Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-28
NO. 3S.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The first lucifer match was made in
1929.
The first balloon ascent was made in
17s3.
-Thimbles were an invention of the
Dutch.
The first iron steamship was built
: in 1880.
. The Ohio State fair made a profit of
$40, 900.
King Kalakaua has left Paris for
London.
Senator Edmunds is said to be fall
ing in health.
Queen Mary is said to have died of
broken heart.
-Petards were invented by the HUI
guenots In 1916.
There are 331 different styles of
bicycles now In use.
"A Protestant church has been OPEN
ed at Oaxaca, Mexico.
The net profits of the Cunard line
last year were 1866, 200.
1t is estimated that there are seven
millions of Jews in the world.
-Tesmer, German physician, first
advocated mesmerism In 1866.
The vellum of book bindings began to
} be stamped with designs in 1910.
Iowa has 400 creameries, whose
machinery is valued at Sl.000,000.
Christian TX. of Denmark is about
to visit Russia, Germany and France,
Archibald Forbes is coming to
America on "a farewell lecture tour
Indiana shows up, for 1881, 3, 16O,-
700 acres of corn and 3, 179, ,075 of wheat
There are 10000 seeds of oats in
pound and CSC, 400 seeds of white clover
-Cadmus brought the invention of
letters from Syria to Greece about 2549
A. NJ
The Gar, Alexander H., it is said,
left S25, ,0O0,0O0 on deposit in London
banks.
Louisiana has a school population
of 290, ,O36. OF this number 139, ,657 are
colored
Queen Isabella of Spain is staying
at Spa, where she styles herself Princess
Isabella.
According TO DIR. Gunther there are
1000 species of fish now known to men
of science
The TRANSMISSION of the blood of one
body into that of another was first at
tempted in 1867.
| One pound of iron, worth 81 ster-
ling, when made into watch-springs is
worth ESQ, 900.
In 1779 the British peerage con-
tanned q dukes, and in 1872 precisely
the same number.
Mr.. Gladstone has one daughter
married. Her husband is Head Master
of Wellington College.
Mr.. Charles Nordhoff while in Eu-
rope visited the field of Waterloo, where
his father fought under Blucher.
| For some time after the Norman
invasion slaves comprised part of the
exports from England to foreign ports.
1t is said that CASTOR County, n.
c., contains more whisky distilleries
than any other county in the United
States.
The small-arm factory at Enfield
was established in January, 1857. In
ten years the number of arms made was
616,S 1928.
There are Is, ,516 Christian converts
in China. The gain during the last three
years has been at the rate of forty-two
per cent.
Scotland derives 81 500, 900 per
annum as rental for sporting grounds.
The Duke of Westminster pays $4,000
for one tract.
L
/ During the last six months there
were, according to the official statistics,
63 murders and 50 robberies in the beau
tiful island of Sicily.
The United States army of q. 900
men have a medical staff of some 200.
The navy, with 5000 men, has a medi-
cal staff of about ZOO.
John B. Raymond of Fargo, Dakota,
says that he has harvested this season
$50, 900 worth of wheat from a farm that
cost him $50, 900 year ago.
The value of the annual product of
gloves at Glovers lille and Johnstown,
N. Y, it is said approximates SS,OOO,-
900 and is constantly increasing.
MIR. Gladstone is reading the Re-
vised New Testament in connection with
the Greek text, in order to satisfy him
self as to the work of the translators.
The greatest length of the United
States from east to west is $500 miles;
greatest breadth from north to south,
l 800 miles /; average breadth, 1900
miles.
The coinage of the United States
Mint at Philadelphia during the month
Vrxtx &-I a.
valued at $500, 200. OF this amount
300, 900 pieces were silver dollars and
$40, 900 cents.
The improved Industrial Dwellings
Company of London has Just paid 5
per cent dividend, and il was stated that
the death rate ON their premises was
167 in the Thousand, against % 4 in
London generally.
John Hancock's chair, in which
Declaration of Independence now stands
in st. Paul's church at Norfolk, Va. 1t
was built for large man, which John
was by all measurements.
The State debts amount to $780,
632, 900, an increase of only little over
fifty millions since 1852. In 1870, how
ever, the State debts were 1852, $3.50, 900,
and the large decrease is owing chiefly
to scaling and repudiatlon.
In the last 16 years more than $780,
OO0, 900 has been paid ON account of the
national debt of the United States. The
sum total of the national debt Interest
bearing and non-interest bearing) re-
manning is g., ,043, 424, ,946.36.
There are 1902 public houses and
4, 425 beer houses in London. During
1880, 29, 1913 persons were apprehended
for drunkenness. OF these. Is, ,99S were
males aud 13, $40 were females. The
Taverege of arrests for drunkenness seems
to be diminishing.
The assessed valuation of real and
personal property in the United States
illustrates our raniditv of growth in n