Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-03-25
NEWS IN BRIEF

The Russian language contains sc
letters.
-Mollie Garfield has entered Vasssr
! COLLEGE.
There are = 900, 900 acres Of deer
park in Scotland.
There are now 100 girl students n
5warthmore College.
Harvard has more SOphOmcres this
! year than freshmen.
Connecticut has 40 oyster steamers
with capacity of 30, 720 bushels daily.
Buffalo, despite her proximity 70
Niagara, is threatened by a water fam
/ Inc.
-Birm ingham, England, has the
| greatest button trade OF any city in the
world.
Over 5000 Northern school teach.
ers have visited the New Orleans expo
sition.
In 1884, 21S New York men mar
ried under 20 yeaTs of age and 2,9I9
women.
An ancient Egyptian idol sold at
auction in New York recently for seven
dollars.
grapes that are grown at the highest ell
ovation.
-Sicilian brides are compelled to have
their eyebrows shaved of previous to
marriage.
Congressman ROSecrans' son Is =
Catholic priest and his two daughters
are nuns.
Electoral messengers to Washing.
ton received SS46S. 80 and travelled 49,
674 miles.
"A tramp is said to be the impOr-
ter Of the smallpox now raging in
Thomson, GA
"A necklace composed OF Il orna-
mented pearls brought e3290 at recent
sale In London.
-Fifty-eight per cent. Of the power
exerted IL driving the propeller Of q
steamship is lost.
In Southern California the pOmegran-
ate hourishes as it does in Italy or in
the Holy Land.
"A cremation society has been
formed in Buffalo with a capital of ten
thousand dollars.
There was an interval Of nearly
years between the last two marriages la
Haverhill, \. II.
"A garden seed war is lowering oVer
Athens, Go, and in consequence prices
have been reduced.
There are seventy eight women
studying medicine at Paris, thirteen Or
whom are Parislans.
There are {, ,23g. .9jS persons IN tho
United States above the age Of 10 who
cannot read and write
Eggs, in some parts of Montana,
are reported To command ten cents each
OF dollar by the dozen.
Australia boasts Of a cave larger
than the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
Ii is ca led the GenOian.
-Four hundred Omnibuses pass a
given point in London every day, ae-
cOrding to recent computation.
in Thibet one woman may have
two three, or even four hGlt..sl...5, LIT
never more than the last number.
For sixty-six years a bOatman at
Newport, r. l., has been in the employ
OF the United States Government.
The Juveniles have been thought OF
in Montreal, and tOboguan slides for
The Prince of Wales has expended
s., 900, 600 on his Sandringham proper
ty, exclusive Of the purchase money.
Six brothers who reside in Wal
palk township, n. J aggregate 81 feet
IN height and 1900 pounds in weight.
"A young man of New Haven,
Conn, has collection Of 1900 BIRDS
eggs. embracing nearly 1000 varieties.
According to Montreal paper
more fires o CURED on Friday in that
city during 1884 than on any other day.
For publishing a translation Of one
of ZOla's novels Dresden publisher
has been sent to prison for one month
Complaints of the dearness of the
New York cheap cabs are trequent-
ly written to the newspapers of that
city.
"A young lady acts as sexton of a
Lawrenceville, Ga, church, and is said
to be the only one of that sex IN the
State
Russia will not build the projected
network of railways throughout Siberia
just at present, owing to a lack OF
funds
What is claimed to be the only bent
wood factory in the United States has
been established at Charleston, South
Carolina.
Senator elect Leland Stanford was
a student in Cazen0via Seminary with
Joseph r. Hawley and Henry w. Slo-
cum in 1884.
-SignOT ROtOli, one of the most pop
ular musicians in Rome, will presently
come to this country to fill a professor
ship in Boston.
Several varieties of birds have ap-
peared along the sea coast of California,
which were never known before to leave
the mountains.
The elder duck does not take her
young Into the ocean, as IS generally
supposed but remains with them among
the islands along the coast.
-Orville D. Baker, the new Attorney
General of Maine. a BOwdOin graduate
of '6S, was an extraordinary good first
baseman when at college.
james g. Jamison, the new Adju-
tant General, of Missouri, was a ''FOr-
ty-nIner" in California, and follower
of Walker IN Nicaragua,
Twenty Partisan duelists are organ
izing club under the name of La
Flamberge, whose members must all
have fought at least one duel.
The editors, bOOkkeepers, type-set-
ters, collectors aud agents OF the Free
man, the cOlOred organ published Ia
New York, are all eOlored men.
An Indiana husband has been seal
ded eighty-One times with hot tea by his
wife, and has now come 10 the cOnclu-
clusion that he is entitled to divorce.
An English lady, Mrs. Hayward,
has been engaged as professor of elOcu-
t<1n in the CINCINNATI Law School and
the innovation has been received with
favor.
Cheshire, Mass, has two large bald