Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-09-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
FLORIDA is getting canneries.

the piazza.
Gold has been discovered in the
south of France.
In France the sale of cigarettes to
boys is forbidden.
The Germantown Telegraph says 1t
doesn't like carp fish.
The Providence Star is to issue
penny evening paper.
Bancroft has 1000 rose bushes in
his Newport garden.
-Parnell's brother IN Alabama has
400 acres Of peaches.
Newport expects" that SIr. Childs
Will buy villa there.
Newport people are taking steps to
improve their beach.
"A bed of meurschaem has been
found near Albany, Or.
-Sketching without a permit is for
hidden in Central Park.
"A Richmond, Ind, well has struck
vein of Blue Lick water.
Thousands visit Grants Mt. Nc
Gregor cottage every week.
There are sixteen thousand cOlored
school leacnerS IN Lue SOutn-
Washington wore Hartford cloth
ing at his first inauguration.
For country, the canvas shoes for
children outlastS the leather.
The Tallahassee, Fla, rink will
hcnceforth be market house.
Everybody, it is said, goes to bed
at 10 O'Clock ut Long Branch.
-'Out of wealth. is a softer way
, of expressing impoverishment.
-Butterfisn, now priced in New
! York, used to be thrown away.
Cheap prices for wool are crowd.
ing out the sheep-raisers in Maine.
There are about eight thousand
e2istered cattl brands In Montana. e.
Sign at Atlantic City: Bring
your faces in and have them multiplied
Thousands OF jack rabbits in east
ern Nevada are dying of tape-worms.
y company has been formed to build
a hundred room hotel at Barlow, Fla.
or the 4,030 works published in
this country last year 934 were novels.
-Krupp. the Essen gun maluIac-
turer. owns 81 iron ore mines in Ger
many.
a school for training nurses is to
be es ablished in Japan under charge
of a lady from Boston.
Vice Chancellor BLcOn is the oldest
judge on the bench in England. He IS
eighty ty-eight years old.
An East Jordan, Mich, man is ac-
cused of hanging out Il sign reading
''Knew Syder for saile.'
An Old mans prayer that his house
should burn was answered after his
death vt Carthage, Tenn.
"Details of inventions prior to 1917
are not known, as no records Of patents
were kept before that date.
In one British regiment one hun
dred and six men have died in the past
two months in the SOudan.
In Germany if false information
is given to a newspaper reporter he can
collect damages OF its author.
1t has been demonstrated at Pitts
burg that for broiling meats natural
, gas has not proved a success.
"A beautiful White black snake has
been captured near Jewell, Md. 1t Is
six feet long and as white as milk.
The New York state capitol has
already cost S17, ,j0l, ,99j. and nobody
pretends to set the day when it Will be
finished.
Mr.. Evarts wears q Ne. II shirt
collar. No man with 50 small a neck
was ever elected President of the Uni
ted States.
Japan now has 81 papers devoted
to educational matters, medical pa
! pers, Q sanitary journals, , on forestry
and on pharmacy.
, The Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society go by a calendar OF their own
this year. the sOciety's meeting nights
being stamped IN red.
Manchester. Va, has produced the
largest diamond ever found in this
country, weighing twenty-three and
three-quarter caTats uncut.
A HindoO loom complete is warth
sIxty-eight cents, ard weaves shawls,
silks and muslins which the most ex-
pensive apparatus cannot equal.
"A number of the Indian girls at
! the Carlisle school have been placed
with private families during the sum-
, mer months to be instructed In dOmes-
: tic work.
"A gold mine has been discovered
: one and half miles from Union Point,
Ga, the ore from the vein OF which
t assays forty dollars per ton, and the
7 surface ore assaying sixteen dollars
? per ton.
"A deposit of blood agate resemb-
ling Scotch bIaod stone, has been dis
covered on Grand river, near Cisco,
Utah. 1t covers a territory three miles
o square. The stones are large enough
to saw into slabs for mantels and table
1 tops.
Further discoveries of gold are be.
) ing reported in the northern part OF
Western Australia. Several men are
said to have made their way into Syd-
. ney from the supposed gold fields. They
report the new field as likely to be the
. largest in Australia.
The brick yard on Fishers Island
, L. J., is the largest In the United
! States, covering over forty acres OF
= land, and giving employment to l4O
men. Four miles of railroad track
,. run from the yard to the clay pits The
- company has contracted to supply 25O,'
, OOU, 900 brick for the New York eitl
e reservoir.
The Charleston Netrs says that In
creased attention has lately been givel
10 in South Carolina to the cultivation o.
4 fruit and the vine, Thousands o.
b acres are planted each year with water
er melons. During the past four year
te more than 100000 peach trees hay
le been planted in Barnwell and Alike
Is counties, and it Is estimated that a
a least 20, 600 OF these trees are now Il
Of bearing condition.
'u "A lady who had entered suit again;
the Illinois Central railroad for n
recovery Of $4,000 for personal II
20 juries and loss Of baggage sustaine
ne in an accident on the road, has jus
~ been ruled out of court. She acknow
In e5ged that she was riding on pass q