Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-10-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

/ bdiliOiu. SOuI. Recently.
Sitting Bull fears that some of Gus
ter's friends viii assassinate him
| General MOltke's health is 50 bad
that an early demise is anticipated
Nearly 1900 police officers now
protect London including sergeauts.
Forty million pairs of rubber boots
are made in this country annually
Troy, New York, Is talking about
investing s25, 900 in erematOrium.
-cquaws do the grain-threshing for
farmers in Owens River Valley, Ney.
The London Times, according to a
current item, is valued at So 600, 600.
According to tradition. famInes
occur in Japan every forty OF tifty years.
Minneapolis has thirteen grain ele-
vators within her limits and no distille
ries.
Bismarck las lost 0O0 people and
has $50 houses vacant as result of the
business depression.
New York is the wealth est State
in the Union; Pennsylvania comes
next, followed by Illinois, third.
The Abyssinian alphabet consists
Of POS characters, each of which Is
written distinctly and separately.
"A New Haven woman managed 10
get drowned in TWO feet of water the
other day.
Dakota with its population of 4l5,
00O has gained 207 per cent. In the i've
Years since 1880.
The first railway in India dates
from 1853. and there are now 1900
completed miles Of road.
There are still public lands open 10
settlement III nineteen States and eight
Territories.
-MuskegOn. Mich, reports the case
of child being stung TO death by
seventeen-year locust-
"A bill In the Georgia Legislature
proposes tax of 500 for every base
ball game played in the stale.
Paper is taking the place OF wood
in the manufacture Of lead pencils
Gas pipes are also made of paper.
The coffin-plate of Hogarth WAS
stolen years ago, and it is believed his
skull IS no longer in the grave.
The Chicago Authorities are deter
mined TO stop the Salvation Army per
tormances in the streets of that city.
Two tons of gold, worth 81, 400, 900.
are lost every year from the wear ami
tear of commerce and personal use.
"A sexton in Plymouth. Mass lately
deceased, dug no fewer than 8. 80
graves.
Lady Burdette-Coutts owns the
smallest pony IN the world. He IS )
years old and Is inches high.
There are now only eight lots Of
land in the burned district OF Boston
that remain to be built upon.
1t is remarked that the average
number of persons composing family
in the United States is decreasing.
"A Georgia man has a hen twenty
years old caring for large brood of lit
tie chickens Of her own Matching.
The United States Navy has I,II9
officers and 80 ships, or nearly 80 Ofii-
GERS to each ship.
jay Gould is SAID TO be determined
to have the fastest yacht in the world IT
1t takes million.
Robert Toombs is the richest resi-
dent in Wilkes county, Ga, his estate
being assessed at $3.50, 900.
"A Georgian claims to have perfec-
ted cOntrvance for running street
cars by a quicksilver motor.
"A boy at Grass Valley, Cal, while
digging a hole, struck valuable quartz
ledge the other day.
The duration of vitality In seeds
depends very much on the manner ia
which they are kept.
-German geOIogists estimate that
the Dead Sea viii be a mass of solid
salt thousand years hence.
In 1902 Daniel Webster was
schOOlmaster in Fryebury, Me. and was
paid salary of $3.50 year.
"A distillery has lately been put Ia
operation at CharleStOwn, South Caro-
lint, for manufacturing oil from pine
wood.
Wheat in Western Iowa will aver
age only ten bushels % the acre, and Ii
the poorest IN quality raised for many
years.
The Chinese in New York have
published an almanac. IL looks ike a
label, and is as large as 4
barn door.
-"PickpOcket" Is the only English
word adopted into the French language
which the French write and pronounce
"A third set of teeth Is reported re-
GENTLY to have been cut by ninety-six-
year-Old colOred resident of Polk coun-
y, Georgia
The agricultural depression in Eng
and has most seriously decreased cieri-
al incomes, and Glebe lands have de-
preciated from . to 80 per cent.
"A Piute Indian living near Winnie
nucca, New, is reported 10 have killed
seventy deer single-handed on a hunt
ng trip into the mountains recently.
The great Eastern is the champion
,Oal consumer in the world. She
burned Z, ,577 tons of coal during a ten
lays run from Liverpool TO New Y ork.
"A vicar, aged 80 years. who recent
y published the bans of his own mar
iage in a Dorsetshire, Eng, Church,
'reated a considerable sensation there
'y.
"A lady in Logan county. Ky.
leeps two or three days and nights at
tretch, and then remains awake for
Ike period. She is now eighty years
Id.
One family in Barlow, Ga, num-
Ders 30 peIsOns-mOther and father, the
after 80 years old, and % children. In
VI there were 80 children, but IL have
lied.
"A lump of ruby and silver, So big
hat man would strain the muscles OF
lis back In lifting it, was dug from
nine near Austin, New, recently, and
has been presented as curiosity ~
ne Nevada State University at Reno.
"A New York sporting man says
bat nineteen out Of every twenty horse
aces. ball games, prize fights and walk
ng matches are fixed" twenty-four
lours in advance, and that such thing
3 honesty in sports can no longer be