Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
NO. 44.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Escanaba, Mich, are protected by or
dinance.
Grapes for the wine pres. are
twelve TO twenty dollars a ton in So
noma, Cal.
Mississippi has saved $576 435 in
state expenditures by one democratic
legislature.
Judge Belden of California has de-
cided that the whipping-post law OF
that State is unconstitutional.
Charles Tracy of New York, has
purchased the Cozzen's Hotel property
at West Point for S10, 600 cash.
DO people remember that it was a
woman = Priscilla Wakefield - who
founded the first savings bank?
The latest thing in German epi-
phany is st. Louis Sausage Festival.
the chief attraction being all the known
varieties of sausages, from Adam down.
An attempt by Chinese merchants
TO establish line of steamers between
Shanghai and Japanese ports has failed
and the enterprise has been abandoned.
MIR. VI. S. W. Burnham, one of our
few astronomers who have European
reputation, has been appointed director
of the Dearborn University at Chicago.
The Young Mems Christian asso-
citation, OF Meriden, Conn.,, has the
foundation laid for new S39 900 build
ing, sl9, 600 of which is already sub
scribed.
An Englishman in Paris recently
wagered that he would drink fifty
glasses of water i'm an hour. He drank
twenty-six, then gave up, and died in
less than an hour.
The largest shoe mandatory on
the Pacific coast has lately discharged
all i.s Chinese help and employed 800
white men, women and boys, flnding
them more profitable.
The sheriff-s sale of Dan. Ric,'.
show caused great decline in hippo
potamuses. In the absence of any rise
in these animals the country is in a
fair way to go to ruin.
The members of the Bayreuth or
chestra have presented Richard Wagner
with a grand piano of American manu-
facture- This is certainly a cOmpli-
ment to American Industry.
Rhode Island, which has been
greatly twitted as the ''runt" of the
State SisterhOod, contains S35 $40 square
miles, which is equal in extent TO some
of the cattle ranches out West.
The committee of the VIII county
(lll.) baby y-show limited the entries to
thirty babies, the chairman declaring
that he could not stand the abuse of
more than twenty-nine women.
The Duke of Westminster,
wealthy English nobleman, gives work
ingmen on sundays the privilege of Wis
iting the picture galleries and museum
of his magnificent private residence.
"A blue limestone paving block had
lain in the streets OF Memphis, Tenn.
II years. Ii was recently broken up in
order to be fitted into new place, and
10, little live frog hoped out and
was frisky.
The ''eight leading colleges" of H.
linois have been having an intercolle-
9iate match. \ young woman who
was ruled out from prizes "a
verbose on the ground that she spoke a
half minute too long.
Newport, not yet chronicled. was a
christening party at which the baby
wore Il white lace robe valued at $4,000.
IL also wore 5000 worth OF diamonds
belonging to its mamma.
The Jews free schools of London
give religious and secular education
To 1000 children at an average of S37,-
900 a year. The Government lnspec-
tor praises the high efficiency OF the
schools, and awards il 5000.
The Ridgeway library building IN
Philadelphia, built from a fund lett
for that purpose by the eccentric Mr..
Rush, will be one OF the cOstlies,
structures for the protection OF books
in the world. 1t will cost $500, 600.
The "Elite Directory" is a new is
sue in New York which gives the
names oI residents OF the fashionable
parts of the city by the street and
so that the people may know
their own neigbbors, by name AT least.
The new librarian Ofthe John Hop
kins University in Is iltimore is Arthur
W. Tyler. He graduated AT Amherst Col
lege in the class of 1867, ard has been
for several years assistant librarian in
the AstOr library in New York city.
The Iron Age. in a table which il
publishes, gives the per cent. of blast
furnaces, in and out of blast, in 1876,
as follows: In blast-charcoll, 32; An
81; biruminOus, 36. Out Of
blast-charcoal, 81; anthracite, SO; BIZ
luminous, 81.
Mrs. Phoebe A. III HInnaford, Uni
versalist minister in Jersey City. re-
Gently performed the marriage eere-
mOny ut her daughters wedding. This
is perhaps the first instance i'm the
world in which a lady has been mar
ried by her own mother.
An unique feature of the 4tidutic
Monthly for 1877 will be contributions
to each number OF original music by
such composers as j. h. Paine. George
l.. OsgOod Dudley Buck and Francis
Boot, with words by some of the most
Atlantic poets.
The steams cars of Paris are three
deck vehicles, carry POO people, and are
luxurious to ride in. The decks are
reached by an elegant stairway, with
anu lllt SJcdlu
engine is attached in such a manner as
10 afford no inconvenience to the pas
sengers.
Mr.. Scott, an iron merchant of Ed
inburgh, having received an order for
400 tons of iron girders for the new
station, being erected in Glasgow, is
having the girders manufactured in
and delivered i'm Glasgow
at considerably less cost than he can
have them made in England.
The English have just completed
the longest bridge in the world, in their
East India possessions. IL consists of
sixty-four spans OF l42 feet each, thusis
8 800 feet, or more than mile and rhree
quarters long. IL is all built of brick
and iron, the masonry amounts To
) ,000, 900 cubic feet, while the iron
girders weigh 5000 tons.
On searching an old house recently
sold at Gloucester, Mass, upward of
900 empty vials, which once contained
paregoric, were found scattered about
the premises, ir the closets, cellar, at
tic, and woodshed. II is supposed the
of these bottles were consumed
By some poor victim of this gentle mar.