Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-01-28

NEWS II BRIEF.

| -IOiI tiutOn, Mich IS not q VerI
large city, but its street cars are heated
About 1900 letters day now
reaen the dead letter office at Washing
ton.
Tho Clmembert COWS in Franc,
average yearly about $50 pei head in
/ cheese.
"A disease similar to hog cholera is
attacking the turkeys in Milford
| Conn.
An Indian girl Is years of age I,
the boss" breadmaker at Lewistown,
idaho.
In Great Britain 1t is found tha:
100 male dogs go mad as compared with
IA female.
Capital punishment was abolished
III Italy Ill 1919 and murders increas,
d per cent.
Rails county, Missouri, boasts Of a
thirteen months old child with three
distinct heads.
Tile first billiard table ever set up
IN Cart county, Missouri, was taken
there recently.
Sweet potatoes go begging in the
markets of Yalata, Fla, twenty-five
cents bushei.
Skating rinks in Maine have proven
elephants on the hands Of their proprie-
tors this geason.
Bethlehem, n. Il, has only some
100 inhabitants, but she is credited
with six post offices.
From a single grape vine In Levy
county, Fla, loco pounds OF grapes
we're taken this season.
Sig. Perugini (Mr. Chatterton) Is
tile irst American singer who has m41s
Il successful DEBUT in Par.s.
An artesian we'll on a ranch near
Vaccdrllia, Cal. struck excellent water
at less than 20 feet depth.
Washington Territory has admit
ted Il woman, Mrs. Mary ). Leonard, to
practice III her courts.
Tower clocks, costing from $500 20
5000. Are sent from this country pretty
much all over tile world.
Much progress is reported TO have
been mdd- i'll Ireland OF late in the
study OF the Irish language.
"A Policeman who has served on Cha
New York force for u ye rs may then
retire on half pay, SOU ii year.
The present Atlantic cable rate Is
50 Cents word. The rate first charged
was SlUO for 20 words or less.
in Turkey the talking OF the cen
SUs IS let out 10 the lowest bidder. a
census is about to be taken there.
The deposits IN Massachusetts, say.
ings banks have increased over ten Lnii-
lion dollars during he past year.
The Michigan State Health Board
has library containing books and pag-
lhleJs reIaIing to sanitary science.
Rabbit hunters In Nevada some
times average over 100 rabbits q day,
and these sell for about IS dozen.
The shade trees of Savannah, which
have been the pride OF that city tor ma
ny years, are dying at a rapid rate.
Tile prisons in Austria are TO be
lighted with electricity, if experiments
now II progress turn out favOrably.
The clock in Trinity Church tower
is the heaviest IN America. 1t takes
two men over an hour TO wind it up.
South Carolina, it is stated, is the
only State in the Union that does not
make provision in its Laws for divorce.
Tobacco is the best crop in North
Carolina There are numerous instan-
ces OF 1t yielding 500 or 5000 an acre.
An eagle that died in Vienna not
1 ng ago Is said to have been in captivity
iOr a period of not less than lis years.
Lemon growing is sAnguinely ex-
pected 10 become even more profitable
IN Ia the production Of oranges in Flor
ida.
The telegraphic cable through the
great Ariburg tunnel has twelve strands
SIX of which The Government reserves
Tor its use.
"A seventh son Of a seventh SOM
from Theb't has arrived in New York
and Will embark in the fortune telling
business
Tho colored race in the United
States is estimat' d at 0O0.000 strong,
and their property holdings exceeds
$40 0OO 700.
Frank Carpenter says the Indian
population in the Uuitei States num-
bers 263 600, not including $4,000 In
dams Ill Alaska.
Valuable gifts OF linen have been
sent for the use of the patients in ST.
George and Westminster Hospitals by
command OF the Queen.
The church OF st. Etienne In Caen
France, contains the grave of William.
tie COHqueror, The church was fOun-
led by hun and dedicated in 1O77.
The legend Of the Wandering Jew
was brought to Europe from the East
late in the eleventh century, after the
Irst crusade under Peter the Hermit.
Rags, Congressman Whiting, OF
Massachusetts,, asserts, cannot INTRO
luce COntagIOn aud he challenges any
body in instance an authenticated case.
Each visitor to the Worlds Expo
sitiOn is required 10 deposit silver half
dollar in glass box in charge Of the
iOOrkeepers, GO admission tickets being
sold.
The Imperial CInal o: China Is the
longest In the world and the greatest II
point of traffic. Its length, including
It's river sections, is 2lt0 miles connect
ing 4 cities.
The lumber business iu sections of
New England has been given quite a
start by the recent snow Storm, and
many lcle workmen will thereby receive
For school purposes In the Southern
States there is being spent twice as
much as there WAS five years ago. it Is
and four times as much as
fifteen years ago.
Jack Pincard. a French Canadian,
while at work in the lumber woods near
Portland, Ne. recently walked 25 miles
10 get the nearest physician to dress his
arm, crushed by falling tree-
Louisiana planters claim that the
sugar cans this year contains richer
d.ce than has ever before been known,
)wing 10 improved methods Of fertiliz-
ng perhaps some popularity of the seer
W.