Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-04-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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per diem.
"A Gloversvllle hen laid three eggs
in one day.
-London's Lord Mayor is Metho.
dist minister.
Mexico has over 1900 miles of
telegraph lines.
-Chanfrau's paralysis is laid to the
use of hair-dye.
British hanson cabs often onunI
American wheels.
There are 1000 vacant houses at
Adelaide, Australia.
1t is said to cost 40 cents to stop q
railroad train l minute.
The first report Of an Alaska grand
jury has just been made.
The colleges of this country con.
tain Is 900 female students.
-Artesian wells have been known in
China from time immemorial.
Prohibition is enforced in 200 towns
in the State Of New York.
-Type-setting in this country is said
to cost $50, 10000, 900 annually.
In some parts Of Georgia, bears,
wildcats and cOons are abundant.
Opium smokers in San Francisco
spend 81 900, 900 on that drug.
"A colt eighteen inches high is at
tracing attention in Meriden, Conn.
Mime. Patti, it is currently reported
contemplateS another tour of America,
Philadelphia consumed during last
year l ,213, sol barrels of beer and ale.
Half cents were issued from the
United States mint for half century.
a Chicago woman has been payinga
pawabroker S5S year for the use of
S2j.
The manufacture of broom corn
toothpickS is a growing Kansas indus
try.
In certain portions of West Africa
the natives eat all enemies taken III
war.
"A quicksilver vein has been struck
on farm in Charleston, West Vir-
ginia.
Albert Durer gave the world a
prophecy of future wood engraving in
1927.
The first steam engine on this
continent was brought from England
in 1853.
Philadelphia policemen carry neat
black walnut canes-a present from tie
Mayor.
1t costs the 50, ,OOO, 900 of people in
England about eS90, ,000, 900 per annum
to live.
One man in Santa Barbara, Cal,
has raised 100000 pampas plumes this
season.
"A quartz ledge was laid bare re-
Gently, near Helena, Nj. T., by stroke
of lightning.
An apple tree at Lancaster. Pa,
which is 125 years old, bore good crop
this season.
-German female telegraph operators
receive salary of $40 Il year and get
no vacations.
-E1opements seem to have become
epidemic in parts of the county the
past week or so.
The annual value of the milk pro-
duct of this country is about half the
national debt.
Earthquakes in North Japan are
Eore numerous and severe III winter
than III summer.
Canton, China, with a population
of 1,5O0, 900, does not publish 4 news
paper of any kind.
-Nine-tenths of all the fire-crackers
are made in Canton by the firm of Fat
shIng " Chow Ling.
A Canadian Lodge of Free Masons
has expelled one of It's members because
he is an Agnostic.
There are over 10000 heads of
families in Ohio who follow wool grow
ing for livelihood.
George Washington's former head
quarters at Charleston, S. c., will De
turned into bakery.
New York is beginning to boast of
her surface roads now. Jake Sharp
has stirred up the town.
The amount of American capital
invested in Mexican railways is said 10
be about S15j, 100000.
There are more than 5000 mar
riages entered in the Old Swedes'
Church in Philadelphia.
The average size of families in the
United States in 1850 was j-56. In 1860
It had decreased to 5-04.
Fourteen of the IS States have
abor bureaus IN operation. Massa-
;husetts was the pioneer.
Montreal is to have a botanic gar -
len seventy-live acres in extent in the
beautiful park on Mt. Royal.
The MeXicans of Southern Cali
,Ornia carry all their water in water.
proof baskets made of willow.
"A Texas man nirety-six years of
lge, lately died from the anguish caused
Jy cutting third set OF teeth.
The total number of works exhlbi-
ed in the French salon this year is
'O34 of which 24SS are oil paintings.
The average salaries of school
eachers in Nevada are, for males $40
month and for females 500 month.
"A brilliant comet is expecte,. to ap.
ear in the southwest during the latter
art OF this month or eally in August.
Tree planting is Systematically
O3tered in China, and 330, 200 trees
we're set out last year i'll Hong Kong
lone.
The excess of births over deaths at
london is LII per cent. per annum.
The French birthrate is the lowest in
europe.
No man can enlist in the regular
rmy of China, it is said, until he has
hown his courage b. having a tooth
,ulled.
AT Shiga Ken, Japan, there resides
dwarf, only II inches high and 36
ears old, who is well educated and
oOd writer.
1t is said that about 10,000, 900
rowns yearly arc sent home to the
atherland by Swede3 dwelling In
america.
Twelve States of the Union have
avs requiring children 10 schools 10 be
aught the physiological effect of alcohol
n the human system.
An ingenious individual has ealcu-
lted that during the course of every