Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The past winter was mild in Ice

land. -l-,~i --e-a rl rlT
The gras-hoppers are at work in
Clinton county, Missouri.
1t is stated that of the 2I,0ia
teachers in this country, 127,1l3 are
women. 4s,- e .-r Hoes .
"A maple sugar factory in Vermont,
! the largest in the State, annually taps
, $500 trees -os 8vs1 Trt1cea.L T
AT the funeral of Mayor Barret, of
st. Louis, eight eX-nlayors Ofiiciated IS
pail bearers. .t-
--Blackberries are selling by the
street hawkers in Savannah, Ca, ut 10
cents quart.
i The Fisk university jubilee singers.
colored. have sailed, for a second tour,
through Great Britain.
i Liquor to the value of $4,000 has
been seized i'm Boston, and the war on
the Whiskey ring continues.
| The only real popular drinks this
summer viii be True Inwardness"
cobblers, and "Se-So" slings.
1t is very unkind of the Savannah
News to speak of IIarpers' Weekly as
"a Journal of snivelization."
The Iron and Steel Institute of
Great Britain has elected Mr.. Peter
Cooper as an honorary member srs
Carl Schurz is applied for As leet-
urer in all directions. He will begin
his tour in New England November lst.
A bill has been introduced into the
New York Legislature providing for the
erection of a College of Music in Central
| Park.
| -Ex-Attorney General Williams and
ex-COmmissioner of Internal Revenue
Douglass have hired law office
together.
It's about time for the farmers to
think of planting their apples and plow-
ing for black berries if they are ever
going to.
! "A prominent gentleman of Cincin-
matt offers to give Sl25,000 towards the
erection of Il capaciOus music hall in
that city.
Daniel F. Davis, of Reading Pa, is
the smallest man in Pennsylvania. He
is forty-four inches high and weighs
only fifty-six pounds.
DR.. Brown of Springfield ILL.,, has
sold his boa-constricter, twenty-three
feet long, for 81 200. 1t has been pur-
! chased ''for the British Museum"
Two commissioners to represent
France at the Philadelphia Centennial.
one to reside in the United States, and
the other in France, will be appointed.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad have voted to allow the Attain
tic and Pacific Teleg, ,aph Company to
extend its service over their entire
lines.
1t cost round million to build n
single story of the Chicago Custom
House with rotten stone, but it will take
only 100000 TO pull it down and begin
again. ...
The sides of the steamer Schiller
have caved in, covering up the specie,
cargo, and probably number of bodies
but blasting operations will be soon
begun.
The receiver and superintendent of
the Utica, Ithaca and Elmira railroad
have discharged sufficient number of
employees to reduce the expenses 81, 900
per month.
-Thirty-seven foreign nations have al
ready signified their intention of partic-
ipating in our great Centennial. Good.
Crowd up in front there. Plenty of
room for more.
Judge jeremiah ;. Black, of Penn
sylvania, will deliver the Grafton at the
unveiling of the bust of the late Bishop
Campbell, at Bethany College, West
Virginia, in June.
"A rival for Weston has turned up
at Chicago in the person of O'Leary,
who has walked 2j6 miles in sixty-seven
hours, and has undertaken 10 walk 500
miles in l52 hours. r-Ir
The vote of Democrats i'm New
Hampshire TO refer the contested elec-
tion cases to the Judges OF the Supreme
Court doesn't look as though they were
desperately wicked.
AT the Philadelphia Mint the coin
ing of new twenty-eent pieces com
menced, and the dies for the same pieces
have been forwarded to the Carson City
and san Francisco Mints.
The latest thing out in the line OF
celebrations is a reunion on the grounds
of DIR. Bullarl of New Haven, a practi-
cling physician for fifty years, of about
ZOO persons at whose birth he profess
sionally assisted,
The Boston Traveller reports that
lll' VI Ailt DilaNtt mn lhtiiNl-
ment Association are seriously think
ing of presenting the monument and
grounds to the city of Boston, after the
celebration this year.
BE careful how you celebrate your
centennial. Nathaniel Eaton of Warner
y. H., whose centennial birthday was
celebrated few days since, died soon
after of pneumonia, the result of expo
sure on that festive occasion.
The Iowa grasshopper is recognized
rs a civilized being compared with the
graSshOppers of Wisconsin. IL pays
some respect To death, and, when a
member of its lodge dies, wears the
usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
james Lick, the San Francisco mill
lionaire, whose gift of fortune to
public objects was revoked and renewed
under another deed of trust, has been
sued for $53, 900, the honOrarium claimed
for twenty-five years medical service.
Michael Lahy, the no-armed grad
uate of the Pittsfield, Mass, high school
has been appointed by the selectmen to
take the census of persons in town be-
tween the ages of five and fifteen years.
He writes a "goOd hand" with the
pencil in his mouth.
Mr.. Carl Rosa's troupe of singers of
opera in English are gaining great favor
in English provincial cities. This
company includes Miss Rose Hersee,
Miss Julia Gaylord formerly of New
York, and Mr.. +. Packard. who is
advertised as an american tenor"
An editor having remarked that he
never saw but one king in his life, the
Richmond Enquirer is led to think that
his education must have been wofully
neglected. II touchingly says: I'VE
saw four of 'em once ourselves, and
never care to look upon their like again.
The culture of trees in the L. :. is
quite extensive. Under the act cf Con-
gress offering l60 acres of land to any
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