Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-07
NO. 10.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

OvV MOEIu VI Oh udlil.
Six members of the Georgia legisla-
ture are under 20 years of age.
Capt. Howgate's polar colonization
scheme grows in favor as the heated
term approaches.
Hard times or not, the Georgia
Legislators are complaining that they
can't live on 81 day.
Lord John Manners proposes In
ereasing the number of female clerks in
the English Post office.
Only four out of the eighteen iron
furnaces on the Susquehanna, south of
Harrisburg, are in blast.
In Baltimore street car conductor
must deposit fifty dollars with the con-
pany as certificate of honesty.
Senator Hamlin of Maine, has
lately given 81 900 TO the Colby Uniyer-
sity at Watertown, in that State.
The Illinois State Board of Agricul-
ture report an estimated loss for the last
year in that State through the hog chol-
era of s., ,0O0,0
Forty years ago the average daily
number of pins made in Egland for
home use and export was 20,000,0 900.
Now it is $1,000 90.
There is an average of eight suicides
per week in the United States, and it's
better to reduce the population that
way than to go to war.
George Wagner, citizen of Bridge
port, Conn.,, has given his library of
three thousand volumes as free library
for the Germans in that city.
The total Indebtedness ofthe South
eTn States, ,as estimated by the Committee
on Adjustment is about $500, ,000, 900,
that of Virginia alone amounting ~
So, 900, coo.
DIR. W. Il. Jones of Nevada, and
companion, have recently furnished
meal tor the cannibals of New Guinea.
where they were too zealously prospect
ing for gold.
Arizona adviees state that the Gov
ernOr has telesTaphed TO the Secretary
OF War for arms, and will call out vol
unteer scouts for service against the
hostile Apaches.
Among the assets OF merchant of
New York who failed the other day,
were one hundred thousand acres OF
! land on an island of the coast of Texas,
valued at two dollars an acre.
German educational statistics show
that i'll SaXOny one out of l ,l94 of the
| total male population is in actual attend
ance upon university, while in Prussia
the proportion is one TO /, ,32S.
Richard A. Pencil Is in training
10 New York for the performance Of
the extraordinary feat OF holdinga l, 900
pound cannon in his hands while blank
cartridge Is discharged from it.
General Newton of New York city
has just finished plans for a new bridge
which is TO cross the Hudson at Peek
skill. 1t will be one magnificent span
of 1850 feet, sLJ the floor will be l65
I feet above the water.
NO less than 3,6GS, ,5S2, 100 yards OF
cotton piece goods were exported from
the United Kingdom in the year 1876.
! Tais Is the largest quantity ever ex-
I ported IN one year. lt averages more
than l0,0O0,000 yards day.
Several savings banks in New
Hampshire have been doing a general
banking business without paying the
! Government tax, and have been ordered
to stop doing so. The estimated amount
Of taxes due from them is $3.50, 600.
| The new Domesday Book of Great
: Britain and Ireland gives the population
of the United Kingdom at IS, 900, 900.
I The number OF inhabited houses is put
| NJ 5.2l2, ,933, and there are 73,Ii7.176
acres of assessable land in the kingdom.
-Freemasonry is growing rapidly in
| England. The Grand Lodge was es-
tabiished in 17l7, and there are now
1850 lodges and 100000 members
I in England aud Wales. In Scotland
and Ireland there are over I,00O lodges.
| The youngest contributor to the
I Centennial Exhibition was Miss Mabel
Warren 1hyng, aged three and half
/ years, the daughter OF an artist in
Salem, Mass. The little woman exhi-
bitcd an outline drawing OF a bell aud a
pear.
--The latest figures report the total
annual clip OF wool in this country At
/ 2,G0O, 900 pounds. IL is believed that the
/ figures for 1850 will, if a fair connt is
| secured, place this country at the head
of the wool producing countries OF the
world.
When the ceutennarlan, Father
BOehm, died, DIR. Lowe Pierce, of
/ Georgia, became the oldest Methodist
minister in the United States. lie is
now ninety-twO, and preached for his
son, Bishop George Foster Pierce, but a
few Sundays ago.
-Plttsburg, Pa, is to have one daily
paper less and one paper better; the
/ Gazette has purchased the Commercial,
and tue combined patronage OF the two
/ will enable the survivor to give the
reader more for his money than either
could do separately.
From July 1 to December 81, 1875.
eighty-nine millions OF postal cards
we're sold in the post offices of the
| United States, or ifteen millions more
than for the same period OF 1876. Postal
cards were introduced In this country
only four years ago
Charles DubOsc, & famous Partisan
model, died on the 18th of January,
aged eighty. He had posed for painters
from 1904 till 1859, in which year he re-
tired and made his will when was Just
opened. He leaves all his property,
amounting to some SOC, 900 francs, to
the Academy of Fine Arts.
--OiCde ptNfssA attttiS dlS OStil~ .Htluc
at Antwerp to celebrate next August,
the 300th anniversary of the birth of
Rnbens. The musical fetes are TO be
on grand scale, and there will be an
artists congress, An exhibition of an
cient paintings, and a retrospective ex-
hibitiOn of paintings of the Belgian
school since 1880.
The congressional library has
grown to immense proportions. The
last annual report of the librarian shows
the number OF bound volumes TO be over
81 900. 10 say nothing OF about 100000
pamphlets. No less than 1850 bound
I volumes have been added during the
past year, there having been 4,S22 en-
tries In the cOpyrightdepartment.
I Not many months ago, a municipal
Paris deputatiou went TO London to ex-
anime the underground railway. IL
has now been decided to build SINH
lar network under Paris at cost OF
$50, 100000 francs. The Seine viii be
crossed by two tunnels, one for up line,