Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-12-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Loncon, II IS estimated, has about
81 931 paupers.
There are about 5000 Chinese in
New York state.
-PickpOckets have been working"
Newark IN. j. churches lately.
There were 23,31O houses built in
London and the suburbs in 1882.
Professor Agassiz is said to be the
wealthieSt of American scientists.
Diamonds are reported to have fall
len 40 per cent. in price in London.
The last peusioner or the war Of
~, residing in Lowell, died few days
ago.
Pocket handkerchiefs came into
use IN the time Of Henry w of Eng
land.
Vienna officials rigidly exclude the
use OF velOcipedes or bicycles on the
streets.
/ The four track system on the PENN
sylvania railroad now extends a distance
OF eleven miles.
There have been sixteen suicides
and two murders at Monte Carrie since
the lst of January.
General Beauregard came out Of
The war a comparatively poor man, but
he is now wealthy.
| in New Orleans heads of fish are
dried, mounted and sold for table and
mantel ornaments.
-Thirty-three of the leading citizens
o. Edgefeld, ). c.. are under indict-
ment for lynching.
An old companion Of Scnuz and
Niecei IS working cOntentedly as bar
ber in Atlanta, Ga
Sulphur is deposited in the top of
Mount POpOcataptl at the rate Of ton
4 day, 1t IS stated.
Ten novels arewr!tten and rejected
in England, it is stated, for every one
that IS published there.
Nickel is hetter conduct or 13.ID
than lead tS.33l, is lighter than lead,
and does not Oxidize So much.
There is "slave corner in all old
New England graveyards, where the
| IblackamOoT chattelS were buried.
-Georgia' S penltentiary now contains
1882 prisoners, the largest number ever
recorded on the registry at one time.
England has an insurance society
which makes a speciality of insurlEg
against damage done by hail storms.
/ AT an exhibition of cage birds in
London recently, one OF the great at
fractions was abullfuch valued at $3.50.
According to the last census, there
is one millner toeyery 81 women, while
theTe is only one tailor TO every - men.
--SiXty-four counties in Texas did
not vote at the last Presidential election.
Many Of them have Stree been organiz-
ed.
/ "A dog belonging u /. Cincinnati
shoe dealer chews tobacco, using up
about a quarter of 4 teu-cent ping every
day.
Guatemala encourages cattle farm
I ing by prohibiting the slaughter OF COWS
and severely taxing the expectation OF
I heifers.
l There are said 10 be only about
i, coo members of the Society of Friends
/ (Quakers), now in Great Britain and
Ireland.
Ladies in the Cadet Club of the
State University, No. are said To drill
with guns and to he making excellent
progress"
San Jose Call dry goods dealers
were victimized last week by an insane
woman, who ordered an extensive we'd
ding outfit.
Roller skating IS INDUCED in with
great ardor at the American Institute,
y. Y, with 0ver thousand skaters on
the floor in IN evening.
Senator German and congressman
Townsend (of llljnois) and W. l.. Scott
(Pennsylvanial are SAID 20 have served
as pages in the House.
The distance from Trinkitat TO
Tokar is twenty miles: Trinkitat to
Suakim, twenty-five miles; TOSar to
Suakim, fOrty-eight miles.
New York City has eight hundred
Tag.p!ckers who gather $4,000 worth
Of rags In tie streets and roads. The
pickeTs are mostly Italians.
An cid farmer LIVING near Indiana
polIS has Just lost his fourth wifr The
first three died and his latest las elOped
with the old mans bachelor son.
The Queen Of Madagascar Is saId
To have oIganIzed a police force to pre-
vent the manufacture, Importation or
sale of intOXIcants in her dominiOnS.
"A dividend authorized few days
ago Oh the old account of the Newark
N. J. Dime Savings Bank brings the
total paid depositors up TO 90 per cent
Scientists affirm that diseases such
rs typhoid fever are in many cases dis
tinctly traceable tO the milk of cows
who have had only impure water to
drink.
"A young Jew in st. Petersburg has
invented Il watch which goes by elec-
tricity. The watches are made without
any springs, and consist solely of two
wheels.
The combined ages Of Il family of
three brothers ard three sisters living
in Auburn, Me-, aggregate sos years
The eldest Is a sister, aged %, and the
youngest is brother, IS years old.
AT 4 library sale in New York, the
other day, $3.50 was the sum paid for a
copy of the second edition Of the John
Eliot Bible" beng EliOt's translation
OF the Bible into the Indian language.
-Oiea Bull, the l. year old daughter
OF Ole Bull, the famous viOlinist, is
about to visit Norway with her mother,
and il is thought will appear in concerts
there. She possesses some of her
fathers talent rs vIOlinist.
Crystals Of oxygen have recently
been obtained in Paris by ErsJ liquefy-
ing the gas under great pressure, and
then suddenly removing the pressure.
The temperature Of tho liquid mass is
thus greatly lowered. End crystals Of
oxygen are formed IN il.
-NOn-pOisOnouS Orgau:c acids aid
digestion. Hence the use of vinegar
as a condiment is based on good rea-
sons, but with the condition that the
quantity must not be ~ great as to irri-
tate the stomach itself.
During the present year, forty fe-
male students have entered upon a
course of study at the Paris hospitals.
( Only three or four of these are French
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