Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-14
NEWS IN BRIEF

There are in Boston 6,329 licensed
dogs, and 1000 more that are un-
licensed.
There are about 5000 producing oil
wells in Pennsylvania, and the daily
average production is SO barrels.
The daily consumption of water in
New York amounts 10 1900, zoo gal
Ions, or ninety-tiye gallons per capita.
One of Elizabeth Cady StantOn's
daughters has begun the study of medi-
cine in New York.
BY the dismissal of the music teach
erS in the schools OF Brooklyn, that city
is saving $4,000 year.
Inducements are offered BY the
Land Department of Florida for 90, 900
wealthy MennOnites to emigrate to the
orange groves.
The State tax in Maine is only
third of cent on a dollar of assessed
valuation, or about sixth of one per
cent. on real value.
The striking engineers OF the BOs-
ton and Maine Railroad paid as high as
$500 TO buy OFF new men. Not much
want among these men.
Mr.. Hamilton C. Williams, who was
President Folks private secretary, Ia.
just died in Maryland at the age of sew
enty. He was Tennesseean.
Rat skins have become an impor-
tant article of commerce at Fort Dodge,
Iowa, where one dealer has bought 35,-
900 pelts, within few months.
The King of Sweden and Don Al.
fonso are the only sOvereigns in Europe
who are of French descent; nearly all
the others are of German origin.
The AnglO-American eOmpany's
total cable receipts for the last half
year were 81 ,30S, $50, of which only
S2l6,5 ,565 were needed for working eX-
penses.
The question of having John A.
Elder paint portrait of General Joseph
E. Johnston for the Virginia State Lii
brary is under consideration by Legis-
lative Committee.
1t is understood that the governor
of Illinois will appoint Robert +. Lin
coin, son of the late President, ON the
new board of railroad and warehouse
commissioners i'll that State.
The New YORK street cars carry
l65, 900 passengers year. 1t would be-
pleasant to know how many of the un-
fortunates had seats and how many
hung ON 10 the straps.
The Springfield, Illinois, Iron Com
pany l. now rolling rails OF 90 feet in
length and 35 pounds weight per yard.
lt Is said that the like was never done
before.
The French Government asks for an
appropriation of so, 400, 900 for public
instruction in 1873. For 1877 there was
appropriated $500, 600. and for 1876.
s. 800 200.
There lives in StoningtOn, COnnec-
ticut, native of the Island of st. Helena
who was in the employment of the En-
perOT Napoleon during his captivity
there.
The English Society for the Preven-
tiOn of Cruelty TO Animals obtained
daring the year 1876, J, ,I6S convictions.
This does not include convictions OBJ d,
tained by the police.
AS the gold crop OF Australia de-
ereases, the wool crop grows more valu-
able. Last year the wool product OF
that country was so, ,0OO, 900, more than
four times as much as lis gold product.
-Lavinia GOOdell has recently been
elected clerk OF the Congregational
Church in Janesville, Wisconsin; the
first time that office has been held by
woman.
The American heirs of the Jennings
estate in England recently met in
Bridgeport, Conn, and formed an assO-
citation to prosecute the claim 20 the
valued at $50, 100000.
Jones, a gIittering representative
fl m New Hampshire, has had LEO
copies of the Congressional Directory
make git-edged for favorite constitu-
ents, at an expense of $500.
The fleets of Europe comprise 2,O3g
vessels, including 209 irOnclads, and 10
others, of which J6 are ironciads, Were
in process of construction on the Isr of
January. The crews number 2JO, 900
men, and the vessels carry $4,000 guns
The Westinghouse Air Brake Com
pany recently received an order from
England for brakes to be placed Oh
three hundred locomotives and one
thousand ears The order amounted ia
value to S250,000.
Onions in New Mexico grow to the
ciEf VI dAA NdAtl pan. anu one
is sufficient for several meals. Turnips
have been grown there weighing TWEEN
ty-five pounds. What paradise for
Colonel sellers,
1t came out in trial at New York
recently, that chromOs comprising
colOrs, aud printed on a.
many different plates, can be furnished
at ten cents per copy. Picture dealers
charge from 81 to 50 for them.
Ten thousand men are. engaged
upon the Paris Exhibition building.
The authorities reckon upon daily
average of from thirty TO forty thousand
visitors to make the exhibition a finan-
cial success.
Mrs. Sarah c. Mcintosh, of Joliet,
H., has been elected, by the voters of
Will county, H., superintendent OF
schools. Her predecessor in the Office
was man, but she proves thoroughly
capable of filling the position.
The fourth centenary of the birth
of Raphael will occur March Is, 1888.
a commission has been appointed to or
ganize a grand festival, and a subscrip-
tiOn has been opened for the erection of
a monument to his memory, on that day
III MS native city, UrblnO.
Captain Thomas Desmond has re-
ceived in San Francisco gifts of a gold
watch and chain and of $500 in gold, in
recognition of his services in the Irish
national cause, and especially for the
part he took in the release of the Fenian
prisoners In Australia.
-Pittsburg has surplus of $4,000
remaining from the Chicago relief fund,
which surplus has been at interest for
some years, under the control of board
of trustees. The interest on this sur
plus, amounting to sl5, 600, has been ju-
diciously distributed among hospitals,
and other charities in that city.
"A monument to Hans Christian
Andersen is 10 DE erected at Odense, the
city of his birth, as soon as sufficient
funds shall have been collected from his
admirers throughout the world. Hassel-
kris, the sculptor, will construct the
monument. Money enough to pay for