Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10
NO. 40.
NEWS IN BRIEF

"A Hebrew college has been opened
in Cincinnati.
Felt slippers-those worn by mothers
of disobedient boys.
-Boston's unpaid taxes, since 1863,
aggregate 81, ,l25,s65.
A stalk of red pepper in Henry
county, Ca, bears 20, ,5S2 pods.
The tobacco yield in Virginia this
year is the largest since the war.
A corn-stalk fifteen feet in length
is now on exhibition ut Bernarlino,
Cal.
| 1t is now believed that Donaldson's
body went down with the wreck of the
balloon.
Cuba in a single year exported
beeswax and honey to the amount of
$3.50, 900.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is to be field Of
ficer of the Centennial Legion for the
Southern States.
The fund for an equestrian statue
of General Lee at Richmond now
amounts to O.0O0.
The Chicago bar, ut the beginning
of the present vacation of the courts,
could boast of over 800 lawyers.
Admirers of royalty paid last year
1866 for the privilege of inspecting
the British crown jewels in the London
Tower.
The Sisters of Charity have built
an academy at Salt Lake City. Children
of all religious denominations will be
received.
The Smiths have only ten represen-
tatives i'm the next Congress. They will
bring in a bill TO secure majority rep
resentation.
The United States Supreme Court
has decided that the Fourteenth Amend
ment does not confer the right of suf-
frage on women.
They are talking about twelve
story hotel at st. Louis. Come now, be
reasonable, no story above the first
four will pay expenses.
Two stations belonging To the
Rev. Mr.. Murray took the first and
second prizes at the Windham county,
Conn, fair the other day. E.Gat
The quantity of iron to be used in
the construction of the Centennial
building will aggregate about 1000 tons
of which more than five-sixthth will be
wrought.
-Eusebius Slaton, of Georgia is the
champion father of the United States.
He has been married twice, and thirty
children call him by the endearing
name of father.
-Infuriated bulls are no respecters
of persons. One of them had the auds-
city in Portland the other day to upset
the President of the International
Steamship Company.
In memory Of Bishop Berkeley, the
Berkeley Association of Yale College
has decided to place a window in the
new College Chapel. The window will
cost 5000, and large part of this sum
has already been subscribed.
"A newspaper in South Bend, Ind,
hints that one of the professors in the
high schools bribes the big girls To be
good by kissing them. The editors are
highly ndignant--probably because
they didn't have the same chance
"A wholesale fruit firm in San
Francisco recently sent by express To a
firm in st. Louis two hundred boxes OF
TOkay grapes, which were so well re-
NtiNfu an ViI'i ttt'N~'ho
boxes more was sent Immediately.
The Solicitor of the Treasury has
| given an elaborate opinion that state
license tax upon national banks capi-
tai cannot be enforced, and that state
officers have no right to examine or to
exact reports from national banks
Gen. N b. Forrest has $50 acres of
land under cultivation near Glencoe
Station, Shelby county, Miss, 43O of
which are in cotton. He sent up the
| first instalment of the new crop,
amounting to ten bales, averaging 5:E'
pounds each.
The board of visitors of the Balti-
more Jail have decided To try the eX-
pertinent on the professional bummers
of mixing whiskey with every article
of food and drink issued to them, in the
hope that their thirst for liquor may be-
permanently satisfied.
Victoria johnson, servant in Bal
/ timore home recently absconded with
a variety of larcenOusly converted goods
and chattels, including child's bank
with S. in it. This is sad lesson to
the little stOckholder of the instability
of financial Institutions.
AT Lebanon, Oregon, recently,
young lady walked across n river and
back upon a single line of boards from
pier to pier of bridge in course of con-
struction. The narrow path was at an
altitude of forty feet, and the walk was
undertaken in response To some banter
ing.
The cranberry crop, this year is es-
/ timated at 2l0.0OO bushels, against an
average of about 275-0OO. Cape Cod
and New England produce 5000
bushels, New Jersey 10000, New York
1000. and the Northwestern States
a., coo. The fruit is said to be of nice
quality.
How often new affection makes a
new man, The sordid, covering soul
turns heroic. The frivolous girl be-
comes the steadfast martyr of patience
and ministration, transfigured by death
less love. The career of bounding i'm
pulses turns into an anthem of sacred
deeds.-ChaPiR. .-.
The tunnel under the British Chan
mel will be nearly 80 feet below the
bottom of the channel. The channel i
about 200 feet at the deepest part Sir
John Hawkshaw, the famous British
engineer, thinks there il no doubt that
the tunnelling scheme will be success
fully carried out.
Inferno is the appropriate name of a
sulphur mine in Humboldt county
Nevada. Ii is near the railroad, and
more valuable than silver mine.
Nearly two car loads day are shipped.
There is one ''lump," at the Humboldt
House which weighs over 700 pounds.
1t is to be shipped to the Centennial.
The camels formerly used in pack
/ ing salt 10 the Comstock mines will
shortly be taken TO Arizona for service
in the deserts of that country. Since
the Introduction of these animals into
Nevada, some ten years ago, they have
increased, by breeding, from eight to
forty-two.