Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-04-28
NO. Is.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

John Ruskin wants the sewing ma.
chine to go.
I'm Scotland they are trying divorc.
es and like them.
-Arabi Pasha Is teaching school at
Colombo in Ceylon.
The banking capital of the United
States to day is SI3S, ,00O, 900.
Mammoth Cave. in Kentucky, re.
ceiyes 5000 visitors annually.
There were As. 900 visitors from the
North to Florida last winter.
Farm rents in England have
declined six per cent. in five years.
No case of diphtheria has ever oc.
CURED among the Piute5, it is SAID.
-One-half OF Florida's orange crop
is raised within ra1ius of twenty -Four
miles.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Court.
house is to be built of granite from
Maine.
The French have a machine for
stamping letters and canceling the
stamps.
Cigarette smoking is rapidly In
creaSing among reputable English wO-
men.
-TheodOra Kolyer of Brooklyn has
gone insane from eating canned toms-
toes.
The Sunday collections in Spur
geon's great congregation in Lo-don
average S345.
The capital invested in wild
animals in this country is estimated at
81. 0O0, 900.
Goldfish is forty cents per pound in
Guatamala and is considered a great
delicacy.
Sing Sing prison has 1850 inmates,
s.xty-fve being murderers serving life
sentences.
The annual value of the milk pro-
duct of this country is about half the
national debt.
OF Charles Wesley's great grand
sons three are members OF the Church
of England.
There are now over s. .O00, 900 stoves
in Use, and the average life of stove Is
five years.
"A st. Louis girl lost a 5000
lover because he saw her IN the ballet.
Shape will tell.
"A ton of gum arabic is used weekly
at the government envelope factory at
Hartford, Conn.
The Mormons have increased in
this country between 500 and go per
cent. since 1850.
The importation of tin plate now
reaches the sum of seventeen million
dollars per annum.
There ara not more than two OF
three women whose wealth is greater
than Queen Vietoria's.
The latest Albany murderer an
swers 70 the name of s6ift Of Gois,,
a(Thecaorss G f-s..snasz
-Sheep-ralsers near Cloverdale. Col.
ind it pays ID eE12lPFley eeEE2PFley g nan to hunt
sheep destroying animals.
In the Congo Free State the na-
tives use ivory kitchen utensils and
chopping blocks of ivory.
Nebraska has two female insurance
agents and they are both doing a good
business and making money.
-COlOrado's timber area is Il. 500
miles, more than the combined area of
Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Sims Reeves, the English tenor.
asserts that ''sore throat" cuts his in.
come down about $50, 900 a year.
1t is curious fact that birds. even
when inOculated with the poison OF ra-
bies, do not suffer from the disease.
Old broken-noSed pitchers which
during the recent ancient craze
brought 800 are now worth 80 cents.
The old-fashioned red leather
prayer-boOk covers reappear, after be-
ing out of date for forty years or 50.
The oil tanks III the Pennsylvanis
region are uniformly 2S feet high, &C
feet in diameter, and cost S., coo each.
1t is estimated that the average
consumption of eggs throughout the
United States amounts to 5000, ,OOC
daily.
The London hangman receives Git
for each execution, and only 60 should
the criminal be released at the ultimate
hour.
The monument erected at Gettys-
burg by the Twelfth New Jersey Vol
unteers will be dedicated on the 26th
of May.
On an average about five thousand
dollars 4 year is spent by the British
Government in the photographing Of
criminals.
Butter, whose quality is relatively
stated as ''the best"-out there-ean
be bought for s cents per pound In Da-
kOta, it is stated.
The population of Sidney has more
than doubled in the last fifteen years.
Ia 1870 it was 40, DO; now it Is esti.
mated at 290,0
Upwards of two hundred Boston
BARRIERS have joined IN a movement for
'the abolition of nickle shayes and
iifteen-cent hair cuts"
"A pump, invented by PittsOurg
boot-black, on combination of the
siphon and vacuum principles, is said
to have sold for $4,000.
Madame Senbrich's little son IS to
10 usituCu 0ldlCcl NuIlSllill, IL Is SlaIPu.
the last name being for Christine Nils
son, his gOdmother.
An amateur theatrical company q
to give benefit for a home for con-
sumptives, and have selected the "Iron
Chest" fOr the performance.
-Four thousand acres of land, near
Red Bluff, California, have been pur-
chased by an English syndicate, which
purposes locating al English colony
thereon.
Should the eight-hOur law claims
OF the Mare Island employees be allowed
by the present Congress. some of the
men will receive as high as $1,000 IN
back pay.
An opium smuggler has been de-
frauding Chinese at Seattle, w. T., by
selling them 4 fine quality OF Victoria
mud, covered BY layer of the drag at
$40 a pound.
British Minister West, Miss West
and the Secretary of the Legation 1T
Washington have gone to Ottawa,
Urn thav vv,1I ha e.ttacfa 81 I.