Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-08-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

In harness a man has lifted $500
pounds.
The nutmeg tree iOurishes near the
equator.
Horses trot best when the tempera-
ture is 500.
lightning kills 100 Frencamen
every year.
Hobart Pasha has returned to the
English navy.
Jersey City is TO have two mounted
letter carriers.
Street ear tickets have been abol-
ished in Boston.
Old st. Louis families use negroes
as pall-bearers.
The KOraks are the wealthiest deer
owners in Siberia
Like the grave of Moses, that of
Mozart is unknown.
The number of plants used by man
does not exceed 5000.
The English language is taught in
10000 schools in Japan.
Georgia has become as much a tem-
perance State as Maine.
Denver is losing population and bus
iness is nearly stagnant.
The cholera in Spain is undoubtedly
spreading into new districts.
One Lynn, Mass, shoe manufactu-
ter turns out 5000 pairs daily.
Another electrical exhibition Is to
be held IN Paris next spring.
Herring have sold in Baltimore this
season at fifty cents per 900.
July is one of the finest months OF
the year for the study OF stars.
-Harvard's next freshman class will
lie the largest ever matriculated.
Only ten tunes were known in New
England in the first ninety years.
Kerosene oil has driven cocoanut
ail wholly out of use in Zanzibar.
There is said to be only one book To
every 1O,OOO Inhabitants in Russia.
The grasshOpper plague Is assuming
alarming proportions in California.
Genuine ''Perique' tobacco can
only be grown in st. James Parish, La.
There are 500 geysers and 800 hot
springs in the Yellowstone National
Park.
-Four millions of false teeth are
manufactured IN this country every
year.
In Ecuador breakfast rolls are used
for making change, as there are no small
coins.
West India conch shells sell for
twenty-five cents a pair for ParlOr Orna-
ments.
John Bright thinks Europe is
marching toward wal, devastation aud
disaster.
The most cooling drink. if one will
wait five minutes for the effect, is said
to be hot tea
On September 3, bingham, Mass,
will celebrate the 2j0th anniversary of
its settlement.
-Four well equipped expeditions are
10 leave Germany next fall for North
Pole hunting.
1t is reported that Russia is to have
new gold coin Of the value of one
pound sterling.
lightning struck a Chinaman in
Montana and changed his complexion
from yellow TO black.
An American Philistine has built
himself a house on the topmOst peak of
Biblical Mount Carmel.
The free delivery system is in oper-
alton in l59 cities in the United States.
employing $3.50 carriers.
A process has been patented for
making imitation maple sugar out of
glucose and hickory bark.
The palace which the city of Mar
seilles presented to Napoleon | ii Is now
used as a cholera hospital.
"A sunfOweI over 10 feet in height
and full OF flowers IS growing in q yard
on Blair street, Philadelphia.
-Paulding county, Ga has a 10 year
old youth who measures seven feet in
height and weighs but 80 pounds.
"A man 107 years old, and who ap-
pears likely to live ten years more, is
claimed by Gadsden county, Fla
"A magazine writer shows that a
bulldogs nose IS retrousse in order that
he may breathe freely while holding on.
The richest man in Portland, Ore,
began life by buying a calfskin on
credit, tanning it and then selling it for
SO.
Portland, Oregon, is about to have
some of her streets paved with granite
brought from Hong Kong for the pur-
pose.
Light efreshmentS-ices, cakes
and mid puneh-are now the rule at
the seaside and all summer entertain
ments.
The cattle ranch area embraces
365, 900 square miles, or nearly Al per
cent. of the total area of the United
states.
1t will be news to most of our
readers probably that there are between
5000 and 5000 Icelanders living in this
country.
Women are numerous in the British
civil service. In competition for 165
places in the pOstoffiees 2,534 women
entered.
Steel tubes are found to contain
twice as much magnetism as steel rods,
and are therefore better for permanent
magnets.
In some provinces of Brazil IRON
ore is used in large quantities as build
ing stone, so abundant and ready TO
hand is it.
The oldest apothecary shop IN Ber-
lin will celebrate IN 1888 its 400th ami
versary. The shop was recently sold
for $4,000
Using the letters in the word
knowledge, :" a little Georgia girl re-
Gently formed 240 distinct words, and
earned off prize.
"A San Francisco lawyer announces
that he will not defend the criminal
classes hereafter. He says he prefers
to send them 10 prison.
The origin of bottled beer has been
traced back to 154S and fastened upon
DIR. Alexander Norvel, the second mas
ter of Westminster school,
-COlored people are more success
fully photographed, as rule, than
white people are. In taking pictures OF
animals cats are the best sitters.
John G. Fremont says that he has
eamped where Chicago, Minneapolis
and Salt Lake City now are before the
first inhabitant put up his cabin.