Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-07-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

smuggling ON the United States pOr-
ders.
HiJi pressure steam is used by DIR.
latham Of Stafford for the publication
of infected bedding.
An international maritime exhibi-
tion will open at Havre in the summer
of 1887.
"A woman with whiskers ten inches
long is curiosity at Union Point,
Georgia.
The first mention of free trade in
print was notice of its operation in
Hungary in 1908.
The State Capitol at Albany, New
York. has already cost in round num-
beIs SIT 800, coo.
--School property in the South Is
vailed at Sc, 900, 600, against S,00O.-
eco IN the North.
In Stuttgart, Germany, the tricycle.
has been adopted by the government
for the postal service.
The Chicago Times says competi-
tiOn has greatly reduced the profits Of
cattle raising il the West.
Some sort of an epidemic has
struck the jack rabbits in Nevada, and
they are dying by hundreds.
Despite the Increased patronage, the
Brooklyn bridge was run at a loss the
first three months of this year.
When run to is full capacity an
Akron, Ohio, match factory turns out
81, 000, 600 matches in one day.
"SuecOtash valley" is the erphonious
and appetiZing name of settlement
near Tacoma, Washington territory.
Three million dollars worth of fish
taken from California waters, are an
nu2l!y exported To China, it is stated.
Gen. Logan's daily mail at times,
1t is said, numbers three hundred let
ter5. The average is over two hun
dred.
There were 373 mad dogs reported
in London during 1880. The largest
number for any month was IS in No
vember.
Last year 1926 dead horses and
over five times that number of dogs
were removed from the streets and al
leys OF Chicago.
Fully ten. perhaps twenty, per
cent. of the liquor saloons in Ohio, it is
reported, have closed or are closing out
under the new law.
"A sewing machine which is held In
the hand and operated like a pair OF
scissors is one of the latest productions
of the Nutmeg State.
"A vein of coal, the Rochester DEM
ocrdt Is informed, has been discovered
at depth of 500 feet IN the salt region
OF the Wyoming Valley.
The cOnvicts in the Wethersfeld,
Conn.,, penitentiary swallow lot of
tobacco juice whenever they wish to
enjoy rest in the hospital.
so far this season shipments Of
iron ore from the upper peninsula OF
Michigan are 16i, ,06T tons greater than
for the same period last ear.
-Bel'S Life, the celebrated English
sporting paper, has ceased publication
lecauSs Of its Inability to compete with
the daily sporting journals.
Records have been preserved of
only about III 600 of the dead soldiers,
while the remainder of the 10000 lie
in hOnored but unknown graves.
"A MastOdon's tusk, measuring over
six feet in length and % inches in cir
cumferance at the widest part, has
been unearthed in Rio Vista, Cal.
Queen KapOline, consort of King
ka!akaua. makes tour of the United
States next fall. She is expected TO
arrive in San Francisco in August.
The General Theological Seminary
Of New York, an Episcopal institution,
holds mortgage on Wallack's new
theater as security for loan of $685.
coo.
"A farmer in Condor, Neb., adver-
tises for wife, and specifies that she
must be about six feet tall, weigh 250
pounds, have red hair, and be an
atheist.
The Stockton, (Cal) Nal says
that the craze there now is for big
roses, and one has been grown IN that
town this spring eighteen inches in
diameter.
Wyoming lakes are so charged with
soda that it accumulates in great guam
titles around the edges, whence it Is
hauled away and worked into CONNER
cial forms,
The iron bridge over the Mlssls-
sippi River at YazOo City, Miss, wa,
begun in 1882, and has cost the town
5000, but shows no sign of immediate
completion.
Melons were at first called eante-
lOupes from being cultivated at Cante-
luppi, villa near Rome, where they
had been introduced from Armenia by
missionaries.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wade, of Madison,
No.. is seventy years Of age, and yet
she has recently completed bed quilt
of l ,O69 pieces, using 1,069 yards OF
thread in joing the pieces.
Two thousand Indians from Nevada
and Utah are holding a grant fandango
on the Humboldt River. Many foreign
tribes are represented. The object of
their meeting Is not known.
Recent letters from Rome state
the famous carnival, that in days gone
by was one Of the glories of the Eternal
City, is rapidly dying away, as is the
case also in Paris and Madrid.
Miss Charlotte Stark, granddaugh-
ter of General Stark, of bennington
fame, has museum in her house at
Dunbarton, and exhibits an assortment.
of relics Of the Bennington battle.
-Sleet storms last winter are declar.
ed to have caused million dollars
worth of damage in Worcester county,
Mass, alone. In many New England
localities whole acres of thrifty young
forest trees were ruined.
j. w. Dunkin, of Auburn, Neb.,
owns col! with two legs and five feet.
TIE hind legs are normal. In front
there are no legs. hut under the breast
Is lump from which grow three feet.
The colt thriveS.
Acting Secretary Fairchlld says
that efficient measures have been adop-
ted IN Manitoba fo- the suppression Of
contagious diseases OF animals, and
that there is believed % be no danger
of the introduction Of gislders into the
United States.
i'm these days, when two-headed