Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-22
NO. 50.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The province of Quebec is sending
! numbers of laborers into the United
States.
1t IS said there are 500 Cinnamon
who have become Roman Catholic
priests,
Our four great timber states are
Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin aud Min
nesOta.
Twenty mills to make paper out of
palmetto are 70 be erected in Florida
shortly.
The Holyoke manufaetory deliver.
ed l5,OUO,OOO postal cards in one week
recently.
The MOravians have sixty-five
churches in America, and about $50 900
members.
An aged female servant at Wind
ermere, England, has fallen heir to
81 800, 900.
The foreign trade of the United
,,ates has increased thirty per cent.
since 1879.
The trotting horse st. Julien has
made profit of SIS, 600 for his owner
this season.
Louis Napoleon was the ruler Of
France from December, lS4S, to Sep
tember, 1870.
The territory of China is nearly
SIX times greater than that Of the
United States.
The American Union telegraph
company has contracted for two new
Atlantic cables.
The Philadelphia mint has been
ordered TO coin SIC, 0,0O0, 900 monthly in
50 and so pieces,
San Francisco has newspapers
printed in ten foreign languages, in
cluding Chinese.
The first bankrupt law enacted by
an American Congress was in 1900; il
was repealed in 1893.
The activity of Mount Vesuyius
Increases. Lava flows abundantly on
the side towards Naples.
To the census bureau from Idaho
are reported 81, 600 sheep, 81, 900 horses
and 45J,UOO head OF cattle.
On the 9Th of August 1860, three hun
dred of Frederick the Greats soldiers
died OF sunstrOke in one day.
Queen Victoria is having a lonely
visit at BalmOral, whence cold weather
mas driven ali but her household.
Two hundred and fifty different
kinds of tacks are manufactured from
brass, copper, zinc, iron and STEEL
The total value of the property oc-
cupied by the religious orders in Paris
amounts in all to ll6, $4,000 francs.
The Furnish Diet has voted annual
subsidy of 6OJ0 ruOles for dive years 10
establish an Italian opera at HelSing-
tors.
Chicago has a sensible ordinance
requiring the use of iron vessels for
ashes, under a penalty OF s. for every
violation.
Cook County Jail. Chicago, on the
charge of murder, OF various degrees
OF atrocity.
The annual production of kerosene
Is now about 1900, 900 gollOns. The
first oil well was sunk nearly twenty
one years ago.
Great Britain owns nearly nine
million square miles of the earth's
surface. The United States own about
three millions.
According TO some statistics pub
lisned in a French journal there are
l ,0S7 $50 married men in France, and
l, ,561 ,OSO married women.
The annual report of the Commits
sioner of Pensions shows that there
were on the Both of June last 2j0, 800
persons on the pension rolls.
Reuben r. Springer, OF Cincinnati,
who contributed so literally to the
foundation of the Music haIl has Just
celebrated his SOth birthday
During the month of October, the
day decreases in length l hr. 81 min.
the sun rising on the 3lst 40 min. later
and setting 81 min. earlier than on the
lst.
The old wooden Putney bridge,
the oldest bridge on the Thames, is to
be replaced with an Iron structure. Ii
was opened for traffic in November,
1929,
1t is reported that 5000 holes
were bored IN the execution of st.
Gothard tunnel, 9SO,O0J pounds of
dynamite consumed, and l.650,00O
drills worn out.
Estimates based npOn reports from
all the parishes of Louisiana give the
total sugar crop of the state as 237 900
hogsheads. and the yield of mOiasses
as -, 900, 900 gallons.
The population of Baltimore for
1880, as corrected, gives a total OF 332,-
100. The males number l57 ,36I; fe-
males, Ia. .S29; native, 276 l76; foreign
5G,0l4; white, 27S, ,4S7; colored, IS, $50.
There are 227 students in the col
legiate department of smith Female
College, at Northampton, Mass, of
whom 30 are seniors, 80 juniors, ~
sophOmOres and 75 in the entering
class.
The richest men in Germany are
the ROthschIlds of Frankfort; krupp,
OF Essen, and Beieh blOder, of Berlin;
and Prince Bismarck is also reckoned
among tie milliOnaires. The number
0f Prussian millionaires is only 1l95.
THE population Of New York City,
according TO the official census report,
is !, ,2O6, ,57S, of which 500, 762 are males,
6l5, ,Sl5 females, 727, ,743 natives, 49,
S3t foreign born, ,lss, ia white, and
~, ,433 cOlOred.
The house in Woodbury., Conn.,, for
merly occupied by Elijah Sherman,
was shingled recently tor the first time
since it was built in 1871. The shingles
were of pine, and some OF them was
in a fair state of preservation when
saken oil.
The Rev. Charles F. Penney. Of
Maine, the leading Prohibition State
of the Union. has competed statistics
showing that in 40 years there nave
been 1856 patients received at the State
Insane Asylum, one-third of whom
were suffering from the effects OF
nabitual inrOxicatiOn-