Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-13
NEWS IN BRIEF-

Evansville, Ind, has a banana tree
in full bloom.
-Montreaps population, according
TO recent census, is las 600.
Horses can be bought from the In
dians in Oregon at $40 apiece.
The Connecticut tobacco crop is re-
ported to be ela,ellent this year.
According 70 the Deadwood Miner
there are 1000 men engaged in gold
and silver mining in the Black Hill
region.
| 1t is proposed to celebrate the
Pope's episcopal jubilee, which occurs
in June. 1877, by pilgrimage of Cath
olics to Rome.
| "A San Francisco scientist has con-
trived flying machine which, he
AYERS, will carry him to New York in
twenty-four hours.
I'm Contra Costa, Cal, resides Don
Fernando Paeheeo. who weighs 40
pounds, and is as weighty financially
as he is physically.
The new Liverpool docks are COM
pleted, so that now the docks of that
port cover an area of 420 acres, and are
valued at sl0O, 200, 900.
A lady can dress moderately well
In Paris for about 81, 900 per year. In
this country the figure runs from s. to
s25, 900 according to taste.
Switzerland County, Indiana, has
over $25 900 invested in the bee busi-
ness, producing &C, 900 pounds of honey
annually, valued at $1,000.
Mrs. Lincoln, widow of President
Abraham Lincoln, is staying in Boulder
one of the most picturesque places in
the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
Three brothers, sons of one of the
Siamese twins, jointly cultivate a fine
farm in Jackson county, Mo making
handsome profit on large crops of to-
bacco.
Miss Marguerite Cleveland, eldest
daughter of John F. Cleveland, and
niece of the late Horace Greeley, it is
reported, will enter a convent in the
autumn.
A little girl died at Barnard, YER
mont, the other day by paralysis caused
by the poison in colored stockings
which she bad been in the habit of
wearing.
Aunt Patsy Vaughan, colored
woman claimed to be ia years old,
died recently near Amelia Springs, Va.
Her youngest child is living and is
woman 75 years old.
Citizens of Savannah, Ca, have
purchased a handsome cane of orange
wood, with a gold head, which will be
sent TO Governor Tilden as testimO-
NAL of Southern esteem.
The chairman of the New York
Mining Stock Exchange says that $50,
00O, 900 can be profitably invested in
developing the gold mines of Virginia,
Georgia and North Carolina.
William B. Hunt, of Iowa is wanted
by the sheriff. Also by twenty-eight
different wives scattered over different
States. He says he could have married
forty if he had been given time.
A tract of forty acres purchased
ten years ago by 4 California fruit
grower for 500 now yields its owner
s., 900 year net profit. This years
crop of fruit is estimated at 100 tons.
There is baby, two weeks old, in
Vassar, Mich, which only weighs one
pound and half. Its mothers we'd
ding ring will easily pass over the
ehild's hand and up to the shoulder.
A wealthy New York manufactur-
ing firm has voluntarily raised the
price of making shirts from fifty to
seventy-five cents dozen. At this rate
poor woman can earn over dollar Il
week.
Mr. George Cruikshank has had
the rare pleasure of arranging his
works in the gallery of the Westminis-
ter Aquarium at London, the directors
having recently purchased the entire
collection.
The Chicago Club. with a Sl30, ,009
clubhouse. has been originated by the
rich young men of the city. The in
itiation fee Is 5000, and the yearly tax
is $50. The membership is limited to
$50, and is now 2l6.
-Rockport, Mass, appropriates the
proceeds of her tax on dogs 10 the pur-
chase of books for her public library,
and thus makes lovers of the canine
species pay for the literary entertain
ment of the other citizens.
-Disraeli has no children to inherit
his Earldom. Besides his own fortune,
he has received in bequests from his adj
mirers about $500, 900, and he has for
some time received a pension of 900
a year from the Government as an ex-
Minister.
There is woman named Allen, 20
years of age, who has lived fifty years
within five miles of Carrollton, ILL.,, but
has never seen a railroad train. She
never goes in town, giving as reason
that every time her sons go they get
home drunk.
investments made in Texas sugar
planting by Northern capitalists are
said TO promise to prove highly remu-
nerative. In some cases fifty per cent.
on the purchase money paid for the
plantation will be realized from the
present crop.
There are forty cotton mills In
Georgia, and they have been in active
operation during very dull season.
Tennessee has taken great strides in
manufacturing, and throughout the
south the drift of capital is toward in
dustrIal pursuits.
"A Portland paper tells fishy story
about the son of poor man who moved
West from Portland, many years ago,
now proving heir, through the will OF
an English knight, killed at Waterloo,
to the famous BurtOn-On-Trent brewe-
ries, worth 81 600, 900.
An artificial chicken hatcher is ex-
hibited in Cincinnati. 1t consists of q
large glass box, holding 400 eggs, on
wire trays. The temperature is regu-
lated so accurately that it never varies
half dozen degrees from one hundred.
The machine works we'll.
The annual life insurance report Of
Massachusetts,, just published, shows
diminution in the amount of Outstand-
ing policies at the close of the year 1873
of nearly s32 ,0O0,0 from the amount
written by the same companies at the
close of the preceding year.
Old Izaak Walton would have been
happy had he been able to fish in the
Jordan river, Upper Michigan, for
there trout are so numerous that re-
Gently party of four persons, after
six days fishing, caught no less than
two thousand of the speckled sinners
Captain Richard Kelly of Falmouth,
England has received from the Presi-