Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-02-03
NO. 6.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

III 1dTlS.
japanese cats have short tails, like
the Masx.
-London's population numbers near
ly 5,OOO,000.
Paris has named one of its streets
Gustave Dore.
Virginia has nine colored men in
her Legislature.
The city of Boston has licensed p
15S liquor saloons.
-Kentucky's corn crop this year s
T5.OOO,O 600 bushels.
Cactus paper is becoming leading
Mexican manufacture.
Mexican oranges are being import
ed largely into Texas.
d The Alabama river continues in
good navigable condition.
Oysters sell at thirty cents hun
dred in Pascagoula, Miss.
Matches cost over 81, ,OOO, 600 an
nually in the United States.
-Tunis and Milan have special
schools for deformed children.
"A ton Of gold goes into peoples
teeth annually in this country.
"A man living near Benton, Texas,
has over 100 nephews and nieces.
I Coal mining on the Continent is
more scientific than it IS IN England.
The MethOdists are raising SIOO, ,OOC
to build a college at Lampasas, Texas.
The State of Pueblo, Mexico, has
been invaded by great clouds Of lOcusts.
I There is very handsome opera
house in Malta, with very fine orches-
ira.
/ Such rickety structure is the cap
itOl OF Nevada that it has 20 be held up
by props.
"A railroad has been begun to the
top OF Pixies Peak, IA, 200 feet above
sea-level.
1t is asserted that every adult male
/ inhabitant OF Iceland is master Of
Latin.
"A Georgia train cut off the heads
of drunken mans boots AID left him
unharmed.
The German Empire has twenty
two State-suppOrted laboratories Of par
thOlOgy.
-Covington, ky., is having a row
with her Street Commissioner about her
dirty streets.
There is ice eight inches thick on
the Hudson between Coxsackie and
Kinderhook.
"A Newfoundland dog stopped a
runaway horse the other dRy at Des
MOines, Iowa.
There is steady stream Of emigra-
ton from Northern and Middle Georgia
to North Alabama.
People in Florida continue to gather
and eat luscious watermelons, with the
thermometer at so to 30.
Locomotive whistles have been pre-
sented by. the New Haven Board OF
Health ~ = putec urzsapos. Z
/ Deaths by accident in the streets Of
London are increasing, and hackney
drivers are chiefly to blame.
From all portions Of Kentucky
comes the report that the growing wheat
crop is looking unusually well.
Some 81, 600 acres of land have been
discovered to have been fraudently en-
tered in Uraldo county. Texas.
Bonds worth S74OO, stolen from the
Woodbury. Bank last June, have been
found in an old Bridgeport stone wall.
st. Louis has streets dirty enough
to arouse the protests of the newspapers.
What a singular city st. Louis must
be!
The 'frst old man" in the Irving
company have never left the boards Of
his London theatre for forty years until
he came here.
The Burmese capital, Mandalay, IS
said TO be infested By hOrdeS OF small
black pigs, which are protected BY the
gO"ernment as scavengers-
The latest freak OF female EuTOpes,r.
circus riders is to hold a living python
outstretched In their hands as they
swing round the sawdust.
"A female beggar, who has Travelled
over the State OF Texas with a child
and a monkey, has collected 5000, and
will go into business at San Antonio.
The beer drinkers Of Natchez,
Miss, are said to consume 500 kegs OF
beer month, or 5000 kegs per annum.
And it is quite temperate community
100.
Forty students OF the Baltimore
College of Physicians and Surgeons are
SAID TO be affected with measles, di-
seaSe that is reported prevalent in that
city.
Ell Mahdi, the False Prophet OF
Soudan, it is stated, was apprenticed,
in his boyhood, to boatman, but ran
away and attended a free school at
khartoum.
"A Southern Superior Court Judge
recently ruled that crunching peanuts
in Court was Unable as contempt Of
Court, and imposed a fine therefor upon
a colored woman.
Julius Won Payer. the Austrian ex-
plOrer of the North Pole. has appeared
. as u painter. \ large canvas by him
shows the last survivors of franklin s
expedition in starvation Cove"
r -Belgians spend nearly 500, 900, 600
/ in drink annually, and not only far out
. strip the Germaus with their 225 quarts
, of beer per caput, but consume 42 quarts
of brandy year for each inhabitant.
. The stage that runs between Jacks
boro' and Weatherford, Tex, has been
: so regularly robbed OF late that It IS
= getting to be matter OF surprise when
it goes through without that incident.
An English inn-keeper, who allow
ed leg Of pork to be raffied for IN hi,
house and was arres ted for allowing
gambling, pleaded general custom az
his defence, and the magistrate recog-
:, uized the defence as valid.
"A knife blade was found sewed i'll
!. the sleeve Of coat left by All Lee, who
, was executed at Oroville recently. He
|. had been made to change his clothes
!, and room or he would probably have
! committed suicide.
r The ebony tree is white; only It:
! heart is black, like Aaron's in Titus
o Andronicus. Its circumference reaches
4 10 feet.
g Unclaimed deposits to the amount
!. OF S69, 600, 600 have been reported by