Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| Only sixty per cent. of the children
Of Rhode Island attend school.
p. T. Barnum proposes to build a
grand hotel in Bridgeport, Conn.
Over five hundred southern Pres
byterian churches have no pastors.
The average age of the signers OF
the Declaration scarcely reached A
years.
1t is said that one of the Nevada
bonanza kings has an income Of $1,000
an hour.
The Overseers of Harvard College
have reelected Chas. Francis Adams
President.
There were sixty-four fires in New
York City on the Fourth of July nearly
all of them caused by fireworks.
Greenwich, Conn.,, boasts of an old
lady, Mrs. Ira Mead, who will attain
to the age of LOG years, should she live
until next August.
An Indiana school l-marm one day
recently thrashed 80 scholars. They
are going to use her for a threshing
machine after harvest
A Miss Stewart of Hamilton, Onta-
rio, has recovered 500 damages from a
lover who forsook her after an engage
ment Of ;wenty-six years.
The value of a toe is now definitely
determined. A Brooklyn Court has
awarded q man who lost four of them
on horse car, $437 80 per toe.
1t is proposed to amend the Consti-
tuition Of Connecticut by adding a Sec
ton making nine members of a jury
competent to render verdict.
There are said to be in Turkey, at
the present time, over 0,0O0 individu-
all for debt due to the Turkish govern
ment.
-Ex-Uni,ed States Senator Truman
Smith, who read the Declaration of In-
dependence at Litchfield, Conn.,, on the
Fourth of July, read it at the same
place 80 years ago..
"A swarm Of caterpillars which had
gathered on the rails of the Maine Cen
trail Railroad, near Pennington, COM
pelled train to stop for several min
utes few days ago.
The Fortnightly ReUie,o makes the
statement that 4, 500 persons own the
half Of England, that 1888 peers own o.
422, ,2U0 acres. and that 20 owners own
one-half Of Scotland.
On the new appraisers building in
San Francisco, now in process of erec-
ton by the United States government,
IL men are employed, of whom seven
are superintendents.
The pension officers say that Daniel
Drew never claimed his pension. Con-
gress by special act three years 70
made him pensioner at IS a month for
services i'm the war of 1872.
The eldest daughter of Gen. Robert
C. Schenck, ex-United States Minister
to England, il to be married in Ohio
next September TO an English gentle
man whom she met i'm London.
There are 162 driving parks in the
United St3tes. The value of the prop
erty held by these associations is esti-
mated at 5000 600, and that of the
horses entered in a single year, $4,000
900.
Dartmouth College has just gradu-
a:ed man 80 years old. The new
alumnus is the Rev. j. 5. Small, who
chose in this singular manner to repair
lite in life the deficiencies of his early
years.
William III. Fordham, man sixty
years old and weighing two hundred
pounds, climbed the liberty-pole in
Buchanan Michigan, and put up a rope
through the pulley. The pole is l0i
feet high.
The Free Medical College for Wo-
men in New York has suspended oper-
atoms, on account of insufficient sup
port. IL was established six years ago,
and good work has been done By its
officers aud students.
Sidney Smith made an eloquent
plea against locking passengers into
railway ears in lSi2-thirty- four years
tinues, and the English ears are more
and uncomfortable than ever
The eloquence of the Adams family
was i'm great demand in Massachusetts
On the Fourth of July. The elder
Adams spoke in Taunton, Mr.. e. +.
Adams, Jr., in Quincy, and Mr.. Brooks
Adams. the youngest son, in bingham.
Mr. Samuel Bowles published the
Dnly newspaper ia New England on
the morning of July >, 1876. II is this
kind OF enterprise, not simple editorial
icuteness, which makes the Springfield
RspuJlican the egreate>tprovinciai news
paper in America
Miss Mary Graham, one of the
graduates of the Flint high school, EN-
.ers the Michigan university next fall.
remarkable about this, except
hat Mary Is young eOlored woman,
and will be the first of that kind TO en-
Ter the university.
The Fourth of July was celebrated
in Auburn prison in the most patriotic
.tyle. The celebration was gotten up
BY one of the warlens, and consisted
Df music, reading of the Declaration OF
Independence and an Grafton. The ex-
erciscs were well appreciated by the
ronvicts.
Queen Victoria has now attained a
very high rank on the roll of English
for length of reign; having
lately passed Henry VIII, and Henry
vi, She now stands fifth in orJer, being
still Junior or inferior only TO Eliza
beth and the three long Thirds, Edward
Henry and George.
An aged couple, Mr.. and Mrs. John
E. Peoples, live in Barnwell 5. c.
They were born in Gloucester county,
On the James river, in Virginia. Mr..
Peoples is III years old, and his wife
I23. This is. perhaps, the Oldest living
couple in the United States. Mr.. Peo-
pies is a machinist by trade.
Henry kroger, the Milwaukee
weather prophet and seer, says there
will he four months good sleighing in
the winter of 1911. kroger says:
There will be five months Of cold
with little rain and without
thunder. There will be plenty Of ice
in the river OF 80 inches thickness.
There are y papers at Constantine
DIE. l6 Of which are printed in Turkish
/ i'm Arabic, in Persian, 20 In Fren IN,
| In German, in English, IL in Greek,
l3 in Armenian, 4 in Bulgarian, 2 In
Spanish and i'm Italian. There are 10
official journals In the provinces, and
As many official calendars or almanacs.
1T Is estimated that two hundred
and eighty million dollars have been