Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-26
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NEWS IN BRIEF,

storm has visited Dundee, Scotland.
Citizens of Macon, Georgia. send
out 81 600 month for lottery tickets.
Angels on horseback" is a new
dish, invented at Santa Fe restau-
rant.
During the last five years GG,O0O
persons have died Of consumption in
Paris.
California is said to be afflicted
Just now with ten thousand Invalid
tourists.
I'm Sweden the government runs
the drinking places and puts in each a
free library.
The mayor os Toronto has been
removed from office for lack of property
qualification.
1t is reported that 150 patents for
manufactured butter are registered in
the patent office.
There is much cOmplainr in Lon
don as to the difficulty of getting good
domestic servants.
Over % ,000,O ,OCO Holsters were cap
tured and canned on Prince Edwards
Islanu last year.
The language is saddled with an
other word. A wheelman speaks of
''cIrcumbicycling" the world.
The only presidents who were never
in Congress are Washington, Taylor,
Grant, Arthur and Cleveland.
A Wisconsin minister was dismiss
ed from an orthodox pulpit because he
built fire under balky horse.
The number OF paupers in London
exclusive of lun&tIcs in asylums and
yagrants-iS reported at 103, 1890.
Soup kitchens have been opened in
London this winter where soup is sold
to the unemployed at one cent q quart.
There are living in harrington,
New Hampshire, three men who voted
for James Monroe at his first election.
"A quantity corrosive liquid Was
thrown upon the statue Of AleyandIe
Dumas in Paris a couple Of weeks ayo.
Land in Connecticut upon which
pine trees were placed q few years ago
is now worth Sl00 an acre for its TIM
Der.
"A Merced, lCai.,) woman, who at
tempted to open = en- OF powder with
a hatehet, is now attended by physi-
clan.
The vealthiest resident Of Read
ing, Pa, has become insane because
six men were killed in an accident III
his mill.
The French pitch has been adopted
by the Dresden Court Theatre. The
purchase of new wind instruments Will
cost 81 800.
"A newspaper Of Castleton. VT,
boasts that not since 1870 have intOxi-
eating liquors been openly sold or drank
N that place.
Five thousand new physicians will
be graduated from the I0l incOrpOra-
ted medical colleges in the United
States this year.
The sea has thrown up new land
worth million in front Of Mr. Mully's
place at Far ROckaway, Long Island,
and he claims It.
The terrapin taken annually from
the waters of the Chesapeake foot up
in value nearly million and a half
dollars, it IS stated
The top of the historical tower st.
Jacques, Paris. has recently been utI-
lIZed by the installation of meteOrO-
logical observatory.
Norwich, y. Y, has adopted a
novel method of raising money for
cemetery uses. 1t IS to have a comic
opera for this purpose.
"A mercantile agency reports the
record of business failures during the
first quarter of 1856 as better than for
any similar period since 1913.
Vice Chancellor Bacon, with whom
that title becomes extinct, is now in
the SSth year of his age and the is oldest
Judge on the English bench.
Descendants to the number OF 80
survive Nine. Marianne Lsveiile, who
died recently at st. Michel de Yamdska
Can, at the age Of 81 years.
States which rooted CIrricz Castle
for 800 years are found to lie perfectly
sound. Yet the Irish qUarIies whence
they were taken are all but idle.
"A plucky 1j.year-old girl grasped
the bride of runaway horse in Sac
the other day and quickly
brought the animal to a standstill.
The recent Chinese troubles in
Territory have caused
many of the Celestials to drift into
Kansas, so Topeka paper reports.
"A boat race for $500 between the
crews of the war vessels Tennessee and
at Key West a few days
ago, was won by the Tennesee'S crew.
AT Griffin, Ca, recently a man
who had been mayor of the city and
one of its most prosperous and popular
citizens, died a pauper II its poor
house.
Mate, a ParagUayan tea, is 4 very
popular drink in South America, which
has never been introduced into the
United States. 1t IS said to be very
The French think OF sending over
to the United States to borrow for the
in 1889 the key Of the Bas-
tile. Lafayette presented the key to
"A Brockton Mass workman has
sued manufacturer for IS cents, and
been awarded s11 by the jury s verdict.
The suit cost the county S10O, and
each of the parties $50.
-Hoboken, n. j., has mayor who
was first elected upon q Democratic
aud next on an Independent ticket,
and now the Republicans have nomiua-
ted him for a third term.
London has now 400 newspapers,
according to the Newspaper Press
Directory" (of LOndon,) for 1886.
Wales has S3, Scotland 193, ireland 162
and the English provinces 1225-
The British Admiralty has ordered
that in future all large ironclads be-
longing to Her Majesty's navy are to
be furnished with not less than four
electric search lights and mirrors.
"A medium, who was to have given
given a spirituallstic seance the other
afternoon in New York, was found
dead on lounge in his room by the
woman who expected 70 form ''the
circle"
Walter Emery, of Kennebunk,
Me-, recently captured 800 bees while
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