Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-17
NO. Al.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The bell OF the Congregational
Church at Newton, Ct, mas been used
III years.
ings In England and Scotlln pro-
duced s4l0, 600.
The citizens of Lebanon, Tenn,
have subscribed $50, 200 toward the
payment of the State debt.
The French sea fisheries were more
successful last year than the year be-
fore, to the extent of 1921 ,625.
1t is estimated that seventy years
and 81 200, 900 will be required TO COM
plete the excavations at Pompeii.
A company with 100000 capital
has, been organized to open swim
ming school in Boston next April.
"A white oak tree in Washington
county, Pa, when sawed produced one
thousand and eighty feet of lumber,
There are more than 10, 900, 600 ear
wheels in use in the United States. The
average life of a wheel is eight years.
Plus TX. prescribed in his will his
burial place and that more thln e&OO
should be expended on the monument
above it.
"A new university has been founded
in Liverpool, England. Subscriptions
TO the amount of $40, 600 have been
received.
Three hundred and two thous and
seven hundred and thirty-nine per-
sons visited the Pittsburg Exposition
this year.
The gold yield in New South Wales
in 1878 was not one-tenth of that of
twenty years ago. The yield of coal
increases.
An International Sanitary Con-
gress will be held at Washing ton in
January. 1881, under the auspi ces OF
Government.
Two AMI halt million of tropical
oranges were received in the past six
months at San Francisco from the
French Islands of Tahiti.
An estate in Australia which for
merly supported 10000 sheep, has
been abandoned on account of the
devastation caused by the rabbits.
The Massachusetts Historical SOci-
ETY. has given 800 toward the erection
of monument in London over the un-
marked grave of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Jerusalem existed 700 years before
Rome was founded, 800 yea : before
the siege of Troy, and 500 years before
the hanging gardens of Babylon were
built.
The value of the textile products
produced in the United Kingdom il
s775, 900, 900; United States, 420 000, geo;
France, s340, 900, 900, and Germany,
$240, ,000.O0
The Baroness Burdett COutts' sis
ter, Mrs. Clara Maria Moneys son,
have been allowed to use the surname
Coutts in addition to aud after Money
and 10 bear the arms of COutts.
Two American army officers, Lieu
tenants Birnie and B.xby, have re-
ceived the Cross of the Legion of Honor
at Paris, for assisting at the recent
manoeuver of the French army.
There are now over 10000 sheep
in Laramie county, Wyoming, which
is an increase of 35 per cent over last
year. The clip of wool in that county
for 1880 amounted 100000 pounds.
Professor Watson, the astronomer,
is erecting an observatory, 10 cost $4,000,
at his own expense, at Madison, Wis.
He proposes to search particularly for
the inner Mercurial planet Vulcan.
John Wannamaker. the rich mer-
chant of Philadelphia, Pa, is the super
intendent of the largest Presbyterian
Sunday-schOol in the United States.
containing more than 10000 children.
The Marquis OF Salisbury's brother
Lord A. Cecil, has been appointed Loco
,Ea., "a Of hn
Eastern Railway. He has been in the
engineering department of the Great
Eastern X Iilway for some years
The consumption of cotton has in
creased in the South from l29, ,lS9 bales
in 1876 to 22l ,3S1 bales in 1850. The
capital invested in cotton manufactures
in the South receives larger profits
than in the same line in the North.
MIR. Simon Cameron, who Is 4
Presbyterian, has presented TO Lu-
theran congregation in Pennsylvania
house and land for parsonage, as
memorial of mis- wife, Margaret Brua
Cameron, who was devOut Lutheran
-On Michaelmas day, Sept. 30, the
Count de Cnambord was 80. IL was his
nftieth birthday on foreign soil. Last
year l 200 persons on his natal day
dined off dishes boaring legitimIst
names. This year the celebration was
more quiet.
M. Lecard, who has been explOr-
ing in Africa, has discovered on the
banks of the Niger plant which bears
grapes, which he proposes to send to
France to take the place of the vines
which are being devastated by the
| phylloXera-
A carrier pigeon belonging to John
| C.. Haines, of Toms River, n. j., flew
recently the distance of &c miles in an
air line in twenty-four minutes. Ten
other pigeons released at the same mo-
ment reached home a minute later than
their leader
Sir Henry Bessemer has taken out
no less than III patents. The freedom
of the City OF London has just been
conferred upon him. Before his steel
process was introduced into Sheffield,
the entire make OF steel was 81 ,OC0tOns
year; now it Is $50, ,OCO tons
Great Britain and France consume
each about the same quantity
of wool-3S0, ,00O, 900 pounds year
Germany consumes about l65 ,OOO,O ,OOC
pounds; United State, 11O, ,OOO,OO
pounds, and Russia, Austria and othel
countries, 4O0, 600, 900 pounds.
|. The wOoI-clip of the world has in
creased five times since 1880, when i
was about $40, 900. 600 pounds in weight
In 1873, the latest year for which ther,
. are complete figures, Europe produces
, 740, ,0O0, coo; River Platte, 24O, ,OOO, 90
United States, POS, ,0O0, 900, Australia
$50, COT, 900, and South Africa, $4,000,
0O0. making total of l,5s6, ,OOO, ~
|. pounds.
There were sent to the dead-lette
Office at Washington, during the tiscs
4 year ended June 30th, 8, ,353, ,65l letter
i and packages, of which in round nun
bers 2,7O0,0 900 were sent from locs
q post-offices becauscd unclaimed, $50
$ 900 were held for postage, 2o5 900 wer
d misdirected, SO, 900 bore fictitious ut
e dresses and oveI 1900 were not al
dressed at all.