Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-06-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Recent heavy rains have damaged
Texas crops.
The Michigan University has $50
women students.
Great Britain mas 700. 900 more fe-
males than males.
The actual membership of the Nor
mon church is 1856.
Forest fires are raging in several
parts Of Massachusetts.
Base ball clubs are being organized
) throughout the country.
One ostrich egg makes good pan
cake meal for three mep.
There are nineteen metals that are
worth about II, 900 pound.
Tennessee farmers are at least one
moRth behind in their work.
-Pittsburg has a hose brigade which
assists in cleaning the streets.
-One-fifth of the whole population
OF Switzerland is in the schools.
New South Wales contains more
Towering plants than all Europe.
A silver mine IS reported to have
been discovered in Hudson, n. IL.
/ Pneumonia caused nearly a fifth of
the deaths in Boston during March.
There are 100 college papers in the
United States aud none in Germany.
-GrasshOppers are creating terrible
havoc among the crops in Califo MIA.
Abraham Lincoln's largest fee as a
lawyer was 5000 in a railroad case.
France is now getting large sup.
plies of canned frogs from the country
The PenObscot River is now open,
after having been closed four months.
Early fruit and vegetables ID Mis-.
sissippi have been DESTROYED by a heavy
freeze.
/ This country controls three quart
ers of the corn-felds of the whole
world.
An epidemic of sore throat known
as tOnsIlitIs prevails in Newark, New
Jersey.
Not for ten wears. it Is said, were
shad so cheap in New York as they were
recently.
Rev. Won Schleumbach. the great
German revivalist, IS visiting friends in
the South.
Experiments are being made IN the
manufacture of ammonia from the III
tTOgen of coal.
An inventor in New Haven has
been tOiling for thirty years over perpet-
ual motion.
The value of wood used annually
in coOpeTage in the United States is
S33. IA, go.
English papers announce that IT.
wings last trip to America netted him
about Sl50,0O0.
More than twO-t thirds of Nashville's
Wholesale liquor dealers, it is stated are
church members.
There are twenty persons whose
1if's 20 American college aggregate
oy, 81, 200, ,0UO.
-Butternut wood is largely used for
making shoes to wear i'm breweries and
other damp places.
Portland, Ne. has a colored woman
81 years old, who supports herself by
taking in washing.
-Arehduchess Maria Theresa, of
Austria, is learning to make jewelry in
a TyrOlese workshop.
An American Philistine has built
himself house on the tOpmOSt peak of
biblical Mount Carmel.
A malady, which is proving re-
NAH rhly fatal has broken out among
the hoises in MOOrestOwn, n. j.
-Adviees from Calcutta report that
the tea and indigo dist lets in India are
suffering severely from drought.
Mrs. Burnett, the daughter Of Jas.
Russell Lowell, will preside over his
home after his return To America.
There are 80 periodicals printed
IN the different native languages in In
dia, and about 10000 copies in all.
The Portland Oreg0niau says it is
thought the run of salmon In the Co
lumbia River this year Will be light.
Statistics show that in Massachu-
sets pneumonia has, since 1851, grown
almost twice as fast as the population.
The land of Holland is cultivated
by l45 ,G94 persons, of whom sixty per
cent. are owners of their own holdings.
Every MuSsulman who makes a pill
grimage TO Mecca is hOnOred during the
remainder of his life by the title of
Hadji.
Dom Pedro, the emperor of Brazil,
has reigned for tifty-thTee years-lOnger
than any other living sovereign. He
was but SIX years old when called to the
throne.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, con-
verses fluently III the language of almost
every stranger who visits the Italian
court.
Albuquerque, y. NJ, has a jail of
adobe walls, through which, it is said,
prisoners can push holes with a broom
handle.
While boring an arteSian well in
Buffalo Bluff, Fla, recently, the drill
passed through cypress tree at depth
of % feet.
Queen VIctOria's only surviving
aunt, the Duchess of Cambridge. has
not been outside of st. James Palace
for over twenty years.
"A tanned bulls hide, addressed TO
a Brooklyn woman, was received at the
post-Otfice in that city recently. IL came
by mail from Dakota.
In one county in Alabama mad
dogs were 50 numerous recently that
the schools were obliged to supend lest
the pupils should be bitten while
abroad.
1t is computed that $50, 900 people
60 into London by rail every day to
earn their livelihood. and leave it at
night, and yet an accident rarely Oc-
ours.
Whales have become remarkably
numerous of late in the vicinity Of
Morehead, n. c., two large ones having
been caught there during the past
month.
"A long-haired elephant. larger and
more perfect than any specimen hith-
erto secured, is reported TO have been
ext licated from the ice at the mouth of
the Lena Delta.
The japanese Government is max
ing copper coin out of the hundreds of