Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-10-28
NO. 10.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

the Maine coast is floIting jewelry
store.
"A man breathes about twenty times
in minute or twelve hundred times
an hour.
The wool production of Ohio this
year Will amount TO 20, 900. 600
pounds.
The British War Office has given
30 900 worn-out helmets to the Salvation
Army.
The Simplon tunnel will need eight
years and half to bore, and will cost
81, ,000,00
The area of Boston Is set down by
The surveying department as including
% 707 acres.
1t is estimated that the British
mines will be exhausted IN less than 900
TO 800 years.
The dogs of Mercer county, Penn
svlvania, killed $4,000 worth of sheep
last year.
British iron and steel exports to
America, Argentine and Europe show
a serious failing off.
Machinery Hall, at the Worlds
Fair will be 400 feet loug, and the sec
ond building in size on the grounds.
The largest brickkiln ever lightedin
Maine was one of 100000 bricks fired
at Fairfield few days ago.
Portugal has reduced the import
duty on wheat. That nation hopes to
avoid an advance in the price of bread
Ex-senator Tabor has sold the
Poorman Mine, at Caribou, Col, to
Leonard Cow of Scotland for $780,
600.
-Chicago's post office is credited
with doing more registered letter busi-
ness than any other post office In the
Union.
"A document envelope that works
like a telescope, adjusting itself to one
paper or fifty, is a recent invention.
-"Fortis'' is a new explosive invent
ed at Liege, France. said to be mere
powerful than anything known up to
date.
An automatic machine which forms,
fills and weighs packages and then seals
them is used in many large establish
ments.
The progress OF cotton cultivation
in this country has advanced from 9OO,-
000 bales in 1880 to over IL 200, ,Oop
bales In 1890.
Fort Worth, Texas, has the artesian
well that flows 864, 600 gallons Of pure
water daily. the largest in the world.
Within fifty miles of the coast of
Japan a depth Of more than five and
one-quarter miles was reached without
striking bottom.
Frederick B. Didier OF Baltimore,
has modest claim of "a 900, 600 against
the Chiliaa government for munitions
of war furnished.
The 1914 miles between Newcastle,
England, and Edinburgh, which is done
without stop Is at present the longest
run in Great Britain.
The excessive amount of vibration
caused by the propellers OF some OF the
hlgh-speed cruisers causes old sailors to
become homesick.
In the city of st. Petersburg, Rus
sia, 1t begins to freeze at the end of Oc-
tober, and a general thaw rarely takes
place before the beginning OF April.
India raises one bushel of wheat
per head of her population, the United
States over seven bushels per head, and
South Australia nineteen bushels.
BY order of the German Emperor
no more children in the empire will be
baptized with names that perpetu-
ate the memory of socialists or anar-
chistS.
The population of New South Wales,
Australia, according to the census Te-
turns is, l, ,l34, 0o0, exclusiveof Chinese,
being an increase of 3S2, 600 since
1881.
Three steamers from Syria and
Egypt recently unloaded at Marseilles,
France, 400, 600 eggs, 107 casks of yOlks
of eggs, and 725 baskets of fresh toma-
toes.
The export trade In the Bahama
Islands amounts to about g, 600, 900 an
nuaily. or the increase in this trade
last year the United States gained 80
per cent
The island of Martinique, which
was recently devastated by cyclone,
is the most beautiful island in the West
Indies. 1t was there that the Empress
Josephine was born.
Patagonia is the most recent addi-
tion to the list of frozen meat exporting
countries. The country Is said to be
well adapted to the breeding of the
harder descriptions of English mutton
sheep.
-Fifty-fOur families-all tenants and
employees Of the owner-live on q $3.50
acre farm IN Knox county, Ind, and u
large schoolhOuse is provided to meet
the wants Of their olive branches.
Norway is becoming observed as
country for sportsmen. ore rich En-
gil hmsn has leased a tract almost as
great as Yorkshire, which includes al
most every sort of shooting that the
country affords.
Electrical Illumination has made
astounding strides IN London There
are now as many as 325. 900 lamps in
use, and the capital invested IN the var
ious plants amounts TO Sl5, 100000.
The census men found in the Unit
ed States IA 056, $50 horses. 2 296, ,532
mules, 16, 019, ,591 cows, 36, ,S75, ,64S oxen
and cattle, 43, 43l , 1876 sheep and 5O,625i
| log swine.
The United States has been invited
by Russia to send representative to
conference to discuss the establishment
of an international bureau for the ex-
change of intelligence about mercantile
failures
Good faith is the richest exchequer
of Governments, for, the more it is
drawn upon, the firmer it is, and itsre-
annroao iparauQa with DaVm1nta
Noman can become rich by never
giving away anything.
There are millions of taskmasters
who never cracked whip.
If some of us would look up more we
would see more sunshine.