Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

- Inc Atng Oh oWeuen Is nRancLalIT
embarrassed.
-"Toppy" is the latss. society word
tor anything swedish
John Milton is sometimes called the
Homer OF Drita n.
The san + ranc'sco, Cil., grocers are
lighting trusts IN food products.
-Breslau, the cap'ta of Silesia, is Co
be made into drst class fortrosa
Ninety thousand cows have to Dc
mllSed twice day to supply London
alone.
I'm France there is government
tax of 2 per cent levied on al bets on
. race,.
San Francisco. Cal. shoe dealers
who sell Chiuese-mads goods will b<
boycotled.
The native population of Alaska
numbers only A., ,00j, OF whom 1900
are Esquimaux.
The Michigan Central nowle the
country in running the highest speede6
pasSeng trains.
The largest peach orchard in the
| WtI u II ~ DIONuNOOu, lex, WHICH
contains HOO tres
The daily surplus OF births over
deaths In the United Kingdom Is 1900.
An Oroville (Cal.l man keeps thievs,
from his orans o trees 10y tying cow-3elis
u them.
While q farmer at Shipbach, Tenn.
WAS attending chu. ch his horse frozs 70
fealh outside.
Carlyle is given the credit OF drss
having called the newspaper press 'ths
Fourth estate"
New green corn was served 20 gussts
OF the Alcszar. at St. Augustine, Fla,
on New Years Day.
India takes tho palm for free poet
age Postal cards cost half cent each,
ard letter goes for one cent.
There are six Siamese students a,
Westminster College. ssmall institution
at New Wilmington, Penn.
"A teacher of mathematics says that
the simple tearing up or cutting of pa
| per Is h great relief 20 the mind after
mental latOr.
"A tournaline ledge recently discov-
cred on a farm near Aubu II, Me-, 10
said to have already yielded $500 wo. ID
of gems.
During the last 10) years 395. 0o6
patents Lave been Issued Uy the United
States. There have been GOO. 600 appli-
cations.
There are twentV-six monarchies
and twenty-five republics IN tbs civil
lied world to-day. Sixteen Republlcs
IN South America.
The Indian chief called In aeri.iop
Cow Killer was Rsl Jacket Braut %
n+med him In allusion TO his lack od
physical courage.
"A woman's club in st. Louis, Mo,
has prots sted against the taxation oS
bachelors on the ground that they arc
necessities not luxurleS.
Three of the richest wo per of PhIls,
delphi4 are Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, with
$50 o 000; Mrs. Joseph Harrison, v ilh
S2,m 0,U0 and Mrs. Baldwin, who has
a fortune of Sl.0O0.00o.
Two citizens of Palmyra, Me-, have
had SO many quar- els that few days
ago cont act was drawn up be:ves1
them that In future they would have
nothing to do with each other.
The rails on railroads In this coub.
try, laid in a continuous line, make
twelve girdleJ for the eaIth's circumfsf.
ence.
VestibuIed palace sleeping car, cost
more than high class passenger locOno-
tlves Approximately the prices are
SIS, 900 and 1880 respectively.
"A trade journal has Just published
some statistics concerning poultry IN
France. It states that there are in the
country 45 100 o; hens, which rep
resent value of 81 !, ,4lO 0J0.
1t Is estimated that in Russia the
yearly loss in domestic animal. through
wolves is over SlO,O lO,OJ0, and the 'oss
OF game from the sams cause over S]5,-
0O0,0
-POtato-growlng experiments IN
France allow that the crop from whole
seed is about seven hundred light per
acre more han from cut ed, ali wing
for the difference in weight between the
two sorts.
"A man In New York has in his pos
7ssion a tin box full OF stock certif Gates
that cost HIM So, 1000, and ara now Ut
teIly worthless
-Marmaduke Watson has besu
school teacher IN Pnilaielphia 70; dftY,
four year, during thIrty-dve of which
he has been a principal. ns has nos
retired TO enjoy well-earned rest.
"A. NJ. Cannon, the Sp p)ksne Falls,
Washington, millionaire, paid 300 for
a Quart,r section OF land on the border
Of tie town few years ago. He hs.
since sod off $500, 900 worth of the and
and has S30O,UU worth OF 1t left
Now that the project for statue OF
Red Jacket in BuffIlo, n. Y, Is well
under way, the people Of that city tais
OF slmI arly hoEOrlng De Witt Clinton,
proprietor of the Erie Canal. and La
Sal e the dIscoverer, who explored the
lake region SO bravely.
Mems ov rcoat5 are now being
made longer, AMI, as a rule, loOser, ia
accordance with The prevailing English
style. Some of The Overcoats seen that
have been made abroad might have been
called ''baggy."
Mrs. Jacob Hildebrand, of York.
IcHu-s fiCI'h ~ SouSo ptloHp ulcu
singing. when the doctor informed
her that she was dying she said she
wanted to sing. at her request num-
Der Of neighUors were summoned tn
her bedside. During the evening her
voice mingled w.tI theirs in singing
Der fa7orite hymns. at 10 O'Clock
Ler voice failed her.
The Corean alphabet Is phonetic. n
50 simple that any one can learn TO read
It in day.
1t has been cal,uiated that there are
Onn nlun f.r,niIios ,tir,rr in I r,rndnr,