Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25
NO. 49.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Detroit, Mich, has horse twenty
one hands high.
The Cathedral at Rome will seat
81, 900 persons.
"A shoe factory is to be established
AT Columbia, ). {.
The Niagara Falls tunnel has now
1175 feet of its $3.50 exca a ed.
| The zone system Of .ares Is to be
employed Oh the B.rtln street cars.
More cigarettes are sold IN Texas
than in any other State in the Union.
No trade has increased more rapid
ly of late than the importation or eggs
| from Russia.
The deer have never been so tame
nor so abundant in the Adirondacks, as
at present.
More sheep will be Imported into
the United States this year than any
year previous.
The actual length of the new St
Clair Mich. tunnel is 6,026 feet. 1t
cost 81, 100000.
The honey crop OF California for
1891 is only one-fourth of the amount
produced in 1890.
Atlanta, Ga, Is about to open d
large canning establishment, with
capital of S25, 900.
The local Board of Underwriters, Of
Kansas City Mo. maintain an electric
lighS inspection bureau.
More than S3,OOO,COO of English
capital has been invested in the tin mines
of South Dakota.
AT st. Louis the Mississippi is
$500 feet wide; at New Orleans it is
$500 feet wide.
Immense fiocks of cows have eX-
terminated the egrasshopper pest in some
parts of California.
The total immigration to this coun-
try during August, except from Cana
da and Mexico, was 40, 172.
The first land office erected In Kan
sas is still standing at kiekapoo, be-
tween AtchisOn and Leayenworth.
1t is estimated that one-rourth of
the street railways of this country are
operated wholly or in part by electric
ity.
The Standard OIL Company is erect
Ing tanks for 750, 900 barrels in the Nc
Donald petroleum field west of Pitts
burg.
The immense cattle farms out west
are being cut up into farms for immi-
grants. and realize an average price of
from 81 to s. an acre.
The Russian Minister of War has
declared that the arms to equip the
Russian troops must be manufactured
either in Russia Or France.
-Bounties were paid for 81 bears. 30
wolves, 40 lynXes, 6Ol6 fOAes, 739 eagles
and 4539 hawks In Norway last yeaT.
The supply Is not exhausted.
State averages for the corn crop are
generally high, especially tor the
Southern States. The lowest State
averages are thos5 Of Michigan and
Wisconsin.
Sanford Dowd, who was the father
of thirty-One children, has just died at
Eldon, Iowa, at the age OF eighty seven
years.
The Russians have worldwide
of the mobiles are Instructed in French,
English and German, besides their
native tongue.
Part of the railway which Is being
built by an English company, and which
will place Gibraltar in communication
with the rest of Europe, has been
opened.
The surface roads of New York city
carry more passengers annually than
are carried by the combined steam raul
roads of New York State In the same
interval.
-Four counties in IllinOis-DOuglass,
Moultrie, Coles and Edgar-suppIy a
large proportion of the worlds stock of
broom corn, namely, about Il, 900 tons,
valued at 81, 100000
The new tuneI of the Baltimore 4
Ohio Railroad, under the city OF Balti-
more will cost upwards of So, ,0OO 900 1t
Is being pushed night and day, fully 1000
men being put at work upon it.
The great railroads running from
the northwestern part of our countTyto
the Gulf of Mexico have determined to
steamship lines to Central
and South American ports from New
Orleans.
The Canadian government, In view
of the large influx of exiled Russian He
brews, Will issue Il proclamation, carry
ing Into effect the sixteenth clause of
the immigration act, which prohibits
the landing of pauper and destitute im-
There is athrifty farmer in the
W est who pays twenty-five cents daT
less to tho Sc of his hands who work in
the fields nearest to the railroads tbs
he does bC cause they stop whenever
the trains go by, and so lose one-slxth
Of their working time.
The ruins of the palace of the
Queen of Sheba have not been found In
Moshonoland, Africa whence the won
1erful gold of Ophir is supposed to
have come. But the Zimbah ruins
show that this strange county was once
the scene of mighty civilization.
The modes OF fishing for oysters
are as various as the modes of rearing
and eating. AT MlnOrca the fisherman
simply dives to a depth of seventy feet
with weight in one hand to carry him
down. With the other hand he picks
up as many oysters as he can carry and
brings them up to the boat
Young people at Kingston, LuzeIne
Penn, have held a "cobweb
party Selecting a numbered cara
from basket they searched the walls
Of tn house. from attic to cellar ii
necessary, until they found thereon a
number and designation
Of partner to supper for each searcher.
The school boys of Molden, Mass,
will hereafter be taught to sew during
,chool hours.
business correspondence between
1rms and peers Is necessarily ungTam-
natical. The former are nhlirad "a ha-