Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-05-05
NO. 49,.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

lately.
AT baby show in Massachusetts q
bright-eyed colored baby gained the
prize.
The Historian Fro ude IS suffering
from the effects of oyerwork, it Is re-
ported.
Three of John Wesley great grand
sons are clergymen Of the Church OF
England.
Two men lost theirlives at Tecums
New. in quarrel over the possession
of dog.
"A great grand daughter OF Words
worth is compiling Wordsworth Birth
day book.
President Cleveland 1t Is said, has
increased Al pounds In weight since his
Inauguration.
Two pine logs recently cut In Clay
county, Fla, measured, respectively
1457 and 1865 feet.
France has but II, ,046 naturalIzed
persons out ora population of over
thirty-seven million people.
Late statistics are reputed to show
that st. Petersburg is the most un-
healthy city In Europe
"A California horse has become no.
tOrlous by swimming five miles. The
task occupied twelve hours.
-UncOnverted pickpockets cleared
$1,000 at the meetings conducted by
Rev. Sam. Jones, in Chicago.
"A Swiss watch manufacturer now
IN this POnntrv accarta 40 la
III Switzerland was never better.
in Lausanne, Switzerland, trage-
dlans, ballet girls and acrobats perform
in the open ar on the street corners.
Pretty Quaker girls a century ago
dressed in the height of fashion, and
wore purple boots laced with scarlet.
For the benefit OF farmers the Ca
madam Weather Bureau will affix
weather signals 20 the railway trains.
The Empress OF Austria and the
Crown Princess of Sweden are going to
Amsterdam TO be treated by DR.. Metz
ger.
In New I Ork some of the Chinese
have given up the laundry business and
gone to farming, which they say pays
letter.
1t is announced that Mexican to-
bacco will hereafter be imported under
its own name instead of that OF the
Cuban product.
"A Hong Kong firm, 1t is reported,
Is shortly to open at Victoria, British
Columbia, a Chinese bank, with cap
ital of 100000.
VaoO Taxac iS cDapdinr, S9n nnn
on new school house. The municipal
tax is one dollar on the hundred dol
lars Of assessed valuation.
/ "A quartette of thieves-One only
16 years old-under arrest in New
/ York, admit having entered 55 houses
within period of three months.
Two tramps who were arrested at
Plain6eld, n. j., while riding on coal
train were found to have on five pairs
of trousers and several coats each.
Ice will shortly become one of the
, industries OF Florida, and factory for
Its manufacture will be erected at Day
tona during the coming summer.
Chicago people are entertaining
themselves with pronunciation matches
gotten up on the same principle rs the
spelling bees of four or five years ago.
"A New York lady effectively used
her big brass dinner bell the other day
as burglar alarm. The fellow whose
capture it secured is in jail awaiting
trial.
Poultry breeding is carried on ex-
tensively in France. A French paper
estimates the number of fowls N the
poultry yards Of that country at As
100000.
"A Castleton, VII man has ship
ped SIX hundred willow shoots TO WyO-
ming Territory, where it is hoped that
the soil will be favorable for their
growth.
Arrangements are being made for
4 Universal Shorthand Congress, to be
held in London in 1887, for the discus
sion of the history and progress of stem
Ogrsphy.
"A counterfeit five dollar bill on the
Central National Bank, OF Norwalk,
Conn, is in circulation. The counter
felt charter number is 40i and the gen.
Gine Is 23i2.
M. PaSteur, it is announced, has
agreed to receive in his study an Amer.
lean student, who may thus acquire a
thorough knowledge of the application
Of ''the great cure for hydrOphObla."
"A law that has been a dead letter
for 80 years has been revived by the
local authorities of Dover, n. H., for
the purpose of compelling barber shops
to keep closed on Sundays.
The Freshmen of Yale have decid-
ed to challenge the Harvard Freshmen
to boat race, to be rOwed at New
London about the time of the regular
University race this summer.
The pupils of a Georgia school
have also had a strike-it was short
lived though, and-fOr holiday. The
children went so far as to nail up the
school doors.
-Twenty-nine per cent. of the acre
age of Europe, 1t is estimated, is still in
timber, and forty per cent. of the terri
tory of Russia Is in forests. Twenty
seven per cent of Germany is in tim
Der, and, it is said, but four per cent.
of Great Britain.
The recent flood in the South has
beggared a Macon (Ga. citizen, whose
wealth-sOme seven hundred dollars
which he kept in hole in the ground,
was carried off by the raging waters.
"A justice in New York, before
whom defendant was charged with
giving theatrical entertainments on
Sundays, adjourned the hearing on
Saturday so that he could personally
take in the show the next evening and
judge for himself.
Chicago has one liquor saloon to
every 81 families, which is more than
thirteen times the number Of bakers,
and nearly six times the number OF
butchers. The grocers number one TO
every eighty-nine families.
WHEN man comes home at two
O'Clock A. NJ, and finds the doors and
windows all locked and bolted against
him, it is pretty small comfort to re-
fleet that this is the season of the year
to live out of doors as much as pos
sible
among recent boiler curiosities was
the discovery of a piece of a plate cov-