Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-07-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are OG, 900 trees IN the streets
of WashingtO1.
British postal savings banks have
s293 sos, S65 on deposit.
The fortune Of the Marquis OF
Rigon is $500, 900 year.
Good crops and prosperous mining
operations are reported from Arizona.
"A marked falling off in the con-
sumption OF alligator skin leather is
reported.
The United States now furnishes
one-half Of the worlds supply of gold
and silver.
-WhoOping cough is on the rampage
In Tallahassee, Fla. but no deaths are
reported yet
Irwin, Penn, boasts OF d one-armed
bieycllst, and Chicago claims a hlcyclist
with cork leg.
1t is claimed the experiment of
making black glass from shale has pro
ven successful.
Nearly forty mine million dollars
are on deposit IN the savings banks OF
New Hampshire.
1t Is expected that riyer fire boat :
VIII soon be added to the firr depart
ment of Chicago.
Passengers by the overland route to
Portland from San Francisco make the
trip now in about SO hours.
"A ee stung a little New Orleans
girl recently on the ball of the eve. com
pletely destroying the sight.
Iowa has 30 3 cattle 10 the square
mile, larger number, it is said, than
any other State in the country.
Only about one-sixth of the coun-
ties IN Georgia, it is said, have failed to
adopt either prohibition or high license.
Ants are said to guide well diggers
IN selecting spots in Dakota, as the lit
tie toners themselves build over water
veins
a resident O1 Geddes. OuUndaga
county, y. Y, is reported to have sold
his wife for i've dollars. sating he was
hard up"
Sturgeon from Lake OntanO are
said be manufactured into smoked
hallbut' TO as great az extent as the
real article.
Loo OTOOd. said 10 be ndIsenOus 10
Nevada. is relishedby horses, and brings
on a species Of mild insanity which
lasts some days.
Nine Brooklyn saloon keepers, who
were charged with selling on Sunday,
surrendered their licenses recently
rather than stand trial.
During all seasons ot the year. it is
said, the earth at Yakutsk, Siberia, is
frozen at from the depth e fifty feet To
that of about /, 900 feet
New Bedford, Mass, carpenters
shingled one side Of the rOof Of a house
before they discovered they were work
ing on the wrong building.
--Baldheaded men are 50 numerous
in Chicago that an audience in that city
IS said to LOOK, when viewed from above.
Ike cobble-stOne pavement.
"A teller IN a Providence bank was
few days ago TO be made cashier, but
instead languished in jail for being
defaulter 10 the sum OF So, 600.
The die from which the Franklin
cent was made is now used, the y. Y.
Tribune says, as a paper-weight in a
hardware house in New Haven.
The Kentucky State Prison CON
tains IS prisoners sentenced for life
terms. This, it is said. : the largest
number IN any prison in the country.
"A pair of steel boiler heads, l02 in-
ches IN diameter and One-half inch
thick, were rolled at the Spang Steel
and Iron Works, Pittsburg, recently.
Michigan holds the championship
Of the union as sbingling manufact-
uTiIg State. From l,o4g establish
meuts 2,5S4, ,7lT Geo are made per an
num.
"A roller RINK proprietor, III whose
establishment in Chicago a girl was So
TiOusly injured short time ago, has
paid over 10 her parents $1,000 as dam
ages
Not single TIRE that required the
services of the firemen has occurred in
Pittsburg for one week, an incident
that has not occurred there before for
years.
OF the long roll OF English soyer-
eigns, only nine have surpassed Queen
Victoria in longevity, and only three
have occupied the throne longer than
she has.
The degree of doctor Of laws which
the University of Chill has Just con
ferred on DR.. Logan, our Minister at
is the first it has ever gwen To
a foreigner.
Fires have been discovered on two
different British war vessels a. Bermu-
da, recently, and the authorities are
said to ascribe them both 70 the agency
of dynamiters.
"A scheme IS being agitated in Pitts
burg to create the office of purchasing
agent, the duties of which shall be the
buying of the supplies for the various
city departments.
"A meteor, which appeared to be
about the size OF a -four barrel, was
seen flying through the air recently b.
several residents of Sherman and Me
Kinney, Texas.
"A eOlOTed man, residing in Little
Rock, Arkansas, studied law while in
business as shoe dealer, was admitted
to the bar and has now been elected a
police justice.
-Mosquitos have put in an unusual
at some of the seashore re-
sorts, but the man who insists on taking
a poll of votes on the Presidential ques-
tiOn will not turn up.
The largest business ever done by
the United States Patent Office, it is
said, was that of April, when there
were 3l59 applications for patents and
SlO0, $40 received for fees.
An engineer employed for the past
90 years on ? Georgia railroad claims to
have travelled during that period dist
ance equal to about q times the cir
of the earth.
An average of 10 cents a pound
was realized in Chicago for the several
tons of cherries shipped there recently
from San Francisco. The growers
profit by the transaction is estimated at
about Sl00 ton.
The despatch announcing the win
ner of the Derby races was flashed frOm
London to New York, says the Journal
of that city, in two seconds, the time
being carefully computed.
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