Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-06-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-HeliotrOpe is now the favorite per-
fume.
! -SweIen, Me-, has neither physi-
clan or lawyer.
/ White potatoes sell for 3 a bushel
IN portions Of Florida.
/ France has completed war vessels
/ costing over 81, 900, coo.
The cultivation of cinchona is said
to be projected in Florida.
brooklyn has three colored drug
gists in good circumstances.
One of the New York papers has
facilities for printing . copies per sec
Ond.
"A horse which was known to be 80
years old died recently on Staten Is
land.
The. California legislature has pas
hotel for travellers IN the Yosemite
valley.
The most valuable metal known Is
venadium, which Is worth $4,000 per
pound.
"a descendant OF seven Russian
counts" has been naturalized in Mil
waukee.
Cannes has been selected as a site
Cor monument to the late Duke Of
Albany.
Italy has 4,SOO. 90 lemon trees,
which produce 1,26l lO0O, 900 lemons
annually.
"A cOIOred man, whose age is set
down Is lO9 years. lives in OcOnee
county, Gas
The value Of the shipbullding IN
dustTy of New England for 1881 reached
100000.
Police, it is said, escort all visiting
clubs to and from the ball grounds in
Columbus, Ga.
"A number of private residences in
New York have been fitted up with
electric lights.
Mary Anderson is reported to save
more money in month than most men
make in a year.
The Illinois Compulsory Education
law provides no penalties, and Is there
fore imperative.
schenectady has an Excise Board
consisting OF Democrat, Republican
and ProhIbItiOnisJ-
"A marked dimmution in the num-
Der of tourists bound Tor Europe this
summer is reported.
The Louisiana sugar crop is now
expected To fall short about a third Of
the or glnal estimates.
"A gold plate Of false teeth lost in
Sierra comfy, Cal, thirty years ago,
was found there recently.
-Grasshoppers are causing serious
trouble on some of the railroads aud in
ranches on the Pacific coast,
Two wells are shortly to be sunk
near jamestown, y. Y, III hopes Of
striking either gas or oil.
All of the public school buildings
in New York are to be connected with
the city'S fire alarm system.
At a sale in London, recently, Lord
Wllton'S champagne realized SO a doZ-
en-, and has claret $40 a dozen.
There are -, 600 boys and girls en-
ployed IN mills, factories and workshops
located in New York State.
The license on roller skating riuks
has been raised from S2j to $50 by the
City Council of OswegO, y. Y.
TWENTY-FIVE unmarried daughters
of a Carroll county, Nd, man are liy-
ing in the same house with him.
"A shell collection valued at $4,000
is owned by Cornell University, and is
claimed as the best in existence.
"A little girl arrived in PittsbUrg
recently, after having made safely the
trip from the City of Mexico alone.
Excitement prevails in Mono, Cal
ifornia, over what IS believed to be the
discovery of large deposits of tin ore.
A scratch on his hand, developing
into blood poisoning, has caused the
death of man at Deer Lodge, NJ. L.
Scarlet fever is reported to be abat-
ing in various Massachusetts, towns
where it has prevailed for some months.
The rumOr that Mr.. Jay Gould's
son, George, has taste for the stage
and desire TO appear on 1t is denied
Frost laid out the cucumber crop
in Wisconsin, and fire destroyed pickle
factory in Cincinnati on the same night.
A plan to burn the city's garbage
in furnaces heated by natural gas now
allowed to escape is talked of in Pitts
burg.
The anti-treating law of Nevada, it
is reported, IS not only dead letter al
ready, but the universal subject of nd
icule.
"A hail storm at COrsicana, Texas,
recently dropped hailstOnes that are de-
clared to have weighed nearly twelve
ounces.
-Sixty-fve cents a pound was real
lied i'll New Y York recently by a citizen
of HammontOn, y. j., for lot of spring
chickens.
In the neighbOrhOOd of four or five
new peach orchards have been
planted this year in the lower part of
Delaware
"A '-pauper," vino died in the poor
house at Bridgeport, Conn, left an es-
tate which has been officially valued at
over S14JO.
st. Paul follows up the opening Of
the Northern Pacific with smelling
works to reduce the ores of Montana
and Idaho.
On farm on Little Lost River,
Idaho, IN one night recently four lions
killed fifty and injured thirty valuable
AngOra goats.
Somebody has made count or an
Of the one legged men in this
country and finds that there are about
10000 of them.
There are 10000 commercial trsv-
elers in the United States. They cost
their employers. it is estimated, $780,
00O, 600 year
The need of more facilities for ed
ucatiOn is becoming apparent in DakO-
ia, and preparations for the erection of
new colleges there are being made.
The professors of the Uni ersity of
Toxic have formed themselves into an
for promoting the introduc-
ductIOn of Latin writing and type in
place of the Chinese.
The Church or the Holy Ghost at
Heidelberg, Germany, is divided by a
partition running lengthwise through It.
On the one side the service is Protest