Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-22
NEWS IN BRIEF

finger nail doctors.
A "woman's Mining Bureau" has
been orgs'.ized at San Francisco.
-One patch of ground. near Water
bury, Conn, yielded forty thousand
cabbages this season.
The Duke of Sutherland has trans
formed 1000 acres of English moorlsnd
into arabic land at al expense of $50
per acre.
-"The ladies' brass band" of Lincoln,
Nebraska. carried away the premium
offered for the best band at tie recent
State fair.
The owners of guns paid into the
British treasury. during the last imam
cial y-sr, nearly $40, 900 in the form Of
license taxes.
Yale College library has purchased
$500 volumes during the past year, and
received gifts OF l .3U0 volumes, and
$40 pamphlets.
Financially, the Bayreuth Festival
was decided failure. The exp-udl-
sure excer'lr,i the receipts by no less
tum than s., 900.
The largest library in Prince Ed
ward islanu is owned by a wealthy
cattle de.ler nsmed Webb, who Can
neither rea,l nUr write.
"A San Francisco clergyman, with
a salary of So U0U, never has snything
hi- creditors can reach, and he owes
about $50, ,UOU in Kansas.
There are 960 women In the United
States who professionally practice
a>trology on gum Drained IDIOTS at q
dollar aud Il half head.
AT all auction In Thomaston, Conn.,.
the other day, 700 bushels of po, atoes
were sold for SIS, OF little over two
aud y liaiT cents per Dushel-
The annual expenditure for tobacco
| In the United States l. set down at 49,
OOO .OOO, OF which So 900 QUO is charged
to members OF the churches.
New Jersey will have six represen-
tatives in the newly organized Kellogg
Opera Troupe, Miss Pres>y, OF Ham
monton, being the last addition.
A Massachusetts fish company has
a contract to supply parties III Germany
with q 900 barrels, anf another firn ia
going 10 send s 90 barrels to sweden.
Two dogs in the ST. Louis fair were
valued at 81 100 each. With dogs at
such price 1t would seem 10 be high
time to seek new sources of sausage
supply.
Poor Madame Arna BishoD, who
has been singing her lite away for forty
Years i'm poverIy, has received a legacy
of s., ,OOU from All Australian lady lately
/ Deceased.
-FaIher Bessories, of indianapolis,
has pad over during the year TO the
Pan handle Railroad $40 conscience
money!" received by him through the
confessional.
Not less than 10,0O0,0 900 persons
visited camp meetings in America In
the course OF the past summer, and the
property used for these purposes was
worth S5,O0O.O00.
"A new vault, TO be lighted with
plate glass windows to expose the in
terror, is To be built for William b. As
tor on Il side hill in Trinity Cemetery,
at a cost of 81, 900.
An expert chinese eounterfeiter
made 40 ,,ertset imitation of E15
note on the Shanghai banking COM
pany, that II WAS only detected by Its
date, which was December 80, 1871.
About 900 young trees and 45,-
600 plants have been set in the parks
aud squares of Boston during the past
season. and $40 bIrd houses have been
located un the trees at different points.
The cotton manufactures of CO.
| lTmbuS, Ga, consume about 81 bales OF
cotton per day, or nearly III 600 in a
working wear. The mills there are
running some 35, 900 spIndles and 40
looms.
! Gen. o. o. Howard says that he has
obtained recently vouchers from the
disbursing officers of the Freedman's
bureau, tending 10 relieve him of all
responsibility in relation to the charges
against him.
ID ,ubts having been expressed OF
Anna Dickinson's ability a. au actress,
ii may be said that she has a ten thou
sand dollar wardrobe 1nd lot OF vrlu-
/ able diamonds beside. This should
raise her above criticism.
In New Zealand there are $40 miles
of railway open for traffic, aud 35j
miles in progress. lt il proposed TO
expend ov,r live million d liars during
the current year, ehirtiy in completing
the works now in progress.
The rIchest female landowner in
England is Mrs. Mrynell ingram,
| whose income from land is StD, 90 per
anuum. Laiy Bur,leit COuI5, has an
income twice AS larg., but derived
mainly from London property.
Cincinnati has become great shoe
| Manufacturer, the industry having been
ugmented 10 such All extent Of late
years that IL is nov the centre of shoe
manufacture by m Ichinery in the West.
The business was rirst begun In 1858.
The Driving Park Association at
Galrsburg, Ill.,, is in trouble. IL re-
emily advertised SIS 700 l. premiums,
but the superintendent ran of with the
cash. A charge OF conspiracy 10 de-
fr aud has been commenced againet the
managers.
IL Marysville, CAL, man has for
some time been depO ,itIng i've dollars
in bank every month, that his dog
and his mule might have something TO
live on in case of his death. AS the
dog died few days agO, the mule 10
now sole heir.
| One Cider house in Cincinnati has
bought hundred thousand bushels of
at hiteeu cents bu-hel delivered,
which leaves TO the farmer, calculating
ten cents a bushel tor hauling, about
five cents a bu>hel, or about sixty cents
for barrelful of cider.
Professor Lpomis concludes, after
com pairing 500 cases, that storms move
at the rate of twenty-six miles an hour
on land in this country, and little
over ninrteen miles over the ocean. An
express train or tirst-class steamship,
could easily keep ahead of common
storm.
Twenty years ago Indiana did not
own Il schoolhUuse, and now there are
ten thousand school buildings in the
state, on which has been expended
more than $lU, 1000 900. There are thir-
teen thousand teachers In The State l..
Last year more than So, ,000, 600 was paid
to teachers.
"A calculation has been made Of the
average contribution per member in the
lrading denominations of this country
for foreign missions. The Methodists
give forty-three cents member, the
Presbyterians little more. the Baptists
a little less, and the Episcopalians