Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-02-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

SuIlpllNe.
The Pennsylvania railroads employ
10000 men.
Coal has been discovered near Eagle
Pass, Texas.
Fall River will have $50, 900 Ma
sonic building.
South Africa has 1862 miles Of rail-
road in working order.
Louisville, KY, has had twenty.
two murders in 1885.
Some 10000 children are living on
canal boats in England.
Sixteen members of the French
Senate have died this year.
-Ouida's EIglish publishers gives
her $1,000 for every book she writes.
1t is estimated that 100000 en-
yelopes a day are made in the United
States.
The piano is the most moral OF in
struments, being grand, upright and
square.
-Fifty-eents for the round trip OF
90 miles is the pay of an Augusta, Me-,
stage driver.
Over eight million females are re-
ported as employed in industrial Occu-
patIons in India.
( The Helmstedt Museum contains
the rings with which Luther betrothed
/ and wed his wife.
"A bag containing $1,000 in dimes
will be about the size of a medium-sized
ham, it is stated.
"A single copy of the first edition Of
{ n ialr cp11 he
other day for $40.
| Rochester, n. Y. has added pump
kin pie sOciais," with literary exercises
to her society events.
"A former citizen of this country
named Garate has taken out naturaIizs-
I ton papers in Mexico.
The price of a young giraffe is from
/ 3, 800 to $1,000, and OF an old one
from SIS, 900 to $4,000.
The estimated population Of China
is 4O5, ,213, ,152, or 263 souls per square
mile throughout China proper.
San Jacinto, Cal, has fifty flowing
artesian wells. The first well was put
down a little over year ago.
Gable lines are all the rage in Kan
saS City. The Council has seven appli-
cations for franchises under considera-
ton.
"A Buffalo man who has spent
$4,000 in boring for water hasn't got
drop yet ont of his deep hole in the
ground.
Mr.. F. Marion Crawford is about
to publish a new novel-his fifth or
sixth-which IS entitled ga Scholars
Romance.
AT the Leipsig University the first
prize in natural history has been award
ed to japanese student for a zoologl-
cal treatise.
AN international exhibition, both
agricultural and industrial, VIII be held
this winter at Nice. There will be an
art exhibition also.
brooklyn public schools, as shown
by official reports, are attended by over
1000 more pupils than can be fairly ac-
commOdated in them.
Penny cups Of coffee, three-cent
stews and fve-cent steaks and chops
are features of New York italian res
taurant bills of fare.
An inventor il Paris, il is stated,
has succeeded in producing a paper SO
lincOmbustible that fire viii not even
alter its appearance.
"A lady who was introduced 10 the
Grand Duke Alexis at ball in Louis.
vile has been crazy ever since, lmagin-
ing herself the Dukes wife.
Eighteen hundred and twenty per-
sons have committed suicide at Monte
Carlo within the past eight years. They
we're all victims Of gambling.
-Four sons of one OF OhiO's ablest
lawyers, who were marked out by him
for great careers in law and literature,
are all on the road as minstrels.
Baron V. Schoeler, Of Corpus Christi
has for pet an immense snake of the
anaconda species. perfectly docile
so far as the Baron has yet learned.
Over 10000 women are engaged in
the shirt and collar manufactures at
Troy, y. Y, and the payroll of one
concern alone averages over $1,000 per
day.
Patrick Shea, of HOlyoke, Mass,
drank q N,ineglassful of undertaker's
.embalming fluid day or two ago sup
posing it to be whisky, and died shortly
after.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company have not been killed of BY
railroads. They have Just built forty
new boats and are improving their pro-
perty.
To ten-columl report of the pre-
vious days proceedings of the Buffalo
City Council, the Courier the other day
tackled the satisfying line: 'Conclud-
ed tomorrow"
The total quantity of meat brought
into the London markets in November
was 20. III tons, OF which Is tons were
seized rs unfit for human food, or at
the rate of .UG5 per cent.
"A 13-year-old giri, who is perfect
in other ways, but who mas simply little
blue spots that puff cut slightly where
her eyes should be, is said to be living
at Amherst, Portage county, W;scon-
sin.
After a wedding ceremony per-
formed at his residence recently by
Rev. Frederick Baylis Allen, of Trinity
Church, Boston. the groom slipped into
his hand coin that proved to be a
nickel five-cent piece.
The seasonable announcement is
made by the Hemphill (Texasl Rsp0r-
ter, that it will take turkeys, chickens,
eggs, butter or a nice, juicy venison
ham in payment Of years subscrip-
ton.
"A .hree-pould child, born month
agU, IS interesting Grand Rapids, Mich.
Sixty bushels of pamphlets. adver-
tising a patent medicine. were received
in the Boston Post-oflice last week, and
were found. on examination, TO contain
also a circular advertising Kansas
lottery.
Miss Ellen II. Arthur, The Presi-
dents daughter, IS President OF the
Children's Christmas Club, Of Wash
ington, an organization whose object is
to provide poor children with food,
clothes and toys ut the holiday season.
The German Army H0rse-buying
Commission have tbis gear bought in