Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-05-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

TREAT Britain has lUO, ,UOO more le-
males than males.
Ell Mahdi was roat builder before
he became a prophet.
Victoria, British Columbia, claim.
a population of 1900.
"A Vermont individual Claims To
have hen 80 years old.
The horse, says a writer, cannot
Jump more than 27 feet.
Minnie Hauk has bought chateal
near Basle, Switzerland.
The United States sends four iron
bridges month TO Brazil.
France paid $40, 900 for the destruc
tion of ], 1,305 wolves in 1884.
The kindergarten system was first
practiced in Germany in 1Si9.
Over "a, 600, 600 pounds of dynamite
are made in the United States.
The Hawaiian kingdom spends SIS.
900 year for its public schools.
General Villas made $50 new post
masters for his first months work.
England and France find it difficult
work 10 civiliZe the barbarOus nations.
Henry NJ. Stanley hopes to visit the
United States at the end of this month.
Germany manufactured 1S7, 900, 900
cigarettes last year and France SOC, 600.
900.
The jails and penitentiaries of the
United States contain over 30, 900 Grim.
inals.
The freehold farms Of New Zeai-
and are estimated to be worth S170, ,000..
600.
1t is estimated that 10000 ser
mons are annually preached to Ameri-
cans.
For tropical fruit S4,7i5, 357 was
paid at the port of New York during
1888.
-Canada's 100 cheese factories pro-
duce 5S,000,000 pounds of cheese a
year.
Thirty thousand people in Paris are
engaged in the manufacture of artificial
flowers.
Japan has now 10000 common
schools, 100000 pupils and S4, 100
teachers.
London has 5000 people who get
their living by appearing in public on
the stage.
Operators In the jute factories of
Dundee, Scotland, get only S1.62 to
81 40 a week.
-PIute Indians are proving success
fdl farmers on the Pyramid Reservation
in Nevada.
Physicians say that about IA per
cent of all schOOl-children suffer from
About ,2J0, 900 cat-skins are used
annually by turrIers, and about $50, 900
"A belt of sOlld salt % feet thick
has been discovered on farm near East
Aurora, n. Y.
An English clergyman recently
performed los baptisms and marriages
Dn one Sunday.
Indians have killed 500 deer in a
single county in Wyoming during the
winter of 1885
The thousand of finger rings worn
IN this country are estimated to be
worth S5S, 900, 900.
-One-half of the orange crop of
Florida is raised within u radius of "a
niles around Ocala.
The Government of Montana Ter.
,itory paid Sl2, 600 last year ID bOunties
or scalps of wild animals.
The largest vineyard in the world is
II California and contains between g.
100 900 and 4, 900, 900 vines.
The care and maintenance of the
Nhite-house grounds and greenhouses
.osts $1,000 to SO, 900 year.
The number of farmers in the
Legislature is said to be
from year to year.
Some genius has invented fishing
cd that registers the precise number
nd weight Of the fishes caught.
Coal mining machines capable OF
Oing the work of twenty men are being
Introduced In the Panhandle mines.
Patent medicines are estimated by
leading English medical Journal to
ause the death of 1000 persons pei
ear.
The farmers of Oregon viii sow a
irger acreage OF wheat this year than
.st, and are now busy in all portions of
he State.
"A bill has been passed by the Texas
enate requiring railroad companies to
I've thirty days notice of a reduction
4 wages.
The experiment of ostrich farming
ow being tried in California, is likely
D prove a success, according to reports
rom there.
In 40 years the mean duration OF
uman life in England has gained 2
ears among males and nearly 81 years
mong females.
"A c0urtship that has covered a Pc
lOd of thirty-one years, is said to be
till tenderly pursuing its rosy way in
tratford, Conn.
"A Parliamentary return shows that
1 four years 90 men in the ranks of the
british Army have been promoted to be
officers.
About a hundred marriages between
hristIan and Chinese couples are re-
orted as having taken place in the San
francisco Mission Chapel.
American railroad securities are
le only investments in the London
larket that are not suffering from the
,are of war with Russia.
The total of the enrolled volun-
,ers in Great Britain at the present
me is announced as 215,000 men, the
reatest number yet attained.
The crews of the New Jersey life
wing stations say that the weather of
st month was the most severe they
7er experienced along the coast.
The newspapers and periodicals now
in the United States and Ca
ada number Is, 402, IAN increase of ], 600
/ the last year, and of 5,61S in the last
ecade.
"A chicken with four legs is exciting
D little Curiosity in Orange City, Fla,
here it is walking around as hale and
earty as any other member of the
tribe
The Hon. jeff Storts, member of
10 Missouri Legislature from Shannon