Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
NEWS IN BRIEF

Ireland is to send a crew to row in
the Saratoga regetta.
"A New York shoemaker iias the ap-
propriate name Of Heeltap.
Dartmouth College graduates fifty
year old student this year.
Robert Bonner has eighty thorough
breds on his breeding farm.
Chalk bricks are used for building
purposes in Western Kansas.
"A woman is living serenely under
the same roof with two husbands, near
Geneva, Ga.
Illinois has 200 cheese factories, to
which 1900, 900 milch cows make daily
contributions.
"A Nantucket man has drunk over
% barrels of liquor in "a years, and yet
he is not happy.
England has now about 40 art
schools, which have an attendance of
nearly 10000 pupils.
The Order of the Sisters of Charity
throughout the world.
Five fishing vessels and forty-seven
lives have been lost in the Gloucester,
Mass, fisheries this year.
1t is estimated that about 1000 per-
sons are engaged in the manufacture of
lime in the United States.
The insurable value of London has
risen in ten years from 600 ,OOO, 900
sterling to 81 400 900. 900.
-Arabella Goddard, the pianiste, af-
ter giving 100 farewell concerts in Eng
land, will make her home in California.
I'm Statesvf11e. y. c., is a minister
who has been in business seven years.
He has married eigety-five couples for
less than $50.
Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago,
has given fifty dollars towards the cost
of the proposed memorial bust of
Thomas Paine.
The girls of Fulton county Ull.)
had a sheep shearing match the other
day, and the winner sheared thirteen
sheep in two hours.
"A grand reunion of all the regi-
ments in Maine, including the batter
les, will take place on one of the islands
in Casco Bay on August 10.
1t is gratifying to learn that Gov.
Bedle has appointed Auxencius Maria
Pima Venezuela Hildreth Dickerson,
of Salem. N. j., to be a Notary Public.
Hon. j. Proctor Knott is a candi-
date for reelection to Congress from
the Fourth district of Kentucky, and is
not likely to encounter much opposition.
On Decoration Day the grave of
William III. Seward, i'm Auburn, New
York, was loaded with flowers. which
were surmounted with a large floral
cross.
There is a town in Maine where,
after three days hard work, the citi-
zens raised seventy-two cents for the
widow of a man who was accidentally
killed.
There are only two gallons of whis-
ky, per year, manufactured for each in
habitant OF the United States, and il is
a clear case that somebody's got to go
without.
The Rev. DIR. Hall, who has been
professor in the Auburn theological
seminary for the past % years, has re-
tired on an annuity of 81, 900 for the
rest of his life.
There arrived at the port of New
York last year. from the West Indies,
22 800, 900 oranges, about 600, 900 bun
ches of bananas, $3.50 900 pineapples
and 7,5OO. 900 eocoanuts.
The book containing a record of the
baptisms in the Old South Church, Bos-
ton, from 1869 up TO the present time,
has the date of Benjamin Franklin's
January 6, 1907.
"A fishing party of six, with lines,
caught near Pensacola, recently one
hundred and fifty snappers and grou-
pers, i'm all, nine hundred pounds of
fish in half day.
The laws delay. A case was re-
Gently decided in England which first
in the year 1872. The
amount originally in dispute was s400,
OOO. Nothing was left.
The exhibition grounds have al
ready become noted because of the fire.
quency with which visitors meet friends
and even relatives. whom they have losl
sight of for many years.
Madam D'Atalie, the strong woman
who exhibited in Barnum's Hippodrome
show in New York, has been married
to Nat Austin, the clown. Both are in
California with a circus
1t is worthy of notice that Texas
flour has already been sent to market.
Not, of course, in large quantities, but
enough for an exhibit, from wheat cut
on the fifteenth of May.
BY previous arrangement, all the
ministers at Nelson, Kentucky, offered
prayers for rain the other Sunday, and
before morning the citizens thought the
deluge would never subside.
Gen. VIM. SOoy Smith offers to
build tunnel across the Detroit river
and not ask the city for money until the
work is completed. He says English
capitalists will advance the money funds
In recognition of the generous con-
tributions of A. L. Stewart to the relief
of Paris after the siege, it is proposed
to call one of the nevly-opened streets
in the upper part of the city by his
name.
England is spending 10000, 900 a
year on her public schools, besides some
millions of voluntary contributions, and
yet only l 800. 900 of the 200, 900 chill
dren in the country of school age are in
school.
sheriff Clark of Boston declines to
give to the public the last written con-
fession of Piper, Withholding it at the
request of the family, but says it fully
confirms Piper's previous alleged con-
fessiOns.
ALI the men on the School Commit
tee of Watertown, Mass, resigned be-
cause a woman was elected a member,
and their action has been rebuked by
the election of two women on the new
committee.
The total earnings of the New
Hampshire State Prison in 1885 were
$36, ,399, yielding a profit of s20, ,59S.
Owing to the hard times the contract
price of labor per day has been reduced
from 95 to 631s cts.
Mrs. Caroline Richings- it
is reported, is in receipt of a very hand
some offer from Manager Mapleson to
become the prima donna of company
of American singers for a series of per-
formances in England next season.
kansas now leads in the culture of