Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-20
NEWS IN BRIEF-

I.
lm11es from Townsville, Ca
The entire coffee crop of the world
last year was 800, ,000, 600 pounds OF
third part.
-Ex-Governor Stanford, of Califor-
mia. revels in building. He is about to
begin another new house which will
cost 800, 600.
lss Paris has devoured during the last
half year 200, 900 kilogrammes of horse
flesh and As, 200 kilogrammes of mules
or donkey meat.
The Poultney Glass Works at Port
Jarvis, n. Y, recently supplied 1000
dozens of kerosene lamps of their man
ufacture TO Japan.
The Agricultural bureau of Geor-
gia costs each citizen a cent aud
quarter per year, and last year saved
the farmers 1868 200.
Prince Gortschakoff is seventy
eight years old, uses no wine or tobacco
eats only two meals day and sleeps
ten or twelve hours.
Christianity is spreading rapidly in
Japan. At Toxic 10000 people attend
the Missionary churches on the Sabbath.
according to native paper.
"A committee of physicians appoint
ed by the Board of Health report that
,OOO,O 900 quarts of water was sold as
milk in New York city in 1874.
kerosene has been introduced into
Japan. Last year the Japs started sew
enty-six newspapers, so that the acci-
dents will be duly accounted for.
The testimonial fund for the widow
of Haywood, the cashier who lost his
life in the raid on the Northfield bank,
has reached the sum of sl3, ,017.S5.
The English government declines
to renew the contract with the Cunard
and 1nman steamship companies for
carrying the mails after Jan. l, 1877.
General John B. Frisbie, of Vallejo,
California, who three years ago was
worth $1,000, 900, is to-day penniless,
the result of operations in mining
stocks.
The Tuscaloosa, Ala Gdzetts, tells
of a double marriage near that place,
the mother and daughter marrying two
brothers. the younger one taking the
old lady.
The European Powers likely to be
involved in the Eastern question have,
between regular troops and reserves,
something like 100000 of contestants
under arms.
Another college is to be founded in
New England. 1t will be located at 81.
AlbSns, VT, in accordance with the
will of the late Judge Bellows, who en-
dows it with 100000.
Nevada never held 10000 people.
Ii contains one desert which alone COW
ers 10000 square miles. None of the
mountain Territories will average one
acre in twenty fit for cultivation.
The immense wall of solid concrete
being built by the Government for the
protection of the Falls of st. Anthony
will be ,S75 feet long, forty feet high.
seven Thick at the base, and four AT the
top.
-Massing the forces. In New York
city there are drug store, gin mill,
and undertaker's shop next door TO
each other, with a church on the same
block, and Il police station around the
corner.
John Webster of Napa county, Call
ifOrnia, has received the bounty for the
>calps of four thousand squirrels, aud
an unfortunate justice of the peace had
To count them all before payment could
be made.
The most metho1ical suicide on re-
cord was that OF man at YUungsville,
Pa, few days ago. He rose early.
prayed, embraced his wife. kindled tie
UniIEa1 rha
himself.
The newest and largest submarine
torpedo turned out at Woolwich Arse
nal will be propelled with a rapidity OF
twenty knots an hour, and no difficulty
is feared in raising the rate TO twenty
five knots.
That out of eight million Centen-
NAL visitors only two thousand should
have lost their umbrellas, and most of
them poor shabby ones at that, is fact
which the future historian of the Re-
public should not overlook.
-Bayard Taylor says eight years ago.
when he was in Italy. shOddy Ameri-
can could obtain a baron for a son-in-
law by settling 81 800 year upon him;
4 count could be got for about 81, 600 per
annum, and prince for $4,000
"A new industry, that of drying
eggs, has been set on foot at Passau, on
the Danube, and the Prussian military
authorities are about 10 give the product
trial for soldiers ratiOns. Several
German chemists are very sanguine as
to the success of the experiment.
AT Clam Lake, Mich, pine trees
furnish spars l75 feet long and not over
two feet through the butt. Michigan is
the state for tall timber. Its pine is the
best in the world, and is actually car
rled to the state of Maine, to work in
with that pine, as choice article that
will stand what ocean-winded pine will
not endure.
Mr.. David Crockett, who resides
seven miles southwest of Mexico, No.,
while clearing rubbish out of his corn
crib killed 60 rats. After clearing the
crib of shucks and rats, he commenced
TO haul corn from a number of pens In
his field, and while so doing killed go
more rats, and then wound up by cap
turing II more in the open field.
Mr.. B. o. Perry Of Bridgeport,
Conn, has an antique armchair which
Was DTOuSuI W Julc Country Dy tue
Marquis Lafayette when he left France
to lend his aid TO the struggling Amer
lean colonies. Mr.. Perry's grand-fath-
er was passenger in the ship which
brought Lafayette over, and was pre-
sented with the chair by the distin-
guished Frenchman.
Steamboat captains in Florida say
that the alligators are apparently as
numerous as ever. especially in the
marshes and lakes of the upper ST.
Johns. \ few years ago the skins
were in demand at from 30 cents 70 81
each, and thousands were slaughtered.
In one Instance a man killed within five
months over 900 to I'll contract, but
as that specie of leather soon went out
of fashion the business declined. The
teeth frequently command high prices,
and are standard article of commerce
in the southern market, mainly for or
namental purposes
With superficial area Of about lj,-
900 square miles and a population Of
two millions and half, Switzerland