Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-12-18
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

only about twenty million people spoke
the English language, and they lived
mainly in Englani.
1t is estimated that $50 uen and
boys in a southeastern Ohio county are
engaged in hunting skunks. There -
a good demand for the pelts.
Dentists advertisement In a Read
/ ing, Pa, daily: Teeth filed and eI-
tractei without pain by the use OF Vi
talized air, and made fresh every dSy
and perfectly harmless.
With a view Of testing a new tooth
pulling machine which he was about TO
purchase a Williamsport dentist al
lowed himself to be operated upon, and
the lower part of his face was nearly
torn away.
There are more than &C, 900
Chinese in San Francisco Tley form
nearly one-seventh OF the city's p0pula-
ton. and is computed that they send
Sl2, ,O0), 600 year from their earnings
TO China.
The Oldest Morse telegrapher in
the world is J. d. Reed, the statisticiAn
f the Western Union Company at
New York. Mr.. Reed is Il years of
age, a Scotchman by birth, and is as
vigorous and cheerful as a man OF
twenty-five.
. American wild turkeys have been
| successfully acclimatized in Austria on
that portion of the estate of Count
Breuner which is known as the DLnu-
1ian meadows, and great flocks OF them
are TO be seen in his forests.
"A small flint stone idol was recent
ly brought up by a sand pump neal
Boise City, Idaho, from depth OF 81
feet beneath the surface of the eartn-
Scientists who have seen II believe II 10
be the work of antediluYiau man.
A singular accident happened TO .
Boston horse The animal, in falling,
got his leg into a cesspool opening al
the curbstone, and it was not until
I portion of the curb had been removed
that he was eXtricated. He sustained
no injury whatever.
D The habit OF asking for samples Il
/ the dry goods stC.es has grown SO com.
non in New Y ork that most Of tht
larger shops thers have a special de
: partmenJ now devoted 10 satisfying
I | this class of customers.
-Georgs FrederIcks, who lives neal
Leetonia, O., was badly scared recent
| ly by something he thought was ghosl
: At his bedroom window. Inyestiga
j lion showed, however, that the in Tu-
5 der was only his old white horse.
1t is a curious fact, brought out by
n The New York Commissioner of Labol
, Statictic7, that prison estimates o.
= he amount of food needed TO sustain
i life are more liberal than estimate .
for PERSONS dependent on public chari-
d ties.
l. Numerous methods Of cheating the
e automatic Weighing machines have
been devised, but Il remains fOr lar
Al ticular Ingenious laIs 10 think o. At
d taching string 90 the nickel Will
N which, after obtaining their weight, &,
st " thdTaw the coin.
~ According TO the French paper
, the Madrid Gallery has lately received
:, As a gift from the Duchess DawaEer q,
Pastrana 22j pictures, among whicl
- are said to be works by Van ID ck, Ru
IA Dens, Ten ers, Mengs, and other fin
- works.
ly According to London advicss
ce Frank Slavln is anxious 10 arrange
match for a limited number of round
Id with John l.. Sullivan, OF he will hgh
ut the big fellow to a finish for frou
200 TO 10000 a side, under Londo
n pTi1es ring rules.
That remarkable story from nea
J. Stirling, y. J., about the ''colOred bo
III and his fatal muZZle' turns out 10 hAv
ld been a canaTd. a resident of Ee'
u Providence, n. J., writes the Ne
Ok York Tribune that, from beginning I
a. md, the story did not contain one wor
ne Of truth"
ii ~; -Carpenteri, Cal, has a crap
, \ .ine Of the Mission variety, which hs
~ 1 girth Of six feet at its base. aud &
" he helghth Of six feet branches out
10 very direction for a hundred feet
~ ya> planted forty-seveu years ago by
- spanish girl. This season its prOduc
; estimated At tour tons.
n Tax stamps have been establishe
en- II Switzerland TO enable the poor,
at :lasses to pay their taxes in small n
ICti talments instead Of handing out
Dr.. amp sum. The taxpayer can bu
IN seekly few twenty-five OF thirty Gel
ime stamps. and so gradually clear o
is debt TO the government.
The town Of Cullman, thriviu
he Alabama village, makes the boast TIN
re- has not negro within its borders.
named after a rich German wi
|
ly race in the Alabama fruit growing r
non. IL has population Of $500.
-, "A vocabulary OF physical term
STYLED "Butsurigaku JutsugO,' b,
l.; been issued in Japan. ~ gives the 4
II horitative japanese equivalents Of a
~ important group Of Western scientii
"a .eTms. In all thirty-siX japanese gel
.lemen have been engaged IN its pre-
Il ! ration fOr tue past six years.
II "A Maine contemporary tells Of
AZ. merchant in Augusta, who eIamin
very package left IN his store, whetlf
Wis le has any business 70 or not. Recent
-n- N acquaintance, knowing this falling
IN eft a paper bag Of hornets iu the me
chants store. to be kept SAFELY uul
IN called for" The merchant eXplOr
7ch As rs ual, with results that may easi
nd ne guessed.
The present estimated Populati,
er- f the United States Is 81, 900, 900. 7
ase ate of increase, exclusive Of ImmigT
The ion, is estimated at Is per cell
:ent per annum-aDOut lDJ, ,OJO
month. BY immigration the iucres
y II population averages over $1,000
nj month, or over O,UOO yearly. I
Wo aggregate annual growth from bO
T :Iuses does not fall short Of l,7JO,O(
II The estimated foreign population is T.
We. much below IA, ,UyO, 900.
nd The Boston Memorial Associate
ne an organization formed TO protect b,
nor ton from the invasion of bad statu
m has formally protested against the
"a ceptance by tile city for the public z
,at den of the memorial TO the late Color
tLs Cas-. This Is the monument made
nv the stonecutter after a design which
yer secured from d sculptor of some nau
= But the scultutOT supposed that [