Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-12-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Maine has many moose.

-Pinkeye Is prominent in Toledo.
Florida still has 800 pound bears.
-Lctta's eldest brother is her ad-
vance agent.
There are :. .OOo Chautauqua circles
In Michigan.
Missouri has lifted the quarantine
of Ohio cattle.
Just little oil flows from San
dusky's latest well.
Over 200 immigrants are arriving
at Key West weekly.
| Many wealthy families have a reg.
ular chief cook now.
The natural gas at Steubenyille has
a smell of petroleum.
Brooklyn girls have a fancy for
promensding In triOs.
"A quart of beef-tea soup IS sold for
a dollar IN New York.
Loose leaves are leaving fast, quoth
a iocose contemporary.
Booth has been coming wealth i'm
the west; so has Barrett.
The lake looked as black as ink
during the Buffalo gale.
The Sioux Indians are marketing
plUms at Y ankton, Oak.
Each policeman at Fargo, Oak.
carries gold-headed cane.
"A white buzzard haunts 4 planta
tion at Union Springs, Ala,
French prunes are healthful, and
this year they are cheap,
Nationally speaking, the buckwheat
/ crop will be slightly short.
There are barrels of sauer kraut in
the head IN Erie county, o.
-Merino hosiery is the most durable
Tor winter, some ladies' say.
New York epicures pay S2.4Oa
dozen for chicken patties.
-Hartsville, o., can make cider At
20 cents barrel, somehow.
The London suburbs are crowded
with unlet houses and shops.
-Ashtabula makes tramps study
geology in public stone pile.
Harrisburg society is taking 10
moonlight horseback parties.
james Lewis, Daly's comedian, is
constantly buying funny wigs.
-Pleuro-pneumOnia is spreading rap
idly among New jersey cattle.
Admiral Porter's naval history of
the war makes over 500 pages.
GAINESVILLE, o., wool growers are
waiting for more than 33 cents.
A Mansfield, o., cat makes reg
ular slaughter of SIX rats daily.
The Erie railway IS adOptiIt, the
Block system OF running trains.
"A big crop of poultry from the
West may be looked for this fall.
There are thirty-one distinctive
catering firms in New York city.
More than 1000 young women
earn living IN Newark factories.
The international yacht races cost
the projectors Sl40,0 900 this year,
Captain VIM. W. Wood has been
boating on the Hudson for G3 years.
"A bread war in st. Augustine,
Fla, results in eight lOayes for a quar-
ter.
The Sultan has accepted Sir VIII
liam White as British minister To Tur-
key.
1t is estimated that Is, 900, 900 pairs
of boots and shoes are annually manu-
factured IN prisons.
An Ohio woman went to bed one
night and awOke up next morning TO
find her jaw dislocatei.
Efforts are being made by the Do
minion to prevent cattle smuggling
from the United States.
The general election in Great
Britain last year cost a, ,633, ,737-an
average of As I'D per vote.
More than So, 600 in fines has been
collected in New York city for viola
tiOn OF the oleomargarine law.
1t is said that an anarchist plot 10
destroy Vienna and assassinate Emper-
or Francis Joseph has been discovered.
-Comte CrIvy, a grandson OF the
Duke Of Brunswick, was arrested in
Paris last week on charge of swind-
ling.
TAME Luton, French quadrOon
Of New Orleans, IS said to be the veal
thiest colOred man IN the United
States.
1t is reported that Jaehne, giving
up all hope of having his time reduced,
will tell the tale Of the Broadway
Doodle.
"A ten-year-Old lad in Henry county
Ala, got hold OF quart bottle of Wits
by and drank all Of it. The next day
he died.
The total packing Of hogs In the
west since March 1st is estimated to
have been 4. AS, 900 hogs. against s.
$40, 900 a year ago.
"A nugget of gold, recently found
by some Chinese miners in Sierra eOun-
ty, Cal, weighed 15S ounces and sold
for $50, 900, and it Is said TO be the
third largest ever found.
The name OF Tartar was a synonym
for ferociouS, crafty warrior, apd SO
a man who found Unexpectedly That a
despised antagonist was too strong for
him, was said to have caught Tartar.
"A young AthenIan maiden walked
IN the processian at the festivals OF
Demeter, Bacchus and Athena, carry
ing fiat basket on her head, in which
was deposited the sacred coke, ehaplet,
frankincense and knife to slay the VIC
tim.
People who contemplate playing at
Monte Carlo during the approaching
season will be interested to hear that
the Paris Mint is at present striking
new supply Of gold coins for the Prince
OF Monaco, who has ordered f400,OOO
worth IN pieces of $40 each.
Larry Donovan, who jumped frou
the Brooklyn bridge, has been refused
permission TO jump the Genesee Falls.
This Is sad intelligence. This action
on the part of the authorities may de-
fer DonOvan's funeral nearly half
century.
The Dryphore, Noah's ark kind
OF looking vessel now moored off the