Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-12-02
NO. 40.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Of companies in Great Britain.
-Seventy-twO papers are published
IN Mexico.
-Four churches in Montreal now use
the electric light.
The United States half dime OF
1602 is valuable coin. 1t Is worth
S23.
The farmers Of Arkansas have a
secret order called The Agricultural
Wheel
Eighteen colored teachers are en-
plOyed ia the Nashville, Tenn, public
schools.
The loss of property by the recent
Ohio floods, is now estimated at some
sII 100000
Michigan is reported to produce
about twO-tnicds ofthe peppermint crop
of the world.
In some parts of California gold Is
extracted from the ore by electricity.
1t is French idea.
Two canoe voyagers are on their
way from the mouth of tine Yellowstone
to the Gulf Of Mexico.
"A single chandelier in the noun
tain castle of that spendthrIft, the King
of Bavaria, cost q 500.
In 1882 the emigrants from Eng
land to the AuStralasian colonies were
81 900; in 1888, 1000.
Ireland had -. % per cent. of the
population of Great Britain IN 1892.
She now has 1i.S1 per cent.
"A colony of wine-producers will
leave France abeIt the Ist of January
to settle in Greenville county, 5. c.
"A Victoria (Columbia) Chinaman,
worth 100000, is to marry white
girl, with the consent of her parents.
-"Cascadia" is suggested as the
name OF Washington Territory in the
event OF her being admitted us a State.
-SeasIcknesS was the trouble of
which man on board the cOastwlse
steamer san Antonio died a few days
ago.
In roller skating contest at New
York recently, Mr.. Hoffman, of Column
bia College, skated miles in II.25I
minutes,
Mrs. Lawrence, of Chicago, mother
OF the late L. G.. Lawrence, class of -S4.
has given Yale College $4,000 for a
dOrmitOry.
Eleven thousand dollars worth Of
INK was used by the Post-oilice Depart
ment last year IN stamping ard cancell-
ing letters.
-Beatrice King, a 13 year-O girl,
has Just been sentenced to one months
Imprisonment IN London for stealing a
pint of milk
The oldest man in Indiana died
suddenly near VIncenGes. HIS name
was Pierre Golfer, and his reputed age
was lis years.
During the last ten years the
French speaking population of Canada
has increased at q mach greater ratio
than the English.
From 1884 to 1881 sumptuary edicts
as to dress were issued at Berlin. The
last forbade women without slnk 70
wear silk dresses.
"A white poodle, formerly owned by
Mrs. ScOtt-SlddOns, but latterly a pet
OF Nine. Janauschek, died recently.
II was IL years old.
-Pittsburg claims more rich men, in
proportion to population, than any city
IN the Union. Seventy residents aggre-
gate SlS9.UO0,0OO.
The October term of the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts was opened
with prayer, the only instance OF the
kind in that State on record.
Col. William p. Armstrong, for
merly Prime Minister to King Kala-
kaua, is now il New Haven, and is
studying Connecticut oyster culture.
The LOndOneIs are promised exhi-
billions of life on the American pTaIries
by Buffalo Bill, with all his mustangs,
buffalOeS, cowboys and other live stock.
Pine Valley, near WOCdford, Vt,
which has been 4 busy place for four
teen years past, IS now deserted, the
last family moving away a few days
ago.
Washington fashion allows ladies
10 use perfume about their persons con-
cealed in sdtchets, etc, but fOrbids
them to saturate their hand6erchiefs
with it.
The report of the New Jersey State
Board OF Health shows the total num-
Der of deaths for the year ending July
l, 1888, to be 3.3l0, death rate of
1913.
"A scientific journal il England es-
Inmates that it would take a capital of
5000, 600, 600 to successfully divert
the vast power of Niagara Falls TO use
ful purposes.
Easter of next year falls on St.
Marks Day, April %, its latest possible
date. The last time this occurred was
in 1876 (old style), and It Will not SO
fail again until 1913.
Female conductors are employed
now on the Valparaiso lChih) street
cars. In Santiago female conductors
are stated to have been a success for
some time past.
According to late reports, Fort
Ross, Sonoma county, Cal, with pop
IlatlOn averaging from fifty TO one hun
dred persons, has not had i death since
It's settlement, thirty years ago.
BY the census of 1850 there were
~, 900 working oxen in Vermont. The
last census shows only 19,O00-a los Of
81, 600. This loss is more than balanced
by the gain in the number of other
cattle.
Over 200 wild ducks were trapped
in warehouse near Chico, Cal, re-
Gently, one of the doors having been
eft open long enough for the ducks to
90 inside for grain. The warehouse
owners make big haul Of game in this
manner every year.
England imported $4,000 gallons
eSs of sherry and claret last year than
iuring the preceding year. but of port,
Turing the same time, she imported
ass pipes-the largest single years
Importation on record.
In the Church of st. Helen's,
London, a stained-glaSs
window to the memory of Shakespeare
has been unveiled. The poet was at
Dne time an inhabitant Of the parish,
and there brought out several of his
plays. The window is the gift Of some
person unknown.