Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-08-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Ameer of Afghanistan Is said
to De meditating journey to England.
-Whalebone is not bone, and is said
not to possess a single property OF
bone.
-Cleopatra's needle was not erected
by the Egyptian queen, nor in her
honor.
Prince Henry was the first Russian
prince who ever sailed round the
world.
Sir Provo Wallis, senior admiral OF
Great Britain, has just completed his
Tooth year.
The term Tory. as applied to an
English political party, was given
about 167S.
Black lead is not lead at all, but
compound of carbon and a small guam
tity of iron.
German silver was not invented In
Germany, and does not contain = par
ticle OF silver.
-Aubertin, the man who shot Jules
Ferry. has been declared insane and
put in asylum.
Files as Instruments of handicraft-
iness are of very early origin, being
mentioned in the OLD Testament Il
Samuel, Kill, 21), 1913 b. e.
"A Chinese student, Hong Yen
Chang, has just been admitted TO the
New York bar. He is Yale graduate
and has been fifteen years In the coun-
try.
Before he discovered the cholera
microbe Robert Koch was known
simply as Doctor Koch. Now he is
Herr Geheimer Mathematician Pro-
fessor Doctor Robert Koch.
1t is a curious fact that a man
named Messenger has just been ap-
pointed gunner in the navy.
while a man named Gunner was re-
Gently made a messenger in the Navy
Department at Washington.
For every l OOO inhabitants the
United States runs trains 9, 700 miles
annually. while the train mileage of
Great Britain on the same basis is
1900; Belgium, 4,500; France, 1850;
Germany, !, ,250.
"A financial writer states that the
total amount OF money in this country
is equal to S27. 80 for each person, of
which S1l.08 is paper money, 50. 66 sill
yer and SO. SO gold. In France, the
total amount per capita is said 10 be
S52.00; in Holland, $50. 80, and in Bel
gium, S35.3
The heirs of a man IN Utica who
was killed by shock from an electric
light wire have sued the city for
50, 900 damages, and we hope they will
get it. A few verdIcts like that would
persuade municipalities that it would
be cheaper TO bury the wires than to
bury their victims.
Professor Nehring in a discussion
on the evolution of the dog, attempts
proof of the proposition that Tray and
Blanche had for their ancestors species
of wolves and jackals still surviving
and he instances the fact that Herr
Rouge has so completely tanned
young wolf that it follows him about
like any dog would.
The total number OF immigrants
arrived in this country in 1887 was
SIG, ,933, OF whom 322 ,O26 were males
and 194, ,907 females. OF these there
were l79, 500 from Great Britain and
Ireland, lO4, l55 males and -, ,4j4 fe-
males. From the remainder of Eu-
rope there were BIS, COL, of whom 2ll,-
71S were males, and 1lG, ,S73 females.
Carefully compiled statistics show
that the losses by fire in the United
States during last year we're nearly
1920, 600, an increase of over thir-
teen per cent. as compared with the
previous year. In spite of the uumer-
GUS appliances for securing the escape
of people from burning buildings, more
lives were lost by fire in 1887 than in
any previous year since complete re-
cords have been kept.
An Eastern statistican has estl-
mated that 1900, 600 men in this coun-
try get shaved at a barber shop three
times a week. lie says that this means
an expenditure of 30 cents "A week, or
Sl5.6O year for each man, OF for the
3,CO0, 900, Sl5,6O0,OO0 annually. TO
this he should and a considerable sum
to account for the numerous lj-cent
shayes-the ruling price in the West.
The African Methodist Episcopal
church, whose general conference was
recently held at Indianapolis, reports
a membership of 4GS. 3jl, and tie total
of money raised for all purposes dur
ing the year 1887 as 81. .CG4, 500. There
are :, 1874 churches and GGg plrsouages,
valued at 50, $40, ,8S9. There are l., ,OO9
stewards, IA, 1870 stewardesses and IA
77S class leaders.
"A. J. Gill, of Dade City, Fla, is
the owner OF an orange tree 53 years
old, which is two and a half feet ia
diameter and thirty-five feet high. This
tree has yielded 10000, oranges in
single season, and 1t IS believed, II no
mishap supervenes, the product will
reach 1900 the present year. II is one
of a group of eighteen, each but little
inferior in size
"A long letter, in which 81 was en-
closed, has been received at the Boston
and Albany Station restaurant in this
city from woman at NewbuTyporJ.
The writer explained that about lSI5,
when a little girl and travelling with
her mother, she took an orange from
the counter which her mother did not
notice in time to return or pay for, so
the money was sent to cover interest
and principal.
During the past year Great Britain
has paid out for cattle slaughtered on
account OF O-pneumonia-for dis
eased cattle, Sl07, 900; for healthy cat
tie in contact, STA, 600; on account OF
swine slaughtered owing TO swine
fever. S79, 900 for diseased swine and
S32 600 for healthy swine in contact;
making total drain on the country
caused by these diseases amounting TO
S342, 900.
There was lately sold in Paris the
original contract of Rachel with the
manager of the PARIS Gymnase, dated
January Z. 1887, and running from
February l OF that year until May /,
1843. Rachel's annual stipend was
set at 1000 francs, to be Increased
1000 francs each year. The great Sarah
earns as much in a week sometimes,
when on a star tour, in night in
these days.
1t is said that Herr Won Putt
kamer, Prince Bismarck's cousin, was
really dismissed from the Ministry OF
the Interior by Emperor Frederick
because II was discovered, not only
that he had managed to obtain pos
session of the cipher which the Emp
ress Victoria used when telegraphing