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

uIdfIIy ID Ollll luc DdIh Ol NlSuOul,
but it serves to preserve it.
The Prince of Wales can play the
banjo.
Engineering in Cleveland is very
dull.
The California wool crop of last
year was Al, 100000.
Not a house is for rent in Los
Angeles, it is stated.
Cincinnati workmen are solid for
the eight-hour law.
-Signor Brocolini's real name is said
to be plain John Clark.
"A new silk mill is projected in
Rockland county, New York.
"A great many Eastern furniture
factories have failed this winter.
Two wolves are said to have been
killed in Essex, Conn, last week.
An oyster shell kept in tea kettle
is said to keep the vessel free Of crust,
There are said to be only 1900
Quakers in Great Britain and ireland.
Eighteen colored teachers are en-
ployed in the Nashville, Tenn, schools.
Last year S27,OOG,OOO worth of
matches were consumed in this coun-
try.
"A cooperative nail works is to be
started at Wheeling with $40, 900 capi-
tai.
The Gar of Russia has been again
warned of Nihilistic designs upon his
life.
The death rate from chloroform IS,
according to a recent estimate, one in
1000.
The Government envelope factory
at Hartford, CT, uses ton of gum d
week.
-Waterville, a Maine town of 1000
inhabitants declines to accept a city
charter.
-MormOns are trying to make COLI
verts in Minnesota, among the Scandi-
navians.
"A party of Baton Rouge. La, bird
hunters recently killed 1,400 robins
with sticks.
. The Earl OF Buekingamshire, nine
ty years, is the oldest peer Of the Bri-
tish realm.
AT Bridgman, Mich, William VIII
liams caught an eagle that measured
nine feet.
"A sea dog was killed on the beach
near Long Branch. n. j. 1t weighed
143 pounds.
Constantine ordered the pagan tenn
pies to be destroyed throughout the en-
pire In 33l.
Eighteen thousand homesteads
have been entered in Florida during
the past year.
Lots have been drawn by four
Irish Invincibles to kill McDermott.
now IN Paris.
Alaska IS said to have in its forests
at the lowest estimate, 5000, 100000
feet of lumber.
The silver workers of Connecticut
are in trouble. They are, however,
completely organized.
The introduction Of natural gas
has greatly increased the consumption
of old rails and scrap iron
An exhibition of drawings by mod
ern artists is to be held next year in the
Ecole des BeauX-Arts, Paris.
The venerable SOjourner Truth is
very i'll at Battle Creek, Mich. She
claims to be 107 years old.
Twenty million dollars worth of
property burned in the U. s. during
January and February.
The eight-hour law has been
strictly enforced in Australia since its
adoption about thirty years ago.
The administration of an oath in
judicial proceedings was introduced in
to England by the SaxOns in 600.
The assessed valuation of the State
of Tennessee this fall is SOD, ,6S7, ,S73 an
increase of S75S, ,O60 over last year.
OF the 900 cigarmakers Of New
York about 800 only are skilled hand
workers, the rest working with molds.
The Smithsonian Institution no
longer gives away its publications. but
offers them for sale at about cost price.
The famous battle between the Bon
HOmme Richard and the Scraps and
Scarborough took place Sept. %, 1779.
The first Thanksgiving Day was in
1921, and was appointed by Gov. Brad
ford, in gratitude for the seasons har-
vest.
"A baby down town cries so inces-
sanity, and withal so Justify, that the
neighbors think it must be sick when it
stops.
The German Emperor, who is over
Sc years old. is hale and vigorous, while
the Empress, at Y, is a confirmed in
valid.
Roses six inches in diameter are
raised in Los Angeles, California pa
peIs say.
Though policemen wear stars and
cOnvlcts wear stripes, that has nothing
to do, necessarily; with the American
flag.
-Tbirty-six glandered horses DeiOug-
ing TO the proprietor OF the Newark and
South Orange horse car line were shot
this week.
The general officers Of the National
Federation Of Miners are urging their
members to agitate the eight-hour sys-
tenn of working hours.
Col. King, of Texas, has sold his
rancho at San Antonio, said to be the
biggest in the world, to an English
syndicate for 81, 100000.
The name EscOrlal is derived from
the fact that the scOria Of a neighbOr-
ing iron foundry were thrown on the
site now occupied by the palace.
1t is said that Marshall, the great
steel manufacturer, who employs 5000
hands at Sheffield, England, intends to
remove his business to America.
W. S. Morrow, Of Chambersburg,
interested in manganese mines in Shen-
andoah county. says he will soon be
able to ship 5000 tons per month.
"A young African in Crockett, Tex,
recently succeeded III gOrging himself
with ice cream and getting $40 10 III
change out of Confederate so bill.
"A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature prohibiting the
employment of more than 3 per cent. of
convicts in any one branch of industry.
Gas freezes at y degrees. 1t con-
denses makes wafer and freezes The