Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-28
NEWS In BRIEF

-Williamsport, Pa, is furnishing 4
colony for settlement in Texas.
An expert Chinaman in New York
can rattle of :, ,50Ocigars a day.
-Whalebone which formerly sold for
eleven cents pound, is now worth 81.
The Jubilee singers whoare now
in England have earned sie, 900 on the
present trip.
The Scientific An,ericaR estimates
that the East river bridge will cost
twenty millions
There are one hundred and twenty
prisoners in the Charleston, 5. c., Jail.
Only twelve of them are white.
The four hundredth anniversary of
the introduction of printing into Eng
land is TO be celebrated in London next
June.
The catch of smells this winter on
the Massachusetts coast is the best ever
known. Some OF these fish weigh Is
much as half pound each.
The fund for the family of Hay
wood, the bank cashier who was muir
dered at Northfield, Minn., has reached
ST., 900.
I'm Cambridge, Mass, evening
school, is man of fifty-seven learning
to read, and one of forty working at
arithmetic.
The losses by fire in the United
States during 1876 were S64, ,630, 800.
The losses in Massachusetts amounted
to s5.4Sl 400.
1t is proposed TO enlarge the Lon
don Geological Gardens. The collection
f.rafi m N.l llr i'm. o,.1 fLa ~
ties contemplate several new buildings.
The Minnesota farmers have taken
hold of the business of planting trees In
earnest. Over ten millions of cuttings
were set out during the past year, most
of which are doing we'll.
Forty thousand volumes is the esti-
mated annual increase of the grand Ii
brary of Paris. The whole number of
volumes now in the library is, by the
latest report, =, l57 81.
Minneapolis, Minn., put about
81, 600, 900 into buildings last year. The
flour mills there turned about $500, 900
bushels of wheat into !, 100, 900 barrels
of flour.
-BaltimOre's city hall has already
cost over two and one-half million of
dollars, and an additional outlay of
$500, ,0O0 is about to be made for the im-
provement of one of its fronts.
"A number of gentlemen, residents
of the Pacific coast, have formed COM
pany with capital of 1000, 900, gold
coin, to get out lumber in Alaska for
ship building and other purposes
General Hawley, president of the
LAT al r
ing to rtimor, been rendered the presi-
dency of the American Commission to
the Paris Exhibi ion in 1878.
Miss Kate Field has returned to the
editorial profession. She is regularly
engaged upon the staff of that literary
and political weekly, The Ecdn,iher, in
LOnCOn.
The executors of the late Duke of
Galliera have paid in one check the
enormous sum of fI00, 900 sterling, pro-
Bate duty on his property in France
alone.
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
proposes TO honor the memory of Robert
Fulton by making a ten-acre park, and
erecting in it 4 colossal statue of the in
veltor.
The Louisiana orange crop of last
year is estimated to have been 3, 900, 900
o. nges, which would represent about
10000 trees, and worth about $500, 600
on the trees.
A collection of old clocks and other
bric-a- brac made by the late sylvester
Bonaffon, of Philadelphia, at cost OF
$50, 900, was recently sold at auction for
81, ,s33.
Queen Victoria is given TO small lib
eralities. She recently sent pound
sterling for the poor people OF MethOld,
when the Lancaster estate there yields
her an income of about t35, 900.
But IL miles of railroad were built
in Iowa last year-nine by the Chicago,
Clinton and Western. carrying the line
iEto Iowa City, and two by the Daven-
port and st. Paul company
j. c. jacobson, a wealthy COpen-
hagen brewer, has given a million oil
crowns to his Government for the pro
motion OF mathematics, natural science,
the science OF language, history, and
philosophy.
John F. Chamberlain, well known
to the sporting world as the keeper Of
first-class gambling house in New York
and also at Long Branch, has gone into
bankruptcy. His liabilities are s2l5,00O
and his assets Sl7, 100.
In the early part of the present CEN
tury John AlsOp, a rich, eccentric
Englishman, left his daughters as
legacy, their weight iii one pound bank
notes. When weighing day came the
eldest got t5l 200, the heyOungest f59. 9.344.
Joseph Bonaparte had a farm In
New Jersey, and the descendants of
Murat in Florida. Prince Napoleon
sojourned for time in New York, and
Garabaldi kept soap boilers shop On
Staten Island.
Sunday school newspapers have be-
come fashionable at the antIpOdes. One
of these in China has !, 900 subscribers,
twenty-five of whom are mandarins ia
the city of Nankin, and iE is supposed
the paper is read by nifty of that class.
The old fort at Marblehead, Mass,
built during the war oil the Revolution
tor the protection of Salem haTbor is
now garrisOned by large bull terrier.
He never strays beyond the line of earth
works, and is so fierce that all who aD-
proach the fort are compelled to beat
nasty retreat
The bride at a wedding recently
celebrated in Wareham, Mass, was a
first cousin of the bridegrOom's deceased
first wife, one of the bridesmaids was a
daughter of the bride and wife of one %
the grooms, who was a son Of the bride
groom, while the other bridesmaid was
daughter OF the groom and wife Of i
son OF the bride.
The FirgiHia New Enterprise %
Jan. g., Acknowledges tine receipt IRON
the Mt. Pleasant fruit and berry rancho
New Castle, Placer county, Cal, Of =
box of fruit containing luscious straw
berries, grown in the open air, anG
rarer still at this season OF the year
fresh, ripe tomatoes, with the bloom
still clinging to them
The Journal Of Commerce states that
the largest gold piece in England Is the
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