Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-18
NO. g.,
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nearly 1000, 900 chi dren die every
year in Russia.
Frau MaUerna is suffering from q
sprained ankle.
The salary of the VicerOy of India
is Sl25 900 year.
Berlin has 1927 physicians, or one
to every 1890 inhabitants.
Germans make the most delicate
watch wheels Of paper pulp.
Frederick Douglass is believed To
to be worth at least Sl50,00O
There are 1852 women mission
aries and preachers in England.
Hereafter the New York Star Will
show its light but once week.
The newest craze is to collect every
kind and shape of parlOr lamps.
Several Western Railroads have
stopped the sale of mlliage tickets.
Yale is discussing the ACCESSIBILITY
OF founding cooperative society.
The number Of men employed on
the Panama Canal works IS 1900.
The United States used |, 100, 900
tons of sugar during the year 1884.
Counterfeit silver quarters. bearing
date 1871, are plentiful i'll Brooklyn.
The United States uses three times
as much paint as any other country.
The Harvard Divinity School has
seven professors and eleven students.
The United States is the third silk
manufacturing country in the world.
The highest priced pew in Grace
Church, New York, is 81 900 per year.
The wages Of the British iron work
ers were reduced 80 per cent. in 1884.
There are 600 professional beau
ties In London who don't work at all
1t is wise woman that knows her
own sealskin sacque from dyed beaver.
Vermont school teachers are pro-
hibited by law from the use of tobac-
co.
There are 452 women editors In
England and !, l,309 female photograph
eTS.
There are eleven million horses i'll
the United States, one to every five per-
sons.
Locomotives that cost SIS, 900 apiece
year ago can be bought for s., 900
each.
The United States is the third lar
gest beer producing country III the
world.
There ale 1895 English school
teachers, nearly all of whom are spins
ters.
In New York and London musical
circles the See Saw" waltz IS the
craze.
The United States contains three
quarters of the coal fields of the whole
world.
In some parts of Germany paper Is
now used in the manufacture of lead
pencils.
1t may become necessary to quar-
antine against those foreign earth
quake5.
"A pearl has been found on tho
Western Australian coast valued al
$4,000.
"A war on billboard displays of Oh
iectionaDle posters has opened in New
York City.
As an outcome of the hard times,
no shut down of brewery has yet been
reported.
Foreign students in Paris complain
of Determinations and being treated AZ
intruders.
Wachtel, the once famous tenor, has
tardily followed his voice and retired
from the stage.
The poor Of Paris are now crying
for bread. They may soon be clamOr-
ing for blood.
Out Of Italy's twenty-nine million
inhabitants only one million subscribe
to newspapers.
The NIhilists In Russia continue
busy enough to keep the procession To
Siberia moving.
-Windsor's great park costs the
Queen s125, 900 a year aud brings in
rentals of $4,000.
"A twenty-six pound mountain
trout, forty-seven inches long, is on ex-
hibitiOn in Denver.
There are sixteen locomotive works
in the United States, aside from shops
owned by railroads.
Two Boston houses send about
COO, 900 gallons OF rum to the Congo
district every year.
The Lights o. London" are 360,-
900 gas jets. consuming nightly S,OO0,-
600 cubic feet Of gas.
"A Norwich, Conn, lady has a ba-
mana plant on which several bananas
are now ripening.
In London 149 tons of chloride Of
lime are daily used for the deOdOriZlng
of the sewer outlets.
1t is said that Miss Maekey will
Beyer permit her Italian Count TO 60
into the peanut business.
The four million and odd farms in
this country are estimated at total
value of SO, 1871, ,O96, ,776.
-MinnesOta's assessed property val
uatiOn has increased 30 per cent. since
1870, being now over 800, 900, 600.
-CleOpatra's needle, in Central Park,
n. Y, is gradually crumbling away, II
is said, owing to climatic influences.
"A newly married couple at Bangor,
Maine, were so bashful that they would
not allow the event to be published in
tine p9pers.
Twelve thousand invitations will
be sent out for the Presidential inaug-
uratiOn ball But the recipients will
TO. all attend.
Nearly 5000 new books were pub
lished IN England last year, One-sixth
Of the whole number being on theOlOg
ical subjects, 408 were novels.
Policemen III Detroit can no lon
ger receive rewards, the commissioner 5
being determined to make the health
and life fund of the department the re-
eipient hereafter.
James j. Perrin, Treasurer Of the
School Board of Lafayette. Ind, has
presented the city with a library con-
tanning over 10, 900 volumeso of carefully
selected books.
Floating sawmills are common on
the lower Mississippi. They pick up
the drifting logs, turn them into ium-
Der, and sell the product TO planters
along tho shore.
The next festival Of the United
Singers, of Brooklyn, will begin on July
5, 1SS5.and continue four days. Twen-
ty societies, comprising at least 4OOO
voices, viii participate.