Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-18
NEWS IN BRIEF

Sir Walter Scott's house in Edin-
burgh was recently sold for sl3, 500.
There are LILO students in the Uni
versity of Michigan at the present time.
The State of Virginia will collect IA
tax of one cent on each drink of liquor
sold at bar.
The butter and egg trade of Web
ster City, Iowa, last season aggregated
nearly 1900.
The New York Open Stock Board
has disbanded, and the Gold Board will
close up May 1st.
There are 99l lighthouse keepers
employed by the United States, at a cost
of $594, 600 per annum.
Over one and half million dozen
eggs were shipped from Nashville dur
ing the month Of February.
Rev. DIR. Houghton has been pastor
of the Little Church Around the Cor
ner" for twenty-seven years.
I'm point of railroad mileage Ger
many heads European countries In
| proportion to area, Belgium.
Fred Grant has been sent to the
State prison Tor burglary, but it was
Fred Grant who lived in Rockland, Me.
George Macdonald, the novelist, has
eleven children, and the boys and girls
alternate regularly through the whole
number.
| General Hancock is to be assigned
to the Southern military district again,
much 10 the satisfaction OF the residents
of Louisiana.
| English capitalists have loaned 10
/ foreign countries total of S335, ,094,-
423, which they are not likely TO get
back again.
The Home for Women, founded in
/ New York by the late A. L. Stewart,
has been fully furnished, and will
shortly be opened.
AT Florence. Arizona, there is res
turant kept by Chinaman, with 8
Mexican wife, negro cook and a white
man for waiter.
A grand ball is to be given in Music
/ Hall, Boston on the 9Th OF April, i'm aid
of the old South Preservation Fund.
! Save the old church.
The German Postmaster General
proposes the Introduction of postal
cards serving for all countries in the
Postal Union, at the price OF one penny
each.
Soup houses are growing In favor
all over Germany, owing To the distress
| caused by business depression and the
resulting hard times among working
| people.
| Mrs. Jackson, of Boston, spends
her time in collecting money with
which 10 redeem articles pawned by
poor people in that city during the past
hard winter.
-Manufactories of wood at Chicago
number 226, with a capital of 81 ,67l 900;
employ 8, ,263 hands, pay s4.OI3, $40 for
wages and produce goods 10 the amount
of SIS, ,s07 900.
/ The Dominion Government is said
/ to have under consideration the ques-
tion of an appropriation TO have Canada
/ properly represented at the Paris Exhi-
bition of 1873.
| There are no less than twenty arte-
sian wells in Meeme, Wis. A fountain
struck last week throws out 5000 gall
Ions per hour, through hole eighteen
/ Inches in diameter.
in England in 1873 iron and steel
rails were selling at els and ED per
ton, respectively; now, they may be
had for 60 IS. and - %. Pig iron has
| fallen 10 less than half its price in 1873.
The old Schuyler mansion at ALBANY,
y. Y, where General Burgoyne was
confined after his surrender at Saratoga,
belongs to the widow of ex-President
| Fillmore, who at present resides In
/ Buffalo.
I "A Baltimore inventor is ruined. He
/ invented a kind of air cushion for
women's bustles, put all his money into
their manufacture, and now change
OF fashion has left the stock valueless on
| his hands.
7 The Prince of Wales has decided to
J place his two eldest sons on the ship-of-
war Britannia, in order that they may be
| subject TO naval discipline. although not
necessarily with the view to adopting
the navy as profession.
"A statistical Partisan boot-maker
has recently given American ladies the
distinction of having the smallest feet
feet by nature among their sex, and from
them he ascends in the order of Spanish.
Italians, Russians and English TO the
Germans.
| The Rhode Island Fish Commits
sioners put l20, 900 salmon and 100000
land-locked salmon into the various
rivers of that State last year, and stocked
| twenty-five ponds with black bass.
I Their efforts in shad culture have proved
very successful.
AT the old Kings Arms Inn. Ian
caster, England, is one of the three
clocks invented and constructed by Ben
Franklin. Ii has three wheels and
strikes the hour. 1t is coon to be sold
with a number of other curious and his
torical objects.
Secretary Schurz can speak fiuently
in the English, German and French
languages, and 1t is said that his gift
causes him a good deal of trouble as II
enables office seekers of three rationale
ties TO weary him with elOquenee in
their native tongue.
1t is estimated that about 10 1000 OF
French revolutionists who participated
in the revolution of the Commune are
now in the United States, of whom
about 1900 reside in New York city.
About 10000 are still held IL. penal SER
vituje at New Caledonia.
Comptroller Hubbard of Connecti-
cut refused to purchase the portrait of
Sir Edmund ADdros, which the Legis-
lature authorized him to buy, on the
ground that the subject was not worthy
State. The Senate sustained him.
MIR. James Irvine, the great sheep
farmer, of Los Angeles county, Califor-
mia, intends to kill thirty-nine thousand
sheep on account of the drought which
prevails in that region. He owns alto
gether about fOrty-five thousand sheep
and one hundred and seven thousand
acres of land.
"A large number of Roman coins and
an enameled brooch, inclosed In hand
some vase, were dug up in London the
other day, by some wOrkmen who were
laying gas pipes. The coins bore in
scriptions which showed them to be OF
the reigns of the Roman EmpeIors be-
tween 81 and l95 a. ID.
Madame BOnaparte, of Baltimore,
is now in her ninety-fourth year, and il
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