Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-01-13
NO. 3.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

advanced JO per cent.
Roast elephant is a sacred dish IN
Tonquin and AMMAN.
-Organ-gIlndeIs are said to average
about 81 day in receipts.
Russian prisoners were first sent to
Siberia in 17l0 10y Peter the Great.
Ups and downs come with very
regular alienation 10 the elevator boy.
-Dembert, a baker in Gainesville,
Fla, has just fallen heir to 100000
"A beef recently slaughtered at
Temple, La, weighed, it is said, 2020
lbs.
The robes, frIlls and insignia of
Knights Of the Garter cost about S4,-
500.
-NormOns are settling in SOUTH
eastern Oregon in considerable num-
bers.
The will of Mr.. Miner, of PMladel-
lhia, reads: Emily Il. Miner is my
heir
-Onlcial reports say that the prOduc-
tiOn of genuine brandy lsS ceased in
France.
The Western Union sends a thou.
sand million words year of press tele-
grams.
Fulton market, New York, sells
40, ,00O, 900 pounds of fish and REJECTS
100000 annually.
Mr.. Irving's Brooklyn engagement
was the best, IN point of receipts, ever
played in that city.
Henry III. compelled all persons
having yearly income Of el0 to I'D
knighted or pay fine.
-Lapeer, Michigan, has little two
year-Old button collector that has al
ready swallowed seventeen.
Dom Piatt is reported TO be build.
ing $4,000 Catholic Church at Mac
a Cheek, near his country home.
Mary Anderson is said to send most
of the flowers she receives to the hOSpi-
tails and charity schools of London.
Belle Boyd, the "spy," is reported
10 be now living near San Antonio,
Texas, the wife of a ranchman there.
Joseph Cairn Simpson, of San Fran.
cisco, has sold his horse AnteeO to the
Santa Rosa Stock Company for $4,000.
Fencing is now the fayOrite recrea.
ton of Viennese bellies, the Empress
Elizabeth, as usual, having set the fash
| ion.
The mail from San Francisco fOI
Australia last week flied about 900
sacks. The most of it was from Eu-
| rope.
! "A bale of Persian raw silk was re-
| ceiyed in Paterson, n. J., recently,
said to be the first ever imported into
America
-Blsmarck's average weight has
been reduced from 237 pounds TO that
OF 195 pounds by DR.. Schwennenger't
regime.
An Augusta tMe.) railroad man
went to bed the other night with his
hearing perfect, and arose in the morn
ing deaf.
| -RummelSburg, near Berlin, is the
/ largest goose market in The world.
| They handle 10000, 900 a year .zi the
succulent bird.
| At the German Gymnasium fol
| girls in London, the highest jump is
/ four feet ten inches. The Indian clubs
weigh four pounds.
The Pennsylvania Editorial AsSO.
citation is to meet in annual session at
the LOchiel House. Harrisburg, on
Wednesday, January 23d.
| South Carolina is said to be the
/ only State that has no divorce laws.
/ Her Legislature recently defeated 4 bill
regulating divorces.
One of the notable bridges of the
I nf Ea Dhsvg.
/ at Sangang. 1t is five miles long and
has three hundred arches.
The carp was originally native Of
| Central Asia. 1t was introduced into
Austria in 1921, INTO England in 1904
and into this country in 1880.
The amount of gold in the United
States at the present time is estimated
| to be S57S, 200, 900, being an increase OF
! $500, 900, 900 within five years.
Mime. Gerster is reported to have
. contracted with Mr.. MaplesOn for her
; appearance IN the title part of Delibes
new opera ''Lakme" next spring.
The "Jlm" river in Dakota IS said
to be the longest unnavigable river In
the United States, if not in the world,
its distance being nearly 1000 miles.
News is thus nutshelled by the Ar
gonam, Texas paper: ''Iredell is
booming, Walnut Is growing, Valley
Mills IS bowling and Fowler is quiet -
killing alligatOrs for their skins and
teeth employs large force of men in
/ Florida, who have engaged to furnish
100000 to French tannery in a given
time.
/ Sir Tatton Sykes continued his
benefactions to the Church of England,
Notwithstanding the fact that he has
''gone over to Rome" says an English
paper.
Java is said to contain thirty-eight
large volcanoes, some OF which are
more than 10000 feet high, and which
instead of lava eject enormous quanti-
ties of mud.
"A white pine, famously big, has
Just been cut at Pepperell, Mass. 1t
was 46 inches through, 120 feet high,
and IS SAID to have been a year old for
almost every foot of its length.
/ David Graham Adee is in Honolulu,
at the governments expense, to inquire
into recent business matters between
the Hawaiian Government and the Pa
cilic Mail Steamship Company.
The town of Luxemberg will inhe-
rit a large and invaluable collection of
pictures from the late NJ. Leo Lipp-
mann, Consul forthe archduchy of Am
sterdam, on the death of his widow.
h -Venison, despite the fact that slG0
fine is imposed by Minnesota on every
carcass carried out of that State, is In
market, plentiful enough for those who
can afford it, and of unusually good
quality.
The "living skeleton" Isaac S.
Sprague, has made arrangements for
the transfer OF his body after death to
Harvard College, for scientific purposes.
He is now 40 years OLD, and weighs Just
that many pounds.
of the persons on the muster roll
of the Light Horse Artillery, of Hunt