Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-11-04
NEWS IN BRIEF

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and comes to America to make it up.
The tomb of Juliet, at Verona, is
kept decorated with flowers by visitors.
Now Indiana comes forward with
man who claims to be 400 years old.
Herds of antelOpes obstruct the
running of trains on Dakota railways.
The city of Cottage City, Martha's
Vineyard, is laid out like capital u.
-Fire-alarm boxes have been placed
in the public schools of New York city.
Baron Rothschlld's private picture
gallery in Paris is valued at $40, ,O0U, 900.
The English sparrow has found his
way into every city and town in the
South.
"A queen bee lays from two thous-
and to three thousand eggs IN ninety
four hours.
The great house built by Story of
the Chicago Times has been bought for
convent.
The circus manager, Cole, has
made, it is said, $4,000, ,0O0, and Is only
33 years old.
"A novelty IN silver is the discovery
of process of electrO-platlng with sill
yer upon wood.
Cigarette smokers are hereafter to
be expelled from the public schools of
Newark, n. J.
In one of his novels Walter Scott
uses the expressions true facts" and
"a dead corpse"
Two lady jOckies lately drove horses
in a trOtting race in New Bedford,
Mass, for $500 side.
In Japan, where cremation is regu-
laTly practised, the most expensive form
costs only seven dollars.
The Emigrant Industrial Savings
Bank in New York has reduced the
rate of interest to A. per cent.
The New York subscription to the
Grant monument is only So, 900. The
amount to be raised is 81 ,0O0,0O
Female mining stock dealers and
spectators in San Francisco are
euphOniOusly dubbed ''mud hens"
An eastern temperance lecturer
goes around with the formidable name
of Rev. Mangasar NJ. Mangasarian.
"A young lady in New York, pass
ing baseball game, was struck ON the
back by a ball and died of the injury.
Brown, the Boston lawyer who op-
posed Ben. Butler in the Tewksbury
Investigation, has embeZZled s20, 900.
In Bibb county, Georgia, the people
of the neighbOrhOOd are called to church
by the silyery notes OF hunting bugle.
"A Georgia negro was promised the
beef in a steer If ne would butt the ami
mai to death. He did 1t at one jump.
The highest percentage ever reach
ed in a civil service examination in this
country was by woman, who scored
81.
Miss Smith, the Connecticut old
maid who refused to pay her taxes,
married at so, and says it is happy
state.
Two creeks, named ''Froze to
Death" and ''Starved 70 Death" are
on the new map of Custer county, Mon
tana.
The estimated corn crop of Nebras-
ka this year is 120,000,000 bushels
nearly 100000 bushels greater than
last year.
"A County Treasurer in Iowa named
King stole S45, eco, and was acquitted
by jury. That is big pile to win on
one king.
"A New York physician, who Is ten
years older than he looks, accounts for
his youth by the fact that he eats 5000
lemons year.
"A grizzly bear in the Selkirk Noun
tains has eaten two telegraph line re-
pairers. He is suspected of trying TO
bear the stock.
The King of Wurtemburg is in Sc
riOus falling health. and will spend the
winter at Nice in desperate attempt
to proiong his life.
During the twelve years occupied
IN the translation of the new version of
the Old Testament twelve of the twen-
ty-seven translatOrs died.
"A new steamer costing some $50, COO
has Just been constructed by the church
missionary society for the use of its
missions on the river Niger.
The navy of this great and glorious
country numbers less than 100 vessels,
but we have 1000 officers and ought to
feel safe on that account.
Canadian canoes are establishing
themselves on the Thames, and prom
Ise to share with the more eapaeious
steam launch the honOrs of popular
favOritism.
More than a hundred tons OF human
hair are annually bought and sold In
Europe. Four ounces is an average
clipping from human head; SO that
hundred tons represent the product of
from $40, 600 to 1000, 600 heads.
France produces 81, ,720, ,428 kllo-
grammes of rags a year, the value of
which is estimated at no less than $685.
334 400. The total number of persons
employed in rag-picking and allied in
dustries is said TO be 2S4, SCI.
The same flag was used at Vallejo,
Cal during the celebration of the re-
cent Admission Day anniversary that
was flung to the breeze when the news
of the admission of California as State
was received thirty-fiYe years ago.
The new sculpture room in the Bri-
tish Museum. soon to be opened, viii
contain the remains Of the MausOleum
at Halicarnassas, which was erected by
Artemesia $50 b. c., over the remains
of her husband, Mausolus.
The monster petition Of the Saliva
ton Army regarding the protection OF
girls, recently presented to the English
Parliament, was two miles 600 yards
and one foot long, and bore upward Of
393, 900 signatures.
The total number desperate farms
in the United States is 4, 900, 900, the
value of which is g., 1000. 900, 600. The
value Of the annual products OF these
farms is e6O0, ,OOO, 600. and the value Of
farming implements in use upon the
farms is ESQ, 100000.