Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-08-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Berlin has an apothecaTy shop nearly
400 years old.

--uOo4it, Md, was lOuuucu W Lu0
French in I'LL.
Three Georgia weekly newspapers
are edited by women.
| California produces 100000 boxes
OF grapes every year.
The Brooklyn Directory for 1884
contains $50, 200 names.
The seed of the petunia grandihora
is worth $500 an ounce.
The late Lord Dudley's life was in
suTed tor over 81, 800, 600.
"A dozen humming birdsare grouped
on some imported bOnnets.
-'Shepherd" on Western ranch is
enlarged into ''sheepherder."
The debt of Memphis in 1879 was
5000, 900 now It Is 2,50O, 900.
Texas has I.OOO, 900 head Of cattle
belonging TO nOn-Tesidents.
The population of London is shell
tered by 100000 dwellings.
California has on hand a surplus Of
100000 bushels of wheat.
Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, re-
ceiyes 5000 visitors annually.
Large deposits of mica are said to
have been found In New Mexico.
There is a gorge in Yellowstone
Park where no sound can be heard.
Over 10000 900 cent pieces were
coined in the United States last year.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 people
ANNUALLY visit the White Mountains.
Thecapltal invested in wild animals
in this country is estimated at $1,000
loco.
The farms of the United States are
worth at least one thousand million dol
lars.
New Orleans was founded by a
company Of French Adventures in
I1743.
The Duchess of MOntrose lights
her training stables with the electric
/ light.
An insect Is rayaging the oyster
beds in the vicinity Of New Haven,
Conn
1t costs annually Sl,2UO,UUO for
links and pins for the freightcars in this
country.
"A Livingston county New York;
woman is the mother of twenty-seven
children.
Sing Sing prison has 1850 imates,
Slxty-tive being murderers serving life
sentence.
Mr.. Dana has seen New England
women eat five different kinds Of pie at
one meal.
There are now over {, 600, 600 stoves
in use, and the average life of stove is
five years.
Fifteen thousand transient guests
lodge in New York every night, it is
estimated.
The death rate of Dublin has
jumped to 1913 per l, 900, the highest
since 1888.
Specimen postage stamps are no
longer furnished collectors by the pos
tai department.
The annual value of the milk pro-
duct of this country is about half the
national debt.
No less than fOrty-seven candidates
are running for Sheriff In Phillip
county, Kan.
"A ton Of gum arabic Is used weekly
at the government envelope factory at
Hartford, Conn.
There were nearly 200, 900 pounds
of sugar made from sorghum cane, IN
Kansas, last year.
The population of Stockholm in
creased between 1856 and 1884 from
100000 to 2Uj,OJO.
Cigars by the cwt.-buylng them
by the hundred and telling the dealer to
wait for his money.
Russia wants immediate action on
the Afghan question in case England
reolens the discussion.
-GOvernor Hoadly, of Ohio, says his
expenses rs governor are annually at
least four times his salary.
A double white rose towering on a
red craD apple tree Is one of the sights
of South Farmingham, Mass.
No few than Ill dead bodies were
received at the Paris MOrgue last
month. 40 of them in two days.
--EX-MaTshal Bazaine, who surren-
dered Metz during the -Prussian
war, Is reported destitute at Madrid.
According to statistics not more
than five per cent. Of the persons living
in New York city own their houses.
Mount Hood, Ore, was Illumina-
ted on the night of July with red cal
cium lights, visible all over Oregon.
Tom Reed, who asbeen reelected
to Congress from Maine, was crack
oarsman at BOwdOin College in 1850.
Vaccination is carried out so
sNr af1r in TIea
soldier has died of smallpox since 1879.
Senator ingalls,, who has been visit
ing the Indian Territory, speaks favor
ably of the habits of the Indians there.
Henry VI. Stanley is disappointed
III not obtaining financial assistance
from England for the Congo compa.
ny.
Paper flour barrels are made in
Connecticut at cost Of twenty-three
cents each. Wooden ones cost seventy
five.
1t is estimated that the average
of eggs throughout the
United States amounts to 100000
daily.
"A japanese inventor has Just made
from seaweed a paper transparent
enough to be substituted for window
glass.
In Germany teachers employed 10y
the Government travel from place to
place and give instructions in bee.
keeping.
"A convict in an English prison
perfected the style of lawn-tennis rae
quet now the most popular among Bri-
tish players.
The timber work of the dOmes of
the Church of st. Mark at Venice is
more than $40 years old and is still In
good state.
S. w. Talmadge, the crop statisti-
cian, reports that the total wheat crop
for 1885 Will show shortage of 152,-
900, 600 bushels.
Recent experiments have demon
sITated that the heating value of coal
is diminished from 10 to p per cent. if
il is used while wet