Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-07-01

Il war on all sunday amuSementS.
Fifteen persons have been hanged
at the national capital since 1850.
The entire coast line of the globe, 50
far as known, is about 1l6, 80 miles.
The first fire the town ever had oc-
CURED in De Leland, Florida, the other
day.
Twenty-Five years complete the
round of well-caTed for canary's ca
reer.
New Orleans was founded by a
company of French adventures IN
1743.
Counterfeit silver dollars are III ex-
tensive circulation in Sharon, Pennsyl-
vania.
"A hospital for the insane, to cost
100000, is to be erected near San
Jose, Cal.
Paris, according to current letters
from that usually gay city, is unusually
dull just now.
No less than + $50 relatives of Eng
lish titled families are quartered on the
public service.
The sign of Libby prison is in the
possession of Edward J. Bartlett, Of
! Concord, Mass.
! Queen Victoria is said to have,
mounted in silver, the ball that killed
/ Admiral Nielsen
New YOrk's ocean steamships have
taken 81 ,26l passengers to Europe since
the 1st of May last.
An American Philistine has built
/ himself house on the tOpmOst peak Of
biblical Mount Carmel.
| "A mari pit, which abOunds in pet
ritied remains of animals, has been DIS
covered near Cuthbert, Ga.
Minnie Hank has signed contract
for a season Of p concerts in the South
ern States, it is announced.
"A malady, which is proving re-
maIkably fatal has broken out among
the horses IN MoOrestown, n. ].
! -Advices from Calcutta report that
/ the tea and indigo districts in India are
suffering severely from drought.
Mrs. Burnett, the daughter of Jas.
Russell Lowell, will preside over his
home after his return to America.
"A Dakota scientist thinks that in
time the steady winds of the prairies
will be used for driving machinery.
Statistics show that in Ma Saehu-
sets pneumonia has, since 1851, grown
almost twice as fast as the population.
The colOred people of Tallahassee,
Fla, recently decorated the graves of
the Union soldiers buried in that city.
An engagement ring that had been
lost for number of years, was recently
found in the mill pond at BargaintOwn,
n. J.
A large pigeon rOOSt has been dis
covered north of ShawanO, Wisconsin.
One man killed 900 of the birds N one
day.
The table is the tOuch-Stone of a
gentleman. a man may conceal his
vulgarity everywhere but at the dinner
table.
The Lackawanna COmpany's arte-
sian well, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, has
teen bored l, 100 feet without striking
water.
The army worm has appeared IN
force in several localities in Gallatin
county, ILL.,, and Is at work upon the
wheat.
"A bachelor carpenter of Bingham
ton, y. Y, has utilized some of his
spare moments by making himself a
coffin.
1t is reported that a good vein of
coral has been discovered in the banks
of the AuciIla river, Florida, near the
natural bridge.
The hotels and lodging houses Of
New York, it is estimated accommodate
daily in the neighbOrhOOd of 5000
transient guests.
Chicago Is given as one of "the
States In which Mr.. Irving's success
was greatest" in list enumerated in
a London paper.
The exploding of dynamite III
streams as means of catching fish has
been begun in WaddingtOn, n. Y, so
a Utica paper says.
"A tanned bulls hide, addressed to
a Brooklyn woman, was received at the
post-0ffice in that city recently. 1t came
by mail from Dakota.
The preparation and sale of testi-
mOny to secure admission of Chinese
coolies is said to have become thriving
industry in San Francisco.
The removal of one family from
Mass, to BrocktOn, in
the same State, caused the closing Of
a district school in the former place.
"A dose of ink was administered to
A lady in Monroe, Ga, in mistake for
medicine that had been procured for
collie, but the ink cured her all the
same.
The remains of what Is supposed to
have been huge maStOdOn were laid
bare recently by the caving of the bank
Of Putah creek, YolO county, CalifOr-
MIA.
Dirt town is the not altogether
euphOnious name of Georgia village,
the citizens Of which have petitiOned
the Postmaster General for new
name.
Philadelphia Is to have Il street car
with a patent spring motor. The in
ventOr says that after the spring is
wound up it will prOpel the car eight
miles.
In Lyons, n. Y, recently man
Was sentenced 70 PRISON LOT Ten years,
and there are still enough indictments
left 10 keep him there over century
longer.
One cent has been subscribed to
The Bartholdi pedestal fund by New
Haven, Conn.,, man, who says it is the
ast copper he has and the last he ever
expects to see.