Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-18
NEWS IN BRIM.

feet high, from Australia, is exhibited
by New York florist.
A piece of New York uptown
property, valued at $500, 900 three years
ago, sold for $4,000 cash, the other
day.
The He'll Gate excavation is not
General Newton's first great work. Hs
built the famous sea wall at st. Angus
tine.
| "A Troy, n. V, man at Center Ben
nington four years ago lost a gold
locket. This year it was ploughed up
in field there.
| The Pennsylvania Universalist con-
veltiOn has selected the Rev. Miss Ada
c. BOwles to preach the sermon at its
next meeting in 1877.
Dom Pedro has been riding about
Copenhagen in q very democratic
fashiOn-on the top of an omnibus like
any observing old gentleman.
Not only is drinking diminishing
in Massachusetts, by the pressure of
hard times, but temperance societies
are collapsing for want of funds.
The German empire has now nine
military schools, tive schools of subal-
terms. and nine of cadets. Four addi-
tiOnal schools for subalterns are soon
to be opened.
There Is new story out about Ben
jamin Franslin, which is the worst of
all. They say he got up church lot
terry for the benefit of Christ Church in
its early days.
The value of property insured in
London is t5I0, 900 900. OF the fires
which occurred I'm London during the
past fiye-years, four-fifths occurred 60
uninsured property.
The new prison for women at South
Framington, Mass, will be ready for
occupancy next year. All the officers
and employees, except the engineer and
fireman. are to be women. .f
The intermarriage of two families
in Maine is remarkable. One consist
ing of four sons and one daughter, has
married all of neighbor's children,
four daughters and son.
President Porter of Yale College
and other prominent citizens of New
Haven. Conn.,, have petitioned the
authorities to establish a large public
park in the suburbs of that city.
An old woman at the Stratford,
Conn.,. poor house spe.. her Tooth
birthday, Tuesday, in gathering cider
apples. An old man in the same inc.i-
tuition is finding his 9Oth year healthy
one.
"A woman is captain and her two
daughters the crew of a coasting vessel
at Hartford. Conn. The woman's hus-
band died five years ago, and since
then she has lifte'l debt of 81 900 on
her craft.
The Western Union Telegraph
company has adopted the rule that the
messages left with it shall be kept on
file for only six months, and then cut
up into such small pieces as to render
them useless.
One person of every 259 in Cinrin-
natl dies by suicide. Sixty-two per
cent of the self-murderers are German.
The proportion of the sexes is five men
to one woman, and the most popular
method is hanging.
MIR. James Parton is to be allowed
TO lecture at Dartmouth College on
historical subject, but when it came TO
the students voting TO hear Theodore
Tilton the faculty put down its foot
Here was limit to its endurance.
-Telegaaphic communication has
been extended from England TO the re-
mote Shetland and Orkney Islands, so
that message from Balta Sound, the
extreme point of the Shetlands, may
now be sent TO Jersey for shilling.
-BenjamSp Webster, the patriarch
OF the English stage, who even now
appears upon the boards,
Is over eighty years OF age, and Samuel
Phelps, who still plays Macbeth,
''ShylOck," and "Othello," is over
seventy.
MIR. George Hoey, son of Mrs. Hoey
the charming leading lady at Wal
lacks years ago, has come out As all
actor, taking a subordinate part in the
Mr.. Hoey has had long
and careful course of instruction from
his mother.
The largest lantern ever made will
soon be erected at Galleyhead, on the
coast of Cork. IL will copsume / 800
feet of gas per hour, and the flashing
light will be visible through the fogs.
The power of the light will be equal TO
, ,0OO, 900 candles.
The Indian Supreme Court has re-
Gently filed a decision of interest to the
of both sexes. IL is to the
effect that if a promise of marriage is
by its terms not TO be performed within
a year, it is void, unless in writing and
signed by the parties.
1t Is said that Droullent, the French
engineer who has come over to survey
the Darien Isthmus for canal route,
was surprised to learn that the idea
was not entirely new. Surveys of more
than 40 routes are now on file in the
War Department at Washington.
j. III. McVicker of Chicago is con-
cluding arrangements for lease of the
Lyceum theatre at New York. He in
tends commencing his term of occupa.
ton in November, and Edwin Booth
will then appear in series of Shakes
pearean representations under his man
agement-
Work on the tunnel across the
British Channel is to begin on the lst
Of July, 1877. The tunneling machin-
cry TO be used can bore a drift nine feet
in diameter across the chanel In two
years at cost of $1,000, 600. Four
years more and an additional outlay of
s20, ,0OO, 900 will complete the tunnel.
-Mrs. Tilton supports herself by
giving music le.cOns. one lives IN
quiet way in Brooklyn with her mother
and has no society to speak of. Bessie
Turner is i'm destitute circumstances in
the neighborhOod OF New York. She
has the ability to act as teacher or gov
erness, but her services are not in de-
mand.
"A post graduate course has been
opened at the Yale law school, begin
ming with the present term and open
to graduates from any law school hav.
ing the degree of LII. b. At the end
of the first year, students may be ex-
amined for the degree of Master of
Law and at the end of the second year
for that OF Doctor of Civil Law.
Pierce Francis Connolly. the Flor
sculptor, is now on a
visit TO his native land, and for the
present is the guest of friends in the
of Boston. His most import
ant work-a bronze allegorical group
ssHouor ArrestinU the