Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Napoleon L. was great snuff
taker.
Cromwell refused the crown of
England in 1856.
New York was settled in 1913, and
New England In 1920.
-Plcnics were all the rage in the
days Of James 1. of England.
The active army of France this
year will be 49S 497 men.
New York city drinks 100000
quarts of milk daily.
-Pennsvlvania's population is esti-
mated at 4, ,2S2 1856.
Queen Victoria made 81 GOO on
stock farming last year.
The yield of corn in France for
1879 was 23i, 16S, $40 bushels.
There are only twenty-four match
factories in the United States.
-Mince pie was discovered in 1896.
Dyspepsia was discovered in 1897.
The number of Indians in the
United States is estimated at 275, 900.
: The State of wInconsin produced
last year l6, ,000. 900 pounds of tobacco.
Richard Ill. was killed at the bat
tie OF Bosworth Field in the year 1855.
English capitalists are going to
build a railway through Syria to
India,
The census gives Wyoming terri
tory 467 ,SS4 head of cattle and 332 ,56S
sheep.
There are engaged in the COhnec-
tlcut oyster trade !, 900 men and 81, ,500,-
900 of capital.
The value of last years cranberry
crop on Cape Cod is estimated at $780,
600 to $3.50. 600.
In Lisbon, in I755, $1,000 people
perished by an earthquake in the space
of six minutes.
There are over twenty-five Sena-
tors who are said TO be worth more
than $500, 900 each.
The amount of revenue raised last
year by the protective tariff on steel
rails, was s2l, ,70J. 900.
There was shipped from the Black
Hills during the year just closed So
7SS 300 worth OF bullion.
The total number of Methodists in
the United States Is 3.4s5. .999. The
number OF ministers is p, ,3O4.
1t takes $1,000 acres growth OF
twenty years old wood to supply the
annual demand tor railroad ties.
"A barrel factory a. asSeymour. Wis,
employs about 500 men, and pays out
SIS, 900 year for raw material.
The first railroad locomotive ran
on the fifth of October, 1929, between
Liverpool and Manchester, England.
The total number of persons who
left Irish ports in 1879 was AZ 1854, an
increase OF 5,73S as compared with 1878.
I'm 1850 the number of luaatics in
England was 3S,05S. Now it Is n, ,19l,
an increase of no less than 81 per cent.
Canada raised 10000, 900 bushels of
barley last season. TINS will afford a
surplus Of 5000, 900 boshels for ship
ment.
-I'he Chicago and Milwaukee Teie-
graph company reports receipts for
the year or 1850, so, gag 17sd dssburse-
menIs OF S14, ,4U6.
About 81, SOC, COO has been expend-
ed on the Mississippi river. aside from
the Jetties, since the form alton of the
government.
Seven hundred thousand women
in France and Italy are employed in
the manufacture OF raw silk from the
cocoon.
North Carolina has less foreigners
among her population than any other
State of the Union, the number being
only 3,67S.
When Gen. Mcclellan retires, New
Jersey will have seven living ex-Goy-
ernors. Oily four Governors have
died since 1912.
The highest price ever paid for
Chicago real estate was S4l25 per in
proved front foot, and the sale was
recently made.
-ShOe-pegs consumed 1OO, 900 cords
OF timber, lasts and boot-trees 100000
cords OF birch, and maple, and the
handles OF tools as much more.
The Russian millionaire Maltseff.
just deceased, has beQ ueathed 5OO. .OUO
roubles (s367 ,OOo) toward establishing
a technical college at Vladimir.
The military prison at Leayen-
worth, Kansas, is reported as having
turned out in the last Ii seal year 25.-
20 pair of boots and 81 ,220 of shoes.
Switzerland produces 1,5OO, 900
watches annually, France 500, 900, the
United States 100000 10 35J, ,OOO, and
England 0,00O-but these last are of
very superior quality.
Texas which commenced raising
wool IN lS45, has now 1000, ,OSO sheep.
ald it is estimated that Montana will
produce 50,OOO, ,0OO pounds of wool in
1881.
About 300, geo new telegraph poles
are used for additions and repairs
every year. each pole representing a
tree, while 100000 cords OF wood
were burned up in brick-making.
The total amount of letters passing
through the mails last year was 512,-
93l 900 postal cards, l63 ,049, 900; news
papers, 496, ,7O6 900; pieces OF all classes
,5U5 ,5O3, 200.
Ex-Governor Washburn, of Wiscon-
sin, who has been suffering from a
stroke of paralysis, is gradually i'm
proving. 1t Is expected he will leave
Lacrosse, Wis for Minnesota In 4
week or ten days.
On the 1st of January, of a total of
lS3. .942 commissioned Off ers and
men in the British army, 123, ,793 were
English, ALSO Scotch, $3.50 Irish,
1859 were born in India or the colo
MES, 2, 1861 were foreigners, and 4,O9I
are returned as "not reported"
The consumption OF beer in the
United States has more than doubled
since 1870. In 1870 1t was 6,574 900
barrels; in 1SS0 tax was paid on I3, 349,-
900 barrels.
superintendent Walker says that
the cost of taking the census of 1850 is
probably 81 2,0S0, COO. This is about four
cents piece tor every man, woman
and child in the United States.
Last year 8, ,759, ,743 gallons of wine
and l33, 764 gallons Of brandy were re-
ceiyed at San Francisco from the in
terror of California, against 3,264 ,6J7
gallons of wine and SO, SOC gallons of
brandy in 1879.
1t is estimated that there are l.
900, 600 acres cultivated in jute each
year in India, employing l ,35O, 300 per-
sons In its culture and in the manufac-
ture of gunny bags. The United States
import $4,000, 600 lbs. annually.