Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-07-15
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

--Goethe has no living male de5ceu-
dant.
In Boston 1t costs SIS ~ to oeducats
a child.
Patti has suit of sables costing
$4,000.
Ireland IS to have a second electric
railway.
Three Georgia weeklies are edited
by ladies.
Southern prisons contain 1900
eOnviets.
Idaho Will build a capitol at cost
OF $50, 200.
--Camels sometimes live to the age
Of 100 years.
Drivers in Paris are very cruel 20
their horses.
-Incendiarism appears to be on the
increase.
Minneapolis charges 81 900 for a
circus license.
Fully 1900 MOrmOns settled in
Arizona last year.
"A gas well is 1,2O0 feet down
through Milan, o.
There's good sleighing yet in the
Michigan woods.
Louis XIV. ) throne has been sold
at auction for $3.50.
AS many as % tire engines attend
large fire in London.
Leather wheels are made ia France
for railway carriages.
Last year 333, ,629, 500 one cent pos
tai cards were issued.
The wheat crop of Italy amounted
10 ia, 900, 900 bushels.
"A wholesale dog poisoning is in
progress in Richmond, Ind.
Burning charcoal is leading in
dustry in North Alabama
New York is suffering with an epi-
demic of amateur theatricals.
Omaha. Neb., claims to be the best
paved city IN the United States.
Grant will get better now One OF
his doctors has gone to Europe.
A gypsy dance was brilliant feat
ure of the kIrmess in Baltimore.
The number of colleges i'll the
United States Is set down at $40.
DR.. Glenn, the California wheat
king, IS said to be worth 8, ,0OO,0 900.
Paper is now used in the manufac-
ture of lead pencils instead of cedar.
-Gsrmany cOntemplates gr ami ex-
hibition of German industry in 1888.
Many white people patron.ze the
Chinese theatres III Californian cities.
Mark Twain's reading tour IS
said to have netted him nearly $50, 900.
No more ''slugging" matches ara
to be permitted in Stockton, Califor-
mia.
Vienna has ten times as many doc
tors IN proportion to population as Lon
don.
The manufacture of broom corn
tOothpieks is a growing Kansas indus
try. -
An 6ner 0f 49,, ~ has Deen made
for copyright of General GcrdOn's di'
airy.
"A Leetonia, o., citizen is GONZALES.
cling from having been walked ON by
mule.
1t is said that William Ii. Wander
bilt has not used tobasco fcg thirty
years.
The interest bearing national debt
of Great Britain in 1854 was 5, ,20O.-
003, coo.
In 1884 %, 900, 900 gallons of water
were used i'll extinguIshiag fires III
London.
1t is stated that Qusen Victoria
has arranged to visit ireland next
autumn.
"A statue of Garfield, to be erected
at San Francisco, has been cast at Nu-
remberg.
Steel nails are destined to super
sede the use of the ordinary nail ia a
few years.
"A natural ice cave is. reported to
in California.
The electric light is to be used on
all trains running through the St.Goth-
ard tunnel.
Out Of the word ''incOmprehensi-
bility" Connecticut lady made 2,24S
different words.
Earthquakes in North Japan are
more numerous and severe iii winter
than in summer.
The manufacture Of artificial ivory
from bones aud scraps of sheepskIn is
a new industry.
The Earl of Selkirk, who died very
rich lately, left a years salary to all
employed on his estate.
Extensive forest fires are raging in
CamptOn, n. H., and much pine lum-
Der has been destroyed.
Russian exports to England
amount to over one million pounds for
the first quarter of 1885.
Even in Dakota the farmers are
growing tired of grain farming and
advocate mixed husbandry.
Youths under 20 years of age are
not permitted to carry dangerous wea-
pons under Neyada's laws.
The stealing of whole saloon out
dit was the offense with which a man
was recsntly charged i'll Pittsbug.
-RoYdyism on tGe river Thames Is
decreasing, owing to the employment
Of an increased Lumber of police boats.
One of the best Latin and Greek
scholars In Athens, Ga, Is working for
seventy cents per day sodding some
land.
"A steamboat propelled by a kerO-
sene engine has been licensed to run on
the st. Johns river and other Florida
waters.
"A street railway (probably the only
international one in the world connects
Paso del NOTte, Mex, with FL PaSo,
Texas.
Natural gas has been discovered in
Nagasema-gori, Chm ken. Japan. Ex-
perIments made showed that it burned
brightly.
"A PAIR of English sparroYS have
built their nest within the glass shada
of one of the electric lights in Bridge
port, Conn.
English hanson cabs have been in
trOduced Into st. Louis, and are ex-
pected TO TeyOlutionize the transit busi-
ness of that city.
"A convict recently pardoned from
the San Quentin tCaL prison is repor-
4 E,Ir a.