Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-12-16
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

! IHe NoIll !S estimated at 1yD,UUU.
TIE price of diamonds has fallen in
london from SIS to 1915 per karat.
BY new invention blind people
can play whist as well as those who can
see.
Pocket handkerchiefs came into
use in the time OF EdEard ". OF Eng
land.
jamestown, d. T., has advertised
for brass band.
Dakota built nearly 5000 school
houses IN the past year.
Tennessee employs 1881 colored
male and 422 cclOred female school
teachers.
Atlanta is ROW credited with a
population Of 1900, Of which 5000
are blacks.
The rector Of a fashionable church
in Utah IS spoken of as the Apostle Of
the Gentee's."
Russia produces annually over 49,
600 tons of honey, valued at about four
million dollars.
"A manufacturing company in
Athens, Ga, has provided free schools
for It's employees.
1t is illegal in Paris for news
dealer to lend out a newspaper to any
one for reading purposes.
Over the grated door of the county
Iall In Winona, MINI, is the motto,
God Bless Our Home"
"A larger ratio of people born in Yer
mont have emigrated than from any
other State in the Union.
Two centuries ago the population
Of Berlin was IL, 400, of whom over
5000 were French, chiefly Huguenot
eXiles.
The annual income of a famous
Baltimore chiropOdist is $4,000. He
IS employed almost exclusively by the
wealthy.
The CatskIll mountains are already
covered with snow at various points,
and ice half an inch thick is frequently
met with.
"A man in Louisville had the first
tooth of his first grandchild mounted on
gold pin, and wears 1t on his scarf as
an ornament.
Rev. Dr.. Chas. bIOldehnke, an
American EgyptolOgist. says the obelisk
In Central Park IS ''pinlng away from
homesicknesS.
The suttee Is still largely practiced
in India. Over three thousand widows
by this means devoted themselves to
death last year.
Prairie grass is now turned into
paper. y mill at Quincy, No., has
used 400, 600 tons of the grass for that
purpose since June.
"A pearl as large as a pigeon egg
was shown in Paris recently. There
were Ia others IN the bivalve from
whlchit was taken.
"A factory for the manufacture Of
IDOLS Tor use in Chinese professions aEf
temples, has been started by Celestial
IL Sacramento, Cal.
The Victory, the war ship on which
Nelson fought and fell at Trafalgar, is
at Portsmouth, England, in a good
state of preservation.
The prospective cOxSwain of the
ale University crew weighs sixty-fye
pounds and is the lightest man who has
ever been in the college.
"A little girl only wears old took
the first prize for oil painting at the
Los Angeles fair. Her subject was
Christmas roses"
Within week two men have com.
mitted suicide by jumping overheard
from steamers plying between Fall
River and New York.
Smoking at funerals or in funeral
professions IS a practice that has caused
Conn citizens to organ
ize for its suppression.
France, Greece and Italy have
agreed to redeem silver coins in gold
for i've years more, but no additional
silver coinage to be made.
-Mohammedan women in Constan-
tinOple greet their Christian acquain-
tances with the loving salutation:
May the dogs devour your bones"
The people in Madagascar on the
leath of the Queen recently, were, it is
sald, forbidden for two months to wear
hats, carry umbrellas or plait their hair.
An English scientist believes that
fragments Of Noah's ark are still in
and he proposes TO take a
party to Mount Ararat to search for
hem.
"A graduate of a theological SEMI
nary in New York has been refused a
license to preach because he lived too
and dressed too fashion
IDLY.
"A Buffalo surgeon says cancer is
alarmingly prevalent in this
country. In two years practice he has
encountered over $50 cases of the di-
ease.
Since 1852 the sum of S373, ,OO0, 900
las been expended in the improvement
md establishment of the French cap.-
al. of this amount SIG, 900, 900 was
aid out on the streets.
Underground telegraph wires hav-
NJ proved successful in France, the
government has determined to lay
bout $3.50 miles of cable, the cost of
which is estimated at $40, 100000.
"A missionary in India says new
leathen temples are being built in many
# the cities and villages of that coun-
~. He therefore concludes that pag-
nism is increasing rather than dying
ut.
Russian inspectors of provisions at
i. Petersburg not long ago found pack
ges of tea adulterated with 40 per
ent. Of pea shells, and also factory
gheTe exhausted tea leaves were worked
Yer.
Wealthy people in New York, on
be occasion OF party or other special
altering, employ a professor" to de-
cribe the good points OF their painting,
nd extol their excellence and value.
There is a movement on foot among
he colored people of the country to
aise large sum Of money for the erec-
ion Of a monument at Washington to
commemorate their emancipation from
layery.
Five years ago two gold fish were
laced in the pond of the CohasSett,
lass, common. When the poRd was
rained the other day it was found that
be single pair Of fish had increased to
thousands.
California is said TO be the ouly