Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-04-21
NO. H..
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Louisiana is assuming prominence
as an iron producing state.
-Bstweeu 30, coo and 90, 900 annually
visit the White Mountains.
Gold bullion reaches an annual
product of S400, 900 in Georgia.
-Eighty-nlne Americans are in at
tendance at the Berlin University.
OF the twenty-five members of
Grants two cabinets six have died.
The crown jewels in the Cathedral
atlMOscow are valued at Sl2, ,0OO, 900.
Colorado Is becoming 4 large pro-
dueer OF very superior draft horses.
"A German chemist is said to have
discovered an antidote for strichnine.
During the last ten years the popu-
lation Of London has increased 572 900.
Boys as pages are now popular
features at weddings in Eastern cities.
"A bamboo shOal at Fort Mover,
Fla, has grown twenty feet since May
25th.
Green and red are most feared by
those most charged with color blind
ness.
| -Four millions OF false teeth are
manufactured in this country every
year.
-One-fifth of the legal voters of
Massachusetts, are veterans Of the civil
war.
"A mad dog adjourned the District
Court at Minden, La, recently, sine
die.
-GeOlogists say that the coal beds of
the earth will be exhausted in 10,SI5
years.
| The number of visitors at the
British museum last year was nearly
49, 900.
Each new recipient of the order of
the Garter pays fees to the amount of
5000.
The wheat crop of Colorado will
this year amount TO nearly 5000, 900
| bushels.
Twelve Hebrews were converted
in London last year at an expense of
Sl75,000,
Atlantic city is said TO use about
| 800 tons of ice a week at this season OF
the year.
-Piute Indians are proving success
ful farmers on the Pyramid Reservation
in Nevada.
Some smart statistician has figured
it out that lightning kills 100 French
men every year.
! The number of recruits to be called
out for the Russian army and navy this
year IS 100000.
In Philadelphia for the last ten
year the ratio OF divorces to marriages
has been to 81.
The weight of the silver In this
treasury vaults at Washington, is esti-
mated at 543.70O.
The people of the United States
consume more lemons than those of all
others combined.
OF the 1,O25 voters registered at
Walla Walla, Washington Territory,
about 400 are women.
One hundred and fifty thousand
vessels in Europe and North America
are engaged in fishing.
Paris is ready with 1900 beds in
her cholera hospital if she should un-
happily need them,
The season in London Is Tepsrtei
''very gay" though trade and business
Is correspOndingly dull.
-SnOw-shOvel.ng is still fashion
able amusement in the vicinity OF
MOntezuma, Colorado.
"A bullet fired at Georgia man
recently, struck his watch chain, and
was thus turned aside.
"A law in New Haven, Conn, pro-
hibits the display of fireworks before
daylight on July Fourth.
The city mission of Berlin circu-
lates no less than $4,000 printed ser
mons on Sunday morning.
The palace which the city of Mar
seilles presented to Napoleon Ill is
now used as cholera hospital.
English capitalists own q, 600, 600
acres of grazing land In the west,
together with the stock thereon.
"A resident of Atlanta, Ca, died of
congestion of the lungs in seven minutes
after hearty diet of watermelon.
Ward, New, which cast over 500
votes less than ten years ago, now has
a total population of about fifty.
"A man with wax birds in miniature
cages has been selling them to the con-
tiding Poughkeepsie people for Hy-traps.
This country is drinking 80 per
cent. more coffee than tea. In 1881
the difference was only II per cent.
Water ponds In Chill were covered
with thin ice on the 5th Inst, indicating
a temperature rarely low for that sec
tiOn.
The Russian colony in Mcpherson
county, Dakota, has sOwn some ten
thousand acres OF flax and it promises
well.
After numerous unsatisfactory at
tempts the American whiteish hx
been successfully acclimated in English
ponds.
"A citizen of Akron, o., won't be-
leve newspaper reports, and has started
East to see If Gen. Grant is really
dead.
-Worth's black list, Just issued, has
the names of ], POO ladies', who, through
vanity, order better dresses than they
can afford.
I'm the White House the visiting
cards are saved and sold for waste
paper. In the month of May there
were 5000 cards.
IAN old gentleman of 70'' WAS
among the nineteen residents OF Ariing-
ton, Ga, recently arrested for playing
baseball in the streets,
In the thirty-eight states Of the
Union there are :, 800 counties. Texas
leads with 151 counties, followed by
Georgia with 127.
"A eolOred woman only 81 inches
high, though 27 years old. lives on a
Florida plantation. She claims never
to have been sick.
"A number Of Goethe's posthumous
writings, released from ob,cuIity by
the recent death of his grandson, will
soon be published.
Two daughters Of John Bell, once
a candidate for the Presidency, ara
keeping young LADIES' seminary at
Chestnut Hill, Boston.
-Aroostook county manufactured