Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-03
NO. Is.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

number now.
Reading, Pa, lives happily without
any city council.
Wages are higher in the West than
in New England. .....
Indiana wheat has been badly dam
aged BY cold weather.
New Haven has appropriated So
900 to employ her poor.
Many families in Central Georgia
use only homegrown tea.
The Carson Mint trade dollars are
not light of weight, but of poor work
manship.
David Jacks, of Monterey, CAL,
netted sS7, 800 on 10000 acres planted
in wheat last year.
The New Hampshire House of Rep
resentatives will be lively little body
of only 3S7 members. -- ''.
The Boston Herald claims that it
has the largest circulation OF any paper
in the country-l47,0 900.
The ladies at fashionable hotel in
San Francisco have formed a debating
club for the purpose of learning how 10
talk.
South Carolina is going to erect a
monument to Calhoun, which is quite
| supererogatory, the State being one al
ready.
One cent per bushel makes differ
ence of ten millions of dollars in the
value of the annual crop of corn in the
United States.
English sparrOws have built their
/ nests in the nostrils of horse on which
! is placed a statue of Washington, at
/ Richmond, Va.
The establishment of penny savings
banks in the London public schools is
being urged by influential noblemen
and merchants.
1t is seriously proposed to make
sewing part of. the public school
course for girls i'm Boston. Baking will
come next, probably.
Bloomington, H., is a prosperous
town, having assets in excess of liabili-
ties TO the amount of s20O, 900. Go West,
ye grumbling tax payers.
The assessment of taxable property
in New Jersey last year was $6l2.731,
094, as against s44S, ,474 ,672 in 1866, an
increase of.36.62 per cent ...
The French drank a thousand mil
lion gallons of wine last year, a COM
paraIively small amount of spirits, and
a little water taken incidentally.
During 1875 there were l ,O56 disas-
tiers on the lakes. Property lost, in
cluding barges, sS,79l 300. Lives lost
239 the most disastrous season on
record. .
The liberty bell in Independence
Hall tower was not cracked while peal
ing forth independence to the nation,
but while tolling the knell of Chief
Justice Marshal in 1885.
-SenatOr-elect James B. Beck of Ken
tucky is TO be presented with a testi-
monial by the sportsmen of that State
as recognition of his services in secur-
ing protection for fish and game.
Caleb Cushing is not the oldest ex-
Cabinet Minister living. He was ap-
pointed Attorney General in 1888 but
George Bancroft was appointed Secre-
tary of the Navy in March, 1S45.
The glass dome of the Centennial
Art Gallery will be lighted by 2OOo gas
jets. The dome is 263 feet above the
level of the Sehuylkill, and will be Wis
ible at night all over Philadelphia.
There are now growing in the
streets of Washington twenty-seven
thousand seven hundred shade trees,
nineteen thousand of which bave been
planted within the last three years.
Maiden, Mass, boasts an old elm Sc
feet high, % to 26 feet in circumference
and 225 years old, under which George
Washington and his staff once halted.
Its photograph is to be sent to the Cen
tennial.
The exports of provisions from the
principal parts of the United States
from November l, 1875, to March 1876
including 324, ,369, ,05l pounds of hog
product of value of $27, ,533, SOC, and
81. So ,026 pounds of beef product of
value of s., 3,2JS ,SS3.
The organ used in the Episcopal
Church at Clyde, n. Y. is claimed TO be
100 years old. The organ was for many
years used in Trinity, New York, and
was from there taken to Geneva, and
finally TO Clyde, where it has been in
use for thirty wears.
DIR. r. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, has
perfected the purchase of large lot of
ground, on which he proposes to erect
hotel for the accommodation Of his
numerous patients. 1t is understood
that DIR. Pierce will expend $500, 900
upon the building, and will thus make
il model structure in every particular.
There are 1894 men, &c steamers, 81
vessels and Is factories engaged in the
oil and guano business of Maine. Dur
ing 1875 no less than 7l2 900 barrels of
fish were taken, an increase of 10000
over 1874, and 100000 gallons of oil
do an of
The amount of guano prepared was
% 900 tons.
-On the summit of Pixies Peak over
II 900 feet above the sea level, where is
not trace of any vegetation, or indeed
any earth upon which shrubs or grass
could grow, the mountain rat, an ami
NAL twice as large as a Norway rat,
abounds in vast numbers, overrunning
the United States station on the apex of
the mountain.
AT Point Reyes, CAL, there is a
dairy farm of AZ, 900 acres, on which
there are 5000 cows. The farm, to-
gether with the cows, is rented in part
to several tenants. They make from
81 900 to 81 900 per annum clear of all
expenses. The yield from the cows is
reported to be excellent; some of the
butter ranches show an average of $50
per COW through whole herd of 200.
1t is expensive to take care of in
sane people in palaces. In Massachu-
setts the cost OF two asylums in the
course of construction is from $500
to $4,000 for each patient. One is nearly
completed in New Jersey at an estima-
ted cost of SO ,000, 900 or more than $4,000
per patient; while in New York three
are in process of building, the estimates
of the cost of which vary only between
$1,000 and 5000 for each patient.
Yale has been prolific in ColleSorr
Presidents, having furnished tsa-;o. b.
the following named medaon,h Wi.
Princeton, Colamffrin % Trinity, Middlebury,
ra.,,i, lra.n, and the universities of Yer
Soat ,S-.ont, California, Pennsylvania, and
many others. Presidents Barnard, OF
Columbia; White. of Cornelli Gilman