Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-11-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
1t is now proposed to heat horse
cars by electricity.
Paris now contains 800 Buddhists,
who want temple.
Electricity is now used as motive
power for toy yachts.
Land in the Island of Jersey rents
Tor SO year per acre.
3 We eat twelve millions of sheep per
annum in this country.
"A colored Salvation Army has be-
sieged Charlotte, 5. G..
No Chinaman is allowed in the
CGur d'Alene diggings.
The samoan Islands are {, 900 miles
south of San Francisco.
M. de RothschiId's collection of
stamps is valued at $4,000.
One fourth of the Indians in this
country die of consumption.
"A recent cyclone in India DESTROYED
800 villages and 10000 lives.
There are believed to be over 5O0,-
600 distinct forms of insects.
The different kinds of mammals
are estimated to number about 1900.
Saw mills are said to have been first
used IN Europe in the fifteenth century.
-Nine-tenths of the Alabama Con-
gressmen were in the Confederate army.
There are fifteen cows in Ohio that
are Stumping around on wooden legs.
The latest estimate puts the num-
Der of Chinese in this country at 5000.
The animal kingdom is now esti-
mated to embrace about 1000, 900 spe-
cies.
Yale College is losing students.
Costly living is supposed to be the
cauSe.
Queen Victoria keeps swanherd
whose duty it is to brand the birds on
the bill.
Cotton seed pressed into blocks has
Just been put upon the market as "kind-
ling wood. "
Entire families are fleeing from
salt Lake City, being driven out by
diphtheria.
"A great deal of land around Win
chester, England, may be leased for %
cents an acre.
twenty-five thousand men and wo-
men are employed IN oyster shucking at
81 to S3 day.
Children employed in laee-making
in Belgium work twelve hours, and earn
SIX cents a day.
Every one of the thirteen members
Of the present British Cabinet is peer
or son of peer.
The cultivation of the vanilla bean
IS being extensively INDUCED in by
Mexican farmers.
Nineteen thousand three hundred
and fifty more emigraEts left Irish ports
in 1888 than in 1882.
In fifteen counties of New York
one-half of this years potato crop has
been destroyed by rot.
The Iowa Senate passed bill sub
mitting amendments allowing woman
suffrage to the people.
An authority ON music says there
are S, OOOprofessiOndl and amateur piano
players in the United States.
In proportion to the weight of its
body the canary bird las brain better
developed than that of man.
Mr.. W. w. Story was born wealthy,
anu he devoted himself to sculpture
with a great deal of self-denial.
The Macon Telegraph claims that
Georgia chartered, built and conducted
the first female college in the world.
The fruits and nuts imported By
the United States have value of Sl5,-
OOO, 900 to so, ,000, 600 annually.
The only red-date palms in the
United States are in Placer county,
and Key West, Florida.
There is in this country medical
Or surgical doctor of some school or
grade to every 900 of the population.
The ice, old and new, on hand in
Maine, is estimated at 1,1SS, 900 tons,
about 100000 tons less than last year.
Nearly two thousand square miles
Of Canadian timber land, sold recently,
brought an average of 3D. cents an acre.
Boston people have been numer-
OuSly taken in lately by leaden 25c.
pieces which they lin turn had taken
in.
"A canary that whistles Yankee
Doodle, and an eagle weighing twenty
i've pounds are in the bird show in Bos-
.On.
Fare from Portland, Ore. to Van
;ouyer, W. T., was ten cents each way
recently, owing to steamboat competi-
ion.
In the United States tin has been
'ound in eight States, but in slight pay
ng quantities, except in the Virginia
mines.
From 1884 to 1881 edicts as TO dress
we're issued at Berlin. They forbade
women without rank to wear silk
lreSses.
In the Isle of Jersey there are 10
women to one man. The leap-year 12-
month must be a frightrul affair in
Jersey.
The crop of raisins grown in Cali
Ornia has increased from l, 900 boxes
nineteen years ago to 100000 the pres
mt season.
-DanverS claims to have been the
irst town in Massachusetts to refuse to
,rant license to sell rum. This was
lone tifty-One years ago.
Wild dogs, said to be more raven
'us and harder TO kill than wolves, are
epOrted to be overrunnIrg the country
.Goye Cedarville, Kansas.
Buffalo bones bring $50 ton in
Dodge City, Neb., where there is
lively demand Tor them. The bulk of
hem come from Texas.
"A line of railway cars to be drawn
" camels will shortly constitute one of
he peculiar features of travel and
in Central Asia,
AT Gotha, in Germany, forty-six
iodies were cremated during 1883.
'our hundred and fifty marks or about
IA is the charge for each cremation.
The Sunday Breakfast Association
f Philadelphia has given in five years
unday breakfasts to 1888 persons.
1t the close of each meal religious SER
ice is held.
"A New Hampshire ''weather pro-