Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-02-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

torlan, is dead.
In Scotland third-class passenger
travel is increasing.
Mr.. Huxley claims to be the origi-
natOr of agnOsticiSm.
High license law is spreading in
popularity in Missouri
Henry James intends to live per-
manently IN Europe.
California has l zoo, coo Inhabitants,
but only 900 churches.
Mr.. Robert Browning has never
visited Athens until now.
-Cabbages command as much as 80
cents per head at Fort Worth.
"A portrait of Sir Moses Montefiore
is TO be painted by Mr.. MillaiS.
"A New England toOth-plck factory
uses 49, 900 cords OF wood annually.
MIR. Gresham, the Postmaster-Gen-
eral, is great sufferer from insomnia.
-Judea pitch, which is found float
ing on the Dead Sea, is an excellent
fuel
The Chinese of Portland, Oe., are
assessed for Sl45 200 worth of real prop
erty.
Rome, Italy, Las just instituted a
society for the protection Of street chill
dreD.
! agriculture and not the mines IS
now the main source of wealth IN CIli-
fOrnia.
The Marquis Tseng acts as if he
was afraid to stay in France over
night.
New Haven, Conn.,, has an S-year-
old boy whose waist measures 81
inches.
Prince Albert Victor, eldest son Of
Prince Christian, IS an excellent erick-
eter
Many protests are made against
excessive baggage charges on the Con-
tineat.
Mgr. Capel thinks that American
women are better educated than their
husbands.
Mr.. ParnelI has subscribed $3.50
towards the projected monument to
Father Burke.
Gold coinage las Just been resum-
ed in the English mint, after two years
without any. -
Dakota is third in the list of gold
producing States her yield for 1882 be-
ing S3, $50, 900.
Last year 16l .JG2 Italians emigrat-
ed to other countries, rs compared with
1882 in 1881.
King and YakiWG counties ". T.,
are agitated over recent gold discover
les in the cascades.
Certain large London establish
ments furnish their lady customers
with cup of tea.
The Japanese game of checkers IS
SO intricate that month is often spent
in deciding one game.
The Duke of Uastlemonte, recently
captured by Sicilian brigand5, has been
ransomed for $4,000.
The Burlington, VT, waterwOrks
chimney, 80 feet high, was blown down
the other night III a gale.
The German historian, Won Rank,
is eighty-four years old, but is still en-
crossed in literary work.
Bismarck thinks he knows the day
and hour of his death, which he has
predicted by astrology.
"A Blitzzug or lightning train IS to
be run from Paris to st. Petersburg at
a rate Of 56 miles an hour.
The Paris press complains that the
police of that city are excessively se-
we're in performing their duties.
DR.. Schliemann's health is so
broken that he cannot continue his ex-
cavatioDs. He is at home in Athens.
The public wealth in the United
Kingdom has increased from 9127 per
head in 1872 to e249 per head in 1882.
In the last two years there have
been 172 enlistments for the signal ser
vice, Of which SO were college grad
yates.
Louisiana, which expected to make
SOC, 900 hOgsheads Of sugar this season,
now looks for only about half that
yield.
So scarce WAS water in the South
this Fail that It was bought and sold
In VicksbUrg-10c. per barrel being
the price.
According to ar English statlsti-
clan, who has been at pains TO collect
data on the subject, early risers Ire
the longest.
Cashmere shawls are embroidered
almost entirely by men, and sometimes
a single garment represents the work Of
three generations.
The pioneers of Washington Terri
tory have organized an association. The
membership is limited TO those who
came before 1856.
I % fIa Nay,- V,rrr
tax officers fled with the State Comp
tr0ller showed the assessment to be
about S97S, 900, 900.
w. +. Sutton, noted Scotch bicy-
cliSt, living in London, has completed
25S. miles in "a hours, claimed to be
the best yet recorded on the wheel.
The marriage of Prince Louis of
Battenberg and Princess Victoria Of
Hesse is expected to take place at
Windsor Castle when date IS fixed.
Southern papers speak Of the ap-
pearance of an unprecedented number
of tramps in that section, but the lat
, ter do not appear to be OF the vicious,
, depredating order.
"A department of Agrlculture's
} scientist says our wheat IS deficient In
albumenolds. 1t will be now in order
for some foreign power TO bar its im-
; portation.
e of the English Ministry, Mr.. Glad
; stone draws 81, ,929 year from land,
| Lord Harrington $1,000 year, N.
: DOdson e3, les, Lord Spencer e42. .2l9.
= Kimberly e24,993, Lord NOrthbroke
Gil ,0U0 and Lord Derby elsa, 800.
: Large importers of American cot
r ton at Genoa have found quantities of
! matches in the bales, which were evi-
l IDENTIFY placed there with ineendiary
: intent.
There Is a stream near Helens
Mont whose waters are so impreg-
mated with copper, that any metal
, articles dropped into it are soon cop
per-Plated.