Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
NO. 45.
NEWS IN BRIH.

New Zealand last wear exported
nearly %, 500 900 pounds of wool valued
at SIC, 900, 900.
There are 10000 lawyers in the
United States, of whom one hundred
and ninety-eight are in Congress.
The Adrice is the name of n new
Michigan paper which the sanguins
publisher supposes people will take.
Immense herds of buffalo have ap-
peared near the Red River, In Mani
toba, after ten years Of total absence.
Governor Hayes has invited his old
regiment to hold their annual reunion
next year on his grounds at Fremont,
o.
In Methodist belfry up i'm Ver-
mont a swarm of bees have started
hive and deposited fifty pounds of
honey.
The Seminole war began when
Jackson was President, and lasted until
after the death of President Harrison.
Ii cost $40, 900, 900 and l 1866 lives.
The Oil City Derrick says that the
oil region is worth s25 ,0O0, 600 more
than il was three months ago, before
the rise in the price of petroleum.
There are now 400 oranges, with
membership of 4, 200, in Massachusetts.
though Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk and
Plymouth counties have but one grange
each.
New Orleans has n restaurant
where one may get breakfast, dinner
or supper for five cents, while for 20
cents one may fairly wallow in luxu-
ries.
The Lehigh Valley Railway Com
pany have bought the Geneva, Ithaes
and Athens Railroad, paying 100000.
The road will bear a new name in the
future.
kept as relics because Washington once
sat in them. 1t is noticed that some OF
them are exact types of the style cur
rent in 1875.
The Duchess of Edinburgh has
contributed Sl25 for the relief of the
widows and orphans of men who lost
their lives by the explosion on board
the Thunderer.
Three of the Siamese twins chill
dren are in Missouri, demonstrating
the fact that ''three of a kind'' can beat
Zone pair" earning living As wood
choppers in the West.
The study of the French language
Is said TO be the most popular optional
study with the junior class at Yale.
Ninety members of the class have
chosen it, while thirty take the cal
culus.
The United States Fish Commits
sion have directed the forwarding of
500, 600 eggs of the California salmon
to the NestpOrt Conn Trout AssOcia-
ton, TO be hatched and placed in public
waters.
An audience of 700 people, more
or less, assembled at the grand stand OF
the Lenawee Mich fair TO see David
d. Smith and Lizzie Sloan get married.
They won a cook stove by thus being
"A bronze statue of Haus Christian
Oersted, the discOverer of elcctrO-mag
netism, has been erected in Copenhagen.
Oersted was born on the island of Laa-
land in l777, and died on the 9Th OF
March. 1851.
The American Print Company at
Fall River, are about to enlarge their
works, at an expense of several hun
dred thousand dollars, which will in
crease their capacity from 4 1000 to G, ,0OJ
pieces a day.
The present rice crop of Georgia
and South Carolina is estimated at "a
800 tierces, or about five per cent. more
than any crop since the war. The pro-
duct this year has been grown at a
greatly reduced cost.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, have sworn in all their employees
as special policemen, who now have
the authority TO arrest as tresspasserS
tramps who get on the ears of that line
without money or ticket.
Despite stagnant trade and bal
season in 1879 as many as 1908 new
houses Were built in London, l69 new
streets and four squares were opened.
and 3,775 houses were in course of con
at the close of the season.
-Four brothers in Hawkins county.
Tenn, married four sisters about thirty
years ago and now have a children,
the average family being 1872. The
progress of East Tennessee evidently
does not depend upon immigration.
Mr.. John Adriance, of Galveston,
Tex, has Mexican coin dated l1lO,
which was taken from the centre of
piece of rock found in the bottom OF
the Rio Grande. The finder of tire
coin writes that the rock is very hard
and almost transparent.
Some weeks ago a tiger escaped
from Van Amburgh's menagerie, while
it was travelling through South Jersey.
was heard of the animal until
one night recently, when it carried off
a heifer from the farm of Mr.. John
Smith, near Mount Holly.
1t is a curious fact that in tn.
W hole of Newfoundland there is not
single grist mill of any description.
Little grain is ripened in the country,
though as fine oats and barley can be
grown there as in any part of the world
and in the western region wheat ripens
well.
Mr.. Turner Evans, of Paris, Iowa,
has in his possession maidstone which
he affirms and has the documents to
prove, has effected $50 cures of persons
and animals bitten bv rabid dogs, in
cOinc Cst-ts NuCiC IL hluiOphOOt SOuNut-
sions had set in. The stone is No
larger than the end of a mans thumb,
and weighs but quarter of an ounce.
Peter G.. Campbell, of Maiue Quebec
is one of the claimants for the great
estate in Perthshire, Scot
land which is now without an owner.
He left Portland, Me-, for Scotland
last Monday, in company with lawyer
and will test his claim in the Scottish
courts. The estate is lis miles long
and 80 miles broad, and yields yearly
income of 5000, 900.
Information as to the portraits on
postage stamps: ''The bust on the one
cent stamp represents Franklin; twos,
Jackson; threes Washington; fives.
Taylor; skies, Lincoln sevens, Stanton;
tens, Jefferson; twelves, Clay; fifteens,
Webster; -fours, Scott; thirties,
Hamilton; nineties, Perry. The seven
twelve and twenty-four cent stamps
are not now issued, but many of them
are in circulation"
1t is thought that the dying Cardi-
nal Anfonelli will leave 20 0O0 ON