Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-21
NEWS In BRIEF.

There are twelve miles of shelving
for the books in the British Museum.
"A new style of postage stamps OF
the three cent denomination is 10 be is
sued in May.
The salary of the president Of
Switzerland has been increased from
50 900 10 s., 100 year.
Kansas anticipates very large emf
grafton in the Spring from Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Michigan.
"A sheep ranch of e4O.OOO acres has
just been surveyed IN Menard county,
Texas, for Tennessee breeder.
Earl Township pa boasts of very
young grandfather, viz, Nathan Rae,
who is not yet 30 years of age.
Bills enforcing compulsory edura-
tiOn have been introduced in the Wis
eonsin and Illinois Legislatures.
! DR.. Schliemann's wealth is esti-
mated by those who have the means OF
knowing at not less than $4,000, 900.
j. i. Hasler, the defaulting cashier
of the Carlisle pa Deposit Bank.
hanged himself in tine garret of his
dwelling.
! An old-fashiOned piano, which was
made for Beethoven, and used by him
in Vienna, is now to he seen in a music
store in Zurich.
| A new Methodist church in Boston
is to be the largest belonging to that de-
nomination in America, and will seat
| 5000 persons.
The Senate of Nevada has passed 4
bill to tax the profits of churches, secret
societies, and colleges, and exempt
mortgages.
| They have a man in San Francisco
who is distinguishing himself by eating
maecaroni by the mile. lie disposed of
the first mile in % minutes.
| Colonel Delaney Name proposes
that the first trip of the spring season
OF the Pelham Coach TO the suburbs
shall be made on Tuesday, May l.
MIR. VIM. Z. Dodge, of New York. i
said 10 be the heaviest timber land owner
in the United States. He owns land in
the South, the West and Canada.
The new Democratic daily at San
Francisco is edited by an Australian.
He landed since November, but hurls
the spirit OF rs at all Returning Boards.
-NarrOwgauge railroads were first
made in this country in 1871, and now
we have 3, l57 miles of this form of con-
struetion, OF which 500 miles were built
in 1876.
"A very old married cOuple namel
Minor, live at Fall River, Mass. The
husband is more than one hundred wears
of age, and the wife eighteen months
younger.
The shock from the firing ofthe So
ton gun at Shoeburyness, England, re-
Gently caused bottles to fall of glass
| shelf in the window of a house sixteen
miles distant.
KANSAS derived a revenue of $50
10 81 from its railroads on state tax
alone during the last wear. The assess
ment OF railroad property amounted 10
SIC, ,205, ,l35.
-Four factories at Huntsville, Mo-.
are prepared to handle three million
pounds OF tobacco this year. Nearly
double that amOunt finds a market at
Huntsville.
"A San Francisco clerk paid $35
month for his rooms, ate So dinners, and
smoked % cent cigars. The firm over
hauled his accounts, and found them
S2l 900 short.
There is talk in London of setting
up ,leopatra's needle in NOrthumber-
land avenue. To remove the obelisk
from Alexandria and re-erect it will cost
at least S35, 900.
The Irish organizations of BaIti-
more have sensibly resolved not to vast.
their money on st. Patrick's day par
AIDE, this year, but give what they
would have spent in that way to the
poor.
"A curious fish is found in Wallow's
Lake, California, which are blood rel
IN color, very fat, and are of superior ,
dellcaey TO salmon. There are only four
known lakes in the world where these
fish are found.
The oldest Duke In Great Britain il
the Duke of Portland, aged "a; the
youngest the Duke of MOntrOse, aged
%. The Oldest Marquis is the Marquis
OF Donegal, aged 50; the youngest, the
Marquis OF Camden, aged 3.
Mr.. Demas Barnes's loss in his
newspaper venture is computed to be
s4OO,0OS. The price paid for the privi-
lege OF killing the Brooklyn Argas in al
vance of its natural dissolution is yari-
ously reported at from s., 900 to s35, 900.
In crdar 10 ra.oI,, p,,r,,, v
of Dartmouth College who RECENTLY re,
ceived call to Princeton COLLEGE, fLa
Dartmouth faculty voted to offer him a
special professOrship of astronomy ami
to appeal 10 the alumni for funds 10 en-
dow il.
Caleb Cushing is seventy-seyen
years old. He is the repuued author OF
a large number of Presidential messs0es
A congressman was once asked wbaT h..
thought of one of Buchanan's messay..
and replied that il was the chest one
Caleb Cushing ever wrote"
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soc;ation for tba Gantn''"jni "''n'', ,ID llie as
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has ~, Is,,,ai ~ ,-rn,ot' 'e,i ~ noti'e
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