Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-10-06
NEWS IN BRIEF

One price dealer.
Female garroters are numerous In
the City of Mexico.
AT point of southeastern Florida
the water is 10, 176 feet deep.
Salmon bring eighty-five cents each
at the California eanneries.
The order of Foresters has mem.
bership of CAT or in this country.
Some editors swear to the circula-
ton of their papers; others swear at it.
The discovery of a well of kerosene
oil is reported near Greenwood, n. c.
Catholics have invaded Mormou-
dom, and will erect a college at Salt
Lake.
drinking water sells from ten to
fifteen cents per barrel at Sardonia,
Texas.
All yarns to the contrary notwith-
standing, the sea serpent is not yet
seen serpent.
The present popularity OF the chest
nut belle ought to give the red.headed
girl chance.
Castle Garden officials say that the
Mormon immigration has fallen off to
1900 or 1900.
Mrs. General Custer is now devot-
ing herself to writing the biography OF
her gallant husband.
The production of quicksilver in
/ California has dropped to the lowest
point in many years.
In convict camp in Georgia there
are eighty-six negro conyicts, of whom
thlrty-hye are preachers.
Six skeletons of very large size
were recently exhumed from an Indian
mound near Alameda, Cal.
The raIsin crop tributary to River
side, Cal, will aggregate zoe, 900 boxes
valued at 100000, or 800 an acre.
"A singer named Limburger Is at
tracing some attention in Germany.
lie ought to have q very strong voice.
The lumbermen at Fairfield, Me-,
expects to cut upward of $4,000, 900
feet OF lumber during the coming win
| ter.
The Brooklyn Insane Asylum is
oyercrowGed. The number OF inmates
during the past year has aggregated
42l1
An Indian runner recently travel
| ed from the Clipp mine to Yuma, Cal,
distance of seventy-fve miles in seven
( hours.
Seven green ibises were brought to
San Diego, Cal, lately. The birds are
seldom seen in the vicinity except in
winter.
ALI travellers to Mount Hood this
season say there never was so little
snow on the mountain, the weather
-daS been 50 warm.
| IL pigeon owned in Brooklyn, n.
Y, made the fight from Montgomery,
Ala, SO miles, in ten days, beating all
J previous records.
Twelve thousand diamonds, some
OF them weighing six carats, have been
taken from the new diamond drifts In
New South Wales.
Secretary Whitney is charged with
wearing s. coat and trousers almost
| transparent, while az work in the naval
Office in the summer
The populaJion OF New York city
doubled itself every II years between
1920 and 1880, and is now increasing at
the rate of 1900 per year.
In one year the people of this eoun-
try use about 150, co., 600 steel pens. II
placed in line the pens would reach
from New York to Liverpool.
&C. z. Huntington, the millionaire,
IS having built at the home of his child
hood, Litchheld, Conn, a Gothic chapel
Tor the Uritarians of that place.
United States Senator Mitchell, Of
Pennsylvania, was recently made a
grandfather. 4 few days after Mrs.
Mitchell presented him with son.
The cost OF running the railroads
of America with steam power IS S502,-
OOO,OOO year, one-twentieth OF the
cost if carried on by men and horses.
The King of Portugal is enjoyinga a
holiday In central Europe. He has not
been outside the limits of his little do
miniOn before for the last twenty years.
The King of Portugal, who IS now
visiting London, is said to offend the
tastes Of the Brltishers by wearing
fashionable and antlquated garp
The wealthiest colOred man in the
United States is SAID to be Tonic Luton
a French quadrOon of New Orleans
whose fortune is estimated at 81 ,100,-
600.
They have a rug at Cottage City,
y. j., made in the year COL, or 1l95
years ago. 1t is pretty old relic, and
was obtained from the Mosque OF
Mecca
-LouiS NV had a suit OF clothes
woven of silk from a SPIDERS thread,
which was Of golden color and more
glossy and brilliant than that from the
siikwOrm.
The eulachon, a fish resembling
the smelt is caught and dried by the
Indians of the Pacific coast, who use it
as candles, it burning with clear
bright light.
The Pennsylvania railroad, which
has been the largest coal consumer In
the country, using COCO tons daily, is
going TO try natural gas upon its Pitts
burg division.
An entire village in Derbyshire
was put up at auction lately, but did
uOJ CudnBb uduuS. Iut HiSucSI Olu
was $1,000. while the buildings alone
had cost $500.
p. II. Wood and large setter dog
were upset while in a Iowboat at Onon-
dago lake, New York. The dog climb
ed on Woods shoulders and drowned
him by perslstently ducklng his head
under water.
james Garner, an English railway
porter, whose wages were nineteen
shillings per week, has Just died, leay-
ing $40, 900 as the result OF accumulated
| tips from passengers.
The home of the late Sir Moses
Montefore, at Ramsgate, was bequeath-
ed to his nephew, Mr.. Sebag-Monte-
fore who has expended $4,000 in
beautifying it.
a threatening storm cloud alarmed
the worshippers at a colOred camp
meeting at Green Camp, Ohio, recently
and IN their hurry to get away thirt7
two buggies were totally wrecked
Santa Rosa (Cal.) Cinnamon make
a lodging house Of the court house in
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