Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-09-30

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1t is said there are only about 4
half dozen wooden houses in London.
There are in Paris 80 persons who
DO nothing but deal in postage stamps.
China has ]. 800 miles of telegraph
lines, and only seven miles of railroad.
The average of deaths from cholera
in Spain is two out Of every five cases
Only one soldier OF NapOleon's
''Old guard" survives; he is "a years OF
age.
The late DIR. Prime could read both
Greek and Latin before he was 10 years
old.
The French have more suspension
bridges than any other nation on the
globe.
Cattle in Erie CO., Pennsylvania.
are reported to be suffering from Texas
fever.
Rhode Island retains the greatest
density of the population Of all the
States.
Portland, Me-, has substituted the
electric light for gas for lighting the
streets.
"A law has been enacted i'll Austria
making the observance of Sunday COM
pulsOry.
The water supply III many parts Ot
England is failing in consequence OF
the intense heat.
1t is said that 50 per cent. Of all
! persons dying in Paris are buried at the
public expense.
"A Frenchman has made his suicide
remarkable by dropping from the tower
OF NOtre Dame.
-Pittsfeld, Mass. business men have
organized to resist proposed advance
in telephone rates
The fastest train between Omaha
and san Francisco averages a httIe less
than - miles an hour.
-SacramentO's latest sensation Is a
poker game which lasted for 70 hours
without intermissiOn.
More than three million American
chromos have been sold in Europe IN
the last five years.
The London House of Industry has
trained and sent to Canada 4, ,020 Of the
cIty's poor children.
-Weasels were kept IN houses in an
cient Rome, instead of cats, for the pur-
pose of killing vermin.
Archbishop Williams OF Boston
will be given Cardinals hat at the
consistory to be held in December.
-AphOs, Cal, boasts of "A man who
up;to the time of General Grant 5 death
had never heard of the silent chieftaln.
Hundreds of English trOODs are
being brought back from Egypt, suffer
ing from dysentery, fever and debility.
Postage stamps are used on the Or
egon railways in making change, there
being a scarcity of pennies and 2-cent
pieces.
In a recently prepared paper Lieu
tenant DanhenhOwer IS said 70 have
taken firm stand against Arctic explo-
TatiOns.
The word cannibal signifies a brave
or valiant man, and is derived from the
name by which the Carribbees called
themselves.
"A craze for short hair has seized
hold of the young women of Rochester,
n. Y, and is reported to be spreading
over the country,
On an average a railway postal
clerk works about fourteen hours Z
night for SIX consecutive nights, then
he has six nights of.
Divers, by recent French inyen-
ton, are said TO be enabled to 60 down
a distance OF eight hundred feet below
the surface of the water.
DIR. J. B. Lawes thinks that plants
"probably derive the whole of their or
ganic substance from the air-90 to %
per cent. of dry matter"
The ranks of the Grand Army of
the Republic in New York State are
said TO have been sweled greatly since
the death Of General Grant.
The late Sir Moses Montefiors fire.
quently sent checks for the relief of
his needy coreligiOnists in Boston, and
never less than $500 at once.
"A mica mine from which sheets
twenty feet in width are taken is said
to have been discovered about ninety
miles from Virginia City, New.
In the Red river country wild mus
tard has increased to such an extent that
the authorities have been appealed to
to take action for its destruction.
According to Mrs. Mary Treat, the
variety of the pitcher plant found in
North America is carnivOrous, being a
FEEDER on various animal substances.
United States Fish Commissioner
Blackford has received an electric eel
three feet long from South America. 1t
is said to be the first ever seen here
alive.
Old Mat, the famous Mammoth
Cave guide, who died lately, made over
twelve thousand trips into the cavern
during his service of nearly half cen
tury.
An American chemist Is said TO
have invented furnace by which he
obtains 80 per cent. of combustion out
of coal, instead of 10 per cent, as at
present.
Chickens manufactured" by the
incubator process are complained of by
some hotel che is as being greatly infe-
rlor 10 the hen-raised fowls in point OF
flavor and tenderness.