Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28

property worth not more tnan So,OVO-
The italian lottery system brings
in not less than sl2 900. 900 in each sue
ceeding year 10 the national excheauer.
Mr.. Wilson, farmer near Decatur.
[ H., lights and warns his house with
gas from well on his premises, anu
/ mas since 1870.
Two of the Khedive's wives cost him
| $4,000 each, but in this country wives
sometimes cost as much as that in sin
gle year.
| Mr.. Gatling of Indianapolis has
| brought out new mitrailleuse, from
which 300 rounds a minute can be
! fired.
! The Knights of Pythias are stronger
in Pennsylvania than anywhere else in
the Union. They have $50 lodges and
~, 900 members.
! In the "Sugar-bowl region In
Louisiana land can be bought at So to
| $50 per acre that will produce crops
worth from 800 to 500.
Alex. Hamilton, Jr., grandson of
/ the great Federalist, who was killed BY
/ Burr, is member of the New York
State Society of the Cincinnati.
There is society elamor in Wash
ington to have the Goddess of Liberty
on the dome of the Capitol gilded and u
alter the fashion of her coiffure.
"A Portland lawyer has jefferson
/ Dayis's receipt in his own handwriting
Tor his last quarters salary, amounting
/ 10 So, 2JO, as President of the Southern
Confederacy.
/ Ohio was represented at the Centen-
/ NAL by 900 exhibits of which 25S re-
ceived awards, proportion larger than
any other State for the same class OF
articles.
The area Of the public domain OF
Texas is now 81, ,632 ,320 acres, ont OF
which must come the Il, ,393, 900 acres of
the Texas and Pacific railroad reserva-
ton
The Lake Shore Railroad Company
/ pays it, train employees by the trip, in
stead OF stated salary per month. The
conductors receive 50 per trip, and many
average 800 per month.
An artesian well in Charleston, =.
c., is now 200 feet deep. 1t has got
down now 10 Ignite which the Ne,cs
and Courier says burns with ian empy-
rOmatic OdOr."
Although there are Il 900 hymns
known to exist in the English language.
only 2l6 of them have received approba-
JiOn enough to be admitted into ten dit-
ferent church hymn-bOOks, according 10
an English newspaper.
According to the account made up
from the returns filed in the Internal
Revenue office at San Francisco, 264 ,67S
barrels OF beer were sold in that city
during the year Of 1876. This is equal
70 one barrel of beer per inhabitant.
The actual revenue of China is be-
lieved TO amount to sl25, ,0O0, ,0O0, raised
by taxes on land, grain, transit of goods,
foreign imports, and few other sub
jects, and by sale of rank and degrees
less than $50, ,OOO, 900 by the land tax.
The manufacture of the wire for the
great cable for the East River bridge is
being pushed forward as rapidly as pos
sible. Ii will take about Twenty-Five
months draw the 6, 500, 900 pounds re-
quired for the cable.
The 81 800 left over from the wo-
mems Centennial Union from New
York will be used TO form q scholarship
fund in the Cooper Institute in that
city, to aid young women in the study
of art.
Red Cloud has presented to PrOfes-
sor Marsh, as token of gratitude, an
elegant red-stone pipe. The professor
also has pipe presented to him by Red
Dog. and another which was given 10
him b. Old-man-afraid-o d-of-his-hOrses.
The moneyed men of Winneconne,
Wis, have subscribed $4,000 toward
the establishment Of a glass factory In
the town named. rhe site for the
buildings has been selected, and work
on their construction will be begun A.
soon "a the frost is out of the ground.
According toJLt oslcial statistics.
the Indian population has decreased
nearly one-half during the last fifteen
years Yet the Indian appropriation,
which in 1861 amounted to 81, ,S65, 900
per annum, had grown In 1875 to IS, ,3SI.-
600.
-Bartholdi, the sculptor, telegraphs
from Paris that he has completed all his
plaster casts for the statue of "Liberty
Enlightening the World" He will i'm
mediately begin to mould the remaining
POtNiIuS PCItS W IlC Stsillc
completed and ready for shipment
within year.
A singular suicide recently oc-
CURED in Drowana, Australia. A Greek
who had become insane by reason of
poverty and misfortune poured guam
tity of molten lead down his throat. He
died in agonies, and after death lump
of lead nearly half pound in weight
was taken from his stomach.
Michigan has gone into the business
of fish culture with an enthusiasm and
discretion that must produce marked
effect in the cost of living TO the masses
of that State. Last year there were de-
posted in the waters of that State
nearly 100000 spawn, embracing
salmon, white fish, bass, pickerel and
other varieties of valuable food fish.
The new Hotel de Vile, in Paris,
will be finished by the end of this year.
The walls are already up to the first
story. The reconstruction of the Tuil-
cries has also been agreed upon. The
idea seems to be to efface the marks left
by the Commune by the time that the
great Exhibition of 1873 is held.