Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Australia in 1873
Germany proposes a further redu;-
ton OF its silver currency by withdraw
ing the two thaler pieces.
Edward Fox of Titusyille, Pa, has
recovered $500 damages from the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad By a Is
years suit.
In the four ports, New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore, the amount
of sugar refined Is about fifty Thousand
tons a month.
Queen Victoria has granted medals
TO every person serving on the steamers
Alert, Discovery. and Pandora during
the Arctic expedition
Several large, white arctic owls,
rarely seen south of the ST. Lawrence
river, have recently been shot near
Brunswick, Maine.
Another Mormon wife has followed
the example of Ann Eliza Young. She
is Mrs. Thomas, OF Ogden, Utah, and
she sues for divorce and slimony.
The richest man In England, the
Duke of Westminster, has a sister 81
years old who is about 10 marry Con-
moner two years older than herself.
Christianity is spreading rapidly
in Japan. At Toxic 10000 people at
tend the Missionary Churches on the
Sabbath, according 10 4 native paper.
"A citizen OF HarwInton, Conn.,, has
in good condition for eating an apple
which ne has kept for twenty-five years
by process which he discovered by
accident.
For closely built wooden town
Plymouth, Mass, enjoys wonderful
immunity from fires. There has been
no alarm since July 4th, period oil
nearly live months.
The editor OF the HansbOro' Miss }
Democrat has a charmed life. Fifteen
attempts have been made to kill him.
and the last shot fired in his direction
killed boy instead.
"A cautions residen. of Troy, y. Y.
mindful of the contingencies of post
mOrtem extOrtions, has called for pro
posals from several underrakers for
conducting his funeral.
There is a hermit At Greenwood
Lake, New York, who lives in a hut
that is hardly large enough to allow II
man 10 lie at full length or stand erect.
His article Of furniture Is powder
keg.
Russia has taken pity on Prince
Milan since he pawned the sword OF
his ancestors. aud has sent him another
one 400 years old. No pawnbrOker
with any respect for himself would
take that.
The new 100 ton gun to be made at
WOolwich, England, will be 30 feet
long, with a calibre of 20 inches, will
throw shot weighing 5000 pounds
and exhaust 600 pounds OF gunpOwder
at each discharge.
No more SUNDAY trains in Canada.
The Dominion Government has issue,i
orders that no trains shall be run on
the Sabbath day except in case of great
emergency, and then only on direct
order of the Government.
Mrs. PAMELA Brown, wife of Gen =
eral Jacob Brown. the victor with
Scott at Lundy's Lane, in the war OF
1872, Is still living. She IL now ninety
eight years of sge. and resides with her
daughter, Mrs. Evarts, at Rye, Y. y.
MIR. Robert Mickle, cashier Of the
Union bank of Baltimore, has probably
been a bank officer for a longer time.
than any other man in the United
States He entered the service Of that
bank in 1919, and since 1880 has been
its cashier.
1t Is costly honor to be LOrd
Mayor of London. Ii cost the last In
cumbent of the office about SS5, 900 To
maintain its dignity, which sum Is said
to be S25 900 less than it cost Sir \.
Lusk. The salary Of the office Is not
more than $4,000.
The amount OF meat consumed AT
nually per head IN Spain is twenty-five
pounds; In Italy, thirty-three; Sweden
fifty-four; Prussia fifty six; Austria.
fifty eight; Belgium, siXry seven;
France, seventy-three; Meck!enburg,
England, 20J.
A mass of rock weighing 2,5O0
pounds, recently came laundering
down a mountain side into the city of
Denver, Colorado, barely missing =
house and burying itself in a stable.
Fortunately no person was injured.
TIE sight was q frightful Que TO the
spectators.
Mr.. Adams Kellogg, OF Madison
Parish, La, who received the award AT
the Centennial for growing the finest
cotton in the world, is a native Of Yer
mont, who went South after the war,
and mas become one Of the most Sue
cessful cotton planters. His plantation
IS about twenty miles below Nicksbur..
Charles FennO Hoffman. n noted
literateur of the old knickerbocker
Magazine days, recently reported deat =,
il still living AT the age of 30, in the
state lunatic asylum at Harrisburg, Pa
and his insanity is less obtrusiye than
for many years. 1t is now 26 years
since his retirement from the world
Few persons not familiar with
geography will believe that the Pacific
Ocean boundary of the United State-
has u greater extent OF coast line than
the Atlantic shore. The aggregate Of
our shore line on the Pacific is Il ,73i
miles, while on the Atlantic il Is Il 500
miles, and on the Gulf Of Mexico {, 6,SiJ
miles.
The Fairbanks family in Vermont
has furnished scales for the world, sup
piled Vermont with two Governors and
raised St. Johnsbury from hamlet 10
the most prosperous village OF North
ern New England, giving il a library,
academy, and athenaum. Their sue
cess is shining illustration of the
value of skill and integrity in business
affairs-
Some curious statistics, Just pub
lished, show that out of population OF
30, coo. 600 in France, there are 81 ,929
blind. and 29,5i2 deaf and dumb; 50
that in $50 inhabitants there j. one
blind, and in l ,220 there Is one deaf
and dumb person. In Paris alone
there are 1888 mad people, while In alt
France there are IL, l23 male aud H.
964 female lunatics.
"A cOlored child was recently born
in Bayside, Talbot County, Md, OF the
tiniest proportions ever known. AT
birth il was only about twelve inches
long, and weighed one pound. The
only imperfection about it is total alb
sence of thumbs, not having even q
place where thumbs ought TO be. IL