Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-02-10
NO. 8.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A New \ ork society collects gar
ments for the poor
A mine near LaAsford, Penn, has
heen on fire for the last thirty years.
A farmer at Mission bottom, Ore
gen, dug up turnip in his patch that
weighed fifteen ounds.
1t is estimated that the world g pro-
duction of rye will be 56 ,0L0 tons short
of the amount required.
The Brotherhood of Railway
TraInmen paid $50 600 last month for
d-ath benefits; the receipts amounted
~ s35 $50.
ida Grove, Ia. A juror in hs court
was granted a leave of absence to en-
able him to get married.
The Horticultural Building at the
Worl % Fair viii be structure 1000
feet long and 2S6 feet wide. The ap-
preparation for this building is 800
900.
The Portuguese government has de-
cided to dispatch several war ships to
the coast OF Brazil, Ostenslbly to protect
the interests of its citizens in that coun-
try.
The Russian standing army con-
sists of 410, ,952 infantry, sc, 926 cavalry,
61,9I6 artillery, 10, 325 engineers and
80, $50 ordinance. a total of GIG ,17S en-
listed men and 2SOO officers.
The Edison Electric Light Com
pany is to put up a one mIllion-dollar
plant In Chicago, which will he the
| largest concern of the kind In the
world.
The 5000 people engaged in watch
making in the United States turn out
about two million four hundred thous-
and watches, which are disposed Of by
about eighteen Thousand retailers
The first German court of justice
has held a session IN Heliogolsnd.
The calender was a blank. The
clerk registered the fact that the
court met and adjourned and all was
over.
The University of Pennsylvania, has
begun Ihe construction of two buildings
to cost $4,000 They are designed
for toe use of classes In mechanical and
electrical engineering.
Wages are so low in India that
men may be hired at 81 month
to do housework. A dollar is a great
sum to them, and one meal day Is the
rule.
European engineers intend to store
the aters of the Nile to such an ex-
tent as to enable greater extension OF
the cotton and su EAR cane crops In that
region.
t. a. 10 aoAf
mated at from 225 ,000, ,0J0 to $50, ,O00,-
| 600 bushels, the largest ever gath
ered, The average was nearly nine
! ty-four bushels per acre. against ff-
| tV-Seyen and one-halt bushels Id
| 1890.
Valuable deposits of coal have been
discovered on tine Niga Islands, Alaska
! 1t is said that the coal is virtually in
exhaustible in extent, and that cargo
lots can be delivered in San Francisco
at 81 per ton.
The body of Gambetta, the French
statesman, IS in Nice, Italy. His brain
is in the Museum of the Paris Anthro-
| biological Society. His heart has been
| depCsi ed beneath the monument
erected to his memory at Vile d'Avay,
where he died.
"A nO.ed character in the Sac and
Fox nation in Nebraska is George Z.
/ GOrmelO, who for twenty years has
| been an interpreter in the employ of
the government. He speaks fourteen
Indian dialects. and, though now 70
years old and blind, has not outlived
his usefulness.
"A woman brigand named Mia
has hapn Gnnfpnpp1 n dnath nv tho
District Court of Paz4revac, In Servia.
This woman has for ten years been the
terror of North EASTERN Servia.
-To part of Australia is so hot and
so unhealthy as to forbid white settle
ment, and if the strip of low-lyIng
coast lands in the north he omitted,
there is no part of it yet cOlOnized In
which Europeans or Americans cannot
work.
The Grelt American Tower, as IL
will be called, to be erected on tho
! Worlds Fair grounds, Chicago, will bs
, 1923 feet high. Its base will he 24O
feet SQUARE. The tower Will be capable
of entertaining 10000 people at cne
| time.
The fox hound was so named be-
cause it was originally kept as an sd-
| dition 20 every pack of hounds It was
! always noted for being up within a few
minutes of running to ground and aid
| ing very materially III the capture of
| Reynard.
| The barn which the Union Stock.
| Yard Company is erecting for its
| horses in Chicago will be the largest
structure OF its kind in tha country.
| The main building will be 400 by $50
4 feet and 1t will be lighted by electricity
and heated by steam.
The "Seven Golden Cities" one OF
the most popular legends of the latter
part of the Ozark Ages" were said to
1 be situated on an island west OF the
! African coast. The island is repre-
= sented as a bounding in gold, with
magnificent houses and temples, "the
high towers of which shown at a great
distance"
There are sixteen species of trees
! in the United States, out OF the whole
number of 413 which grow within the
limits of our resOurceful country, thst,
when perfectly seasoned, will sink in
wtjer. Black iron wo-d d, which grows
only in Florida, is the heaviest wood.
1t is more than thirty per cent. heavier
than water. Other heavy woods are
the lignum vi;R, the mangrove, and
some species of oak.
The reason why the ocean is Sd often
called treacherous must be because it IS
( full of craft.
1t took 60, 600 cars to transport the
grapes of the United States to market
| in 1891.
| The fall of snow this season in the
Andes is greater than has ever Eeen
recorded.
| As far as known at the present time