Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06
NEWS IN BRIRF.

Dakota number 10000, and occupy a.
O00,0 of land.
1t is estimated that the hide trade
at Graham, Texas, will reach $3.50, 900
! the coming season.
|, The salary of the President of Peru
has been raised to S4S, 900, but the term
is sometimes limited to As hours.
Clara Louise Kellogg is to'be mar
ried by the newspapers again this fall.
Smith has not yet been heard from.
"A numerous pilgrimage Of Canadian
Catholics to Rome will occur in the
spring to attend the Pope's episcopal
jubilee.
Two hundred French Canadians
have been brought to Norwich, Con-
! necticut, TO work in the mills in that
vicinity.
An odd marriage hGs just taken
place in Jersey City, A clergymaness,
who was also the mother of the bride,
Officiated.
1t isnot generally known that Mai.
Andres remains were brought from
America and inferred in Westminster
Abbey in 1921.
Two Californians, who four years
ago planted 900 acres in walnuts and
almonds, will net over S250,OO0 from
this years crop.
1t must be said that it looks odd to
see American sewing machines that
sell here for from $50 TO 800 advertised
in England at sl5 and $40.
Miss Adelaide u. Murdoch sister
of j. E. Murdoch, will make her debut
on the stage this season, appearing as
Lady Macbeth at Washington.
Apples in Michigan are sold for
seventy-five cents barrel, and in Geor-
gia they go for twenty-five cents a
bushel, with the bag thrown in.
A hard nut to crack. The Robert
son county (hy.) Herdld has hickory
nut seven inches in circumference, and
an acorn three and One-eighth.
The annual income of London
charities is about sl2 100000. Two
thirds come from contributions, and
the remainder from investments.
GA fool and his money!" etc. The
testimonial fund to the father of modern
| spiritualism, Andrew Jackson Davis,
has reached the large sum of S3,7Sl.35.
Out at Janesville, Wisconsin, one
firm has made, during this season, 49,
900 cucumber-pickles, and converted
5000 heads of cabbages into sour kraut
The 4th of March during inaugura-
tiOn years has fallen on Sunday in 1871
and 1919, and will in 1877, 1905, 1917.
1915, 1873, 2O0l, 2O29, 2051, 2l25, 2l53,
Psi, 222l and so on.
of the 81 persons condemned to
death in France during 1870, but one
had received a good school education.
Only four could write, and the remain
ing 26 were illiterate.
Bishop Jayne's successor as presid-
ing bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
church, by right of seniority, is Bishop
Levi Scott of Dover, Del. He was
elected bishop in 1852.
The new sultan OF turkey is by no
means prepossessihg in appearance.
He is only "a years Old, but looks 30.
He Is small with a hard Armenian face
and very common exterior.
DIR. j. c. Aver presented beauti-
full hall, costing $50, 600, to the town
which bears his name. The woodwork
is all finished in cherry-pectoral, and
has light and Avery appearance.
The fishermen of Greenport X. l.,
have taken 81 100000 menhaden this
season. These have offered 2O5 900 gal
Ions of oil, showing that il takes 2jO
hsh TO make gallon of oil, or eight to
make gill.
Mrs. Sally Beers, of Clinton county
Michigan, works farm of one hun
dred acres and has nine children. Ii
there were few thousand such per-
sons as Sally, many more of us might
escape work.
The present Emperor of Germany
should be a model for old gentlemen.
He looks young and hearty for his age,
and defies Time as vigorously as any
other enemy. Think of it-he rode
into Paris in 1911,
-Maine's potato crop is very large
this year. It will probably reach :. 800
OOO bushels, worth s1,OC0,OOO. Aroo-
stock County Starch Mill will take from
100000 to 100000 bushels. A great
many thousand bushels will be ex-
ported.
The number of vessels which passed
through the SueZ canal in July last
was ll2, against 80 in the same month
of 1879, and SO in 1874. The amount of
tolls collected was 2,24S, 900 francs.
against 2,O65, 200 in 1879, and ,9S7 ,95l
in 1874.
The largest box of layer figs ever
brought to this country has Just been
received at Boston from Smyrna. It
is four feet long and three wide, weighs
900 pounds, and contains over IL 900
figs. The ordinary boxes weigh 10
pounds.
The German investigations at
Olympia have brought to light l7S
works in marble, 6S5 in bronze, 242 in
terra Gotta, ia coins (besides SOC By
zantine copper coins), and 20 inscrip-
tions. The next work will be the COM
pletiOn of the excavations of the Zeus
temple, with its immediate neighbor-
hood.
There is said to be paper church
actually existing near Berlin, which
can contain nearly 900 persons. 1t is
circular within, diagonal without. The
reliefs outside and statues within, the
roof, ceiling, the Corinthian capitals,
are papier mache, rendered waterproof
by saturating in vitriOl, lime water,
whey and white of eggs.
Build your house small and neat,
then keep no spare rooms, if you would
reduce your expenses. An old gentle
man once said to newly-married
couple, eff you would get on don't
entertain everybody's friends; but If
you have too much room for your own
family it will be filed by those you
don't care to have.
Dead-heading, as it is called ought to
be abolished. 1t is nuisance. 1t was
once reproved by a certain 'mine host
in this wise A preacher desired that
a deduction should be made from his
board bill on account of his ''cloth.' -
The host replied :-''Friend, / have OBJ
served thee. Thou hast eaten as sin
ner and thou must pay as sinner"
DIR. Allen Thompson, at the recent
meeting of the British Association, ex-
hibited and described two skulls from
the Andaman Isles, and referred to the
custom the natives had of preserving
portions of their friends skeletons and
wearing them as ornaments. The
skulls of their husbands were actually
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