Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-05-06
NO. 20.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

- utIe are . ,OlV Il ildnc5 IDcn IN
Georgia.
: Small crops in Georgia are frost
bitten.
Cuba Is beginning to ship melasse,
in bulk.
There are nearly Arabisns IN
st. Louis.
Arctic whalebone bow sells for So
pound.
The grip proved bonanza for win
ter resorts.
Portuguese wine growers are settling
In California.
Turkey is making efforts to extend
its foreign trade.
Dyspepsia is the Oldest Dalady
known TO man.
The earliest day on which Easter
can fall is March y.
The United States contain 10000
homeopathic doctors
Nearly Is, ,O00, ,00O hog were butchsred
In the West last year.
The jamaica International EKhlb-
ition is a financial failure.
The English oyster crop is badly
English syndIcates are buying
Americ IN woolen plants.
Queen Anne's war ended with tbs
Peace of Urecht in 17l3.
Three hundred and ninety eight
millions speak English.
"A New York dealer advertises that
he Will pay cash for old teeth.
An orange wine fac tory Is soon to
be started In Jacksonville, Fla.
The frst sewing machine was pat
ented 10 England In the ye 100.
Americas first metallic tin ingot was
made on March, 20 at Cajaleo, Cal.
"A cock owned by a resident of
TTappe, Penn, has t!cked since 1866.
Bad geports come of the condition
Of wints wheat ia the south of Russia.
"A Chicago physician has In his mi
croScOIe what he calls microbe of ''ths
grip"
The shad fishing industry in
Conn. cticut Is threate. cd with destruc-
ion.
canadian railroad agents are en-
deavo'Ing to secure settlers from North
Dakota.
The use of Florida phosphate is re-
ported as very rapidly Increasing In the
Gulf States.
German steamship lines have raised
the price of steerag5 fire to the United
States about y. 90
The Havana manufacturers are
alarmed at the great decrease In the eX-
pOrtatiOn of cigars.
The Indian boys and girls at The
Indian school have Sll 900 on deposit
in Carlisle, (Ptnn.) banks.
The population of Italy, according
to a recent census, is 2S,459, ,451. Its
area is ia, $50 square miles.
The Supreme Court at Springfield,
ILL.,, has decided that mutual benefit as
| sociations are Insurance companies.
1t IS estimate that 10, 90 900 pss-
seDgers ride through the New York
Central tunnel in New York yearly.
The St. Augustine, Fla, Gas Works
were recently destroyed by fire. Loss
| S65, 900. The town was IN darkness at
night.
s melody has computed that Ii
| thirty-twO million people should clasp
hands they could reach round the
earth.
The Emir of BOkhara has sent to
the Car or Russia present Of eight
milk-white asses of the purest Central
Asian breed.
| Street cleaning experiments In New
Y Ork City show mark d advantages Of
the ''block" system over the machine
| system.
Since 1875 there have been 1896 To-
comotives exported from the United
States to foreign countries, valued at
SIS, 929, ,26G.
According to the Department Of Ag-
! riculture the average value of farm
horses has risen from SjS A to S67 dur
ing the last decade.
Just above Vienna, on the Danube,
Is the convent and sch cl of Mslk,
which has just celebrated its one thou
sandth anniversary.
The Secretary of the Minnesota Far
mers' Alliance reports that the orgsni-
cation has $4,000 members, 1000 Of
whom enrolled since election.
The Orrel Coal and Coke Company,
of Newburg, W. Va, has voluntarily
advanced the wages of all Its en-
ployes 20 cents per day.
The engine of one Rio Grands
freight train struck another broadsids
at Malta aud passed clear through 1t,
Engineer Fulton was killed.
The Stockbridge (lIass.) Savings
Bank has been placed in the hands Of
the T ceiyer, owing to the defalcstion Of
S29, 600 By ex-Treasurer Willis.
Reports from a number of counties
of Southern Indiana show that peaches,
plumbs, and pears have not been injured
by the frost and give promise of an
abundant yield. Oa and potatoes are
month behind the season, but wheat
is in excellent condition.
One OF the latest fancies for table
decoration IS a miniature Turkey car
pet as a table cover; the fancy, how
, ever, is careiy one likely to last.
"A New York "beautifier" sued the
Z wife of Millionaire G. p. Huntington
for 5000 for Sc vcss rendered TO bis
wife IN removing her double chin.
Mime. de Stael once said that the
, thing most pleased her was the fact
that she knrw seventeen trades by any
one of which she could earn her living.
Mime. CarnOt, wife of the French
President, is the best dressed woman in
Paris, and Is extravaga1t enough never
+, to appear twice in the same costume.
, Mrs. Arthur Wellesley. grandniecs
of the Iron Duke, and Mrs. Hesketh-
Smith, two members Of good" society,
have recently opened flower shop In
London.
1t is said that there are only two hum
lred and sixty three bones In the hu-
man body, but when man has bssl
aoelng potatoes all day long. it Is hard
for him TO believe II.
The doctors say that penty OF pure
air will do more good than a good deal
Of medicine, and yet there are people