Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-04-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
-Dakota's debt is sSo4,O0O.

The annual revenue Of the British
government Is e2l0,OO0, 600
-AnthracIte has been discOveTeu Ia
new tnd) near Gila Bend, A. T.
Cincinnati people are buying tall
Old clocks, just to have them.
Rabbits damage Australia to the
extent of SIC, GOO, ,OOO per year.
Farm rents in England have de-
cllned SIX per cent. in five years.
There are 600 professional beauties
IN London who don't work at all.
There are ASP women editors In
England and ,3U9 photographers.
American steam brakes are used
by French and English railroads.
Good butter is selling for I7B cents
a pound in Nspa City, California.
Every member Of the Texas Land
Board is said to favor its abolition.
One town in North Carolina ship
ped last year lO3, 100000 cigarettes.
san Francisco has 1000 Chinese
children ineligible TO public schools.
Not a solitary young man in Ogle-
thorpe, Ga, it is said, cheWs tobacco.
Kit Carson's monument at Santa
Re is to be unveiled on Decoration Day.
Farmers near Fresno, Cal. are
marketing green corn and Strawberries.
In Baltimore recently, 100, 600
cases Of canned corn were sold 10 one
day.
"A Massachusetts physician has m-
duced forty young men - stop smOk-
ing.
There are 5j5 persons engaged in
the PostOflce Department in Washing
ton.
There are 1l2, 800 English school
teachers, nearly all Of whom are spins
ters.
Berlin expects a visit from Sitting
Bull and ten other Indians next sum
mer.
There were 3,253 pOstofiees estab-
lished last year, and ,62l were discOn-
tinued.
"A pearl has been found On tho
western Australian coast valued at
$4,000.
"A gentleman of Rockingham. n.
c., has pair Of elks that he drives 10
a buggy.
An astronomer in Kendall, Or. as
serts that the moon is a semi-transpar-
ent body.
-Buffalo's Music Hall. which was
destroyed by FIRE a week or 50 ago, is To
be rebuilt.
The fiber Of the hop vine is substi-
tuted for rags by French paper manu-
facturers.
Nearly 100000 worth of print
ing ink is used in the United States
every year.
"A reversible boot. which may 10
worn indlffere ntly on either foot, has
been patented.
Ten thousand five hundred women
end English books and ,, ,3)2 assist In
printing them.
Tie number OF pCst0flices robbed
last year was 46T, while 2s7 others were
destroyed by tire.
There were 465 Bostni. ,Sters who
died last year, while there were ~ who
were suspended.
Winnipeg, Man, has g12 trading
doing IN annual busi-
nesss Of 5 ., ,OC0,O
The number Of farmers in State
Legislature is SAID 10 be decreasing
from year to year.
The number Of postal notes issued
last year was 1863 .237. amounting In
money to S7,4ll, ,992 IS.
"A parrot, seyenty-fye years old,
still spry and great talkeU, is the pride
of Mauch Chunk, Pa.
The record for 1884 shows losses In
the United States and Canada 70 the
extent of SIP, 100000.
BY a small majority the Trustee Of
the British Museum have decided ia
favor of Sunday opening.
There were l, $50, ,76S, 45J ordinary
postage stamps sold last wear, the value
Of which was S20,O77 ,4l4.
Lincoln County, Ga, will charge
$1,000 for liquor licenses ON and after
the 1st Of next October.
The people Of GlenwOOd Springs
Col, have not seen the sun for a mOnCh
owing TO the constant rains.
The son Of an English peer, it IL
stated, is employed as a car-starter at
the Union Depot, in Pittsburg.
There are 90, ,I3S women nailnakers
in England. The nails are used in fas-
.ening hOrseshOes in place.
The free delivery system is now in
operation in 159 cities in the United
States, employing $500 carriers.
Statistics are cited to show that
here is one divorce for every sixteen
in the State OF Ohio.
There are in this country at pres
mt, according to estimates, very nearly,
( not fully, $4,000 skating rinks.
There are 16, ,OOO, 900 school chill
lTen in the United States, 10000, 600 OF
whom are enrolled in the public schools.
The largest sum ever accumulated
n one body is said TO be the 500, ,0O0,-
100 now in the United States Treasury.
Just sixteen years ago the interest
IN the national debt amounted sl43.-
100, 600 year. II is now SjS, ,000,O 900
George o., a famous Maine horse,
or which $4,000 was the price recently
efused by the owner, died the ether
lay.
"A cent of 1904, uneirculated and
bright in It's cotton packed
,ox sold recently in New York for $500,
t Is stated.
The death'of his grandchild, which
occurred few days ago, so affected a
male resident of Newport, r. Z, as to
ause his death.
"A Goshen IN. y man, who died
ecently, bequeathed all his money to
trangers, while his relatives he con-
oled with the possession Of his shotgun,