Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-04
NO. 46.
NEWs IN BRIEF.

1t cost 5 s-97, $40 to widen Chicago
street.
$40, ,122, ,O35, 900 is invested in our
railroads.
Kansas is the banner debtor State
Of the country.
-McKeesport, Penn, has iron tsle-
graph poles only.
Berlin, with 1915 900 people has
only 70, 800 dwellings.
Cotton having a beautiful red color 10
being grown in some parts of Georgia
I'm Spain an Infants face is brushed
with pine-tree bough to bring good
luck.
"A new process evolved at Minneapo-
lis, Minn., makes copper hard -
steel.
About 25 900 people are killed ev-
cry year in India by Wild beasts and
reptiles.
London enjoyed eleven hours of sun
shine on recent Sunday most rare
record.
-Une-third of the crime committed
In London is perpetuatsd on Saturday
nights.
There are 300 newspapers published
in Fleet street, London, eleven of which
are dailies.
The wine grape yield In California
this year is said to have been enor-
nous.
The Marlborough House stables
alone cost the Prince of Wales $50, ,000a
year.
The Swiss colony of New York has
presented the city with Helvetisn
national flag.
Teachers salaries IN the United
states annually amount to more than
$50, ,090 900.
The London School Board are edu.
eating 20, 500 more scholars now than
they were three years ago.
There are more than a hundred
thousand acres In Virginia devoted to
the cultivation of tobacco.
1t is said that one-eighth of the
vine produced in California last year
came from single vineyard.
There are 5000, 900 people wholly
or partly dependent upon charity every
year in the United States.
The first Indian tobacco sign erected
in America was put up in Baltimore.
Nd, and it still stands.
"A guild In London has for its OBJ
Ject the training OF musicians In the art
Of soothing the nerves OF the slok.
One of the largest umbrella houses
In New York has failed, giving a. Q
reason that the styles changed too
often.
An electric swing suggested for the
Worlds Fair will carry twenty-four
persons and swing distance Of 900
feet.
The highest inhabited place In ths
world Isthe Buddhist monastery, Hains,
n Thibet, Asia, 5000 feet above the
sea.
Potato blight has seriously affected
5he crops in some Of the best potato pro-
ducing localities in England.
An effort Is making to introduos
mango, a delicious East Indian fruit,
into Georgia, where it is hoped 1t will
thrive.
A mining corporation in the copper
region OF Upper Michigan will sink the
deepest shaft In the world, over 1000
feet at least.
The British Museum is gathering q
stupenduous collection of newspapers.
Additions for oRe single year comprise
l70,S75 numbers.
"A squirrel and a snake engaged In a
battle near Springfield. Ohio, and tho
squirrel came off victorious, killing his
opponent.
OF the $40. 226 children of school age
in Louisiana only s.. 900 attend the
public schools, and many of those go
for but one month.
Horn seems to have become a IA
9orite ornamentation for fancy goods.
1t is utilized for anything from a pen
rack to hat rack.
Boston landlords have formed an
association for protection from tenants
who do not pay They keep black
list for that purpose.
Edward Everett Hale is trying to
get Boston to honor Oliver Cromwell by
banging the Puritan soldiers portrait In
the Old South Church.
Instantaneous photography has been
used to record the movements of the lips
in speaking and by putting the photo
graphs In zoetrope a deaf mute can
easily read the words.
"A single sheet of paper six feet wide
and seven and three-quarter miles long
has been made at a papermill In New
Jersey.
Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth
President, and his initial letters stand
for Fourteenth President. There are
fourteen letters in his name.
The biggest orange tree IN Amsri-
ca is claimed to be IN Terrebone, La.
1t is fifteen feet in circumference and
forty feet high. The yield this
year IS expected to reach 10000 or
anges.
The standard height of recruits for
the Royal Marines (British) is TO be five
feet six inches for men under twenty
years of age, and half an inch taller for
those over twenty years Of age.
The last thatched cottage of the
olden time in London has been de-
stroyed. 1t fronted on the green at
Shepherds Bush, and there is good
reason for believing that Miles Synder-
comb, the prime m yer In the plot
against the life of Cromwell, once lived
in the house.
-Itis afact not generally known that
lob sters and several other crustaoeans
NJ ~ - l.
fighting OF by accident.
Long sentences in short compost
tion are like la:ge rooms in a little
house.
Authors and lovers always suffer
some in fatustion, from which only
absence can set them free.
For ordinary bathing, the foot Of Q
coarse cotton stocking or a knitted
wash-cloth made to fit the hand like .
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