Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-12
NEWS IN BRIn.


Baltimore has seventy-six Metho-
dist churches.
Eight hundred girls attend Baptist
colleges in Georgia.
The new building of the Young
Mems Christian Association Of Phila-
delphia, cost s475,OOO.
DIR. Henry Wilder, of Raleigh, N.
C., killed twenty-three robins with
twenty-four pistol shots.
An American girl, Julia Sinclair
has just taken her degree as doctor Of
medicine at the university of Zurich.
Since the war Pennsylvania has
spent eight million dollars in educating
and supporting the orphans Of soldiers.
Kaiser William bought a costly
jasper mantlepiece, of American manu-
facture, at the Centennial a few days
ago.
"A New Hampshire farmer has be-
lleved in the profitableness of hogs
since one of them rooted up box con-
tanning $500.
The Grand Orient of France has re-
cognized the colored Freemasons Of the
United States, declaring their masonry
incontestable.
Mr.. Wyant, another well known
New York artist, has been compelled
by partial paralysis to learn TO paint
with his left hand.
An indefatigable Texan has ar
rived in Philadelphia with 'sNational
collection" of poisonous reptiles and
insects from that State.
Six men, drew pensions at New
York, whose united ages aggregated
$50 years, all accidentally meeting at
the agency at the same time.
There has been a grave-digger's
strike in Liverpool. There is some
thing alarming in the prospect of a ge-
neral strike of grave-diggers.
Falling off. In 1873 the production
of lager beer in this country was 500,
S23 barrels; in 1874, $3.50, ,S29 barrels,
and in 1875, S,743, IA barrels.
-Ninety-four plans have been Of
fered for the buildings of the French
Universal Exposition in 1878. Eighty
are by architects living in Paris.
The fees which lawyers get from
people who don't know any better than
to quarrel in court, annually amount to
s35, ,OOO, 900 in the United States.
The grave of "Captain Moll Pit
cher" who displayed such bravery at
the battle of Monmouth, June % l77s,
is at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, unmarked.
-Ice-making by the use of aqua am
mOnia has been commenced at Nash
vile and Chattanooga, Tenn. By the
apparatus five tons day can be made.
Alfred johnson is about to start
from Gloucester, Mass, on a trip to
England i'm a centre board dOry, 10 feet
long, 51a feet wide, and 2ls feet deep.
Mrs. A. T.. Stewart has given 81,
800 to the permanent fund of the Dra-
matte Fund Association, and 81 900 to
the Society for the Prevention of CRU
city to Animals.
The efforts made by the counsel of
Edward s. Stokes, to procure his re-
lease, have failed, and he will have TO
serve out his full term, which expires
in October.
There is bullfrog farm in South
eastern Wisconsin, thirty acres of
swamp fenced in, and the proprietor
sends thousands of these featherless
birds to New York.
Harriet Beecher Stowe and family
are now at Hartford, Connecticut, and
will pass the Summer there. A son of
Mrs. Stowe will sail for Germany on
the 9th of July for three years course
of study in the universities.
"A movement has been started in
st. Louis having for its object the I'm
portation to this country of the 200
wives of the late Sultan of Turkey. The
women, if they can be brought to st.
Louis, will be at once Christianized.
The Masons of Augusta, Georgia,
propose to tear down the present Ma
sonic temple and build another, four
stories high on the same site. The pro-
posed building is estimated to cost $50,
900, and will be an ornament to the city.
The denomination OF Senator An
theny, of Rhode Island, assures him,
should he live, of an uninterrupted
term as Senator of twenty-four years
equal to that of Mr.. Sumner. and two
years longer than that of Henry VIII
son.
Hon. John NJ. Francis, of the Troy
Times, who has just got home, finds
that a tour around the world with
few excursions off the straight path,
necessitates journey of 30,7G statue
miles and ninety-four days on ship
board.
The kingdom of Italy has at length
done political justice to the jews.
Among the last list of twenty-four Sen
ators Just created are two Jewish poll
ticians. There are also eleven Jewish
members in the present Chamber Of
Deputies.
A number of Hartford young wo-
men are learning how to spin and
weave as our ancestors did, ard will
soon have a public exhibition. Some
how the young men who insisted that
This is just what they wanted are leav-
ing town.
A Reidville (Ga.) man recently
sent to Washington an offer to manage
mail route for $249, and a contract
was forwarded to him for execution at
that sum. and he returned it with the
$249 and inserted $349. He isn't at
present managing that mail route.
Among the persons who gathered in
Omaha, Neb., to see the trans-continen-
tai train, was an old man who had ne
yer seen a locomotive. He went from
Rhode Island twenty five years ago and
settled i'm Nebraska, where he has ever
since resided. During the twenty-five
years he has never been twenty-five
miles away from his country home.
One of the stewardesses of the Gu
nard Line is about to retire with for
tune estimated at f5, 600, the result Of
ten years service. She Is very popu-
lar woman, with vast deal of tact, po-
Icy and judgement, and sometimes her
fees amounted to 500 on single trip.
There is a story told of her having once
received fifty dollars for bathing an oil
lady's head one entire night.
A bar of gold, valued at 81 1000, was
carelessly thrown away with the ashes
of the San Francisco Mint, and the
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