Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-11
NEWS IN BRIH-

this country in 1914.
Americans consume ten times as
much champagne as the French.
The expense of the Ohio state fair
this year exceeded the receipts about
$500.
"A New London man has a collec-
ton of "war envelopes" embracing
1, 400 designs.
The total quantity of salmon caught
in the Canadian waters this year was
about $50, 900 pounds.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is spoken
OF for the position of adjurant- general
of the Virginia militia.
According to The Jewish Review,
Chicago has Jewish population of 30
600, with ten congregations.
The Sioux were not represented at
the Philadelphia Convention of the
Improved Order of Red Men.
The first choice of a box for the
first night of Edwin Booths season In
San Francisco was sold by auction for
SIS.
Mr.. George Bancroft is working in
the literary way at Newport, and Is said
to be more like man of forty five than
of seventy.
Willis Alexander, a eolored gen.
tleman, has walked a thousand miles
to find his wife. Some men would
have walked the other way.
The song of 'sThe Star-Spansled
Banner" was first set in type by Mr.. S.
) Sands, editor of the American Far
mer, who is still living in Baltimore.
An indianapolis vinegar manufac-
turer has purchased 10000 bushels of
apples in Fayette and Rush counties, at
ii cents per bushel, to make into cider.
The clemency of princes is some
times exercised for vanity-sometimes
for idleness-sometimes for fear, aud
nearly always for the three combined.
One third of the years applicants
for admission TO Middlebury College,
VT, have been rejected on account of
the elevation of the standard of quail
fication.
John Quincy Adams, the father of
Charles Francis Adams, was defeated
for Governor of Massachusetts a few
years after he had retired from the
Presidency.
The first cargo of states from the
United States has arrived in England
They are said to be equal in quality 10
those found in the Welsh quarries. and
much cheaper.
Spanish mackerel are very abun-
dant and large this season. Those from
the New Jersey coast weigh from seven
TO eight pounds and those from Long
Island two pounds each.
In some old work of the mound
builders, near GAINESVILLE, Ca, WAS re-
Gently discovered a mica mine, which
is yielding largely. The product brings
from $3.50 TO So per pound.
While railroad development In
other parts of the United States has
been utterly paralyzed since the panic
of 1873, the Southern Pacific has built
500 miles of trunk line, with important
branches.
About $50, 900 persons in the United
States are constantly employed in pro-
ducing sawed lumber, and 1886 200
laths, 2,265 900, 900 shingles, and r.,
150, 900, 900 feet of lumber are manu-
featured annually.
A sea turtle, weighing 200 pounds,
seven feet and half long and six and
a half wide, the largest ever seen on
the northern coast, has been caught in
Vineyard Sound, near Woods Hole,
Mass. Ii is to be placed i'm the Cam
bridge museum
The Archbishop of Rheims, France
has refused to allow some flint instru-
ments and prehistoric remains To be
shown at an antiquarian exhibition
shortly TO be opened at Rheims, on the
plea that they tended To throw discrediu
Oh Biblical chronology.
The opera house which is to be
built in San Francisco, and leased to
the Strakosch Brothers, is to have one
hundred boxes, half of them owned by
The building is TO be
plain in exterior, but very elaborate
and beautiful Internally.
The population of France in 1872
was 81, l07 ,921, and is now estimated at
about s., s,OOO,OoO. In the year 100 it
was 1860 ,320. Ii has not, therefore
doubled in 170 years. The annexation
Of Alsace and Lorraine To Germany in
1871 caused a loss of ,597, DDS.
Another State is talked of. 1t is
that California shall be cut in
two along the line of Santa Cruz County,
with fourteen Southern counties for
the new common wealth, which will
have about 10000 inhabitants, 80 900
voters, and taxable property estimated
at $l00,O
A recent report from the depart
meDt of buildings in New York gives
the estimated cost of buildings in the
city in 1870 at s3S, 600 200, in 1871 s37-,
SOC, 900, and in 1875 SIS, $780, 900. No
better proof could be given that the
was in excess of the demand at
the time it seemed TO be most prosper
Gus.
The Oldest church building in
erected by English settlers, is
believed to be st. Luke's of Isle of
Wight County, Va. Ii has been stand
ing since 1861 IL is proposed to restore
il, and, As the Episeopalians of that
part of the state are STEW and poor"
the Church in general is appealed 10
for funds for this purpose.
The annual report of the Central
Park New York Menagerie has just
OttI Ilduc puuilC. TIOui IL IL appears
that at the close of the fiscal year there
were, in the institution, 626 animals,
valued in all at $50, ,9S9. The cost of
the collection for last year
was 81, ,9S9.92, an increase of 5000
over the previous twelve-month.
In digging on the northern boun-
Diary of the park, near the Jewels es-
in Hartford, Conn. the
workmen came upon the log pipes OF
the old aqueduct which were laid in
1889 80. The log, being cut, was found
to be sound, and the water inside IN
good condition. The logs here had
made sort of pocket by a depression.
The export of American beef to
Greatt Britain shows a gratifying in
crease. Since last July American cat
tie have been received at Glasgow to
the number of from one hundred and
fifty to two hundred and fifty head per
week. Dressed meat has also been i'm
ported there regularly, the average
quantity being one hundred and fifty
carcases weekly.
Drinking Fountains In Paris.