Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-03-18
NEWS IN 1RlEt.

England has So peers.
Divorces are becoming common in
Scotland.
AT Vienna 34f people committed
suicide in 1884
Iowa has Loo horses, or one for
every ten persons.
New York has at least $50 profess
] sional tea-tasters. 4
"A man must often exercise or fast,
take physic or be sick.
The liquor license has beer raised
90 $500 in Columbus. Ga
London contains 1900 clergymen
and 500 drinking places.
High gas bills are also being COM
planned of by BaltjmOreans. :
An insufficient water supply is also
complained of in Albany, Ga 4
Texas claims to have the finest pub
| lie school system in the country.
Ohio has 80 colieges-Seven times
| the number in Massachusetts.
Italian composers produced forty
new operas and OpeTettas last year.
| The cOlOred people are shortly 10 have
a roller skating rink in New York.
England possesses 1S4 mining COM
panieS with capital OF S14 ,952, ,207.
/ The Senate Of Nebraska, number
ing 33 members, employs 76 persons.
The University of Michigan has
1877 students, $50 of whom are wOm-
en-.
"A war between rival stage and
horse cars owners is raging in Trenton,
y. J.
Great Britain possesses $50 thea
tres. Twenty-three were closed during
/ 1884.
'Lasso competitions are among the
amusements in frontier settlements Of
Texas.
"A list Of bad tenants is posted in
the offices of the real estate agents Of
Chicago
of the young ladies' in the Normal
College in New York, > per cent. are
/ JeweSses.
! The shipbuilding prospect is grad
ually assuming a brighter outlook in
( Bath, Me.
German public schools are about to
adopt HawthOrne's works for the study
OF English.
Sites of old lake dwellings have
been discovered on the eastern coast Of
Yorkshire.
This country has 6.S0S Indian chill
/ dren in boarding schools and 5.lSO in
day schools.
The French government paid the
/ inventor of oleOmargarine 10, 600 francs
/ for his work.
The tax on commercial travellers is
being done away with by many of the
! Georgia towns.
-Haverstraw, N.Y.,is credited with
beng the greatest brick manufacturing
c5ntre in America.
! "A recent census gives the pOpula-
ton Of Japan as 81. 442 ,9j6, OF whom
/ 1880, l59 are males.
Nine boys deserted reganIy- fam
the training ship New Hampshire, now
lying in Newport Harbor.
Fifty eight million dollars is the
estimated value of the finger rings OF
this country actually Worn.
The membership of the G.. A. r.
in Vermont includes about One-half OF
- sesersns residing in the State.
The price Of certain kinds of box
wood has increased considerably in con-
sequence of the roller sSiJlH- craze.
Counterfeit silver dollars are in
circulation in WilliamspOrt, Pa, much
10 the annoyance of business people.
For sailing the railroad tracks an
pTpnlDv Of a Rnsfprt a,r,,r,.,,.,- ,,-,,.-
ted recently, and fined S25 and costs.
Melbourne, Ark, with pOpula-
tion of go, has four churches, any one
of which VIII hold the entire population,
Barn burners have been remarka-
bly, numerous in Huntingdon county.
much to the annoyance and loss of far
mers.
The loss of cattle from the cold in
some sections of Indian Territory
reaches as high as sixty per cent, it is
reported.
"A Jersey City man has recovered a
verdict of s. against a Palace Car Com
Pany for the loss of an umbrella left in
the car.
"A number OF steel field pieces re-
Gently forged at the arsenal, Osaka.
Japan, have been served out to the In
perial Guards.
Instances of human beings being
attacked with glanders are becoming
more frequent, no less than three such
cases being reported from Illinois.
An octave volume of sacred songs
in shorthand, picked up by the British
Museum, is discovered to be the work
of James Ward, the English painter.
Seventy Hungarians are to be
shipped back to Europe from New
York this week, as they are without
means of subsistence or friends to keep
them.
During the past week two more
new cigar factories were added to the
already large number in Key West,
Fla. They viii employ about 13O oper-
atives.
1t is estimated that two large par
ties given in Boston recently were pro-
ductive of the distribution of two hun
dTed thousand dollars among artisans
and others.
An unusual number Of foxes are
roaming through New jersey, especially
IN Warren county, where the farmers
have suffered great loss through their
depredatiOns.
Bach, who was organiSt in Cothen
from 17l7 to 1923, Is to have a mOnu-
ment to his memory erected by the
tOwnSpeOple to celebrate his two hun
dTedth birthday.
Less than 200 OF the more than GOO
places mentioned by the Bible in Pales-
tine, west of Jordan, are said to remain
unidentified by the Palestine ExplOra-
tion Fund staE.
"A famous inn at Bath, England,
called the Sedan Chair, has been de-
molished. Under the cellar a 1ne mo-
sale pavement has been found belong
ing TO Roman tunes.
An enterpTIsing stage manager IN
London has had his stage grass manu-