Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-08-08

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One hundred degrees in the shads
on Monday.
In Woodcock valley, Huntingdon
county, the oats crop il large 20 Hunt
ingdon papers report
Apple growers in the State of Del
aware. are shipping summer apples
to the Paris exhibition.
The gold democrats are democrats
- ever before. They maintain that
Bryanism 10 not democracy.
Mrs. George Clark nee Miss Lizzie
Lloyd and children of Pittsburg. are
visiting her parents at NcAlisterville.
The State Encampment is now in
full blast ct Mt. 0retna, Pa. The
new guard looks we'll and drills we'll
il the remark of al Who have been
there.
Charles Phillips who 10 selling .
bread raiser. has been through Cum.
berland valley recently. He says
that valley is more parched than Jun.
iata county. They have had less
rain.
A dashing rain within the past
month ehoked the covered gutter at
the intersection of Fifth street and
Cherry street and now an open gut
ter is being laid to replace the chok-
ed gutter.
Huntingdon Journal:-John Port,
residing in Logan township was ar.
rested Tuesday, charged with dyna.
hitting fish in the river. He had q
hearing this morning before Squire
Kelley and was held for September
court.
It is rare thing for q woman to
get appendicitis. It 10 now said the
cause Of it in men is owing to the
fact that they almost always CROSS
their legs when they sit on q chair
and the crossing Of the legs cramps
and constricts the little sack in which
inflammation takes place.
Miss Harriet O. Fay. an American
woman is acting as chaperon to q
party of eight young Mexican women,
lately graduates. They are touring
the United States for the purpose Of
examining the schools. The state OF
Vera Cruz pays all the expenses.
They have visited st. Louis, Chica
go, Buffalo, New York and Boston.
Blair county is surprised over q
bold act the other night in the barn.
yard of Howard Estep of Antis town.
ship near Bellwood. Thieves enter.
ed the harn.ysrd at night, captured
a calf, killed it. carried it away and
left its hide and head hanging on the
barn-yard fence. The butchering
was done DO quietly that those who
did it were not seen or heard.
The present famine existing in In.
dia, will add to the list of "worst
famines," among which were the
famine IN Ireland in 1846-1847, dur.
ing which 1,O0O, 900 people parished;
the Indian famine of 1866, which
claimed l, ,45O,OOO victims; the In
dian of 1877 in which 100000 peo
pie persisted and the great famine in
China in 1873 in which $500, ,OOC
succumbed to its ravages.
There was a large attendance a!
the dance given in Agricultural Hall
Port Royal, Pa, Tuesday evening,
August Z. The dance was a success
in spite Of the extremely
warm weather. The patronesses
we've: Mrs. G. b. Crawford, Mrs. s.
Svenson, Mrs. james North, Mrs.
F. NJ. NJ. Pennell. Mrs. Darwin NJ.
Crawford, Mics Mary Hopes srd
Mrs. w. N. Todd. w. W. Mayer
acted as chairman Of committee.
The following is q correct state
ment Of the number of pupils in all
schools, both private and public
throughout the country, during the
school year just past. There were
1O1 ,O5S young men and women in
the universities and colleges; 54,231
in schools Of law, medicine and the o.!
ogy; 81 7,538 in normal schools; 70,
$50 in business schools; 3,5C4 in re-
form schools and 97,737 in kinder
gar tens. The total number was Is,
687, 643. out Of an estimated popu
lation Of ~, ,737, 100.