Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-11-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Chicago has had 500 burglaries in
three months.
There are 725,00O more females
than males in England.
We imported $40, 600. 900 worth Of
precious stones during 1884.
Nine pupils in the public schools of
Allegan, Mich, are married women.
To prevent fat-irons from seorching,
wipe them on a cloth wet with keros-
enc.
The New Jersey cranberry crop Is
abundant, while that Of Wisconsin is
a failure.
Ten thousand public schools receive
financial support from the government
Of Mexico.
Oyer $4,000, COO has been expen-
ded on monuments in Massachusetts,
since in 1861.
"A Dakota man succeeded in get.
ting forty-four mortgages on his prop
erty and then left town.
About q, 5,OOO cattle will be driven
into the Canadian northwest from the
SAAeSA ENeANCS NAAfH oCfioOA.
Arizona now contains about co.,
600 cattle and horses. Cattle are listed
for taxation at $3.50 per head.
Sheep are only worth 10 cents per
head in Fayette county. Alabama, and
hogs are a drug at 10 cents per head.
Last year 100, 900 barrels OF oysters
were shipped from this country, and it
is expected that this seasons trade will
be even larger.
The world now uses 1000 barrels
of coal oil daily, and America has
enough on hand to keep up the supply
for three years.
New Florida oranges are already
coming to market. They are a little
premature as TO Iipeness. The crop
will be unusually forward this season.
"A Judge of Cleveland, o., has de-
cided that the chestnut gong is nui-
sance. He fined three young men S3
and costs for ringing the bell on the
streets.
The longest drought that ever oc-
CURED in this country is said to have
taken place in 1862, when no rain fell
from the first OF May to the 1st of Sep
tember.
The consumption of oysters has
much increased in Paris. Butter has
decreased in demand, since it has to a
great extent been replaced by fats and
magazines.
The public schools of this country
now employ over 300, 600 teachers and
pay them So, 600, 600, a not very fiat
tering annual average OF little more
than $500 each.
The western windCw-slaSs facto-
ries expect to resume operations the
first of October, the wOrkmen having
decided to withdraw their demands fo-
an increase of wages,
Chicago is to have public hall
capable of seating from 5000 to 5000
people. The building which will be
nine stories high, will also contain
hotel with 500 rooms.
The tallest chimney in the world
has recently been completed. 1t is 440
feet high, six more than the famous
chimney of st. ROllOx chemical works,
near Glasgow, Scotland.
DIR. Cohn, one of the professors at
the University of Heidelberg, has re-
ceiyed an invitation from the govern
ment of Japan to accept chair in the
Faculty of Laws at Toxic.
1t is estimated that the wheat
crop Of California Will be worth S54,-
600, COO this year, as against SIS, 900, 900
last year, and the barley crop will fetch
Sl6, 900, 600, a gam of 81, ,0O0,O over
last year.
The new tea route from China and
Japan to Europe via. the Pacific Ocean
and the Canadian Pacific railroad has
begun TO do a good business. The
sixth tea ship is now on It's way across
the Pacific.
The Vatican library contains "a
900 manuscripts, of which 164 are
Oriental, 3,O52 Greek and IL, ,049 Latin.
a complete catalogue is now, for the
first time, being prepared and is TO te
published.
"A foreign lady who lost E12, 900 at
the Monte Carlo gaming tables has COM
mltted suicide. This makes the seven
ty-sixth case of suicide owing to losses
at Monte Carlo since the beginning Of
the season.
AT Merced, Cal, harvester drlv-
ing wheel struck boulder, producing
sparks which set fire to the standing
grain, Snd 240 acres of wheat, $50
acres of grass and $50 acres of stubblo
were burned.
Prof. Pickering of the Boston In
stitute Of Technology, with several
skilled photographers, went TO Grenada
one of the West India Islands, to OBJ
serve the sun eclipse of August 20.
The wife of prominent merchant
at Rec Heights, Dakota, after cross
examination by attorneys as witness in
a suit, became hOpelessly insane, and
has been taken to the asylum. Her
husband thinks Of bringing suit against
the lawyers FOR damages.
According to a contemporary, the
latest ingenious Persian method Of
''squeezing" an obstinate rich man Is
to shave the victims head bare, and
cover it with a cap filed with tiny
crabs and spiders. Half an hours tor
ture inevitably brings the most Obsti-
nate to reason.
"A Pittsburg real estate agent IN
fers from the volume Of business in his
line that that city is growing in popu-
lation very rapidly, He expects the
next census to give Pittsburg 100000
pOpulatian, and Allegheny and other
cities and towns that virtually form a
part of the same community Will bring
it up to half million.
"A convict in the jail at Athens,
Ga, stripped the iron hopes from his
cell tub, made them into saw blades,
sawed through an iron bar an inch
square, making hole in the window
fourteen inches square; sOaped his
naked body and thus slipped through
it, and was then detected by the sheriff.
He said that he had to get out Of his
dark cell.
The Scientific American is reSpon-
sible for the statement that the horse
population of New York city is between
sc, 600 and 75, 900, and that of London
200, 600, of which 10000 are used in