is predicted,
will see the rents of Newport cottages
lower than for several years, while hO-
tel rates will be reduced.
An itinerant anti-Semitic agitator
has been arrested at KOmatau, Bohe-
mia. \ number of pamphlets were
found in his possession.
The heat and mosquitoes at the
Danish scientific station in South Green
land, III summer, are saId TO be sugges-
tive of tropical climate.
In tax suit the Supreme Court of
Wisconsin has denied that telephone
lines come under the act authorizing
the construction of telegraph lines.
The Montana Legislature takes the
belt for economy. The total appropri-
alton from the territorial treasury for
all purposes amounts TO but S6, 500.
An application has been made to
the Swiss Federal Council for a con-
cession for the construction of a rail-
way through the Great St Bernard.
Minneapolis girls have red-ribbon
clubs, with the motto; 1.-The lips that
touch wine shall never touch mlne.n
Beer is becoming the faYorite beverage.
The expression 'Thank my starsp'
is rarely heard from the mouth of a
theatrical manager. We do not pre-
tend to know why; we simply state the
fact.
While preparing a chicken, which
he had killed for the table, few days
ago, citizen of Monmouth county, n.
J. found a rusty pin stuck in the centre
of its heart.
An alligator was about to interfere
with baptiZing services in a creek, at
Jacksonville, Fla, few Sundays Ego,
but the congregation objected and hand
lei him roughly.
The Platten Lake, at Pesth, has
been frozen over since early in the
month, a circumstance which for more
than century has not occurred at least
in December.
The London Stdaddrd declares that
the opinion steadily grows that Natha-
mel Hawthorne was the most cOpSider-
able literary parsonage that America
has yet produced.
Quite a sensation was caused in
Tucson, Arizona, recently by lion,
which took refuge under citizens
house. With the assistance Of some
firearms the intruder was soon des-
patched.
"A stump recently dug up at Mount
Pleasant. C., said to be the only case
ON record Of the petrificatiOn of Pal
metto, is exhibited at New Orleans.
The grain of the wood is plainly
marked.
Louisiana planters claim that the
sugar cane this year contains richer
juice than has ever before been known,
owing to improved methods of fertiliz-
ing and perhaps some popularity of the
season.
The people of New Orleans are
again enjoying the convenience of hav-
ing It's streets illuminated, an agree