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

A recent census of the Black Hills
shows the population TO be $3.50
-Gymnasiums are being provided at
all the large barracks in Great Britain.
That of Tipperary cost sl4,25O.
Sunday schools. Now it has over 200
containing more than $4,000 scholars.
1t Is now in order for ex-President
Grant to write a volume of memoirs,
and secure thereby round 100000, or
more.
Dom Pedro was represented by his
daughter at the late opening of the Bra
lillian Parliament. Her speech was brief
and 10 the point.
"A French station-master has been
sentenced to three years Imprisonment
and fine OF $50, for negligently per-
mitting a railway accident.
The Hon. George III. Farrier, of New
Jersey, has over 5000 coins, medals and
colonial bills, being perhaps the largest
collection in the country.
The boating men of Troy, Albany,
and the neighborhood are talking of or
ganizing large association to be known
as The Upper Hudson Navy"
Mrs. Stewart has given to her bro
ther, Mr.. Clinch, house on Thirty
fourth street, New York city, worth
$50, 900, and an annuity of $4,000.
John High, of Lancaster county,
Pa, is eighteen years old, six feet three
and one-half inches high and weighs
2O3 pounds. Pretty good for high.
arctic explorer proposes to sail around
the northern coast of Asia and return
to Europe by way OF the Suez canal.
"A remarkable decrease of pauper-
ism is reported from Manchester, Eng
land, the number of paupers having
been IL, 663 in 1870, and 4 .6ll in 1876.
The expectation of fans from Japan
was about 5000, 600 during 1876, valued
at $4,000, nearly all of which large
number were sent to the United States.
A Pittstield manufacturer is send
ing carriage rugs and blankets to South
America, Norway and Sweden, and Is
enlarging bis mill as a result OF the Ex-
hibitiOn.
The average annual production OF
kid gloves in France, is :, SOC, 900 dozen
pairs, three-fourths of which are ex-
ported; 80, 600 operatives are employed
in the manufacture.
The two hottest days ever known
in Australia were the 18th and 10th of
january, when the thermometer regis
tered lO5 degrees in the shade at Mel
bourne.
Emperor William s favOrite charger
SQ6nu-a anaI rura I'll.
bore His Majesty at the battle OF Koenig-
gratz and in the rest of that campaign,
is dead.
The oldest harp in Europe, If not In
the world, is TO be seen at Trinity Col
lege, Dublin. 1t is said to have belonged
10 King Brian Borrohm, in the tenth
century.
"A Kansas doctor recently killed four
Sioux Indians in single combat. and
Gen. Miles has ordered sixteen rounds
ofphyslc TO be used instead of cartridges
at his next battle.
Nineteen young Liberians are in
college in this country, preparing for
usefulness in their native land. II il
said that 500, ,OO0 freedmen are willing 10
emigrate to Africa.
The Maharajah of Cashmere has
imported from France 2jO, 900 vines, for
the purpose of growing grapes in hi,
territories and inciting the manufacture
Of wine as an industry.
New York State has had six Vice
Presidents of the United States
Burr, George Clinton, Daniel ID. Tomp-
kins. Martin Van Buren, Miilard Fiji
more, and William A. Wheeler.
Texas is larger than France bv
more than 10000 square miles, while If
all the inhabitants of the United States
were congregated there the population
would not be so dense as it is in Massa-
chuSetts
A bill has passed the Connection.
house forbidding savings banks to lend
money at higher rate than six Der
centum- This would reduce the rate
OF Interest 70 depositOrs TO five per
centum.
Or. Henry Mott, Jr., in a paper on
the adulteration of milk, said that the
chief things used in adulteration were
water, chalk and calOmel, and that 40
oOO,OuO quarts of water were drunk In
milk in New York every year.
There are seventeen school SLATE
manufactures along the Delaware. be-
tween Easton, Pa, and the Delaware
Water Gap, and five along the Lehigh.
in the Vicinity of SIatington, manufac
turing $1,000 eases OF school States per
aunum.
An application has been made To
the supreme Court to compel j. A
Stewart, appointed receiver of the Old
Bowery State bank in New York.
eighteen years ago, to file his accounts,
1t being alleged that $3OO, 900 is still due
the stockholders.
"A Lynn taxiderlnist has moanted
seventy five Arctic owls since Noyem-
ber, many of which were shot in Mar
blehead, and it is estimated that over
five hundred of these birds have been
killed this winter on the coast between
Portland and Cape Cod.
One of the most interesting features
of the celebration of the battle of Ben
nington next August will be a sham
fight, in which all the militia of Yer
mont will take part lt is proposed 10
have as near reproduction of the old
battle as possible, and already prepara-
tions are being made for the event.
Seattle, a thriving settlement OF
Puget Sound, was founded some four
years ago by priest from Quebec. IL
now has 5000 Inhabitants, a daily pa
/ per, four churches and seven schools,
and on january the 1st there were six
ships and three ocean steamers living at
the wharyes, beside twelve other craft
The naval neurology for the past
year shows q deaths, as follows: Eight
rear admirals, 2 2commodores, 3 captains,
commanders, lieutenant, midship-
man, 3 cadet midshipmen, ? medical
I directors, pay directors, l assistant
paymaster, past assistant engineer, 3
boatswains and 2 captains in the marine
corps.
! The famous horse chestnut tree in
the Tuileries Garden which has received
the name of "Marronier du 20 Mars"
as it was always observed to put forth
leaves before any other in the park az
about that date, is this year forty days
/ in advance. For some weeks il han