Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-10-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
is now 80 years old.

Three savings banks have failed in
Erie, Pa, inside of year.
In the eye of the California law
staring at lady is an offense.
Only 30 per cent. of the children in
New York city attend school.
New York claims to have more
than a thousand female SPECTATORS.
Only two children have been born
in the White House since it was built.
Baron Tennyson on April 8 cele-
brated the seventy-sixth anniversary OF
his birth.
The report of recent gold discover
les in the central part of Wyoming is
confirmed.
Sixty thousand books and pamph-
lets have been published by Congress
since 1776.
in four squares of the city of Ale
| gheny, Pa, fifteen wife-beaters have
been found.
Unusual activity is said to have
been prevailing lately in the Russian
dock yards.
"A white camel is an odd object
that serves as 4 nine days. wonder at
the London Zoo.
-Krupp is at present chiefly manu-
featuring guns for China, Turkey,
Japan and Egypt.
Statistics show that the population
of ireland has decreased 100000 in
forty-five years.
There are six or eight consulships
in China to be filled, which pay salaries
of So 500 and 5000.
"A street in San Bernardino is so
over-grown with sunfowers as to OBJ
struct travel along it.
No Wagner parlor or sleeping cars
VIII be run into Canada during the
prevalence of the smallpox.
DIR. Hlerme Retsof, an eminent
oculist, says that the common electric
light produces color blindness.
-One-franc stamps of the Republic
of 1S49 are exceedingly scarce. They
now bring $40 each in Paris.
Wheat has been grown upon lands
in the Red River Valley for forty years
III succession without manure.
Every defaulter and thief striving
to reach Canada by way of Chicago is
arrested and detained in that city.
-COngressman Holman does not be-
lleye that the Indians in the United
States number more than 10000.
The amount annually paid to the
teachers of the United States is S6O,-
OO0, 600, an average of about S400 apiece.
The thirty-eight States of the Union
contain 2,2OO counties. Texas leads
with l5l, and Georgia follows with 127.
Sixteen hundred doves were recent
ly bagged by spOrtsmen in a single day
in the rice fields of West Wateree, S. C.
The number of emigrants who left
Irish ports in 1855 was los, GIG, an in
crease of 10. $50 as compared with 1882.
The Oldest court house in the Mis-
sisSippi Valley has just been torn down,
1t stood in the town of st. Geneyieye,
Mo.
Peter the Greats boots, the original
model of the "Welllngtons" are still
exhibited as curiosities at st. Peters,
burg.
Five million pounds of dynamite
are used annually for blasting purposes
IN the territory west of the Missouri
river
1t is said the Cape Cod cranberry
crop this year will be about 2S, 900 bar
rels, or 10, 900 less than last years pro-
duct.
With an eye to future riots, the
Cleveland Police Board have distribut-
ed two hundred reyolvers among the
police.
The Government is now buying
silver bullion at such a rate that the
value OF the silver dollar is only IS
cents.
The Oldest apotheeary shop in Ber-
lin will celebrate in 1888 its Tooth anni-
versary. The shop was recently sold
for S3,000,000.
The Office continues to seek the
man az Calhoun, Ga, where there is a
vacant marshalship (S120 per annum)
but no takers.
livery one, rich and poor, in Japan
takes dip at least once day in a cal
drOn of hot water. The rich battle be-
fore dinner and at bedtime.
AT recent public execution at
Helena, Ark, railroads ran excursion
trains from the towns in the vicinity
and sold 6,0O0 round trip tickets. /,
In 1860 Wayne county, Pa, had
eighteen tanneries in operation. As
the bark disappeared the number
dwindled until now there are but SIX.
-Ninety-four years have elapsed
since old Philip Ginter stumbled over
piece of anthracite coal. Last year
$4,000, 900 tons were mined in Pennsyl-
vania.
In the number of books published,
Germany is sad to lead, having during
1883 printed more works than the
United States and Great Britain COM
bined.
In Georgia carp ponds are very
numerous, each county having on an
average about twenty-five. The total
number in the State is about three
thousand.
"A vessel which arrived at New
York few days ago reports having.
while off the coast, passed through great
shoals of mackerel, extending over a
distance Of fifty miles.
1t is noticed that as a result of tree
culture birds are becoming quite numer.
Gus in parts OF Dakota. In Kingsbury
and some other counties quails are
making their appearance.
Postage stamps are of far more
recent origin than many people imagine.
Great Britain was the first country to
issue them. and in 1910 a prepaid en-
velOpe made its appearance.
"A machine, which it is claimed
does as much work as forty-eIght men
could by hand, is used at Durham, N.
c., and turns out cigarettes at the rate
of two hundred per minute.
In Chester county, Pa, there is a
remarkable black cat which supports
itself by catching fish in the mill pond.
Sac dives into the water, clear out of
sight, and rarely misses her prey.
"A population as great as that of
Philadelphia was living in less than
26 600 tenement houses in New York
at the close OF last year. The extreme
of the density of population in that city
is I60 per acTe.