Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-03-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN bRlEF.
Red remains the dominant color OF
the season.
Mexican feather work is used on
dinner CARDS.
1t costs about 81 ton to make
artificial Ice.
Georgia has coIored Moody in the
religious field.
-Old-fashioned sprigged muslins are
in style again.
Quarantine on Montreal people has
been removed.
There dre 81, 600 Postmasters in the
German Empire.
Fulton, n, Y, is shipping maple
logs to England.
The word Shenandoah means ''the
daughter of tie starS.'
The greatest depth Of the ocean is
said to be 7.706 fathoms.
The Jews expelled by Bismarck
are flocking to London.
English Methodists give $1,000
COO year to home missions.
The railroads in the United States
give work to $50, 900 people.
Twenty thousand pounds of salmon
are sold every day in London.
Photographs are now taken in one
hundredth of second in Paris.
An expert telegraph operator of Erath
Co., Tex, Is six-year-old girl.
Atlanta IS going to have a real
estate and stock and bond exchange.
"A fOur-inch dead smooth file has
S64 teeth to the face or 216 to the inch.
Real estate in the City of Mexico
has trebled IN value within the last
year.
New Orleans was founded by a
company of French adventurers in
1743.
Canvas worked with gold OF silver
IS used for vests and sashes with black
dresses.
-BostOn's most novel notion is the
application of steam power to boot
polishing.
"A page from the Journal of the
present Ohio Senate: MET. Prayed.
Adjourned"
For the first time in its history the
Dutchess county n. Y Jail has not
prisoner In it.
The Jewish population of Jeru-
salem is constantly increasing, and now
numbers $1,000.
Quebec Will this year send band
of pilgrims to the Holy Land, led by
Able Provouche.
There is one family in Durango,
Col, boaSting the proud population of
fourteen children.
Forty thousand eels have been
caught in single night in the river
Shannon, Ireland.
The Paris Municipal Council has
expelled all foreign children from the
communal schools.
"A Westiield whip drummer re-
Gently travelled 1900 miles on West
erl business trip.
Buckles Of brass of the modern
form are found buried in the prehis-
tOrIc mounds of England.
The Vermont Marble Company
has received an order for 100 finished
monuments from Australia.
1t is proposed in France to tax all
foreign residents in that republic
eighteen francs per annum.
The towns in Colorado are adopting
laws prohibiting the transaction of bust
ness of any Kind on Sunday.
The spring sunshine of the holi-
days started the sap, and In Vermont
they are making maple sugar.
The Mexican government supports
10000 public schools, with facilities
equal 70 many of our colleges.
Less than one-third of the earth
and debris that covers the ruins of
Pompeii has as yet been removed.
The Pillsbury Touring mills at
Minneapolis divided S35,OO0 surplus
profits among 1,1OO employees last year.
One field of ice that passed down
the PenObScot River recently Is
declared to have contained upwards of
80 acres.
The eolored employees of Georgia
railroad struck last week because of the
appointment of one of their own race
rs foreman.
1t is in contemplation TO divide
London into ten municipalities, each to
enjoy home rule and an independent
civil identity.
king Theebaw of Burmah is
having twenty-ton brass idol cast for
a new pagoda palace which he is con-
structing.
The st. Louis Century Club, the
leading literary society of the city, has
six men and three women on its Board
of Directors.
of the 122 young men in the
graduating class in Yale College only
fourteen are looking to the ministry as
their life work.
"A pea-sheliing machine has been
invented, which can do as much work
length Of time
Idaho Springs, Col, offers prizes
amounting to $500, and Greeley to the
amount or $50 for fremen's tourna-
ments on the Fourth.
The Berlin police authorities have
forbidden all public performances In
theaters and clrcuses with trained lions
and other wild animals.
California has ON hand a surplus of
so, ,000,00 bushels of wheat. An
isthmian railroad would add millions to
the value Of this stock.
The Oldest and largest tree in the
world is chestnut near the foot Of
Mount Etna. The circumference of
the main trunk is 2l2 feet.
An original but sensible bill has
been introduced into the Iowa Senate.
1t enables husbands or wives of in
curably insane persons to marry again.
Middleton, n. H., has no doctor,
lawyer nor clergyman. The last physi-
clan lived there in 1855 and the last
moved away ten years ago.
The Church of England has nine
stations along tae line of the
Panama Canal. There are a large
number of Enylishmen among the
wOTkmen.
In Paris il costs s. to cremate
body, and this includes coal and labor
with ON r,ru fhrOrvu In In Milan tho