Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-09-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

During the month Of July the New
York police captured sixteen runaway
boys. from Boston and vicinity.
The consumption of coffee through
out the world has increased during the
past forty years from 190, 900, 600 TO $780,
coo 900 poundsS I4l
Daniel Lawrence, rich distiller,
who died at MedfOrd, Mass, recently
left $1,000 to the town of TynRsbOrO,
Mass. for poor fund. y-F
Fourteen cups of Sevres china will
be offered in competition by the French
War Office to the societies of carrier
pigeon breeders.
1t is estimated that the Minnesota
wheat crop will yield an average Of If
teen bushels To the acre, or altogether
A ,0O0, 900 bushels In the State.
There are four hundred and fifty
lady dentists in the United States, and
three times as many learning the busi-
ness. ~ a-7@Af -
The number Of convicts In 1878 In
all the State prisons of the Union was
29, 1877, of whom 13, 1856 were employed
in mechanical industries.
The amount of lumber on hand at
the different points on the SusQuehanna
is represented as larger this year, at
this season, than for years past at the
same time. 4
The Pennsylvania Railroad has
cree ed gas works near the Union De-
pot, Pittsburg, for the manufacture of
gas TO be used in the depot and on the
cars. -.7.i. ,ff1
-Gadshill Place, Higham, the resi-
dence of the late Charles Dickens, and
which has been for a long time I'm the
market, has at length found a purchaser
in Captain Austin Budden, OF the
Twelfth Kent Artillery. iy slr
The export of American beer was
valued at $780, last year, against
$50, 900 in 1874. The inpOrGations. on
the contrary, have fallen off very large
ly, being 2.l67, ,25l gallons I'm 1875,
against 767 ,7J9 gallons in 1878.
In recognition of the labors of rrO-
fessor GreisC, of the Law Faculty Of
Berlin. President Hayes has transmitted
TO the Professor, through Mr.. Everett,
a collection Of volumes on the history
of Jurisprudence. .-
"A woman was drinking milk from
a cup in Paris on the 28Ch OF June, at
6 o'clock in the morning. The light
ming knocked he cup from her hands,
but left her unhurt. The cup could
not be found.
Three of the surviving descendants
of Massasoit, the noted Indian, Mrs.
Mitchell and her two daughters, are
passing the summer in camp aC Betty's
Neck, tract of land up the shores of
Assawampsett Pond, in Massachusetts.
The national debt 10 now about ST.
304 ,000, 900, which bears interest Us fol-
lows, in round numbers; per cent.
$l4 ,000, 200; four per cent, $650, 900 600;
4 y per cent, $3.50, ,00O, 900; 5 per ceut.,
$500, ,0O0; per cent, $3.50, ,O0O, 900; no
iuTeresr. $4O0. .000, 600.
Ten years ago the expectation Of
leather TO Europe was first STATED as
an experiment. Since then the trade
has grown TO %, ,0O0, 900 pounds valued
at 81 ,000, ,000) per annum, with an in
crease for the first six months Of this
year of 1 200, 900 pounds .5l
The Chicago elevators contain at
the present time 1885, ,273 bushels OF
wheat, 2, ,95S, ,576 bushels Of corn, 154 ,2l9
bushels of oats. 5000 bushels OF rye,
and rs, $50 busnels of barley, making a
grand total OF 5,775, ,09S bushels, against
1,570, ,055 bushes at this period last year.
In Paris and it's suburbs there are
more than Is 900 people who live by
rag-picking or rag-selling. There are
10000 chiffonniers who go about cOllec-
JIng scraps OF rags or paper, and 5000
old clothes dealers who BUY rags, and
who again employ 1900 wOrkmen.
In New South Wales last year the
sum of 81, ,70S, ,4S5 was expended upon
primary education. Teachers salaries
absorbed $7a9, 800. There were in Oper-
alton l ,1S7 schools, attended In the ag-
gregate by 12s, 125 pupils. Since 1877
there has been an increase of seventy
schools. Ten years ago there were only
642 schools. eaE
The Boston Fish Bureau has just
completed statistics of the catch of
mackerel, the receipts and imports from
January l to August 1, The New
England catch OF mackerel for that
time is 81, ,763 barrels, of which 1914
barrels have been packed out at Boston,
Il, ,49O barrels at Gloucester and 80, ,94l
at all other New England ports.
"A mile is 5,2s0 feet, or 1,760 yards
in length. A fathom is six feet. A
league is three miles. ASabbath Days
Journey is 1,155 yards less than two
thirds of u mile. A days journey is
32% miles. A cubit is two feet. a.
hand (norse measure) Is four inches.
A palm is three inches. A span Is 10%
inches. A space is three feet.
of IL, 900 guns constructed by Herr
Krupp at his works at Essen during
the last twenty-three years only sixteen
have burst, and nearly all of these were
destroyed during trials undertaken TO
test their power of resistance or endur-
ance, and when, consequently, they
were loaded with charges heavier than
they were designed to fire.
-Thirty-two American horses arriv-
ed at HaYre recently for the French
cavalry. They were inspected by
French officers detailed for the purpose,
and were all accepted at prices ranging
from 1920 TO $270, which are The top
prices Tor French remOunts. The hOr-
ses were in splendid condition after
their voyage, no accidents whatever
having occurred on board ship.
The immigration statistics at Cas-
tie Garden, New York, give the number
OF arrivals of migrants during July at
2,4O8, against 1922 in July, 1878. The
total arrivals since January are 6S, 300,
an increase of p, 800 over the same per-
iod last year. The records of each
month show an increase, that in May
being the greatest, when there were
1929 arrivals, against IL ,450 in May,
1878.
Mrs. Damaris Boutelle has just died
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