Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-07-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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-Fowlerville. Mich, 1t is said, has
hfty widows ard three widowers.
The Russian Government has de-
cided to attempt tea cultivation upon a
large scale.
-Judic, it is stated in Paris, made
so, 900 (S5, 900 per month) By her Am
erican tour.
-Four weekly newspapers are pub
llshed in the Chinese language in San
Francisco.
A goose owned by Nelson Hoyt, of
Craftsbury, VT, is said TO be over
sixty years old.
1t is stated that a large body Of
very iins chalk has been found in the
Mojave desert.
New YORK capitalists are about to
establish 4 mile race course at Eliza
bethport, n. j.
American women TO the number
OF thirteen, are studying at the Unlver-
sity of Zurich.
| it IS estimated that one hundred
million oranges will be gathered in Cal
ifornia this season.
I Each of the hands on the House of
Parliament (LondOn) clock weighs one
hundred pounds, 1t is stated.
: The man VINO never does any harm
might crawl into cave and stay there
10 years without being missed.
Q Pierre Wamlyeff, correspondent of
the Moscow Gazette, is in Chicago. In
vestlgatlnS the labor troubles.
, The Customs Department has de-
cideG that regalia for use in Odd Fell
lows Lodges can be imported duty free.
The game preserves of a single
owner on Long Island, at Bay View,
contain over 5000 quail and 1000 part
ridges.
= There is said to be TeOre money in
the small hard clans now caught in
Oyster Bay IL. L. harbors than in
oysters.
"A man at Los Angeles has COM
menced to manufacture perfumery out
OF California flowers, and claims great
success.
"A suit that has been dragging
through the courts for nineteen years
was dismissed in Yolo county (Cal. the
other day.
, A Flint, Mich, physician recently
received eighty.four bushels of horse
radish in payment for a bill for profess
sIOnal services.
Everybody has heard of Oscar
Wilde, but not everybody knows his
full name. It is Oscar Fingall O'Flah-
critic Wills Wilde.
The Japanese believe in bathing.
Public baths are so numerous at Toxic
that there is one for every three hun
dred inhabitants.
"A Chicago man who began saving
hog briStles at the Chicago slaughter
houses now lives In a mansion and is
worth a fortune.
The plenlsphone, an instrument
that unites the tone Of the violin. viola,
cello and double bass is a recent inyen.
. ton of Buffalo musician.
But one Chinaman now fingers
within the borders of Guerneville, CAL,
and he has changed his name to Ma
honey and cut off his queue.
"A brewer in Providence is about to
turn his establishment into a soap fac
tory, under the influence OF the new
prohibition laws in his State.
"A boycott has been established in
California, with the sanction of the
knights OF Labor, against strawberries
picked by Chinese laborers.
"A cats eye valued at SIS, 900 isOne
Of Ceylon's gem exhibits (among a
great number Of lesser gems) at the
London Colonial Exhibition.
"A cave large enough to aeeommo-
date all the citizens of the town is to be
dug at Clifton, ID. I. 1t is designed rs
u safeguard from tOrnadOes. q
"A New York woman who is fond
Of nOtOriety has had the hOof5 Of her
horses gilded, and they create sensa-
ticn when driven in Central Park.
The fear that he had contracted
glaDders anu that his family would do
likewise, so worried a Danbury man
that he committed suicide recently.
"A bedstead made to order by
Milwaukee firm is "a feet wide and has
nine compartments, each intended to
hold one of the purchasers children.
"A burial service near Adrian,
Mich, consisted of a poem and an ad-
W lAlC VI lllc utCttSru
and the recitation of a poem BY his
daughter.
An engineer on the StOnington
Conn. road has filed the position for
81 years and has Travelled in that time
4 distance equal to forty times the cir
cumference of the earth.
Blush fogs have prevailed in the
early mornings at Cleveland, Ohio, of
late, and people who assert that like
appearance has heretofore preceded
outbreaks of cholera there are getting
ANXIOUS.
An encouraging item is cleaned
from New Orleans papers to the effect
that q female base ball club has gone to
pieces in that city, and the manager
committed to the wOrkhouse as a va
grant.
. "A monument is to bs erected by
New Orleans, at cost of $4,000, to
the memory of the dead members of
her fire department. Thirty of them
lost their lives while in the performance
of their duty as firemen.
q "A fire-bug who has confessed in
cendiarism' at Schenectady, accepted a
sum of money for services at one Of the
houses he had set fire to, and which
the owner handed him as a reward for
his heroic efforts to put out the flames.
Alice, coasOrt of the late Jumbo, is
slld to h1ve wicked gray eyes, but to
be not malicious. Her weight is said to
be about four tons and her height to
the shoulder 81 feet. Jumbo's weight
when in life was ten tons, and his
height III feet.
"A clergyman (Evangelical) Of
Hart ford Conn insistq rhat n 70 vyast.