Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-09-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Illinois spent $40. .OOO, 900 for liquors
in 1884.
A Bay City, Michigan, well is 1920
feet deep.
Divorces are becominscommon in
Scotland.
Ten thousand strangers enter Lon
don every day.
Mexico has ouly 81, 900 in the ns-
tlonal treasury.
Paris annually consumes Sc, ,0O0, zoo
pounds of butter.
Jews own more than 1,2o0, 900
acres Of Russian land.
-Rhubarb is now regularly shipped
from Oregon to Boston.
Over LOO, 900 of the cattle of Tex
as are owned by foreigners.
"A bogus Lulu Hurst is working the
remote towns of the West.
The policemen in Pensacola, Fla.
sport umbrellas while on duty.
"A lamb was born in Raymond, N.
H, recently with but two legs.
There have been nine wars in Eu-
rope within the last thirty years.
1t is said there are only about a
dozen wooden houses in London.
Farm rents in England have de-
elined six per cent in five years.
1t is figured that !, 7,OOO, 900 sermons
are preached to Americans yearly.
Success is a cleaning headlight
which attracts the moths of adulation.
The integrity of fools is what is
commonly called the policy of honesty.
-Mexico's yearly cotton production
is estimated at over $4,000, 900 pounds.
The assessed value of Illinois 1,
80, 900, 900 less than il was enc year
ago.
New Mexico spent 5000 for
churches and Sc, 6,S45.000 for liquor last
year.
Daniel Boon, the pioneer of Ken
lucky, was born in Bucks county, Pa,
in 1877.
One fourth of the students in the
Female Normal College Of Boston are
Hebrews.
"A party are exploring the Salt river
canyon, A. T., feat never before at
tempted.
The cost Of the British expedition
mp the Nile Is estimated at about $40
0OO,OLO.
Mississippi spends nearly twice as
much for education as her neighbor OF
Alabama
Newport sends hot-house grapes to
New York and gets four dollars a pound
for them.
There are 10000 Bohemians IN
Chicago, 10000 in Cleveland and 5000
in New York.
The assessed value Of real estate
and personal property OF Pennsylvania
is 81, ,693, 459, ole.
The Germans now make the finest
and most delicate wheels of watches
from paper pulp.
Accounting TO the largest vine grow
ers of France a splendid vintage is ex-
pected this year.
"A salmon weighing thirty pounds
was taken from the Connecticut river
at Essex recently.
Cheese rinds are disposed Of by
making them into cement for mending
glass and porcelain.
The population of the District of
Columbia, according to the census Just
completed, is 205, 900.
A physician of HammontOn, N.
j., has four sons who have adopted the
medical profession.
The Chautauqua University, which
is conducted on the correspondence
plan, has 0,000 students
Last year there were 1884 foreign
residents in the treaty ports of China,
half Of them being English.
Twelve petrified clans were found
at depth of $50 feet recently while
boring oil at Purissima, Cal.
"A Glen Cove, L. l., man is the
owner of rooster which catches mice
as well as any cat in the place.
"A citizen of Brooks, Me-, was re-
Gently made insane by rappings and
other mysterious noises in his house.
Brazil has 1,117 .O22 slaves, and
the Brazilian Government is eOntem-
plating their emancipation by purchase.
Girls from to Il years of age now
wear the Gretchen dresses that were
first used merely by their little sisters.
AT Fort Pam, Ny. they are SELL
ing spring cheese at J cents per pound,
the lowest price ever known In that sec
tion.
The timber work of the domes of
the Church of st. Mark, at Venice, is
more than $40 years old, and is still in
a good state.
"A eolored farmer in Laurens coun-
ty, S. c., recently lost his mule and has
since, it is said been using his two boys
to pull the plow.
"A trout weighing nine and three
fourths pounds was caught with snare
in Fish lake, near Ophir, in the San
Juan, Cal, country, recently.
Fifteen years ago the net forest
revenue OF British India was $3.50, 900.
Now 1t is 81 ,0O0,O0 Forest culture
las brought about the change.
The stOppage of the print mills at
Fall River for one month has curtailed
production $50. 600 pieces, and made a
a loss to the operatives Of $3.50, 600.
Two tumors. one weighing thirty
pounds and the other fifty, were removed
from Mrs. G. L. Brewster, OF BaraboO,
Wis, and it is thought she will recov-
er.
According to manufacturers Of
wood mosaIcs, hard maple on end is four
OF five times as durable as marble and
equally durable with the hardest baked
tile.
An immense deposit Of coal is sand
to have been found on the Santa Fe
river, Florida, five or six miles below
the junction of that stream with the
Suwannee.
AT wedding recently In Eagle
Point, Oregon, the bride, who was aged
SO, took part in the dance which fol-
lowed the ceremony. The groom was
"a years old.
in a New York store the girl
clerks, being suspected of a petty theft,
organized vigilance committee and
caught the villain, who was full
grown man.
Washington Territory farmers are
now s. ling their wheat which was held
over from last year. The best price ob-
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