Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-23
NO. "a.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

cupy the house at Peekskill where Mr..
Beecher now lives.
The only female journalist running
paper in Iowa, is Mrs. Swain OF the
Fort Dodge Messenger.
Galveston, Texas, is now shipping
wheat direct to Liverpool at twenty
eight cents per bushel.
-Woman's Rights.-Ladies now have
to take off their hats in the California
theatres, just like men.
Bethlehem, n. H., in the White
mountains, is the highest village east
of the Rocky mountains.
"A nickel mine has been found in
Seymour, Conn.,, and the metal Is said
to be in paying quantities.
Mrs. Tyner, the wife of the new
Postmaster General, was before her
marriage about three years ago Treas
ury clerk.
A Salem (Mass.) girl, who is to be
single but week or two more, has
twenty-four dresses, all made up, at a
cost of IS 600.
The Chinese navy consists of forty
five ships of war, divided into three
squadrOns, and the army is composed
OF 1000 men.
"A burglar just discharged from the
Massachusetts Penitentiary has passed
Twenty-Five of the forty-siX years of
his life in prison.
The two hundred women painters
studying at Cooper Institute have
earned about $1,000 in the past year by
painting pictures.
"A letter from the Northwest says
that 10000 head of buffaloes were
slaughtered on the Northwest plains
during the past year.
"A company of 200, 900 tradespeo-
pie daily wander 10 their shops and
dish out commodities by the pound,
gallon and yard in the United States.
A company has been organized in
st. Louis to build new hotel that will
cost s., ,000, 900, eontaing 1000 rooms
and accommodate $500 guests.
A Detroit firm of meat and fruit
shippers are the lessess of $50 refrige
rator cars, which are run on fast trains
between Detroit, Chicago and New
York.
Professor Winchell, lately of Cor
nell university. has been offered pro-
fessorship in the Vanderbilt university
Nashville, Tenn, at a salary of $1,000
a year.
Rice culture in Louisiana employs
/ &c, 900 people, on l 200 plantations; pro-
duces a crop worth S., 900, 900, and de-
veIops business to the extent of Sl0,-
100000.
-. lady in Georgia who is the pos
SCISSOR of a bonnet $50 years old hopes
one of these days either TO catch up
with the fashion or have the fashion
catch up with her.
The Bank of England is run in an
old shabby and dingy dungeon of
building, but il has never 'burst up"
1t takes one of our latter-day ''palatial''
| institutions to do that.
The Grand Order of Accepted
Bakers are on strike in New York for
light and pure air. They work eigh-
teen hours a day, make the bread under
ground, and bake themselves.
The tonnage of vessels that passed
through the SueZ canal within TIE last
twelve months amounted to 2,940, ,70S
| tons, and the number of ships has been
nearly quadrupled in six years.
An endowment has Just been
| founded by an aged and wealthy citi-
zen OF Baltimore. of a large pecuniary
value to furnish fresh-air treatment
each summer for the children of the
poor
Beer, it is alleged by some imbibers
will not intOxicate, but Berlin statistics
show that in that city, where beer is
occasionally used as beverage, 5000
arrests were made for drunkenness last
year.
| California is building half a dozen
new railroads. The most important one
/ is the Southern Pacific, which will
probably be in running order between
San Francisco and Los Angeles in Sep
tember.
The largest sponge ever found in
the Floridas is now on exhibition in
New York. The sponge when wet is
eight feet in circumference and when
dry twelve feet, and weighs nineteen
pounds
-Eph. Morris, champion single scul-
Ter of the United States, proposes TO
make match with Henry Coulter ac-
cording TO the challenge lately issnef
by the latter. Morris defeated Cot tier
twice last year.
The Bank of England clips every
light sovereign that it receives. The
weighing is done very quickly, 1000 an
hour being weighed by one machine.
In 1879 the bank weighed t22 100000
worth of coin, and rejected fSiO,OOO.
The ''big tree" as it was called,
which grew in Calaveras County Call
/ L II Of
inch lumber, and was recently felled
by five men working twenty-five and
la half days, making one hundred and
twelve and one-half days labor.
C. Burns, a butcher of Terre Haute
Ind, has Just completed bird house
about two fee; square that is very novel,
ingenious and handsome. Ii is in
walnut, with marble trimming, in
Swiss cottage style and shape, and con-
tains 5000 pieces of wood and weighs
but six pounds.
The venerable DIR. Charles Avery,
now in his Slst year, who has for thirty
. five wears Professor of Chemistry in
Hamilton College, says that in going
up and down College Hill during that
period, he has made the circuit of the
earth once, and reached the quarter
pole on the second turn.
During the year ending June 80,
1876, there arrived in the United States
p, 2,572 Chinese immigrants, of whom
! only two hundred and fifty-nine were
females. Two previous years the total
immigration was 16,i37, OF whom
eighty-two were females. This shows
! an increase in 1876 of 6,l35.
Jeremiah Whsley, aged ninety-two
: wears who lives at Narragansett Pier,
, X. l., had never seen train OF rollroad
; cars until few days ago, when he saw
the locomotive used in laying the track
on the Narragansett Pier Railroad.
4 What makes this case more remarkable e
r is that he lives within few miles Of
n the Stonington Railroad.
n "A negro began business as a ply
sician at Oxford, y. c., several years
ago, but was not very successful, ex-
!, eept pecuniarily. The mortality among
i his patients seemed greater than the