Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-12-09
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Land in the Island of jersey rents
for SO a year per acre.
100000 sheep per annum are
eaten IN the United States.
-Japonicas are now regularly sent
to England by Boston florists.
Dumas the younger is 90 years Of
age, but he does not look over 45.
1t is now settled that Paris is not
70 have Italian opera this winter.
"A large meteor passed over Santa
EoSa, California, some time ago.
-Gum camphor is the best thing 10
carry as guard against smallpox.
-Diphtheria in an unusually vlruIent
form has appeared at Florence, \. T.
Barnes, the Kentucky revivalist,
says he has now converted $4,000
people.
"A number of Boston women have
formed an organization for the study Of
politics.
About 100000 pounds of rice
goes into brewers watts in this country
annually.
In Melbourne the letter carriers
are clad in scarlet-coatS, waistcoats
and trousers.
Burlington, VT, is making prepar-
ations to capture Montreal's carnival
this winter.
The streets of Salisbury, \. g., are
being macadamized with gOll quartz,
worth SIS ton.
The Telegraphers' Brotherhood has
been doing a great deal of quiet work
since the strike.
Mrs. Gaines denies that she is rich.
She has not recovered enough property
to pay her lawyer.
"A cargo of 1000 frozen earcasse5
of sheep lately reached london from
South America.
The Goethe House, III Weimar, is
not likely TO be accessible to the public
before next spring.
Two veterans who were with sold
Hickory" in the war are still living in
Catawba county, n. G.
-2,OS0, GEO. 900 feet OF lumber were
cut by the mills in Minnesota and west
Wisconsin last year.
Florida hotel-keepers expect to ac-
cOmmOdate two bundled thousand
Northerners this winter.
A man in WilliamspOrt, Pa, drank
pint of whisky in ten minutes on q
wager. He died in two hours.
An alligator two and half feet
long was found the other day in the
Pittsburg City Hall water-pipe.
-Piceadilly, London, was named
from Pickadills Hall, shop where pic
cadiilas or lace ruffs were sold.
Nearly If not all the mines in the
Seattle Nv. T. coal region are now
operated without Cinnamon.
The Salvation Army has eleven
stations in Pennsylvania, the latest one
established being in Myerstown.
Professor Sargent says that the
nutmeg hickory of Arkansas is the
strongest wood in tie United States.
Prussia gives her Deputies S3.75
day; Saxony and Baden, So; Bavaria,
$3.50. The Hanse Towns give nothing.
Paris Is asserted to be now far
dearer than London. The OctrOi is
thrice what it was in Louis Philippe's
day.
i 1t is estimated that there have been
Turkish rugs sold in Boston recently in
sufficient quantity to cover Boston COM
mon.
"A naturalist, who has Just returned
from Spain, says that the natives keep
lOcusts in cages for the sake of their
music"
Springfield, Mass, possesses a cur
iouS guidestone on State street, near
the head of Walnut, which was placed
there in 1853.
The papers used in the trial of
Aaron Burr for treason are deposited
IN the new Government building at
Cincinnati.
Wild coffee, which proved to be of
good quality when roasted and made
up, has been found growing in Butte
county, Cal.
North Carolina is as large as Eng
land, yet it has only 1,50O, 900 Inhabi-
tants, while the ''tight little isler con-
tains 100000
"A smart fellow in Warren county,
Pa, has done a good business this fall
by selling well-dried Bermuda onions
for hyacinth bulbs.
Neither the Capitoi nor the White
House is fireproOf, notwithstanding the
millions that have been expended upon
them to make them so.
No less than TIVE ty-Gve gallons of
marrow were blown by means of cur
rents of steam from the long bones of
poor old Jumbo's legs.
"A clerk in leading New York
store proposes to form an armed regi-
ment of clerks like himself to resist the
expressions of employers.
Many of the spring chickens scld
i'll New York city are fattened on Sun
flower seeds, which are said TO impart
to the flesh very fine flavor.
-Ex-Minister Daggett, il 4 recent
lecture on the Sandwich Islands, says
that Captain Cook was not killed with
club, but with wooden dagger.
The men of the Fire Brigade in
Paris are to drop their present epaulettes
and to wear instead a wide strip of
metal mail to protect the shoulders.
There is a new sect II Canada
whose doctrine IS that women have no
souls, because the Bible nowhere speaks
of women angels. This is a curious
fact.
Only two of the large number of
prisoners in the Sioux Falls (Dak. jail
are women, and those Two are confined
for the highest offence known to the
law.
The feat of jumping IN and out Of
ten flour barrels placed in row was
accomplished at Albany, n. Y, lately
by a sixty-year-old man ramed Dillon
In two minutes.
Two one-thousand-dollar green
backs were found between the leaves of
an old book by MonOngahela City.
Pa, citizen the other day. How the
notes got there is a mystery to him.
The latest return shows the num-
Der OF volumes in the British Museum
to be over l 100000. There are 1G0
miles of shelves, and about twenty more
miles to be filed. 1t is calculated that