Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-13
NEWS IN sRIu.
The great northern express train iu
England runs at the rate OF sixty miles


4 an hour.
There are this year l 800 names on
the roll of students in the School OF
Fine Arts in Paris.
1t is proposed by somebody to re-
ehristen Hell-Gate 'Newton's Channel
in compliment TO the man that opened
| it. .
New York city consumes 10000, ,0C0
eggs annually, principally supplied
from Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and
Canada.
AT Rockingham, Va, there is
family of five persons who weigh re-
spectively 3l5, 294, 232, 230, and 2lO
pounds.
1t has cost Vermont $32 800 more
than it received in fines to enforce the
prohibitOry liquor law during the past
two years.
/ A New Brunswick moose well
trained to harness has trotted half
mile in :09, and is now matched TO trot
mile in 2 20.
! -Qneen Victoria has received from
the empress of Brazil a present of a
dress woven of the webs of a large
South American spider.
"A California horseman recently ac-
complished the feat, at Los Angeles, of
riding one hundred miles in four hours
and forty five minutes.
Andrew E. Nash, Bridgeport an
tiguarian, has full collection of cop
per cents, which is said to be superior
to that of Yale College.
! Five thousand eight hundred gal
] of haa snII hx-n ocfa /. H.,
Bayreuth, during the performances OF
the "Ring of Nibelungen."
! The British Admiralty have ordered
! the immediate construction of six steel
corvettes to serve as cruisers in the Pa
cific and Chinese waters.
New York has IOOG bakeries and
5Sl1 lager beer and liquor saloons,
which is pretty good evidence thar
'.man cannot live on bread alone"
"A late Charleston circular puts the
present rice crop of Georgia and South
Carolina 80, 500 tierces, or about five per
cent. more than any crop since the war.
There is to be an industrial exhibition
at Sydney, Australia, during April and
May next, and the Australians hope TO
see a good show of American machin-
cry.
Over $4,000 900 feet of lumber has
Deeh imported from ottawa 10 the
Tho T1aso1 uIiins 'ne season. Juss @ edosee.
gold.
The civilized part of this planet
now owes, according to the Westmins-
ter Rerietr, the very neat sum of about
e"en.y+ ye' +.lIee tnousaiiu niiiiioh uoiiars
"' na'ion'i ueOt'
My son, said an old man, "beware
OF pre)udlces, they are like rats, and
~ ,-ol,t ;ni,ius s,1 arc iiAe tidps' prSJuuices
,ha1I 80 ~ 80 az. Dh' =, u is uouOtiul
-AccoTulng g 70 the German phiioso-
eI.o, pnei xN!eillay, i the number o! languages
ifr;oa a1e ~. ru, Is ooa, IN asa ,sc 'o., !"
ing a total of 3OG4.
NJ. - .,...- ,
- - .sPP, ~, t--O y - 'ii'Ii itOt- anu
WoIb;ro,.o'I W,'Ho,,,, H't1 $50 ~ .t .io
.:II - - IN . 10. = p'i VI t"o
Centen,,;.I MIiI% Exhihit;o niI uP MS u'Sp'aS "'
IL, w.
800 -, aineh, t oi the oeorga ou-
PpanL 80 "nO MS upiou tno
oo,tnlHn.oI m ~ s-e onseoa.I'e .h
tGa rraiant -, :, S ~ '''e eiose VI
'"' p ''i III VI 'o"i' '' -...-
The Archbishop of Canterbury
0o1 bas haa,, -ua,,t ~. i , - 1890
chnr,.h ~ Ena,Iand =; .In ra.,.; ol ;me
~ oiS -, - s. ~ III eIo "eioi'
V''O7 VI 'i' '''o''' VI He" oheS-
The rush of Centennial pilgrims TO
Mt. Vernon has so enriched the assOcia-
ton as to enable it 10 pay all its debts
anu 10 Ieave a handsome sum Tor the
iurther improvements OF the GROUNDS
anu surroundings.
A French statistician estimates, that
within the last seventy years, no fewer
than one thousand lives have been lost
by the burning of theatres, and that
the losses Oh property from that cause
exceed sixty million oil dollars.
The New Jerusalem church. in tbi.
country. has ten associations. with 4OI
ministers, of whom nine are ordained
seventv-four are pastors. and eighteen
Iicentiates. About four fifths o1lv OF
the ministers are actively employed.
A coIored Arkansas nreaeber
seven feet high. WEIGHING 400 nounds
and but twentv-six wears old. has iusi
had pair of shoes made at Memphi,
which are seventeen and three quarter
inches long and six inches across the
sole.
-Fg~s ara sant an,ua1lr from, S,s
sox Cenr,, 80 ", Yo,i- ~ p,,;I.,
deInbia wbicb are Of ,,rioa ,ho ,aI,.
of an the grain sent annnaII,, 70 ,.rLs,
from tbe conntv-and the y,,ns Of ths
fowls il nearty aonaI to rho, Of th..
eggs.
A recent census of India shows that
636 of the natives are authors and poets.
l35 astronomers, $1,000 fortune-tellers
and pedigree-makers $4,000 religious
mendicants, 5000 painters and sculp-
tors, IS 600 actors and juglers, and 900
snake -charmers.
Utah now contains some 90 mining
districts, and some 10,lOO people en-
gagged in mining. The mines and i'm
provements are valued all the way
from SIS, ,OO0, 900 to $50, 900. 900. and tn.
annual yield of lead. silver, and gold has