Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-01-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

st. Louis population is 33s,0O0.
Melbourne has population of 286,
600.
There are 25O, 900 head of cattle in
Nevada
Cardinal MoClosky is seventy-one
years old.
There have been destructive floods
in England
Austin. Texas is to have capital,
costing 81 $4,000
Two thousand cabinet makers OF
Paris have ruck.
The State of South Carolina has
2,973 public schools.
There are 949 students at Queens
University, Dublin.
There are ut least l00, 900 idle young
men in New York city.
There are about 5000 Indians in
extreme southern California.
I'll g earl of Beaeonsfield Is visit
ing the Queen at Windsor castle.
The Recalling Railroad rolling mill
is turning out 81 tons of rails per day.
-DurJng the tiscal year ended June
-, 1880, IS, ,439 Canadians ctme TO the
United States.
-Buenos Ayres has been selected as
The dstinite capital OF the Argentine
Confederation.
in England there are 300 science
AMI art schools, with an attendance OF
CD, coo students.
Mary Anderson purchased 5000
worth of diamonds curing a recent
visit to ST. Louis.
There are In the United States 72i
paper mills, n aking $40 tons day Of
all kinds OF paper.
The Government Of the Argentine
Republic offers to make q lsnd-grans
ior an Irish colony.
N early one-eighth OF the CONNER
cial population OF The city of Boston Is
composed ut shop girls.
Washington Territory possesses
20, ,OOO, ,0OJ acres ''of the finest timber
land on the face OF the earth"
The total value OF the property oc-
cupied by the religious orders In Paris
amouHIs in all u 1l6 500, 90 francs.
The Boston and Providence Rail-
road made ! SI22, l19 the past year above
expenses, and paid s per cent, In
dividends.
The first settlement of Mennonites
In Minnesota was made in 1876. Three
yesrs latter the community numbered
:, 2,Sil members.
Buddhism is rapidly losing its hold
in Japan. Since 1873, in a single
district, IL temples have been diverted
ID secular IseS.
Senator Thurman, 1t is reported,
intends TO live permanently iu Wash
ington and practice at the bar of the
Court.
There are in the United Stales 3i3,-
SIS miles of postal routes, which, in
ali expenses, cost annually
about s32 .0O0,0J0.
The geographical center of the
United States is AZ 95 deg. AK min.
west longitude. which is abJuc the
vicinity of Omaha.
Carnage building has become one
of the great American industries. The
Trade employs $4,000 men and they
noid an annual convention.
Tiffany s. Co., OF New York, have
just received u FELLOW diamond valued
is ~ carats heavier than the kohinoor.
There are now In use in New q "a
land 1000 reaping machines, and more
than loo thra,hing machines, of
which 374 are worked by steam power.
Oshkosh has the largest match
factory i'll the world. In one year 2,
OOO, 600 ieet OF logs were consumed aud
500 100 worth OF revenue stamps
used.
The number of yearly thorough
breds from the great breeding e.tab-
lIshment OF England sold during the
past year aggregated 45l, the progeny
OF liz sires.
1t is said that the British Foreign
Gund the tl2 ,000 advanced 10 him as
his ransom from the brigands who had
hun.
The remains of Simon Snyder, who
was governor of Pennsy lvania from
lSOS 10 1917, lie in a church-yard In
in that State, unmarked
oy monument or tablet.
The Mormon temple at Salt Lake
City has Oeen i'll course of construction
,Or twenty years, and Is not yet finish
Ell. lI it built OF Ulah granite and Its
total cost will be over SIS, ,00O, 900.
The Nuns In the convent at Manila
spent one year in the making of n
piece of lace from tie fibres of the
and their work is on exhi-
Dition at The Art Loan in Washington.
The Patent Office has a surplus
revenue OF $500, 900 annually. To this
p h. =
the number of patents taken out last
year was 10000, the average TAX was
sl0.
In the last week OF October the
wrecks in Europe were almost unpre-
cedented in number. The approximate
value of the property lost is put a.
So, 900, 900, OF which S15, 600 ,0OO was
BRUSH.
The Emperor William of Germany
mas been during the past year earning
the gratitude UI the arch8 Jlogists. He
mas betrayed from his own private
purse tho expenses OF the excavations
al Olympia.
"A silver vault, to be Is by II feet,
and 10 cost $500, is to be built in the
Baltimore Custom House. There are Il.
present In the sub Treasury there ST.
Al t3j IS IN fractional silver, and Dut
LIS, ,5l6 gold coin.
The Prince of Wales rides about q
great deal in private hanson cab
which has many comfortable Improve
neuts. Among these Is a travelling
clock with u luminous dial-face set in
tie centre OF the splash-board.
Baltimore Is 10 have a direct line
OF SIX steamers TO Liverpool for the
Of her cattle trade, the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad agreeing
10 furnish the freight, while Eaglisn
capitalists Will provide the steamers.
The registration OF women quali-
fled u vote for school committee az
the Boston municipal election shows
that interest IN the suffrage qustion il
declining. The number this year is
772, laiiing of OF 2l7 from the regis
try OF 1879.
According to statistics made By one
VINO has AN opportunity Of knowing,
4 here are Z OH mn milk caul IN -.