Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-11-18
NEWS BRIEE


Of = seventeen Ee.lr Old POOLE
in Havana cigar manufacturers
pay their hands three times a day
Mrs. LSngtry purchased two gem
uine scalPs from an Indian cut Vest
Mrs. Oscar Wilde, that Is to be. IS
exhibiting her bridal dress IN London
The town OF Bernstadt, KY, IS
populated entirely BY Swiss TO the num-
Der Of 200.
Secretary Lincoln resembles his
father IN personal appearance only from
the eyes up.
The farmers in Vermont and New
Hampshire complain that this is a poor
sugar season.
Oregon IS the place to hunt bears.
The Portland OTtg0Hi0n says the State
IS full OF them.
Hundreds Of young women In New
\ FORK city earn only 45 cents day by
making shirts.
Emil Scarla, the great bassO, is a
comparatively young man, but his hair
is white as snow.
The German "kaffee klateh" is
superseding "hlgh tea" in New York
fashionable circles.
Adult unmarried persons grow
more numerous in France and less nu-
merOu5 in Germany.
Henry Berg has begun a crusade
against the practice Of shOeing horses
with red-hot iron.
Augustus Schell, the New York
politician, recently deceased, left an es-
tate worth over S5,O00,000.
Illinois, following the example of
some other states, has Just had her bat
tie flags enclosed in cases.
"A co'ony of So people recently left
Mount JOY. Lancaster county, Pa, for
Dickinson county, Kansas.
Prof. NorthrOp of Yale has accept
ed the presidency of the Minnesota
state university at Minneapolis.
NJ. de Lesseps says that his COM
pany now pays out $1,000 francs a day
for work on the Panama canal.
"A Brooklyn teacher has been ar
rested for threatening to kill one of her
pupils whom she caught whispering.
Senator Far, it is sud in Washing
ton, VIII be remarked soon to the wife
from whom he was divorced last year.
-Serator Lamar is not quite 60 years
old. At the age OF 2i he WAS professor
of mathematics in the Mississippi uni
versity.
-''Don't tip the walters" is the, per-
haps, sUpertluous advice screamed by a
parrot in Fulton street IN. " res
taurant.
An Oconee (Ga.) county man has
Just had taken from one of his legs a
ninie ball he had been carrying there
for - years.
Miss Gabrielle, daughter of the late
Horace Greeley, is still lovely girl,
and has, it IS said, refused many ambr
tioCs suitOrs.
Cities and towns in MaSSa2husett!
will hereafter be Obliged to furnish
children IN the public schools with free
text books.
The Charleston Is. c. Ne,cs sayi
that there is a man living in Lauren.
county, Ga, "A years old, who is the
father of a children.
Warner Williams, formerly Of Ana.
mosa, Iowa, died recently at Anita,
Iowa Though only six years OF age,
his weight was 200 pounds.
Living near Swapping Shoals, CD,
IS cClOred woman whose age IS report
el TO be 10. Her husband was thought
10 be l2O years old when lie died.
Grape culture IN California is IA
pidly increasing, and it is thought that
at least five million vines will be planted
in Los Angeles county at once.
The hillsides near Marshfeld, Ore
gon, were recently strewn with dead
robins that persisted in the cold and
snowy weather of a few weeks ago.
The Kentucky House Of Rcpyeseu-
tatives has passed bill prohibiting
bicyclists from using the public roads
Of most of the counties in that State.
Great Britain consumes annually
1000, 600 tons Of potatoes, Of which
2OJ, 600 tons are imported, while the re-
mainder are raised on j4l 900 acres of
land.
During The II years from 1S7l to
lSS2, the number of lives lost by the
disasters TO British ships was %, 722, OF
whom 80, $50 were crew and 1868 pas
sengers.
AT the New York Beach Show This
year there is to be special prize each
for speed, leaping and trick dogs; spe-
| cial attention will be given to ladies'
pet dogs.
| More than Il million head OF cattle
| wIntered in the Territory Of Wyoming,
and the general round up'' of this
enormous number Will begin about the
middle of May.
| "A fOur-year old boy at Felicity. D.,
is the sensation in that town, as he can,
o: is alleged to be able TO, read books
and papers at sight, though nc was
never instructed.
The most expensive book ever pub
lished By single individual is Lord
kings5Orough's "MeNco." 1t has
seven volumes, with 1000 colored illus
tratlons, and cost $4,000.
AT Tennille. Ca, last week, Jerry
jenkins. aged 90, and Eliza Brown.
aged 9G. tremblingly stood before
hymen'S altar and pledged their young
lives 20 each other.
The mines of the Black Hills in
4 0et-NOeeA anu 1.OlZ,
037 tons of good ore, yielding SO, ,434,-
l16, or an average of s. IS per ton.
The mines paid in dividends TO the
shareholders S3, liz, 500.
1t is calculated that there are now
residing in the United States nearly a
thousand Japanese, and of this number
1t is said that not one has ever been con-
yicted of any criminal offence in an
American court.
The celebrated collection Of Signor
Castellani is about to be dispersed. The
city Of Rome has offered two millions
for it, which has been refused by the
| family. The estimated value of this
unique collection is about 1000, 900
| francs.
"A paper chimney, fifty feet high.
has recently been erected at Breslau.
France. Compressed paper pulp is
stated 10 be one OF the least lnfiamulable
Of substances, and to make an excellent
material for iire-prOof doors.
In France, according to statisti-
Clans, suicides are rapidly increasing.
not only among adults with real woes
or sufferings to account for their rasl,
act, but also among Juveniles, who
MAKE away with themselves for the
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