Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-LDUuOu HAS utiiC HtOAN'
sional brokers.
There were about $50 suicides in the
United States in 1876.
-westborough. Mass, makers have
sold about 5000 sleighs this winter.
over 100000, cigars are daily
burned in this country. No insurance.
Florida citizens are taxed, on an
average, $50 piece.
The Harvard freshmen have chal-
lenged Yale to an eight-oared race.
The coal miners of Brazil, Ind, are
ciamoring for an increase of wages.
Last year the English Life Boat In
stitution saved 1875 lives, besides res
cuing Is vessels.
The kindergarten system has been
introduced in the Government schools
for girls in China.
Demonstrating partridges is new
and profitable branch OF industry In
North Carolina.
AT her recent Moscow benefit Patti
received 800 bouquets, spTinhled with
$50, 900 worth of diamonds.
Arnold, the writing-huid man, has
FAsOtOrNNO IL AfithN NhN -fA
of an ink-come to have.
Rev. Anna Oliver has taken charge
of a Methodist Church at Passaic, y. j.
which has debt OF 100000
"A lemon tree at Stamford, Fla, pro-
duced 5000 lemons last year, some Of
which weighed a pound each.
During the past five years Califor-
MIA has exported nearly 100000 gal
Ions of wine valued at over $4,000, 600.
Miss Emily Peyton has been
second time elected enrolling clerk OF
the Tennessee House of Representa-
tives.
Cumberland county, Va, is infested
with beavers, which are ousily engaged
in building their habitations along the
rivers.
There are four lay preachers in the
British House of Commons-Sir Watkin
Williams and Iessrs. Blake, Waddy and
Allen.
A magnificent vase, four feet high,
aud cut from a single piece of agate, mas
been sent to the Mikado by the Emperor
of Russia
The gold production of Montana
since the discovery of the mines in 1868.
is calculated by an authority in that
Territory at $4,000, coo.
"A Detroit restaurant keeper hangs
out a sign of ''free chops" and when
the old loafers come around he shows
them an axe and wOodpile.
The biggest sail in the world has
just been made in Dublin. It il rectan
gular in shape and in size $50 by 60. IL
will be used in raising sunken vessels
Hard as the times are, one cham
pagne firm in Rheims exported to this
country last year over IS 900 dozen, Oh
which the Government received S22S,-
000 in duties.
The 5000 grasshopper prize offered
by the Minnesota Legislature has in-
spired genius who proposes to destroy
the insect by raising net by balloonsa a
quarter of a mile apart.
AT least 100000 tons Of ice were
shipped from the Kennebec and its
tributaries the past year. The sales are
reported to have averaged 81 per ton,
and at this figure a million dollars was
realized for the cold product.
| The Catholic Directory for 1877 re-
ports the number of Catholicchurehes in
this country As 1922, and the number OF
priests as 5,297, while the congregations
10 whom they minister are estimated at
6,200,0O0.
! Jewish silver Shekels have lately
\ been found near Jerusalem. belonging
10 the time of Simon Maccabeus, Il. G.
IA. Ga one side they have the cup OF
mamma, and ON the other the budding
rod of Aaron
| Boston covers an area of 81 square
miles, has 364 miles OF streets, and it,
population is 81, 900 In 1860 its pOpu-
lation was 17S, 200, the city covered AZ
square miles, and had lO2 miles "a
streets
DR.. G. ii. f. Peters, the indefatiga-
BILE astronomer of Litchfield Observa-
tory, Hamilton College, is gathering
quite family of planets about him. The
twenty seventh addition 70 his family
circle OF asteroids is announced.
Mr.. George Jack of Chester county.
Pa, has drove of turkeys numbering
nearly eight hundred. They were Pur-
chased i'm Southern Ohio, shipped By
railroad to Newark, Del, and driven
from there to Mr.. Jacks residence, a
distance of twenty-five miles.
Edwin Booth and Sothern have each
given $500 to the fund for the erection
off Shakespeare memorial hall in STRAIT
ford-On-AvOn. OF the sum required,
fl0,0 900, (the land is gif) 5000 has
been subscribed, and Prince Leopold
will lay the cornerstone on April 23rd-
-SaatO Monica, California, ''the
Long Branch of the Pacific" was laid
out in town lots but sixteen months
since, and now there are in the town
over three hundred buildings and eight
, hundred inhabitants, with S2O,OOt
hotel, public school building and two
church edifices.
The Queens state saloon on The
Great Western railway, England, is
made entirely of boiler plate, and sC
lined and padded that if the carriagt
} were to 90 over an embankment anC
roll to the bottom, the chances are tha
the occupants would escape uniniured
f Mrs. Lena OrtOn, OF Lanesville
Conn, In order TO prevent quarrel
among her heirs after her death, ha
adopted the expedient Of dividing ;
large part of her property among them
She has already distributed in this wal
= more than one hundred and forty thou
= sand dollars.
e The Massachusetts census repOr
a for 1875 contains some curious findings
For instance, there are lO6 ''ladies" il
: the state and POS gentlemen, and ther
1 are five ''old Irish gentlemen" Their
b are nine gamblers" three 'hermits,
three ''loaiers," ten pedestrians" an
one 'prize fighter"
Storey county, Nevada, is one o
h the richest counties in the United States
II The bonanza mines are situated IN il
and they yield their product Of wealt
o every month with invariable uniform
e ity. Its yield of gold and silver. buI
r. lion for the quarter ending Septembe
# Both was S,742 400.
= The Freemasons of England sup
II port three charities, one of which paw
v annuities to aged Masons and widows
; while the other two are schools TO