Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-08-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NoiOlduOs ludlO anu aTlLOnd-
! -One-third of all the banking done
In the world is done in England.
Deaf mutes will hold a convention
in Peterborough, n. H., in October.
The Jewish population in Paris
numbers $1,000 In 1893 1t was 500.
There is said to be but one person
to every square mile of territory in
Canada.
There were 100 marriages in
New York the first six months of the
present year.
Americans projected, built and
now control the street railroads of Mos
COW, Russia.
The number Of female doctors il.
the United States borders on twenty
five hundred.
More than half the sugar now used
IN France IS made from beets III her
own factories.
The charge is now made that even
in esthetic Boston gamblers are protect
ed by the police
-Greenlanders, it is said, live in the
hope of warm heaven and cold place
for the wicked.
Three thousand habitual smokers
in San Francisco expended 81, ,OOO.O
year for opium.
The West Point cadets are allowed
to have fourteen pair of white trousers
IN the wash every week.
ha Ill
of the Alleghenies is reported from
Trout Run near WilliamspOrt.
Many English women attend ser
vices IN French churches for the sake
of learning the French language.
The Flemish lace industry is de
Ginning. Too much lace-making ma
chinery in other parts of the world.
1t IS stated that forty-seyen nuns
in spain who were inOculated for chol-
era have since died of that disease.
1t is said, on the authority of a
druggist, that half cents worth OF
aloes makes % cents worth of pills.
Vaccination is carried out SO strict
ly In the Prussian army that not
soldier has died of smallpox since 1915.
Postal telegraph rates IN England
are not much lower than the regular
commercial rates in the United States.
-Hanlan, the oarsman, walks on the
water in tia shoes of his own invention
and offers so to any one who can do
likewise.
All of the principal daily papers III
Mexico now take the daily telegraphic
news report of the New York Associa-
ted Press.
AN election for the champion liar
IS to be held at Giles, Arizona, and the
successful candidate Is TO get a medal
and serenade.
An Illinois phIlanthropist wishes to
benefit the poor by teaching them To
eat their bread and butter with the
buttered side down.
The tea now consumed per head by
the whole population of the British
Isles does not amount to more than
three and half pounds per annum.
If you meet lion or tiger which
has escaped from a circus, swear at the
top of your voice. A lion tanner says
that profanity will humble any wild
beast
Some French green gTUcers have
Just been convicted and fined for using
dye called eosine TO make their stock of
tomatoes deep red, and therefore more
salable.
Bacterial germs, supposed to b.
capable of producing disease, have been
found in the air of Switzerland at
heights as great "a Z, 500 feet above the
sea level.
Bath has a graveyard over go years
old, which contains ninety graves, most
of them entirely obliterated. The stones
are broken and the lots oyergrOwn with
thorn trees.
1t is customary in Norwegian cem-
etenes to place chair near newly
made grave, decorating it with the
flowers, if any, that covered the coffin
of the deceased.
"A Brooklyn young lady who carries
a fOur-leaf clover in her pocketbook for
luck lost her pet poodle the other day.
Her best beau says he never heard of
such good luck.
California has 236, ,672 pupils IN her
public schools, and spends annually
81 46S, 236, Sc on their education. OF
this sum $780,, go, 81 goes to the city of
San Francisco.
Black snakes are stripping the Gov
eminent fish ponds near Washington of
their flnny occupants. The reptiles are
said to increase in numbers nearly as
rapidly as the fish.
The returns of the census taken III
1882 give the population of Russia in
Europe as numbering 77,879, ,521, OF
whom 3S, COL, ,9T were males and 80,
227 ,544 females.
-Pittsburg turns out 81, 600, 900 bot
ties and vials eveay year, besides A.
400, 900 lamp chImneys, many of which
are exported to Central and South
America and Cuba
"A French scientific journal reports
that in Paraguay a tribe of Indians
with tails has been discovered. A
child of 8 years was captured
with tail a foot long.
The largest business ever done by
he United States Patent Office, it is
'aid, was that of April, when there were
;, 159 applications for patents, and 800,
$40 received for fees.
"A chemist in New York asserts
hat In every one hundred pounds OF
green tea used in this country the con-
'umer drinks more than a half-pound
If Prussian blue and gypsum.
Among other forms of animal life
which have disappeared from the earth
5 the sea cow. 1t was seen alive and
described in 1741, but in 17S0 it appear
ID To have become entirely extinct.
They are four pie firms in Chicago,
md together they make 1900 pies a
lay excepting Saturday, when they
make % 900 to 1000. Some Saturdays
n summer they make nearly $4,000.
"A French chemist has invented
lind of collOdiOn ointment which forms
IN invulnerable glazing when spread
,ver the flesh. 1t is designed as an
lrmor for those who fear assaults from