Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

to eat can be had in Cuba.
Eggs are sent by mail in England
under the parcel post system.
No less than 100000 gallons of
yiehy water are exported yearly.
Marrow streets are said to be pro.
motive of murder in Baltimore.
The water IN the Gulf of Bothnia
has fallen three feet in fifty years.
"A Fremont, Neb., druggist has a
l2-pence English coin 574 years old.
-Winooski. Vermont, is a hoodlum,s
paradise and arson is very prevalent.
The semi-annual dividends payable
in Boston in May aggregate $685.
$50.
New York city has 10000 persons
who depend on gambling for a liveli-
hood.
In England the freight trains viii
average speed Of twenty-five miles an
hour.
Proctor says that Jupiter is In the
state that our earth was 81, 100000
years ago.
There are in England 4,712 pawn
brokers, each paying $3.50 for his
license,
The largest fortunes accumulated
IN Ireland have been made in the liquor
business.
The total specie report since the
present movement opened has been
81, ,236, 600.
"A spiritualist temple to cost $780,
coo is going up In the Back Bay region
of Boston.
Over 100 persons have been killed
in Colorado by snowslides during the
past winter.
The Boston Globe decides that the
expression grammatical error" is cor
rect English.
"A machine that makes ~ pretzels
a minute IS said 20 be run by Laacas-
ter county man.
Yale College is reported to be los.
ing its students. Expensive living is
the cause assigned.
The Georgia Legislature has put a
prohibitOry tax on baseball. The coun-
try members did it.
"A book publisher in London asserts
that go out of 200 prominent English
actors are drunkards.
"A New York firm has split 1000
trade dollars and turned each dollar
into pocket matchbox.
-Heidelburg University will ceIe-
brate the five huRdreth anniversary of
Its existence next month,
-Fifeshlre, Scotland, is earnest in
the belief that it possesses ''Robinson
CrusOe's gun and sea chest"
The water-gas and rival companies
in New York have pooled their
lssues'-S2-25 per 1000 cubic feet
Twenty years ago the English
House OF Commons contained only two
teetotalers; at present it has thirtY-six.
michigan is building a home for
her soldiers. 1t is to be in the suburbs
of Grand Rapids, and is to cost $780,
600.
! The cattle industry in this country
represents over 43, ,U00, 900 head of cattle
computed to be worth about $500, ,0O0,-
coo.
Owing to a mishap in the foundry,
the Bach statue, to be erected in Els
enach, will not be inaugurated until
next year.
hot water at the depth of eight
hundred feet has been discovered in an
artesian well at Sierra Valley, Cali
/ fOrnla.
! "A scheme is afOOt in France to
convert Paris into a seaport town. 1t
Is proposed to build ship canal from
the sea coast TO the capital.
AT the wedding feast furnished by
the RaO of Clutch, in India, two days
were consumed, together with enough
edibles for over 40, 900 people.
For each 100 miles of railroad in
the United States there are 2j.12 miles
of second track, sidings, etc.; 1928 To-
cOmOtives, 1874 passenger cars, 4.7o
baggage and mail cars, and 621. A freight
cars.
"A slgn.bOard marked ''Six miles to
Montgomery, Ala" was found, it Is
asserted, in the mountains, after the
recent tornado, 80 miles from Mont
gOmery.
The farmers near Tolono, H., it
is said have dug number of wells,
striking natural gas, with which they
DO their cooking and heat and light
their houses.
According to late returns the aver.
age duration of life in Russia in Europe
is % years, and more than 60 per cents
of the infants die before they reach
their fifth year.
The official statisticf of Canadian
railoads for 1888 show 1,27j miles
butt; S33, ,244, $50 the gross revenue; 169
persons killed, and $50 persons injured
during the year.
London has seventy-six guilds, en-
dOwed by wealthy benefactOrs for the
4 benefit of the different trades, and their
I trust property alone yields an income
of e2UO, 600 annually.
The census returns for 1884 give
Il population of Berlin as l, 226, ,392 OF
wh,m 20, ,5S7 are soldiers. In 1850 the
population'was only 4l9, ,72O, Of whom
/ II .Ji7 were soldiers.
In Warsaw, Wyoming County, ".
Y, there are eight salt wells. Solid
salt is found & a distance from the sur
face of from 600 to 1,S00 feet. Ths
beds are about % feet thick.
An exchange mentions the case Of
an unfortunate who, few days ago
broke both arms, by falling through
stable floor. Two years ago he lost
both legs by railroad accident.
Public story-tellers still earn
go livelihood in Japan. In Toxic
alone 600 OF these street imprOyisatores
ply their trade. provided with small
table, fan and a paper-rapper to Illus
trate a, d emphasize the points Of their
tales.
| Poems and translations In fifteen
different languages, including Chinese,
japanese, modern Greek, Danish and
Norwegian, were given recently at a
meeting of literary society in Baiti-
more.
I Since the beginning of 1884 no less
than -inety thousand gallons Of lime
inice have been received at Liverpool
/ md it is said that under its use the
! number of cases of scurvy in the British