Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-03-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.

OdlllC,
There are $50 baskets of peaches in
a car load.
i Steel nails are taking the place of
iron ones.
"A Greenland whales heart is a yard
in diameter.
1 The Mormons have sent MISSION
airy to Hayti.
-EngliShmen are growing more
partial to gas stoves.
British railways carried 6S5 ,OOO, 600
passengers last year.
"A money testimonial is proposed
for Lieutenant Greely.
/ Women are employed in Chill as con-
ductors of horse cars.
There are $50 icelanders in Mani
toba, engaged as farmers.
st. Petersburg was founded by
Peter the Great in 1903.
"A wOoden-leggei bicycllst whirls
around Salem, Oregon.
The Boston postoffice, begun in
ISL, cost over S2,000,000.
The British war ship Devastation
is the most powerful ahoat.
! "A woman in Rutland county, VT,
is the mother of 27 children.
Americans have Sl2j, 900, 900 in.
vested in Mexican railways.
American cutlery now goes in
large quantities all over the world.
The walls of several of the British
war ships are constructed of paper.
From end to end the st. Gothard
Tunnel IS illuminated by electricity.
The expense of governing New
York city is over $4,000, 600 annualIf>
1t has been decided to build an
underground metropolitan railway in
Paris.
Twenty-Five years complete the
round OF Il well-cared-fOr canary's
/ career.
There has never been a holiday,
a theatre, or circus on the Island of
Malta.
Russian -four has been offered by
sample in the New York market for S.
per barrel.
Water is selling for S2 barrel in
the district of Sierra Mojada, in North
ern Mexico.
Since 1873 new state house has been
erected IN Hartford at an expense of
s., 100000.
There are 25O disabled ex-Confed-
crate soldiers in the poor-houSes of
North Carolina.
Until Andrew Jackson's time,
oiliee-seekeTs were not permitted to see
the President.
The Garfield memorial window at
Williams College has been finished at
the cost of 8. 3.6i5.
Mr.. Kegan Paul, the London pub
Usher, paid SO, ,250 for the manuscript
of Gorden's diary.
The French Government has asked
a credit of 10l. 800 francs on account
of the Hugo funeral.
"A good baseball player in Rhode
Island gets a bigger salary than the
governor of that state.
The pine tree, SAYS an authority,
serves rs refuge for more than 400
species of insects.
1t has been calculated that the free
lunches in New York saloons cost
Sll, 500, 900 annually.
The water frontage of Boston is
| about 20, 900 feet, ami ships are accom-
mOdated at 164 wharves.
There is no legal tender IN China.
and silver IS the money metal of that
country, passing by weight.
Governor Ross is the 10th Governor
of New Mexico, in an unbroken line
extending back 200 wears
Dom Pedro. of Brazil, is Il aaoldest
living sovereign. He has Iei-ins Ij5S
years, or since he was six years oidpay
Suicides are said to be more fire.
quent in SaxOny in Germany than any
where else in the world.
The thimble was invented 200
years ago by Nicholas van BenSchote-.
goldsmith of Amsterdam.
1t is estimated that $1,000 of the
inhabitants OF Glasgow 90 to bed in
toxcated every Saturday night.
The Mohammedans have ninety
nine names for God, but among them
all they have not "0ur Father"
Very small electric ineandescent
or glow lamps are Used as front sights
on firearms for shooting In dim light.
The first steamship that crossed tas
ocean brought in her mail a pamphlet
proving that no steamship could do
this.
The eyes of the mole are so exceed
ingly minute and so perfectly hid in it's
halr that our ancestors considered it
blind.
The present area of Indian corn
now growing in this country is 4.OOO.-
600 acres greater than that planted last
year.
The Indians of the Western frontier
have given General Sheridan the name
OF "The-chunky man -who-means-busi-
ness
With 4,575 miles of navigable
rivers and 1900 of canals, the French
railways must encounter some competl-
tiOn.
Berlin has more than 700 million
aires, In the German sense of the word.
reckoning with marks or quarters of a
dollar.
1t was formerly the custom TO
draw away the pillows from under the
heads of dying persons in order to ac-
eelerate their departure.
One Of the most remarkable col
leetions of mineral springs is the
Catoosa Springs, in North Georgia.
There are ffty-two springs, nearly all
different in character, within the space
OF a two acre plat.
About COO German neyspapers ara
published in the United States. of
which Z are in the New England States.
2OS in the Middle States, SIS in the
Southern States, and $50 in the Western
States.
The total superGeies Of the seas in
the world is 231, ,9l5, ,9J5 square miles,
while that of all the continents and
Islands is only "a, ,354 $50 square miles.
In Paris there arc 100000 women
Who make their living on the streets.
OF those licensed by the government
there are $1,000 under IS, 1000 under
10 and 5000 little girls under 13 wears
of age.
Formerly the imperial art gallery