Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pdlhptcrs anu OulN 14O CIcI ~ lnen.
Sunset Cox made 81 800 from his
book on laughing, and that's ''why do
he laugh"
Joe Jefferson rip Van Winkle) has
a son in the 9Th artiAerv of the United
States army.
Spain owes her army now in Cuba
s24 100000 And she is likely to owe it
in the future, too.
The Salem, Mass, Gazette is one OF
the Oldest papers in the country, having
been established in 176S.
The heirs of a Jersey City man
have been sued for his board bill. The
bill covers the space of twenty-seven
years.
-ThomaS's Hotel, Berkely Square,
London, is nearly one hundred years
old, and is still one of the most fashion
able of the private hotels.
An Illinois hunter, on the 10Th of
December, shot an eagle that measured
seven feet across, and in his next shot
killed sixteen quails.
Five hundred thousand dollars
worth of beer and soda water was sold
on the Centennial Grounds during the
Exposition at ten cents per glass.
Cardinal Antonelli chose his own
resting place in the Church of st. Lau-
rent, and had monument erected over
it, in 1870, at a cost of g, 600.
The duty on English playing cards
last year amounted to TIP ,52S, which
covers the salaries of Lords Beacons-
field and Derby and leaves t52S over.
A LOndOner, Mr.. Sawyer has OF
fered to take the Crystal Palace and
grounds TOR long term of years at an
annual rental OF t56, 900.
The Williamsport saw-mills cut
lS0, ,0O0, ,0OO feet of lumber last year. o.
from $1,000, 900 TO 10000, 900 less ths,.
the preceding one.
President Andrew ID. White, of
Cornell University, has bought. in Eu-
rope. some memorial slabs for that in
stitution.
-Lieutenant-GOvernO Sisson, of
Rhode Island, raised Z, 800 bushels OF
corn from thirty-five acres of land the
last season. He found the lard to do IL
in in his own State, too.
-Auber's monument has at last been
completed. 1t is a pyramid of black
marble bearing his name and the dates
of birth and death and the titles 10
fOrty-eight of his principal works.
The Orpheonic societies in Europe,
are 10 hold monster reunion in Paris
during the Exposition of 1873. An ap-
prOpriate concerted piece for chorus
5000 strong is in course of preparation.
"A niece of Mungo Park the African
explorer, is living in destitute circum-
stances in Scotland. She is seventy
three years of age. A subscription pa
per is going the rounds for her benefit.
There are seventy Protestant
churches, with 10000 registered mem
bers in Eastern Turkey; in Central
Turkey 26 churches and 5000 members,
and in Western Turkey twenty-four
churches and 5000 members.
New Hampshire is the only State
that requires its Governors and legisla-
tors to be Protestants, and its COnsUitu-
tional Convention, now in session, re-
commends the abolition of the religious
test.
The Swamps in Louisiana are said
to be dryer than they have been for
bfAA NtaA n iiAtlt ildN lllt Oll
horseback or i wagon may be driven
through tracts of country heretofore
impossible within the memory of man.
There seems no limit 10 the per-
fOrmances of thieves. Somebody stole,
in New York, box containing $25, 900
worth of siIk-worm eggs that were go
ing across the city in transit, from
Hong Kong to France.
Mrs Maxwell, of Colorado. the hunt
resS who was at the Centennial, has her
collection in Washington and i
strengthening it with a view to en-
larging it and taking it to Paris next
year.
There are in England, Scotland and
Wales l,066 Roman Catholic priests and
bishops; Gil Roman Catholic churches,
chapelS and stations; 32S converts and
mOnasteries and 10 Roman Catholic col
Ieges.
"A Patterson On. j. man recently
disputed about ten cents in 4 carpeu-
ter's bill. Suit was brought, and he
won his case after cost TO himself OF
S5.25 ard to h:s opponent of IS. How
precious are our rights,
William Knox walked from New
York down the Atlantic Coast, along
the Gulf of Mexico, across the Isthmus
of Darien and up the Pacific Coast. J
joaquin Miller's poem, to Los Angeles.
a distance of 4 4.O00 miles.
"A New Orleans editor recently Wis
tied Boston, and evidently went around
upon tour of investigation. He says:
'There are eighty-three uncles in BOs-
ton with whom young men can leave
their jewelry. .'-Trareller.
The Rothschild family in Paris
have spent recently $3.50, 900 i'm enlarg-
ing the hospital founded by the late
Baron James de ROthschild. Fifty beds
for persons afflicted with incurable dis
eases have been added to the hospital.
-GeO. W. Carleton, the publisher.
Was the recipient of a branch OF oranges
the other day from Miss Augusta J.
Evans, the novelist, who plucked il
from tree by the window where she
wrote her Southern Home.
Neither Delaware, the Indian Ter
ritOry, New Mexico, or Wyoming re-
port their school populations. In the
other thirty-six States and eight Terri
tories there were IA, cor, ,522 children
entitled 10 instruction. Pupils enrolled
i'm the public schools, S,756, ,669.
Calculations have been published
showing that over twenty-three millions
of animals and birds were wounded
without being captured, by the licensed
spOrtsmen and poachers of the British
Islands during the year ending March
81, 1876.
"A singular petrificatiOn has been
found in Manlinus village, New York.
1t exactly resembles in form huge
carpet-bag, with handles and all COM
plete. The Syracuse papers are trying
TO make out that it is the carpet-bag of
the Cardiff Giant.
A bill has been introduced in the
Virginia Legislatures to give employees
of railways, canals, steamboats, and
other corporations the first lien on the
property of the company employing
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