Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

During the year 1876 the United
States yielded 42O,O00,000 pounds of
rosin.
Over 5000, ,O0O,OOO are annually
spent in this country for cigars and
cigarettes.
1t is worthy of note that the Presi-
dent, Vice President and every member
of the Cabinet is lawyer.
During 1876 the various ferry boats
plying between Camden and Philadel-
phia carried l., 800, 900 persons.
In the year 1876 the seeds received
in Chicago, principally clover and
timothy, were valued at more than
81, ,000, 600.
The diamonds worn by Nine. Mu-
sard at the opera ball in Paris, the other
night, when placed in a row measured
nearly nine yards.
The French say that their com
merce sprang up from $500, 900, ,OOO
francs TO 7,7O0, 900, 600 in consequence
of the Exposition of 1867.
The republic of Mexico, covers al
area OF 10000 square miles, aud is di-
vided into twenty-three States, having
population of about 100000.
"A female reporter represents the
Detroit Free Press in the Canadian house
of commans, and, furthermore, reports
the doings OF the staid Canadians very
well.
Nearly 100, 900 Germans are settled
in some forty counties in Texas, par
/ ticularly Comal and Guadalupe, and
they are highly successful as agrieul-
turists.
"A poor Scotehman in Dundee is the
I father of a child born with two stomachs
and the Cincinnati Commercial thinks
this an imposition, even in the land OF
oatmeal.
Plymouth, VT, boasts of young
ster, who is only five years old, but who
weighs 80 pounds, measures SO inches
around the waist, and % inches around
the thigh.
During the past year the German
press issued SIS works devoted 10 the
natural sciences, 297 TO geography and
travel, and l90 to ma .hematics and
astronomy.
Three of Washington's third cOu-
sins, the grandchildren of Warner Was
hington, of Virginia, are now living,
old, poor and dependent, in GOrdOns-
vile, by.
A pure white muskrat was caught
in the north part of Great Darlington,
Mass, the other day, something old
hunters never saw before in that part
of the country.
The sea serpent interviewed some
Chinamen near San Diego, Cal. They
saw a ,oOd deal OF him. They say he
was sometimes IG0 feet long, and some
times two miles.
The whole population of British
India Is close on 239, 900, 200. The den
sity of population varies from five t.
over seven hundred and fifty inhabi-
tants per square mile.
Mrs. Pauline Spitz died at Elnano-
witz, Austria, recently, at the age Of
one hundred and eight years. She hai
never been known to take medicine.
and always enjoyed good health.
The first picture Mr.. Sheepshanks,
the eminent English collector, ever
bought was Landseer's 1.-Two Dogs"
and he gave the young artist $50 for it,
lt is worth to-day hundred times
thirty.
Applications for fish to put in Lake
Champlain are refused by Mr.. Green
because the lake is not exclusively New
York waters, and Vel mont has taken
10 step toward bearing her share of the
expense.
From a block of marble weighing
two tons, an eagle measuring six feet
between the tips Of its Outspread wings
is now being cut for the Grand Army
monument which stands at ReaIiny,
Pennsylvania.
Allegheny college, at MeadvilIe,
Pa, has been selected as one of the
thirty colleges in the United States 10
which the government, according to q
recent act of congress, would aid and
support military department.
On the strength of 4 map, without
personal examination, some New YOrk
parties took mortgage for $40, 0,OOO on
rocky, inaccessible hilltop in Patter-
son, n. j. Garrett Mountain), which
has just been sold under foreclosure for
800.
Tobacco is now successfully cult
waited in over fifty counties in the state
of Missouri. In 1869 the State had 3SJ
tobacco manufactures, and she pro
duced l9, 600, 900 pounds, occupying the
sixth rank among the tObacco-grOwinL
States OF the Union.
Thanksgiving falls on November
the Both only once in six or eight years.
lt comes on that day this year, and will
occur again only three times this cen
turg-in lSS2, 1892 and 1899. The latter
will be the last Thanksgiving day of tho
nineteenth century.
The Augusta CAroaicle says Massa-
chusetts capitalists are investing in
manufacturing enterprises in Georgia.
a cotton mill is 10 be established at Au-
gusta and another on the Powder Mills
tract" the first to run 20, 900 and the
latter 6O, coo spindles.
Tradition says that years ago when
the headwaters of the Chesapeake
swarmed with wild fOY D. the hands en-
plOyed at an iron fore 1T Havre-de-
GIace once upon time refused TO work
because they were fed on canvas-back
ducks instead OF bacon.
On the closing up OF the Smith Il
Rogers silver plating concern in New
Haven, recently, preparatory 10 its re-
moval 10 Meriden, the floor of the pla-
ting room was taken up, burned, and
the ashes analysed, with the result OF
procuring pure silver 10 the amount of
$9Sl.
-Rouen, France, has the tallest
structure in the world. The cast iron
spire of its cathedral Is 492 feet high,
while the dome of st. Peters at Rome
raises IT'S cross 452 feet above the ground,
and Strasbourg, the highest cathedral
in all France, rerches, with its cele-
brated clock tower, 455 feet.
The poplar forests in the region Oi
country north of fLewistown, Me-. have
been cut down for timber for the manu-
facture of paper. These forests have
been considered by the farmers as al
most entirely worthless, good deal OF
the wood or lumber hardly paying for
the cutting and hauling, but now the
timber brings high price.
Lord Nelson's paroquet lately died
at tbe noe of ll5 wears at the JardIn deS