Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-12-22
NO. 81
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The demand for steel increases.

ed folks.
Shetland ponies fetch big prices in
Colorado.
Hay in some parts of Colorado Is
$50 per ton.
Figs in small quantities are raised
IN California.
-FlOrida's new constitution begins
On January l, 1887.
City hunters killed two oxen for elk,
near Florence, Wis.
-WestmOreland county pays S4,2O0
taxes on her dogs.
Some Vassar girls, 1t Is said. like a
quie shy at football.
Cincinnati manager says the rins
craze IS ghost there.
"A lady in Mt. Morris has thirty
two pet wild robins.
Prince Carl, of Sweden, is a broad
shouldered six-footer.
"A casing in Reading adyertises fol
i've hundred live rats,
-Old-tlme rife-shootings for hogs are
revived IN Berks county.
All the princes of Germany Learn
trades, just to know how.
Cider is facetiously called ''here-
after vinegar" in Ohio.
They find carp culture easy and
profitable in ZOar, Ohio.
Montreal will put out So, Geo ou
her February Ice carnival.
"A dash Of nutmeg interiOrly con-
tributes to pumpkin pie.
An amount of gas has been found
600 feet under LOTain, o.
The next Indiana Legislature has
thirteen contests to settle.
There are willow-ware baskets for
dogs coming as high az $50
The five dollar silver notes have
vignette of General Grant.
Farmers report that apples and
pears are not keeping well.
-Possums are getting to be fash.
ionable tidbit in New York.
The Boston Ideal chorus girls are
required 10 weigh under 160.
"A Providence museum exhibits al
alleged man-eating monkey.
Hickory nuts are scarce, at S2.75a
bushel, In New York State.
Mrs. Leland Stanford supports
night school for stable boys.
"A number of citizens of COlfax,
Ind, are digging cyclone pits.
Sidewalk sign in Salt Lake City
'BOo,s blacked at a sacrifice"
There's a ''vogue" for walking
clubs among the Gotham girls.
Mississippi IS swelling into prOmi-
nence rs eheese-making State.
California journalism is compll.
menting a rorty-pOund cabbage:
-Princess Louise dresse5 simply,
and puts on no airs whatever.
Emma Abbott sings the ErmInlf
lullaby III "The Chimes" now.
"A society belle boasts that she only
uses two dozen hair pins year.
Invitations to Connecticut husk
ing were printed on cOrn-husks.
-BOrax-water is good for the hair.
and it whltens the hands, too.
Natural gas will be plped to Tif-
fin from two other Ohio towns.
The Troy Times never uses the IT,
lie "Mr. before mans name.
The interior of Madison Square
Garden is to be bettered sl5, 900.
The chimney alone of a soap fac
tory, near Cincinnati, cost SO, 200.
"A ladies' walking club has daily
parade on Fifth avenue, New York.
Savannah has a paper called the
CdIl, published by knights of Labor.
Plenty of elderly Connecticut Ia
dies can still use the spinning wheel.
8-Seven oil of birch distIlleries in
Connecticut are making wintergreen.
An extraordinary snowfall has
broken down the orchards In AkrOn,O.
Farmer Bowman, of Byberry, Pa,
is trying to fatten up a hog to 100 lbs.
Times are good and money is
plenty, several New York papers say.
Mrs. Gen. Hancock IS writing a
book Of "reminiscences Of her husband.
John Hope, Of Bow Park, Ont,
has sold shOrt-hOrn heller FOR 5000.
Mrs. George Gould wears diamond:
on a black velvet band round her
nack.
MIR. Edw. Harrington has beer
playing in New York steadily for oven
ten years.
One single oyster will produce 1873.
OO0, 600 young oysters IN the course Of .
year. 1t must give an oyster some anI-
iety to look after his family.
New York City Is building electric
wires of ali kinds as rapidly as possible,
under ground, IN subwayS. There ara
four electric street railways in New
York.
The use OF natural gas fuel ha.
led to the manufacture of mirrors in
Pittsburg. Tue quality Of the glass TO
retain the silvering and give a per.
feet production Of the object must be
of the best.
Japan has dshing population OF
l col coo. At their last National Ex.
hibitiOn the japanese showed 3, ,967 artic
les connected with fishing and 6,473
kinds Of goods made fTUn fish and
aquatic plants.
"A new kind of horse shoe has been
invented In France. II is made entire
ly of sheeps' horn, and Is said to have
particular adaptedneSs for horses en-
ployed III towns, as they do lot permit
the animals to slip.
In 4 lecture at the Royal Institute,
London, Prof. Oliver Lodge has en-
1eavOred to show that electricity might
be employed to clear the upper atmos-
phere Of great cities of the Oyer-hanglng
clouds Of dust and smoke.
AT Medon, France, very large
balloon is now in course of cOnstruc-
ton. 1t is to 10 steered by means Of
rotating sail-rudder, driv-
IN by an eleetro-mOtor. for which a
primary battery will supply current.
From the London papers we learn
hat Father Damen, who has long been
known as the Apostle Of the Lepers at
has been at last stricken down
With the dread disease, and will hence
Orward remain continually with the
afflicted with whom he has spent go
much time in past years.
Bd;cbeS may be sent for testing to
he Kew Observatory in London, and