Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| The Tombs Prison, New Y orll City,
Is TO be enlarged.
There are nine negroes in the new
Virginia legislature.
Steel rails have gone from Sl52 per
ton to S35 in fifteen years.
DR.. Rochfs estimates the number
Of Jews In Africa at 22G SOC.
The salary of DR.. COwie, the new
dean of Exeter, Is SO, GOO q year.
India ink, according to Chinese
writers, was invented 1867 b. g.
MIR. Millais is to paint a picture of
Mr.. Gladstone for his old college at Ok
ford.
Three thousand Americans and
twelve thousand English are now living
in Paris.
"A woman los years old in White
Eeld County, Ga, asked to he baptized
recently.
An English syndicate, worth SO, q
100000, has bought 1000 acres north
of Omaha.
Counterfeit standard silver dollars
are troubling tradesmen TO an inereas-
ing extent.
Mr., Maxwell Tabor, son Of the ex-
Senator, will marry Miss Lou Babcock,
Denver belle.
-Pere Hyacinthe Is lecturing this
week in New Orleans, whence he will
go to California.
Queen Victoria won all the cham
piOn hOnOrs for cattle at SmithGeld,
London, this year.
There IS single sentence in the
English Foreign Enlistment act which
contains Go words.
Queen VictOrla's new book con-
sains eight portraits and quite a number
of full-page wOOd-cuts.
The quantity of ice shipped from
Norwegian ports in 1852 was 227, COO
tons, the largest known.
Cardinal Manuing's niece, Miss
Vera Manning, an heIresS to $4,000 a
year, has entered a convent.
Arab Pasha, now in exile at Col
Ombo, Ceylon, is making rapid progress
in learning to speak English.
Connecticut plants So 600 acres OF
corn, 1900 acres of potatoes and TO-
600 acres of tobacco per year.
Mrs. Sherman, the wife of General
Sherman, has adopted little girl, Ella
Cady, daughter of the late Dr.. Cady.
Ostrich plumes, valued at $3.50
were taken to San Francisco from the
Anaheim ostrich farm few days ago.
An old conductor says that the
majority of ladies III getting on and OF
a street car catch hold of the back hand
rail.
The export Of diamonds from the
Cape between Aug. and Nov. 30, in
elusive, amounted in value to less than
5000.
Suit has been brought at Dallas,
Texas, to test the right Of Texas rail-
roads to charge four cents mile pas
senger fare.
The aggregate area Of the corn crop
for 1888 is 6S,000, 900 acres. This is an
increase of 2.500,00O acres over last
years crop.
"A Japanese student has been select
ed for the important position OF asSis-
tant to the Professor Of Anatomy az
Berlin University.
In one district in Yucatan, in a
fortnight, there were killed 10000
pounds of grass-hoppers and over 1000
pounds of locusts.
The Chicago board Of education Is
considering a proposition to make music
one OF the compulsory studies in the
schools of that city.
The match factory at Jonkoping
can now turn out q million boxes OF
matches In q single day when worked
to its utmost capacity.
1t IS reported that Mr.. George
Augustus Sala has again grown tired
of England and will soon go to Aust:a-
Ia on lecturing tour.
The passengers OF a New York
street car had the interesting task Of
cutting down suicide who had hanged
himself TO a store front awning.
Because 30 few Jews understand
the Hebrew language, a synagogue at
Rochester, n. Y, has adopted for uss
an English translation OF the ritual.
DIR. LIE Roy Sunderland, Of Quincy,
Mass, now eighty years Old, has been
made 4 member OF the Society OF
Science, Letters and Art in London.
DR.. Lucy II. Hall has declined the
position OF Superintendent of the Mas
sachusetts Woman's RefOrmatory In-
stitution as successor 20 Miss Clara
Barton.
ten. John Cochrane Of New York
has forsaken the Republican party and
Joined Tammany Hall. because he is
opposed to the protection 0f American
industry.
On their way 20 the South Pere
Hyacinthe-Loysol ami wife spent u
couple of days in Washington, where
Nine. Loyson was once a newspaper
correspondent.
John Riley was regarded until his
death, near BTuceIOwn, recently, rs the
Oldest citizen in the Valley of Virginia.
His age was one hundred and seven
years and three days.
Camille FlammariOn. The we'll
known French astronomer aud meteor
ologist, joins his authority to the theory
which explains the red sunsets by the
great volcanic eruptio2s IN and around
Java.
-SenatOr-elect Wilson, OF Maryland,
has written his letter OF acceptance.
He does not intend to leave the bench
during the present session Of the Legis-
iature, but viii remain Judge until
the autumn.
There are now III England and
Wales between 100000 and 100000
women who possess the franchise-that
is to say, one woman to every seven
men. More than los, 900 women pos
sess, as househoiders, the municipal
franchise. The number OF women land
owners in England and Wales IS 81
SOC.
TaEY have ui1ed drinks In layge
cities that cost one dollar each. They
may be called Bland smiles.