Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-05-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

tomatoes aie beng used by Col
umbia county, Fla, farmer to make
vinegar.
Twenty millions of acres of land in
this country are held by foreign land
owners.
Over 6.0JO striking coal miners
have resumed work in the PIttsburg
district.
London has four FIRE brigade dis.
tricts. each brigade having GOO men and
officers.
Italy has 4,SOO.GO0 lemon trees,
which produces 100000, 200 lemons
annually.
in 1926 there were less than 200
physicians in all Berlin. Now there are
over 1000.
Liquor is reported as now being
expressed to prohibition counties in
nail kegs.
"A prayer hospital foI the perform.
ance of faith cures has been established
in Erie, Pa.
In Australia the peach crop is 50
enormous some years as TO furnish food
for the pigs.
1t does not cost much to get mar.
ried in New Jersey; the license fee Is
only y cents.
The French originated the indus
trial exhibition; the first was held IN
Paris in I79S.
Platinum has recently been drawn
into wire SO fine as to be invisible to
the naked eye
There were 400 deaths by light.
ming in France between the years of
1890 and 1864.
Fire losses in the United Statesand
Canada during the month of March
were 100000.
OF the forty members which the
Kansas State Senate contains, all but
three are lawyers.
-Telegraphing rates to some points
are now almost as cheap rs postage was
half a century ago.
Wood has been almost entirely su;
perSeded in English ship building yards
by iron and steel
-Atlanta's new council is expected
to put up the retail liquor license price
from $500 to $1,000.
Unlike many other towns in the
South, Selma, Ala, has not had a fire
since last summer.
"A leather cannon was proved at
Edinburgh in I77S, fired three times
and pronounced good.
-Four hundred dollars was paid re-
Gently by citizen of Pittsfield, Mass,
for an African gray parrot.
Mile. Van Zandt's success IN St
Petersburg with 'Lakme" is reported
To have been very brilliant.
The world contains 1885, paper
mills, which manufacture 90i ,OOO, ,0OC
pounds of paper annually.
Cork, when carbOuized, produces
". ) per cent. OF charcoal, the greatest
per cent. of amy known wood.
-Palming off painted sparrows for
Is fraud frequently practised
by the bird fanciers of London.
In a brief wrestl with one of ms
cows Connecticut farmer lost one of
his eyes and had his jaw broken.
The average cost of feeding paup-
ers in New York City is l3 cents day.
In Scotland, tine thrifty, it is II cts.
between SjOO,OOO and $1,000, ,OOd
worth OF black pearls are found each
year off the coast Of Lower California.
There are $4,000 fishermen In
France, and about four fisherman out
Of every 1000 are drowned every year.
The microscope shows the hair To
be like coarse, round rasp, but with
the teeth extremely irregular and rag.
ged.
Rabbits in Manitoba are nearly ex.
terminated every seven years by a De.
culiar disease somewhat resembling the
''mumps.
The Japanese pOSt-Otlice, which is
Ten years old, carried %, 900, 600 letters
and transmitted 100000 telegrams
last year.
April returns to the Department of
Indicate aIeduction of over
len per cent. of last years area in Win
.er wheat.
Patents in Mexico cost from SO &c
300, according to the ideas of the Office
here rs to the Importance of the inven.
ion covered.
In one New Hampshire school dis.
.rict is but one pupil, four districts have
Dut two pupils each, and two have only
TX between them.
-Shipwrecks, according to a paper
recently read before the French Acad.
my of Medicine, cause the loss of one
sailor in every 1000.
The religious ceremonies of the
Egyptians were preceded by abstinence.
and the sacrifcers were allowed neither
'nlmal food nor wine.
The Lafayette statue in Union
Square is the work of Bartholdi. So is
he pedestal. That's the way the
he statue came to have one.
Since five-cent fares were INTRO.
luced in Boston the sale of tickets has
allen off considerably; on one road 1t
las been about fifty per cent.
"A very old woman who grinds an
,rgan in Boston is declared to lie the
elict of French Marshal, whose med.
is decorate the top of the ergan.
Taxation, some one who has fig.
Ired on it, says, amounts to about S2i
,er family In the United States, $40
,er family less than in Canada.
"A photograph taken in Nertf
'olOn, o., contains the pictures of a
mother and her nine sons, the youngest
f the latter being over 40 years of age.
The manufacture of matches is one
f the most successful Industries in
sweden. The export is continually in
reasing to China, Japan and lately to
he United States.
"A company at Bartlett, N. H., is
urning out wooden shoe pegs at the
ate of 800 bushels day, and has or.
Iers on hand that will require several
months TO ill.