Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-10-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
"A herd of antelopes stopped a train

The population of he Russian En-.
pire is at present 81, 100000
An ordinary goat gives quart Of
milk daily and lives ten years.
The great cooks in New York city
get from $4,000 to $1,000 year
There are 10000 more Methodists
than Baptists in the United States.
The dogs of Maryland are supposed
TO have killed 5000 sheep last year
In India the Ganges Canal irrigates
400. 900 acres, and is $50 miles long.
1t is stated that Mrs. Langtry's re-
eeipts this season aggregate S229, ,663.
The lace industry in Great Britain
employs 1900 men and fl 900 women.
"A man became insane in Fresno,
Cal. recently while serving on jury.
Jenny Lind, it Is stated. still sings
occasionally in Putney Church, Lon
don.
A city of mummies 5000 in num-
Der, has been discovered at Ekhmim,
Egypt.
In half century the population Of
Brooklyn has Increased from 10000 to
200, 900.
"Ouida' Q4Ouise de Ia Rameel, who
is nearly 60 years of AGE. Is soon to be
marrie,..
Spain has 26,OO0,UUO less inhabit-
ants than Germany, but she has SO more
gunbOats.
Pima county, Arizona, it is claimed,
is the oldest mining region IN the Uni
/ ted States.
The youngest volunteer" OF the
/ American civil war is asserting himself
numerously.
-RoweIl has made upward of $780,
900 out Of the various walking matches
he has entered.
Sixty million pounds OF copper
were produced by the Lake Superior
mines last year
Old women act As ushers i'll some
of the best theatres in Holland and
other Dutch cities.
The word folklore" was coined,
it is said. by the late Mr.. Thoms, Of
Notes and Queries.
1t requires 80 pounds of tallow
candles TO produce as much light 1000
CUBIC ItcI Vi gas
during last year l60 manufactar-
Ing and mining corporations were
formed in Tennessee.
-TraynOr, who once crossed the At
lantic IN dOry, now proposes 10 make
the trip in row boat.
There were over 5000. 900 inhabit-
ants in ireland in 1915; there are less
than 5000, 900 now.
james Riley founded the Universal
lists in England in 1760 and John Muir
ray in Boston in 17TU.
1t is estimated that over 4, 900 per-
sons are annually buried IN the pOtter's
field of New York City.
The city mission of Berlin circu-
lates no less than 5000 printed ser
mons on Sunday morning.
About two million sheep are at
present in Colorado. The clip this year
will be ten million pounds.
In Russia GOO soldiers sweep an 2y-
erage Of one ton of lOcusts into bitches
per day, and destroy them.
The Sandwich Islanders have a base
ball league, the champion club of which
~ AAAC ONVeluAA VI A1OAlOANAAA-
Statistics show that England is in
creasing her population ten times as
fast as France and SPAN.
For a wager of two dollars a resi-
dent of Danbury, Conn, swallowed a
small live frog recently.
The Miami University at Oxford,
o., was reopened recently after having
Iaa,, ,Incal fyua1ya yaarS
"A colored man in Richmond has
invented raZOr-prOof suit, which Is 10
be worn at balls and parties.
"A Boston woman has poets
rug" made of patchwork cut from the
clothes of well-knOwn poets.
Homeopathy was first brought to
the worlds notice in 1910. 1t was in
troduced into England in 1921.
-Riel got the Indians into his rebel
lion by promising that whisky should
soon sell for dollar barrel
The hide of Jumbo weighed 1,6OO
pounds, and required ton OF salt and
$50 pounds Of elm bark TO cure it.
-Thirty-three towns in the White
Mountains of New Hampshire take one
million year from tourist visitors.
"A gravedigger at Staunton, Va,
now S3 years old, has gathered in the
bodies or T0OO people during his career.
Aaron Burr's pistols, which are
said to have figured at eleven duels, are
owned by Mr. Innis Hopkins, of st.
Louis.
The geological map of the United
States, begun in 1888, has been compile
ted and placed in the hands of the en-
graver.
"A venerable citizen of GoffstoWn,
n. H., celebrated his 63th birthday re-
Gently by walking five miles in an hour
and half
There are on the retired list OF the
Boston police force about sixty-five pa
trolmen, who receive a pension Of 81
per day
The San Francisco papers are cry
ing out against the burning of LOCO
year-Old trees In that State by sheep
herders.
The Marquis de Podestad, of tho
Spanish Legation in Washington is said
to be one of the best oarsmen on the
/ Potomac.
COWBOYS in two sections of MOnta-
na, who lynched thirteen horse thieves
in two weeks, claim to have made but
one mistake.
The ARthropolOgical Congress,
which is soon to be held at Rome, will
have feature in the collection of 100
skulls of criminals.
Winchester, Va, was captured and
recaptured more than any other city
during the war. 1t changed hands %
times in the four years.
swedish bOtanists have discovered
along railroad seven species OF plants
which were unknown TO the region he
/ fore the track was laid.
Seats in the New York Stock Ex-
change are now worth $4,000. Tho
price has varied during the past ten
years from $500 TO So, 900.
The new railroad construction for
the current year to date is only 1,670
inlet, the smallest business for thesams
time in any year since 1878.
The new assessment Of property in
Virginia is said to be considered so ex.
orbItant by many owners that they
viii appeal to the courts for an abats-
ment