Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-09-15
NEWS IN BRIEF


Harvard students may omit Greek
or Latin in future.
-Mussels are much esteemed as a
delicacy at Cape May.
-Golden-rod parties are being given
now by rural bellies.
Carnegie is to build Scotch castle
near CressOn Springs.
The average employment bureau
Is delusion and sham.
-Seyenty-twO acres in West Duluth
Mimi, sold for 100000.
"A machine for drying fish has been
Invented by a Pensacola man.
-Cantaloupe has taken the place of
berries at the morning meal.
"A Lowell cooperative association
makes 120lbs of butter daily.
-Lisle thread stockings are only
half the price of last summer.
Robert Kershaw, of Perry. n. Y,
has white robin with pink eyes.
"A New York family has a Mt.
Desert house built entirely OF logs
Mrs. Goodacre, of Wayland Mich,
IS 60. and is teethlng the third time.
Damage by hail in the vicinity of
Inkster, d. T., covered $4,000 acres.
Twelve old ladies at a Parma,
Mich, quilting, aggregated 9l2 years.
The Michigan forest fires have
driven the bears from their leafy lairs.
Pacific county, Washington Terri
tory, has no end of oysters and clans,
Signal service officers in Ohio are
aggravatinGly called weather pedlars.
The wealthiest sections of New
York are called the tenderloin districts.
"A Washington Stlr writer says
tyrOtoxIcon is the lofty name for dirt.
Boston is trying a nOiseless pave
ment of granita blocks set on concrete
Mr.. Girardeau. of Monticello, Fla.
will save ten tons Of watermelon seed.
-Pnoting INTO and out of Philadel-
phia is not so profitable as 1t once was.
"A man in Campbell county. Ga,
had twenty-three sons killed in the
war
The surface of California still vi
brates with The tread Of 1000 pound
bears.
Among South American cannibals
a tattooed man is thought unfit for
food.
"A tin can, holding 5000 in gold,
has been found on a Mahoning, o.,
farm.
There are one hundred and forty
nine Grand Army posts in the State Of
Maine.
The ore output of Leadvllle fer
July reached 1000 tons q day for every
working day.
The output of the mineral products
of the United States In 1854 was valued
at S4O3, ,2O4, ,62O.
1t is believed that the California
wine crop this year VIII reach p, 7,000,-
900 gallons, the largest yet produced.
The product Of the silver mines Of
Bolivia is estimated at Is, 900, 600 ounces
The Bolivian government levies "a tax
of fOur-sixths for each ounce OF silver
mined.
The Silver King mine of Arizona
has paid since 1879, $500, 600 in divi-
dends and has produced something like
s., 400, 600 in silver.
The total value of all minerals
raised in the United Kingdom In 1884
is reported at e6l, 232, OPS at the mine,
as against G64, G3j ,S34 in 1888.
Sir John Lubbock's Clearing House
returns show that the volume of trade
during last year was less than that of
the previous year by $3.50, 100000.
"A lot of dairy cows have recently
been shipped from san Francisco to
China, where the natives are turning
their attention to the dairy business.
The "Wm. Penn" a locomotive
built in Philadelphia IL 1885, was the
frst railroad engine ever run in Cali
fornia, and is still doing good service In
that state.
"A HindOo, who enjoyed himself by
Christianity in blasphemOus
terms at Ocean Grove, has been sent to
jail on the charge of disturbing relig-
iOus meetings.
Of gold and silver the mint au-
thOrities estimate the production in the
United States in 1854 at S30.S00, 600
gold, and S4S 100000 silver Coming
ratel; total, S79, ,6O0,G00
There are only one thousand peO-
ple-men, women and childTen-in all
Of Harlan county, Kentucky, yet the
and assassinatiOns during the
year outnumber the births two to one.
Not very many years since toma-
toes were known as lOve-apples, and
were regarded as poisonous. Last wear
the canning establishments of the Uni
ted States put up %, ,322, ,9J2 cans of to-
matOes.
The number of railway servants
per mile in the United King
dom has rlsen from 16.7 in 1875 to 1868
In 1888. That IS TO say with the growth
Of traffic, increased precautions, ETC., It
takes three more men to work mile of
railway now than it did eight years
ago.
Shakespeare birthplace. the trus-
tees report, was visited last year by
nearly 1900 people. who paid the
usual admission fee. The trustees have
over e2jO0 in consols, and purchased
deeds of lease and release from Sir
John ClOfton to Hugh ClOftOn dated
January 1891 for the property at New
Place (Stratford on-Ayon), where Shak-
espeare spent the last days Of his life,
and where he died.
The live stock of the United King
dom steadily increases. The cattle
this year number 6,241, ,I27, an increase
Of Al and rs per cent. respectively on
last year and the year before. The
sheep and lambs number 26,037 ,2l7, an
increase of 3 0 and Il per cent; and
the pigs number 2,5S2, 1928, decrease
Of IA per cent. on last year, but an in
crease of 2.9 per cent. on 1852.
The saving effected by the cable
ystem OF propelling street cars is strik-
Ugly shown by the fact that a 375-
morse power engine operates 10 miles
Of double track road in Chicago, doing
the work of nearly 1000 horses. 1t IS
estimated by engineers that a 2400-
horse power engine could move ali the
e. aorc o. ,.,-ecorf in rtco IN Narr-