Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

E Boston is striving to get the bulk OF
r the beef-shipping business to England
in her own hands.
"A chair OF homeopathy Is to be es-
tablished in the Iowa State University
during the summer.
The new Chinese coin is the fif-
tieth part of cent in value, and five
pounds are equal to a nickel.
An average of ll0, 900 letters Is daily
received at the Boston pOstoffice. A
year ago the average was 81 goo letters
a day.
Prof. Seelye, the scholar in politics,
has given his salary TO the town of Am
herst, the money to be expended in
sidewalks.
1t is claimed that $50. COO worth of
hogs have died during the past year of
cholera in circle OF i've miles around
Homer, Ill.
1t is said that there are more Bap-
tist churches and members in Phlladel-
phia than in any other city In the world,
save London.
The Graphic is the only paper la
this country which can illustrate boat
race 1000 miles away on the same day
OF its happening.
| Tie Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany is having lbs refrigerator cars
constructed for the carrying of meat
from Texas to New York.
The boats of the ROYAL National
Life Boat Institution, of England, last
year saved 5l5 lives, besides assisting
numerous vessels in distress
Judge Peleg Sprague of Boston Is
the oldest ex-United States senator now
living. He was member of the Maine
Legislature fitty-six years ago.
The manufacture of silk in the
United States increased from two mil
lion dollars worth in 1860, 10 twenty
five million dollars worth in 1876.
1t is stated as fact that the Palmer
House, Chicago, has over $50, 900 worth
of bronzes distributed about the hotel
as ornaments and embellishments.
The last China steamer from San
Francisco took ten thousand barrels of
California flour. China is said TO be
rapidly substituting wheat for rice.
"A glass factory at Honesdale is fill
ing an order for q, 900 hand lamps, for
IhC sdlllC
shipped ll5,Oo0 fruit jars to California.
The debris of the palace car "Pala-
tine" that went through the Ashtabula
bridge, has been made up into walking
canes by thrifty individual named
Smith.
The author of "Home, Sweet
Home, never had home; and George
Mcdonald, who has eleven children, is
the author of ANNALS OF Quiet Neigh
borhood."
The Permanent Exhibition at
Philadelphia is an assured success.
Every foot of space has been applied for,
and half as much again could nave been
disposed of.
The Russian czar, during the y
years of his reign, has not indorsed
single capital sentence, although there
were 222 such In the period from 1856
to 1860 alone.
The colored people of Raleigh, y.
G., have called a convention OIL the first
Monday OF May to devise some plan for
bettering their condition by eoloniza-
ton or otherwise.
"A private polar expedition will
leave New York in the early summer,
ostensibly for trading purposes, but In
reality 10 search for records OF the
Franklin expedition.
The male members of the Swedish
colony in Arostook county, Me-, were
all naturalized several days ago. The
colony now numbers about 600 persons,
and is said to be fiourishing.
Capt. Eben Pierce and Relmar
Eggers, both of New Bedford, Mass,
have Jointly invented breecn- loading
whaling gun, which will throw a lance
$50 feet with destructive effect.
of the coast of Virginia, about five
miles from the mainland, is an island
upon which roam numbers of ponies AS
wild as the mustang. How or when
they settled there is not known.
The city council of Danville, ILL.,.
prohibited the boys from running vel
ocipedes upon the sidewalks. The boys
in a spirit of retaliation petitioned the
councils to prohibit the wheeling of
baby wagons.
--One of the rarest books printed in
the nineteenth century is the first edi-
tion OF the ''Book of Mormon" pub
lished at Palmyra, n. Y, in 1880. Lord
Macaulay tried in vain for years to pro-
cure copy of it.
Hannibal Hamlin, since Simon
retirement, is the oldest
SENATOR reckoning from the time he
entered that body, but his service has
not been continuous Senator Anthony
Is the Oldest senator in continuous SER
vice.
The Baroness Mayer lie ROthschild
lately died on board her yacht at Nice.
She had been sailing about the Mediter-
ranean all winter in the hope of bene-
fitting her health. Her only child,
Mile Hannah de Rothschild, inherit.
the estate.
Joseph Bonaparte. King of Spain,
once possessed pOnderOus set of mill
tary maps of France and Belgium, and
these have just been presented to the
of California, by Mr.. Mail
laird, of San Rafael. One of the map
cases is perforated by bullet.
Mrs. Frost Thorne, the widow of
the gentleman who was drowned in the
Mohawk disaster last summer, intends
to return TO the stage. She is daughter
of E. l.. Davenport, and will take back
her maiden name of Lily Vining Dayen-
port when she resumes her old profess
sion.
Judge S. C. Hastings, of San Fran
cisco, has offered TO deposit 100000
with the Treasurer of California, on
condition that the State shall promise to
pay per centum year forever to the
University of California, the amount
thus received 70 be divided into two
parts, one of $4,000 and the other of
SO 600, the former to be used at first to
purchase books for law library, and
the latter for a professors salary.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany has lately arranged TO have 49,
900 Eucalyptus GlobHlHS trees set out
along the 500 miles of the right Of way
of the company. This is only the first
as it will require about
SOC. 900 of the trees for the 500 miles of
valley where they are to be cultivated.
The Immediate object of the plan is to
increase the humidity of the region,
and lessen the liability to droughts.
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