Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-29
NO. 49,.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

oHNShSA VI SOAu WAS V1.Oc.
Coal Is so cents ton at Pittsburs
Kan.
st Louis. Mo-, is the largest fur
market.
The cashmere shawl industry is de-
lining.
The word "milliner" owes it origin
10 Milan.
There are lO5,O0O,o2o sheep in
Australia.
-Chlua's one railroad has American
Angines.
Platinum has advanced to about
80 per oun.e
"A plank 16 feet wi6s is on exhibit
ion at Humboldt, Cal.
The bodyguards of Queen Victoria,
ot England, are called Beefeaters
New York city has 1857 electric
lights at an annual cost of 500 each
w. A Pierce of West Chester, Pa,
has fish which he really hypnotizes
1t is now proposed to introduce
electric power in gold, silver and copper
mining.
1t is said that by new discovery the
telephone eau be made Of use In fore
,ellipg storms
"A speed of twenty-four miles an
hour is attained on the electrical under
ground railway Of London, England.
"A man in Whittier, CAL, declares
that blue gum tree there has grown
10 feet in one year.
There are about 1900 electric meters
in use in London, England, and one
thlid OF them are OF American pat
tern.
An Atchison Kan. man is soon to
marry the woman who stood sponsoI
for him when he was baptized as
baby.
The sister-in-law of a pauper IN
the poor house at Glaogow, Scotland,
has bequeathed $1,000 for church
purposes.
The crawiish are so numerous at
Ramos, st. Mary Parish, La that
they stopped tram there recently by
crawling on the track.
Lake Maggiore, in Switzerland, has
water of diff rent cOlo-s. In its north
ern branch the color IS green. and in
the southern deep blue.
Miss Cation of Constantine, Mich,
lost her voice though illness several
years ago. She recovered 1t by sneeE.
ing at Kalkaska, recently.
One of the largest babies ever seen
in Florida ls the son of Walter Sylves-
ter, living in P3latka. When seven
months old be weighed 40 pounds.
"A quaint clock, owned by Louis
Philippe, of France, when he laugh.
school in Boston, ) ass, is to be seen IL
one of the shops OF that city to-day.
The brownlsh discoloration OF cell
ings wht re gas is used is caused by
dust, carried against them by the heat
e1 air currents produced by the gas.
"A duck with four feet is curiosity
road, opposite Guilford, Md. Whom
swimming it used one of it legs a. y
rudder,
In fencing in the II 900 acre sheep
farm in Boteto art County, VirgInis,
100 miles of fencing will be necessary,
the farm being divided into 30O0-acrs
lots.
"A man In Birmingham, England.
receiving a letter February 9th, 1891,
VIII ch had been posted in Stafford in
July 1856, period in transit of almost
thirty-five years.
"A big idea in New York City is to
convert Castle Garden in an aquarium,
which shall be, as nearly as possible,
complete eXempllcation of animals and
vegetable lifeIn the sea.
An English company Is working q
silver mine in Bolivia which yields
more than 360 ounces to the ton, while
specimens of almost pure silver are met
with.
An enterprislng Iowa farmer who
operates big farm has called In the
telephone as a means Of direct con-
munication with the various depart.
neRts thereof.
ANY kind of cotton covering, when
soaked IN solution of tung state of
soda, is rendered absolutely incombusti-
bic. 1t is therefore useful in central
station work.
One of the most exasperating sccl-
dents that happen in connection with
the trolley system Of propelling electric
cars, Is the killing 0t horses by the
bre king Of the trolley wire.
The galvanized telephone wires in
London, England, weighing 224 pounds
to the mile, have been replaced with
silicon bronze wires weighing thirty-siI
pounds to the mie.
1t is said that in Paris France,
twice as many crimes are committed by
persons between the ages or fifteen and
twenty as by those between twenty and
forty.
"A little old fashioned pisno, on
which the now Sir Arthur Sullivan
played his fist composition years ago is
telieved to be among that musicians
most valuable treasures
An Indian fsthor drew The body O.
his dead child on a hand-sled thirty-siz
miles across the upper end OF Lake
Michigan in order that IL might be
buried from the Catholic Church.
1T is much easisr 10 sing in Italian
than in German. The cultural found
or the latter language are not easily
learned, and In consequence the Italian
has many more advocates
The greater quantity OF hair from
which wigs are made for EDg'and's
judges. lawyers and cleTgymen comes
from Cmns, where it is cut from the
heads of beggar7, criminals and the
dead.
There are more believers in astrolo-
gy than The world at large has any iiea
of. Most of those who entertain faith
IN this occult science are people OF INTEL
lect, learning and, not infreQuentiy
culture.
Charles Stuart Kennedy, or Detroit.
Mich, possesses contemporary ninis-
ture of Mary Queen of Scots, painted
on porcelain, and her autograph.
Russia has made a new law which
obliges Motel proprietors to add TO the
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