Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-09-02
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-HencefOTth Mexico will give no
cash subsidies to railroads.
The population of Chicago is, In
round numbers. 100000.
The commissioner of taxes in Phils-
ielphia receives 5000 year.
The beet sugar industry promises
20 become prosperous In California.
1t costs the American people about
., 900 OOO year 10 stop their teeth.
Illinois still leads the list of pensions
granted, with Indiana a close second.
In New York the register receives
Sl2, ,OC0. He has a staff of II persons.
"A tomato weighing twenty seven
pounds has been raised at Bayou Sara,
La.
The gimlet-pointed screw has pro-
duced more wealth than most silver
mines,
philadelphia claims the largest cold
storage warehouse in the United
States.
"A part of No-Man's- Land has be-
come part of the territory OF New Mexi-
CO.
The San Francisco Board of Health
refuses to admit Cinnamon to the city
hospital.
Since 1888 there have been Clio sui
cides in France, Germany and Austria
combined.
The very finest brand of Havana
cigars fetches Sl5O0 a thousand In
Paris.
The profits of the Monte Carlo
gambling tables are estimated at So, ,O00,-
600 year.
Harvest reports IN Russia are to
Ghe effect that there will be no grain for
export this season.
The total annual bullion production
of the United States is, in round fig
ures, SlOO 100000.
In New York the county clerk, who
is also clerk of the supreme court, re-
ceives Sl5, 90 year.
"A fur buyer of Lewiston says that
on an average five hundred bears are
killed yearly i'll Maine.
For sixty years Dresden in Germany
nas manufactured the gas used for its
public and private lighting
"A leper has been discovered among
the paupers at Lisburn, a fiourishing
town in the North of Ireland.
-CheOps, the largest pyramid, re-
Iuired 100, 900 men twenty years to
build, costing $500, ,O0D,0O0
The oldest surgeon IN the world is
saf1 to 10 NJ Salpnnn of % hri
Eng. lie was born in March, 1890.
Cincinnati claims to have the tallest
policeman in America in the person of q
man whose height is g feet 64 inches.
Henry Tschudi, aged II years, ID
the first blind person to pass the exam
ination of the American College Of
Musicians.
-SuperstitiOus Europeans. alarmed
Oy floods in Germany and earthquakes
In Italy, say that the end OF the world II
coming.
"A man named smith, of Greenvllle,
Me-, cut his hand while strappIng q
razor, and died two weeks later in par
oXysms.
The annual product of salt through
out the world is estimated at 1900, 200
tons, the larger share coming from
English works.
The library of the British Museum
has thiTty-two miles of shelves filed
with books, and Is visited annually by
9G0, 600 readers.
Between 10000, 100000 and 10),-
000 100000 Goldfish are taken from
the sea around the shore of Newfound-
land every year.
New York paid over 50, 900, 900 for
the 800 acres of land where Central
Park has since been created, at an ex-
pense of many millions more.
The winter rye yield in Prussia is
estimated to be 754 per cent. of the sv-
erage, and of winter wheat SO per cent, 3,
while the potato crop is uncertain.
Philadelphia has one coroner, who
gets $1,000 year. and has the assistance
of deputy at S25O0, two physicians at
Sl250, two clerks and two messengers.
The hay reservation at Fort Nc
Dermit, New, comprising six townships,
a good part of which is fine, natural
meadow land, has been thrown open for
settlement.
"A schooner at Provincetown, Mass =,
has just returned from a twenty months
mackerel fishing cruise in African wat
els. She sent home 1000 barrels, and
brings fifty barrels more.
Montana is larger than the Empire
of Turkey. Texas is larger than the
whole Austrian Empire by 10000
square miles. and New Mexico is larger
than Great Britain and Ireland togeth-
er.
1t has just come to light that of the
two coins issued by the Confederacy
during the war one, penny, was made
in Phil delphia, and it is believed no
samples of it were got south of Mason
and DIxon's line.
Since 1866 Eve lepers are recorded
by the Bureau of Vital Statistics as
having died from that disease In New
York city The FIRST occurred in 1873;
the others one each in the years 1875,
1879, 1881 and 1884.
Alexander Rankin, the Scotchman
who succeeded John Brown as highland
servant to the Queen of England has Oh
tanned almost as marked an influence in
the royal household as Brown possessed.
He is the personal attendant of the
Queen on every Journey.
Switzerland owes great deal TO
the tourists who visit that land. Last
year the Swiss hotels and boarding
houses disposed of 81, 500 beds that
were used by 5.724 COO tourists, who
paid over Il COO, GOO francs for their
accommodations.
1t is said that chocolate is used in the
interior of South America for a curren-
cy, as are cocOanuts and eggs. Norway
even now uses corn for coin. In India
cakes of tea pass as currency, and In
China pieces of silk.
A man named Hutch, living in Fan
cy Bot ON, near Weston, Mo-, stole g
wagon load of corn from Mrs. MARY