Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-25
NEWS IN BRIEF

The wholesale oyster trade Of New
York amounts TO SIS, 10000 annually.
The Cherokees are already civil
lied. They ran s19 800 behind during
the last fis>al year
Tine British Government has spent
about seventeen million pounds In ir-
rigation works in India.
-Richmond, Va, has given more TO
the Custer monument fund than any
other city, except New York
The Hartford Accident Insurance
Company, in which Mark Twain was a
heavy owner. is winding up Its affairs.
"A mackerel eight and half feet
long and weighing 500 pounds was the
Osher day caught off Newport, Rhode
Island.
An immense iron pavilion will
soon be erected in Boston, in which to
hold the revival meetings of Messrs.
Moody and Sankey.
Jersey justice is tempered with
mercy. They occasionally serve up
apple dumplings to inmates of the
Trenton State Prison.
I'm answer to an advertisement in
the San Francisco papers for boys to
pick hops, no less than 1900 Young
sters presented themselves.
Randolph Rogers who is to design
the crOwning figure on the dome of the
Capitol of Connecticut has sailed for
Rome 10 prepare his studies.
-Lieutenant--Gov Hubbard.
who will succeed Senator Coke as Gov
ernor of Texas, weighs $50 pounds and
is six feet and four inches high.
There are seven clairvoyant shops
in Chicago, at any one of which you
can see your Revolutionary ancestors
at 81 80 per head, strictly in advance.
I'm the history of the Jurisprudence
of the State of Virginia the Supreme
Courts records show that but one case
oi divorce was ever brought before it.
This year the gain I'm the popula-
tion of California, by sea and immigra-
tion has been % ,400-the smallest gain
during the same period tor four years
The census takers of the Young
Mems Christian Association, of Jersey
city, report that there are thirty-five
saloons to every church in that city.
The catch of the Newfound' and
fisheries, this year, is below that of
last year, but there is sufficient increase
In prices TO make up for the deficiency.
The Cornell University Boat Club
has decided to challenge the winner in
the Oxford Cambridge race next March
10 four-mile race over the English
course.
The 2600 breweries in the United
States produce yearly 2S5, ,00O, 900 gal
Ions of malt liquor. Most of them
have been built within the last twenty
five years.
The time actually occupied in the
performance of waguer's rri'Ogy at
Bayreuth, not including waste and
other intermissIOns, was Is hours and
30 minutes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fleetwood of Texas
held a national convention, and Lomi-
mated Mr. Fleetwood for President of
the United States and Mrs. Fleetwood
for Vice President.
Baden Baden has not suffered a
loss of summer visitors in conseq ,.ence
OF the abolition of gambling. The
number ON the strangers register Sep
echoci % wa, oi, oJf-
stanton, the bicyclist, has just de-
feated the French champion Camille
rhuitlet, by some eighteen yards In
nfty-m lie race, in /. lin. 81. though
the weather was windy and showery.
The bridge of the Boston Water
Works over Charles river il supported
by the largest arch, except one, in the
world. lt measures l34 Ieet In length
AMI 90 from the keystone 10 the water.
Only twelve institutions for teach
ing dentistry eAi>t in tins country, and
the total number of degrees given by
them Is about three Thousand. Yet
there are fifteen thousand dentists in
the country.
About twenty miles from Salem,
y. c., is mountain in which are quar-
ries of stone which is both flexible
and elastic. ltappears to be made up
of sand so loosely dovetailed that both
fiexion and extension are easily accom-
plished.
A mammoth set of scales, said to be
the largest in the world, has been
erected at Ashley, Luzerne county, Pa.
lt is one hundred and tifty feet long,
with the ordinary railroad width, and
can weigh me hundred tons of coal.
Ii cost 5000.
There are in this country $4,000
farmers, 200, 900 trades people, AGO.
900 mechanics, 2,6UO, ,0C0 professional
men. $4,000 clergymen, 10000 lawyers,
LIS S22 teachers, 81 900 doctors, 1000
actors, $500 journalists, l 900, 900 labor
ers and 975, 900 domestic servants.
Samuel CONS Ock, of Norwalk,
Conn.,, went 10 California in 1919, and
had not been heard from until within a
few days, when his friends, who be-
lieved him long ago dead, received n
letter from him saying that he was
mining for quicksilver in California.
The manufacture of iron in the
west is rapidly increasing in amount.
In Chicago alone there are two of the
ten Bessemer steel works in the United
States, and these male 5000 tons of
the 29l 900 tols of the Bessemer steel
rails manufactured in this country last
year.
"A colossal bust of Horace Greeley
has been made by Charles Calverley.
lt will be of bronze, and will be placed
IN Greenwood Cemetery. Ii Itrepresents
Mr.. Greeley as he was ten or twelve
years ago, and ''the old white over
coat" is used, instead of the toga, for
dignity OF effect.
Herr krupp calculates that his
latest gun will penetrate the twenty
four inches armOr of the English IRON
clad lnfexible at a distance of !. 800
metres, or will go through IL inch ar
NOR five or six miles off, and throw a
projectile weighing 800 kilogrammes
completely over London.
The Standish monument at Dux-
bury will probably be finished next
season. The base is thirty feet and the
top fifteen feet thick, and it is already
fifIy-nine feet high and can be seen
twenty miles away. Over SIS, 900 have
been spent Oh il, and a mammoth fair
is TO be held in Boston next winter TO
raise the balance.
Mrs. Hiram Powers is now in Gin
cinnati. >he has been absent from
America thirty-ni e years. When she
left her home, Cincinnati contained but
$1,000 people; now IL has nearly 2OO,-