Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-10
NO. 3.
NEWS IN BRIEF

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lished two houses which offer a night
home to shop girls.
Gen. Sheridan is going buffalo
hunting on the plains with divers Aus
trians of most mountainous rank.
st. Gobain, of Paris, will exhibit
/ in the Exhibition of 1873 mirror
thirty-six feet high aud twelve feet
wide.
I'm october, 1877, electors of Colo
radO will vote upon the question of
comforting the right of suffrage upon
women.
-Sixty-two islands belonging to the
State Of Maine were sold at auction
last week, and brought only little
over 81 800.
There are 325 students at Vassar
this year, a considerable falling OFF;
but it gives the girls more room TO trail
their skirts.
The business men of Rochester,
Minn., have subscribed ST., 700 toward
the establishment Of a reaper factory
in their city.
"A Nevada man who was shot ia
1852 carried the bullet in one of his
lungs till a few days ago when he died
from its effects.
The sum of 81 800 is offered in New
York as nucleus of a fund for the
erection of statue in honor of Alex
ander Hamilton.
-Barzaghi' colossal equestrian statue
Of Napoleon III. has just been east. Ii
is TO be set up Z. one of the public
squares of Milan.
"A New York critic speaks of re-
membering Garrick. The great actor
died in l719, so we are ready TO hear of Il
typographical error.
"A gentleman offers to build flour
ing-mill with capacity of So barrels
day in Trempeleau, Wis. if the citi-
zens will loan him $4,000.
The Oxford University Rowing
Club, has declined the challenges Of
Yale and Cornell clubs to four-oared
race on the Thames next August.
But ten miles of the Boston aud
Albany road are without steel rails. Ir
requires less than half the work iron
rails demand 10 keep them in order.
A search for the cause of the stop
page of North Haven (Ct.) drain, re-
Gently. discovered 26l striped snakes,
which had chosen it for winter quar-
tiers.
Reno, Nevada, has a monthly rev.
enue of four hundred dollars for gamb-
ling licenses. 1t is suggested that the
X ought to be made X in the name of
the tOwn.-BOSt0n Atlrsrtissr.
"A little eight year old Baltimore
girl slipped ard fell while playing,
when slate pencil she held in her
hand penetrated her chest and entered
her lungs. She is likely to die.
In single district of Japan sew
enty-One Buddhist temples have been
converted into dwelling-hOuses since
1873, and during the last six years up
ward of six hundred have thus been
diverted from religious use.
Ole Bull, the violinist, is giving
concerts in Maine. lie has dropped
the familiar word farewell from his
programmes, a word he began to use as
early as 1852, when he gave a concert
with Adelina Patti in Chicago.
Baron Alfonso de ROthschild owns
Noltaire's snuff box, cane and waist
coat. Princess CzartOryska has the
ring Queen Elizabeth gave Essex, and
an English gentleman possesses that
found on Seipio Africanus' finger
A Massachusetts firm has had an
order for p, 900 barrels OF pickled fish
from Germany. the AndTOscOggin Pulp
company, of Maine, is filling an order
I from London, and the COntine ntal
mills are making sheetings for China.
1t is reported that there is to be
( fresh exodus from Russia of Mennon-
[ ties, $4,000 of whom desire to settle
either in Brazil or the United States.
Six delegates have gone Oinspect lands
offered them by the Brazilian Govern
ment.
/ -Chauncey F. Greer has presented
/ the Jackson Democratic Association of
Washington with two miniatures-One
/ of Andrew Jackson and another of Mrs.
I JacksOn-which were painted i'm 1875,
by Mrs. X. Hill, a sister of MIR. Greer's
father.
/ Frank Whetts, a colored ceutena-
rian, aged III years, was one of the
/ guests at his granddaughter wedding
at Pittsburg, the other day. He not
only says he was born on January 10,
1866, but has documentary evidence TO
prove IL.
| 1t is stated that Mrs. Pamela Brown
wife of General jacob Brown, the
victor with Scott At Lundy's Lane, in
the war of 1872, is still living. She l.
now ninety-eight years of age. and re-
sides with her daughter, Mrs. Evarts,
at Rye, y. Y.
George Cook, Of AnsOnia, Connec-
tieut, before going out TO play, put
some parlOr matches and powder in
his trousers pocket. Then he fell
down, the matches igniIed, the powder
flashed, his clothes blaZed, and his life
was saved with difficulty.
George Blair, president of the New
York state wOrkingmen' assembly, es-
Inmates that there are now out of EN-
ployment in New York city 5000
workmen, including 5000 common
laborers; and he asserts that their fam
iiies, in many cases, are on the verge
of destitution.
The lowest temperature in the
Arctic seas recorded by Capt. Ross in
1s20, was 30 deg. below zero; by DIR.
Kane in 1858 20 deg; by DR.. Hayes in
1861, 6Si2 deg; by Capt. Mares in 1876,
~ deg. A Russian traveller named
Niveroff once registered y deg. at
Yakoutsk, Siberia.
J 1t is reported that the King of the
Belgians has offered a cup valued at
500, 900 to that corporation or assOcia
tion which shall bring about such an
alteration in the construction OF dwell
ing houses as will effect in a given
: time, and at the lowest cost, the great
est reduction of the death rate.
King John, OF Abyssinia, has ap-
, pointed Major Barlow, a British officer
, to be GeneralissimO of all his forces,
with suitable rank. The new General
issimo will be the first European who
, has ever commanded a native force of
| Abyssinians. Col Gardiner Montgom-
, cry has been offered the appointment
, of chief of the staff.
, Francisco Xavier, 4 monk Of the
Trappist order, is about to establish a
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