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


way.
There are 193, 600 physicians in this
country.
"A servlceable balloon can be bought
for $500.
There are S,OOO,6OO tobacco seeds
in pound.
Pennsylvania has an editor ninety
one years old.
Texas has shipped 4,7O7, ,976 head
of stock since 1866.
The rage now in Paris is ''to be
married at midnight
"A new town IN Alaska is Klat-ol-
kin, "JOhnny's Village"
Over S100, 600 is paid annually in
salaries to base ball players.
-Three-fourths of the officers in the
German army wear cOrSets.
Boston has more social clubs than
any other city in this country.
Mitchell. OAK, with a population
Of 5000 has twenty-three lawyers.
-Forty-ore counties in West Virgil
MIA prohibit the sale or intoxicants.
Fifteen cigarette factories have
been started lately in the City of Mex
leo.
Louise Michel, who is still in prison,
is at work on novel rs well as his
tory.
In California, last year, SSO, 900
pounds of salt were extracted from sea
water.
King Ludwig Of Bavaria thrashes
the dentist every time he has 4 tooth
pulled.
The government envelope factory
at Hartford, Conn uses ton of gum
= week.
The cost of the epidemic of small
pOx at Montreal is likely to reach So
10000
"A California lion was killed by
large dog near Grass Valley, Colorado,
last week.
1t is estimated that the peanut crop
Of the South this year viii be worth
S3,0OO,OOO.
Texas makes highway robbery pun
lshab!e by an imprisonment of not less
than ten years.
"A young Lowell, Mass, house
keeper claims to feed seven people well
on S25 month,
New York city. it is reported, has
10000 persons who depend on gambling
for livelihood.
Green County, Wis, is credited
with having no less than As LiE1Di.rger
cheese factories.
The Peninsula peach orchards is
said to have yielded about 5000, 900
bushels this season.
There are fifty illicit distilleries and
only three licensed ones in one district
in North Carolina.
About One-sixteenth of the eight
miles of the Cape Cod ship canal is
practically completed.
Minnesota, Michigan and Maine
Lave substituted capital punishment for
Imprisonment for life.
No less Il person than William
Shakespeare is playing a leading role in
Il new tragedy at Hanover.
Truth is stranger than a woody
horse" \ Syracuse man has Il bull
with fleece of curly WOOL"
-One Of the curiOsities ct the White
Sulphur Springs is 4 poet who wears
buttons on his vest which cost S16 each.
The number Of cotton mills in the
southern states has increased from $50,
four years ago, 10 3l5 ut the present
time.
"A leper was found among tine Chi
nese passengers that reached Victoria,
Is. c., on the Queen of the Pacific, re-
Gently.
"A recent report from the Minister
of Public Instruction shows that there
are 100, 900 public school teachers in
France.
Paper is now used for the manu-
facture Of bottles, large numbers of
which are made by both Germany and
Austria.
The former estimate Of s25C. 900
for the Bartholdl pedestal is now known
TO have been too low. $500, 600 will be
needed.
George Eliot's "Adam Bedeu is
being dramatized, and the adaptation
will be produced both In England and
America.
AT the present rate, it would take
the Supreme Court of the United States
13J years to get through the cases on
the calendar.
The boil worm has made it's APPEAR
ance in the cotton belt of Alabama, and
1t is said the crops will be cut of at
least % per cent.
Julio Santos, the American citizen.
who has been uniustly imprisoned for
months by the authorities of Ecuador,
has been set free.
An Ohio POstmaSter's name is
Emancipation Proclamation COgsvel.
He was born on the day the prociama-
ton SaS issued.
The lowest death rate ever recorded
i'll London was that of the second week
in september, when it was but 15.6 per
COO of population.
There is new island about 200 feet
long in the Hudson few miles below
Albany, which bOatmen say will serious
ly obstruct navigation.
The Kona coffee of Hawaii IS said
TO take peculiar flavor from the soil,
a delicious rich sweetness equallng if
not SURPRISING the Mocha.
The brokers of Mark Lane, London,
say that people want 20 per cent. more
bread when the weather is cold than
when it is mild and mUggy.
Thomas Moffitt, who was supposed
to have been killed in the wax, now
turns up wealthy land owner in Mex
leo, with 10, 600 head of catt e.
The largest and finest piece Of plate
glass ever made III this country has Just
been finished at Jeffersonville, Ind,
s feet inches by II feet.
During the past twelve months
CSC, 900 pounds of unwholesome and
adulterated teas have been seized and
at the port Of New YORK.
The "BOlselas" of an encampment
Of gypsies, near Cleveland, was recently
securing that city for one % its gay
youth, with whom the ''queen" OF the
band has elopei.
There are about 81, coo, ,000, 600
Kept in Wall street and vicinity, mostly
in the vaults of safe deposit companies.
These storing places are iOade rs thor
oughly fire and burglar-prOof as possible,
and have armed watchnen in the rooms
upon which they open: and others in