Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The average Englishman eats 2O5
pounds of meat a year.
"A barber's shop is termed s'ton-
sorial academy" in Halifax, N. 5.
England began the cruelty TO ami
mails movement as far back as 1850.
The keel of the British privateer
Dart, captured during the war of 1872,
can now be seen above ground ar New
port.
"A Lebanon county, Pennsylvania,
judge refuses boys admission TO the
courthouse. He doesn't want them de-
moralized.
! The widow OF General Robert An
derson, of Fort Sumter fame, has taken
rooms at the Ebbitt House in WASH
ington for the Winter.
The Mayor of Savannah writes
letter expressing gratitude for the aid
rendered the yellow fever sufferers, and
states that it is no longer required.
-Vergennes. Vermont, the Oldest
city in New England, is called the
smallest city in the world, its area
being less than two square miles.
Buffalo Bill, as rifle shot, don't
appear to be success, he having made
only thirteen out OF a possible thirty
five, at Rochester recently.
Smith College, Northampton, Mas
sachusetts, is so crowded with young
ladies that the price of board for young
men has been doubled in that vicinity.
Potter Palmer proposes 10 make
good nse of the immense Roof of his
Chicago hotel by turning it into an Or
chard and raising fruit for the hotel
table.
The American silver water or ice
pitcher is such useful invention that
the Swedish Commissioner has bought
twenty-six of them for as many home
| friends.
Fifty thousand dollars as a fund to
aid the Jewish mechanics in Jerusalem
to build houses outside the city, and to
promote agricultural pursuits, has been
raised in London.
Some of the New York churches
are reported to pay their pastors weekly
and the effect is said to be a great i'm
provement in the sermons and in the
fervor of the preachers.
1t is noticed as singular fact that
New York City contains no statue to
Alexander Hamilton, and it has been
proposed that a public movement be
organized to provide one.
"A New Jersey farmer has raised
the present season thirty tons to the
acre OF spring sown onions, some of the
precious bulbs weighing two pounds.
lt makes our eyes water to record such
statement.
-Aclergyman at East Bolton, Quebec,
recently seized a bride as security for
the non-paymeDt of his fee by the i'm
pecunious bridegroom, and the husband
had to give security for the sl.25 ere he
could obtain his spouse.
An amateur bull-fighter killed two
bulls in the presence of $1,000 people,
several weeks ago at Barcelona. He
was serenaded at night, and gave his
share of the proceeds of the fight to
the hospital at Barcelona.
The number of French Marshals is
limited to six in peace and twelve In
war. Only four Generals are now hold
ing that high rank-Baraguay d'Hil-
liers, Canrobert, MacMaLon the Presi-
dent of the Republic, and lie Boeuff.
-BrentanO, the famous newsdealer
of New York, arrived in this country
in 1858, and began business by peddling
newspapers at retail. He is now, at
the age of forty-seven, one of the best
known characters in New York, and
has fortune estimated at $500, 900.
Mrs. Susan Clarke, a venerable dame
who was one hundred years old last
December, gave a reception to seventy
x-s1 of hsF Ha=annIanra arh har
New Sharon, Maine, last week. Her
mother lived to be ninety-six years old,
and her grandmother died at the age of
one hundred and two.
The German Government in pur-
suance of its schemes of coin reform,
has called in the old two-thaler pieces,
of which $40, ,000, 900 worth are said to
be now in circulation, and will subse-
quently proceed to call in the one
thaler pieces, of which $27l 1868, 900
worth are supposed to be circulating.
1t is estimated that there are now
in operation in the United States no
less than 800 paper mills, which are
valued at $40, ,000, 900 of capital invested
with total production of SIC, ZOO, 900.
These mills give employment nomi-
Dally to 20, ,0O0, 900 people, whose earn
ings are footed up at Sl0, 900 annu-
ally.
The British cooperative societies
now aggregate more than 400, 900 heads
of families, representing 1900, 900 of
individuals; their collective capital ex-
ceeds s20,0O0,000, and their annual
consumption constitutes one-fourteenth
of that ascribed to the whole nation
The system was devised by the cele-
brated pioneers of Rochdale.
The statement that Charles Sing of
North Adams, Mass, Is the first China
man who has taken out naturalization
papers in this country, is incorrect.
Mr.. Charles Ar Shove. a well known
tea merchant of Boston, and native
of China, was naturalized in 1860, and
has voted at every presidential and
state election Since that time.
During the last 20 years the British
Government has added 573 ships TO the
navy by building, and has purchased
"A more. 1t has sold ITO, broken up
125, and 81 have been lost. The num-
Der of Calling guns in use is being
rapidly increased. The large iron-clads
are now all armed with them, and sew
eral have lately been sent to Malta for
the Mediterranean fleet.
Last June a schooner sailed away
from New London, Connecticut, carry
ing mining implements. No hint of
her destination was given. She Is now
back with about 10000 pounds of mica,
worth from s. to sl2 pound. 1t was
dug out on the shores of Cumberland
Inlet, on the west side of Davis Strait,
and just beneath the Arctic circle. The
party brought away the entire deposit
of mica.
There will be shorn in New South
Wales this year, 1876, upwards of 25,-
0OO.O sheep, yielding approximately
above 125, ,OO0, 600 pounds OF wool equal
in value, at Is. per pound, to f6, ,250,-
600. Every year wool is increasing in
quantity and rising in quality, so that
by the close of 1880, four years bence,
New South Wales ought TO have at
least 80, ,000, 900 of sheep, which with
horned cattle and horses ought approx
imately to represent in money value