Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-12-08
NO. 30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

been found at Valley Head, Ala.
Agricultural clubs are being form
ed In all parts of South Carolina.
In cities in India pigeons are often
numerous enough to darken the air.
Divorce cases will hereafter be
held in open court in Rhode Island.
The erection OF $780, opera
house is talked of at San Diego, Cal.
There are 1O4 men in San Francis
co, Cal. who are worth over 81, 100000
each.
Buffalo Bill earned his title by kill
ing 4 .2S0 buffa.os, besides several In
dams.
Joseph Pulitzer's profits this year
As proprietor of tie New York World
viii be 100000.
An almond tree that bears fruit
regularly is one of the curiosities of
Newberry, :. C.
Japan is manufacturing jackets of
paper, linen thread being introduced to
give them strength.
"A Deadwood, ID. T.) man has
made 0,O00 by gathering up and SELL
ing empty beer and whisky bottles.
"A rich Norwegian lawyer left all
ais money to be used in buying bicycles
for the Christiana school children.
squirrels are 50 numerous and
tame in the woods of ConcOrdla, La,
that they can be killed with sticks.
"A German entomologist declares
that spiders destroy more insect enemies
Of trees than do all the insect-eating
birds.
The American schooner Henrietta
and her cargo have been confscated by
a Russian cruiser, because she traded
in Russian ports.
There is an artesian well !, 900 feet
deep in Aberdeen, Neb., that throws
out numbers of fish that look ike the
ordinary brook minnOw.
Among the treasures of Orange
county, n. Y, exhibited at its recent
fair, was parrot which IS known to be
at least eighty-six years old.
| From September 9th to October
9th, 2l6, ,542 ratlOns were distributed by
the Charleston earthquake relief COM
mittee at a cost of Sl4,S39.35.
An EldOradO, Ia, man by mistake
paid out $50 gold piece for theatre
ticket. The tIcket-seller hunted him
up in the audience and restored the
money.
! Among several articles advertised
to be sold under chattel mortgage by a
Panama City, Ia, constable are one
dozen poker chips and two packs Of
cards.
Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati,
has written letter in which he says
the next diocesan synod will act on the
much discussed matter of his predeces-
sor's financial mistakes.
The old Sleepy Hollow cemetery in
[ the region made famous by Washing
ton Irving. has just been enlarged for
the accommodation of those who lay
down to await the last trump.
"A stranger asked ]. Donnelly,
! Chicago diamond merchant, TO show
/ him tray of diamonds. lie threw red
pepper IN the jewelers. eyes and got
away with a handful of diamonds.
! There are hundreds of idle sailors
in San Francisco unable to obtain EN-
| plOyment, and the return OF the whalerS
| from the north Ill few weeks will
throw 800 more men on the market.
There are more daily papers in
/ Philadelphia than in New York city
and Boston combined, while New York
| city has more places of amusement
than BOsten and Philadelphia CON-
brned.
"A pair Of quails flew into Nor
witch Conn.,, residence ON recent
evening and took up quarters in the
/ parlor. They were captured, and an
attempt will be made to domesticate
them.
| The typewriter, now In such com.
mon use, dates back TO IVA, when
/ Henry Mill got a patent for 1t in Eng
/ land, but it was hot really made prac-
ticable until 1861. 1t now seems M
: dispensable.
/ "A dispatch from Albuquerque, n.
/ NJ, says General Miles has issued an
order formally announcing the close of
/ the most famous Indian campaign on
record, and cOngratuiating the troops
on the result.
| The live stock trade OF Montreal
/ this year to date has been the largest
/ on record. 4 total OF %, 600 animals
/ were received at Point st. Charles, be-
| ing 10, 700 more than during the cor
responding period last year.
"A Wisconsin hunter named Wex-
ford shot at what he took for IN extra
large squirrel on limb and wild cat
came down and clawed him in forty
two places to Convince him that his
/ eyesight was a good ways of.
Maggie Green, of 5odus, Mich,
/ aged ten, ought to be lucky little girl.
She had on exhibition at the Benton
Harbor Fair lbs specimens Of four
leafed clover, picked with her own
hand and arranged on cardboard.
/ An oak that was cut before Shak-
spaare's day furnished bit of timber
now in use as a bench in an English
farmers kitchen. The timber did
/ duty as a roof beam In a church for
36i years 1t Is still as sound as can
he.
Hereafter Dirmstadt, Germany
Will be a poor place for 4 patent medi-
cine man. By q municipal law. just
passed, all such medicines will be ana
lyzed, and tie ingredients Of which they
are composed made will be public.
AT the present moment, so says an
English paper, fortune telling is one OF
the most lOurishing system OF i'm
posture in that country, and there is
scarcely town or village without its
resident or visiting cheat af this sdescrip-
ton,
"A band of regulators in the neigh
borhood of State Mills, Rappahannock
county, Va, are reported as doing
many ugly things, such as burning
property and administering whippings
to persons of doubtful moral propriety.
The geological survey proves that
the Hoosac mountain. Massachusetts,,
is as little understood by scientific men
as any other range in the country. Five
different specimens Of rock are found