Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-06-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-SOuIn africa mas ,JO2 miles OF
railroad in working order.
in the Connecticut valley tobacco
Yields ], 400 pounds to the acre.
-GTenoble. France, is the greatest
glove making city in the world.
Kansas ladies put side-saddles on
COWS and ride them for exercise.
-Heliotropes and geraniums in Cali
fOrnia grow ss large as lilac trees.
Jerome Napoleon's younger son,
Prince LOUIS, IS said to be very shrewd.
The Great Eastern brought e26, 200
when recently sold at Lloyd's, in Lon
don
The Rev. Phillips Brooks Boston
church, Trinity, has cost $3.50, 600 so
far.
New Orleans exports IS per cent.
of all the cotton that leaves this coun-
try.
Professor ]. G. Wood, the English
naturalist, is BOston's greatest social
lion.
The Panama canal construction is
costing at the rate Of thirty millions a
year.
"A building in Atlanta only six feet
wide commands rent of 500 per
month.
Miss Susan b. Anthony is still in
Washington working for woman suf-
frage.
There are more colleges in Ohio
than IN France ard Germany COM
bined.
The Duke of Sutherland is a great
inventor and passlonately fond of en-
gineerlng.
The refining of wines by electricity
IS an experiment that is being tried in
Les Angeles.
The army of artificial flower makers
in Paris is said to number not less than
30, 900 souls.
Absolute stagnation does not exist
anywhere in the ocean, not even at the
greatest depths.
The pistol was invented III Pistola,
IN Tuscany, by Camille Vitelli, III the
sixteenth century.
The Sultan of Turkey keeps around
his palace $1,000 of the best troops in
the Ottoman Empire.
The common thistle plant is found
TO contain an average Of 1000 seeds,
and the burdock IS 600.
The names of ffty-six women are
on the registration list for the coming
election IN New Bedford.
Baked apples are said tn be Queen
Victoria's special weakness in fruits,
with VTllnnfI a a a canRnA
"A California man blew up largo
bowlder short time ago and recovered
SS,OOO In gold from the debris.
The estimated population of China
is 4O5, 5,213,15 or 263 souls per square
mile throughout China proper.
AT Teheran the public dances are a
popular featuIe, but by law the dancers
must always be of the male sex.
Lord Adelbert Percy Cecil brother
of the Earl of Exeter, is holding,
Gospel services" IN New York.
The total number of troops fur
Tished by all the States for the Union
army during the late war was 2,S59,-
I;i2
Johann Strauss, the composer, suf-
fers from fainting spells that are as
cribed to an excessive use OF strong
cigars.
The police at Laramie. W. T., are
furnished! blacksnake whips to use on
all boys found on the streets after
L. NJ.
-DechinIte, or vanadate of lead and
zinc, has been discovered in Montana.
Ore of this nature is worth S10,0 i
pound.
There IS a man in Georgia who can
write without knowing the alphabet, or
being able to read anything except his
own letters.
The new Princes Theatre in Lon
don has an iron drop curtain. This is
the second of the kind constructed in
England.
Ernest Gye, it now seems definitely
settled, will succeed Mr.. Abbey in the
management of the Metropolitan Opera
House, n. Y.
In 1859 the only printer in Penn
sylvania was warned that he must not
print anything but what the governor
approved.
Key West fishermen enclose pieces
Of dOgwOOd root bark in small fish and
throw them to sharks, which are killed
by the poison.
In Los Angeles, Cal, ostrich eggs
as window ornament seem extremely
popular. Fifteen or twenty stores now
exhibit them.
The sum of 81, 30), 900 is asked for
ths public schools of New York City
for next year. s2,9OO,O ,OG0 being requir-
ed for salaries alone
"A cloth with cork threads through
it has been,invented. 1t looks like or
binary wear. yet prevents the body
from sinking in water.
The Postoflice department discour-
ages sub offices in large cities as delay
ing rapid delivery, and fayors an in
crease in the carrier system.
The potato was introduced into
France one hundred years ago. and
the Agricultural Society proposes soon
TO celebrate the anniversary.
New York has within her corpo-
rate limits nearly twice as many dogs
rs London, although the latter has
three times the human population.
Rice liquor Is favorite beverage
that the New York Chinese sell and
drink. As it IS alcoholic, the authOri-
ties have prohibited its sale without
license.
Maryland has furnished $50, 600
bushels of seed oysters per annum,
which in the Delaware and Long Island
Sound increase in size so as to make
II, 900, 900.
Arathy is one Of the worst moral dis.
eases, rs it not only incapacItates US
from combating the encroachm ents OF
vice, but closes every avenue Of our
souls 10 the approach of virtue.
The man who is curious TO see how
the world could get along without him,
can find cut by sticking cambria nee
die into a mill-pOnd, and then withdraw
ing it and looking at the hole.
Single-minded men always succeed.
The wedge, says Carlyle, will rend rocks,
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