Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-26

Rhode Island has 1,l5,74 cotton
spindles.
Two ''Pickwick" clubs flourish in
Cincinnati.
Dom Pedro's running expenses Is
tourist are s., 200 week.
The first colored girl has just
graduated from an Indianapolis high
school. IT, -ga lTs
Several New York thieves devote
Sll their time to canary birds hanging
In basement windows.
An old landmark, the 'eMud The
ater," has disappeared in Baltimore. 1t
was erected in 1922.
Revenge, jacksonville, Florida.
shipped eleven tons of fcucumbers north
ward, the other day.
Colorado has voted to adopt the
new constitution by large majority.
Denver City gives 5000 Of it.
The biggest hog in the world,
weighing $40 pounds, is owned by
Mr.. William Bush, of Monroe Mo.
Harvard College library now con.
tains l55, 600 volumes. A large wing
is being added to the present structure.
Brick Pomeroy is speaking at the
west, delivering Centennial addresses
at s1.5O year, or $50 for the century.
"A law suit begun in 1912, concern
ing $4OO, 900 has just been decided in
England. Not cent is left Of the
100000.
in Jackson, No., few days ago, 8
patriarch aged ninety-One years was
married to a widow who was sixty-one
years old.
Oregon salmon are shipped direct
to Liverpool, where the fish, in cans,
bring from sixpence to a shilling Eng
lish money a pound.
Z "A gentleman in Danbury, Conn.,.
has had perseverance enough to take
the temperance pledge eighty-three
times and break it eighty-twO.
The sheep clip in Colorado this
season is more than double that Of any
previous year, and the wool improves
in quality as well as in quantity.
The Massachusetts, savings banks
are gradually yielding to the pressure
Of the hard times, and reducing their
to five per cent. year.
Major General James w. Hustled,
the "bald eagle of Westchester," has
been elected r. w. grand master of the
grand lodge Of Free-masOns of New
York.
1t was estimated the other day by
custom house official that America
would burn up s., 600 900 worth of fire
crackers this year, to say nothing of
other fireworks.
On the Columbia river, Oregon, no
less than 10000, 900 pounds of salmon
we're caught last year, or four times the
whole catch of England, Scotland,
Wales and Ireland.
View Hampshire has passed a law
all State insurance compa-
lies to have paid-up capital of $780,
is a good thing for the
arger corporations.
President Clark Seelye, of the
smith WomaD's College in NOrthamp-
on, Mass, has given five thousand dol
ars toward purchasing an art collec-
ion for that institution.
Chicago, which takes a census of
tself twice year, just to shame st.
Louis, now announces new one which
hows population of 536, ,673, "being
,ain of p, 1000 since last year.
Madison, Wis.,, has this year meta
twenty-one maids into
as follows: One Bachelor of
Arts, three Bachelors Of letters, and
eventeen Bachelors of Science.
The Historical Society proposes to
rect a mural monument i'm Morning
ide Park, New York, on September 16
o commemorate the Centennial ami
'ersary of the battle of Harlem Plains.
The Oldest postmaster in the United
states, ''Uncle" Daniel Curtis, died a
ew days ago at his home in North
Dorset, Vt, aged eighty-seven years.
lie was appointed BY General Jackson.
The recent funeral of Louis Phil
ppe and his family cost 10000. As
hey were very well buried before the
emoval of the bodies to Dreux, this
Gems an unnecessary piece of expendi-
IRE.
The king of Spain has conferred
he order ofCharles iii. on Mr.. Schaus
he New York picture dealer, as q
mark of his majesty's appreciation OF
lis conduct in the affair of the stolen
durillo.
The tomb of Benjamin Franklin
vas decorated on the 4th of July by
of the Philadelphia Insurance
Among the decorations was a kite made
# flowers, attracting attention.
Captain Cool, of the Cunard steamer
Russia, has made over three hundred
voyages across the Allan
ic. On her next trip from New York
he Russia will carry as a passenger
Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil.
MIR. Eugar Rollin, of New York,
ssues a centennial challenge to all for
ign and domestic tragedians to COM
,ete with him for the championship in
king Lear" "Othello" and "Mac-
,erh," the contest to take place either
n New York or Philadelphia.
-OLeary, the famous Chicago Pc
lestrian and conqueror of Weston, has
)tcn Dduiy uettdtcu dt Sdu fT8uclScO,
where he undertook to walk four DAYS
match against four amateurs, whose
niles were to be added together. At
M miles on the third day he retired.
The amateurs made 351 at its close.
John 1. Blair, the millionaire rail-
Dad builder, has decided to build an 1S
nile railroad from Blairstown. Warren
ounty, N. j., to Delaware station on
he Delaware, Lackawanna and West
rn railroad, and equip it at a cost Of
25O, 900, and present it to the people
4 Blairstown. The farmers gave him
he right of way. 4r
There are 900 lunatics in the three
'tate Lunatic Hospitals of New York.
IN the average, each lunatic costs over
6 week. In the three similar insti-
utions of Massachusetts,, each lunatic
osts less than 81 week; and in the
Willard Asylum for the Insane in this
,tate, the cost of maintaining each lu-
latic is but little more than 50 a week.
The trustees of the A. & w.
,prague manufacturing company of
r. L., have given orders to
hut down all their many mills and
,rint works as soon as the stock can be
un out. The cause is the present de-
n 80 r - g.