Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-07
NO. 6.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Salem, Y. c., had thunder, light
ming and snow, all in one night.
The government university at Paris
teaches $3.50 students.
Seven men married for the fourth
time in New York last year.
There are six women in the Black
Hills and only one milliner's shop.
Two hundred and thirteen Ameri-
can horses have trotted faster than 2.26.
There are forty-eight millions of
dollars in the Brooklyn savings banks.
Italy now possesses !, ,l26 periodi-
cal publications, including 3S7 diurnals
Oranges ON the tree bring but a
cent piece in Tampa county, Florida.
1t is reported that 4oo national
banks are preparing TO retire their cir
culation.
There are ! ,623 newspapers and pc
riodieal publications in the German
Empire.
"A prismOidal one-rail railroad is
now in successful operation in the SON.
oma Valley, California.
Paris has 35 theatres and places of
amusement, exclusive of the skating
rinks and concert halls.
One of the Boston letter carriers
was given over $3.50 by the people along
his route on Christmas Day.
The Academy of Music at Baltimore,
has been sold under foreclosure OF
mortgage for Sl65.00O Its original cost
was over 100000.
ent-Congressman Seelye says
that after the 4th of March he proposes
10 give his life TO the College of AM
herst.
The dial of the clock constructed for
the crystal palace, Sydenham, England,
is forty feet in diameter; the minnie
hand il nineteen feet long.
The growth of Professionalism in
Palestine is rapid. There are now $50
Protestant Churches in the Holy Land,
and the schools there have 1900 pupils.
The Hon. VIM. VI. Evarts is a bril-
liant success as a raiser of corn. This
year he added to the wealth of the cOun-
try 200 bushels.
The Dumber of dogs in the State OF
Iowa is given at 1877 500. That odd nine
gives to these figures an appearance of
accuracy which we suspect is delusive.
A walnut tree in the Crimea is a
thousand years old, and yields eighty
thousand nuts a year. Ii is greatly
cracked up by the Russian press.
-Bunyan's Pilgrim Progress" was
Commodore Nanderbilt's fayOrite book.
and he sometimes carried il with him
when he had a long journey before
him.
Miss Eliza Powers, mSiden lady
of Boston, who amassed a fortune in the
millinery business, died lately, and left
by Will So, 900 to the American UniIa-
rian Association.
The roof of the Palmer House, Chi
cago, (weighing about 600 tons, } is be-
ing raised by means of numerous jack
screws, 10 give an additional height of
30 inches 10 the rooms below.
1t is reported that new glass COM
pany. composed of foreign capitalists,
will shortly build glass-wOrks in the
lower part Of the city of Jeffersonville,
Ind.
Bankruptcy in England must b.
profitable for somebody. In a recent
ease the assets were 81 i,495 and the ex-
penses 1850 leaving Sl65 to be divided
among the creditors.
The slate business in Northampton
county Pa, Is very prosperous at the
present time, after years OF depression.
Large quantities of slate are now
shipped from Bangor 10 England.
On the 23I of April tine anniver-
sary of Sbakespeare's death. Prince
Leopold will lay the cornerstone OF n
new memorial Hail at Stratford-upon-
Avon.
Between 1900 and 5000 alligator
skins are tanned yearly in the United
States, which are consumed by boot and
shoe manufacturers, and many are eX-
ported to London and Hamburg.
"A Glasgow firm manufactured a
number of enormous umbrellas TO be
presented 10 African chiefs. Three
were about thirty feet in circumference,
and the remainder about eighteen feet.
The savings banks of Sacramento.
CAL, having more money in their vault,
than they can profitably invest, have
decided not TO receive any further de-
posits on interest for the present.
"A few years ago the State debt of
Pennsylvania amounted 10 upward OF
S45, 100000 The existing funded debt
is only s22, ,S65, ,02l, having been reduced
more than one-half.
Susan Fletcher Smith, an American
lady has bequeathed her body for dis
section TO the Royal College OF sur
geons, London, only asking that women
students shall have the first chance.
"A young woman in Rochester, y.
Y, has sued for damages man who
had kissed her. a man who can't
Kiss woman without damaging
her ought to pay for his awkwardness.
There are $40 monasteries and con-
vents in Russia, the revenues of which
amount altogether to $500, 600. The
cost Of maintaining monk or nun
during one year amounts, on an aver
age, to about SllO-
The Jesuits expelled from Germany
some month ago have taken refuge in
India. A large number Of them have
Joined the University at Bombay, and
an add tiOnal college has already been
founded there with 600 students.
"A citizen of Massachusetts,, whose
name has not been made public, has
offered to give S39, 900 toward finishing
the monument to the pilgrim fathers at
Plymouth, Mass, if the town authori-
ties, will give $1,000 toward improving
the grounds.
-"My son" said Mr.. ", kindly, 70
his youthful heir, "sccustom yourself
to be polite to the porter, the servant
girl, the coachman, to all the servants;
thus you will come in time to be cOur-
teous to all people, even to your
parents"
MIR. W. Haywood, the city OF Lon
don engineer, states as the results of
his observation and experience with
London streets that a horse would ira
vel l32 miles before fall took place on
granite, l9l miles on asphalt and 40
miles on wood.
"A line of the American steamship
company, 10 run from New York TO
ivarDooI il in pr1Spect The line from