Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-03-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 22S submarine telegraph
cables, all told.
-Llncoln's tomb, at Springfield, H.,
is going to ruin.
Wyoming Territory has but eight
Organized counties.
No quarters or halves haYe been
coined since 1878.
The Iowa prohibitory liquor law is
to be tested in court.
The grave OF the celebrated Kit
Carson is at Taos, y. NJ.
The cattle now owned in Colorado
are valued at $40, 600, 900.
The value of the Canadian fisheries
for 1888 was 81, ,251 ,675.
The dividends payable in Boston In
April aggregate 81 $40, ,S62.
Brick masons are getting Sc day
in some parts of the South.
"A carload of Mormon converts left
Knoxville, Tenn, for Utah.
There are about 0,000 Northern
tourists In Florida at this time.
The Roman Catholic clergy no
longer oppose cremation In Italy.
Chicago butchers killed 1,1S2,9
cattle and 3,91l, 1872 hogs last year.
"A Newbern, n. c., firm shipped In
one order 5000 cans of oysters.
The sugar cropOf Columbia county,
Fla, will be an average one this year.
An industrial exposition will be
held at Raleigh, y. c. next September.
Atlanta, Ga, cotton mills will re-
quire 0,OO0 bales of cotton this year.
For the year 1888 the South spent
1000. 900 fOrnew railroad locomotives.
Mrs. Quincy Shaw, of Boston, is
said to spend $3.50, goo year in charity.
Eighteen colored teachers are en-
ployed in the Nashville, Tenn, schools.
Nearly five million boxes of ''sar-
dimes" were packed in Lubec, Me-, last
year.
"A medical journal states that the
average Chinese baby weighs but five
pounds.
One firm in Salisbury, North Caro-
lima, advertised for ,O00, 900 pounds Of
dried fruit.
"A Chicago widow ordered her
funeral outfit before death, paying
1000 for 1t.
During last year 1G0 manufacturing
and mining corporations were formed
in Tennessee.
Sixty million pounds of copper
were produced by the Lake Superior
mines last year.
There have been Is, ,0S6 homestead
entries in Florida since the passage Of
the act in May, 1862.
The Brooklyn Aldermen appro-
priated 5000 for the reception Of the
Army of the Potomac.
The milk inspectors of Boston
have found in some recent examinations
40 per cent. of water.
The corn crop In Kansas this year
exceeds last years by 5000, 600 bushels.
1t will reach 206, 900, 900.
1t is understood that Rev. II. W.
Beecher has netted about $4,000 by
his present ieeturing tour.
-Traynor, who once crossed the
Atlantic In dory, now proposes to
make the trip in rowboat.
"A man in Clyde, N. Y, has flint
lock pocket pistol that was used by his
grandfather in the war of 1872.
"A 17-inch snake was drawn from a
hydrant in Floyd street, Brooklyn. ac-
cordlnS to the face of the returns.
-Spurgeon, the famous London
minister, has only two children-twin
sons-and they are Baptist clergymen.
1t is said that Shanghai shipped to
this country last year not less than 500,-
600 pounds OF willow leaves disguised
us tea.
The highest rate of postage from
this country is 10 Patagonia and the
Island of st. Helena-fifty-four cents
an ounce.
There has been more snow this
winter in London than for fourteen
years, and there is great distress in con-
sequence.
AT st, Helena, California, a few
days ago, several thousand gallons of
ten-year-Old California wine sold for
three cents gallon.
Fresno County, California. IS max
ing canal 100 feet wide from Kings
River TO irrigate 3O,000,000 acres of
dry and worthless desert.
"A druggist at Louisville advertised
his store as a 'free warming place" for
the public during the very severe
weather of a few days ago.
The value of the contents of a
barrel of crude petroleum ranges from
S6 cents to 81 dollar, while the value OF
the barrel itself is $3.50.
"A railroad station is to be erected
on the site of ancient Babylon, and
patent medicine advertisements will be
the handwriting on the wall.
"A needle that entered the left hand
of Southboro', Mass, lady thirteen
years ago, worked out recently at
point Just above her right knee.
A veteran New York clubber
gives it as his opinion that the club
man who keeps his club expenses under
five dollars a day has marked genius
for finance.
"A few days ago a dealer in Lowell
was selling two ffty-cent flannel under
shirts for one cent, and his next door
neighbor was giving away shirts of the
same quality.
Recent experiments conducted by
Professor Kenig, of Berlin, show that
within the range of the normal spect-
rum healthy eye can perceive about
800 differences of cOlors.
There are SIS cotton mills in the
Southern States, against $50 four years
ago.
"A silver box, shut at Il wedding in
Hartford, Conn, tie other day, is to
be kept under seal, like that Of Pam
dora, TIL the time for the silver anni-
versary, twenty-five years hence.
I'm Southwest Virginia there are
thirteen counties where the roar Of the
railroad has never yet been heard, and
the people live in ignorance of the
events of the outside world
According to the report of the
Surgeon General, there were only two
cases of varioloid and one Of smallpox
IN the TTOifad States artnv IoSf vaar