Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-08
BRIEFS.

7 -rour brlIlsh NJ. rs are 50 and
, upward.
, -Meliksh has accepted the Premi-
ership of Russis.
-Boston's area has increased from
71s to 23. 6ol acres.
The salary OF the Emperor of
Russia is SIC, ,O00 600.
Victor Hugo has 1886, ,OOO inter
est In Brussels bank.
-Lpcusts have devoured the rice
and corn crops of Bolivia.
Fishes have been taught to come
when called by their names.
. The Jews talk of erecting nation
al synagogue in Washington.
A female spider will suffer death
before she will forsske her eggs.
|, Illinois reports an increased acre
age and a damage of ~ per cent.
1t costs the United States $50 O1O
per annum TO print It's postage stamps.
The Pope Monument Fund now
amounts 10 about five thousand dol
lars.
The Inhabitants OF the globe pro-
Tess more than 1000 different reIig
ions.
Sixty tons of steel are annually
consumed in the manufacture of steel
pens.
The King OF Portugal has made
s29. 900 OUT of his tran-lation of Shake
spesre.
The governor of New York has
Issued proclamation forbidding Bt-
teries.
The total number of languages and
dialects spoken in the world amounts
10 1904.
The lower house OF the Michigan
legislature defeated a woman suirrago
resolution.
An elephant does not attain It's
Iull growth until he is sixteen or eigh-
teec years old.
| "A Few Florida farmers who have
planted arrowroot make as much a
81 600 on an acre.
Judge Lambert Tree, who is worth
81 900, is said TO be Chicago's
weathiesE man.
| The largest orange ever raised In
Florida is said TO have measured five
inches In diameter.
Missouri and Kansas report large
4
age than was expected,
Over 1000 printing presses have
0een shipped from Philadelphia 70
france since the Centennial.
"A % 900 acre tract of land on til
Northern Pacific has been bought f.
tcoiony from Belfast, Ireland.
1t is estimated that this years In
ternai Revenue receipts will exceed
those oil last year by sl0,000,000.
According to the bureau of statis-
Iies, TINS country consumes, annually.
about 324, ,OO0. 900 pounds of coffee.
English farming lands have de-
preeiated within few years in rental
value at least So per acre per annnm.
The richest man In the navy il
Commodore Baldwin, who has specu-
lated In real estate in San Francisco.
Lord BeaconsfeId died with ona
manu- In that of two peers whom he had
created. No relative was in the room.
The number of deaths from starys
tlon and of deaths accelerated by pri
yation, in London, during 1880, was
l0l.
-lnelana reports the same acreage
IN winter wheat this season as last.
ana damage TO the crop of y per
cent.
England raises about 80 900. .OOs
pounds OF wool per year, and Imnorts
upwards OF 45O,OO0,O00 pounds per
annam.
Florida oranges have been put into
the British market and are pronounced
inner In quality than those of Spain or
Portugal.
Among the Easter charities of the
Pope were the gift OF 100 beds to the
poorest families In Rome, and presents
10 QUO families of at least ten francs
each.
-Miehigan's last apportionment OF
funds for the primary schools amounts
to so55 234 49, which gives 81, ,O6 to
each child.
Two Boston Hotels, which last
summer paid So ton tor their Ice, have
TINS year contracted for their supply
at s2.25 per ton.
The Indian Commissioners con-
tracted in New York the other dav for
2O,OOO,0 200 pounds of beef for Indians
at s3.44 per cwt.
-General Sherman's ONLY son
Thomas. was recently admitted TO the
catholic priesthood by Archbishop
Gibbons, OF Baltimore.
Montpelier, the home of Pre.idsnt
James Madison, in Orange county.
virginia, Is advertised to be sold at
auction In July next.
The twenty-Sourth birthday ot
Beatrice Mary Victoria Feolore. the
Youngest daughter of Queen Victoria.
has just been celebrated.
Out of 2 200 railroads in the eoun-
try TO which blank reports have been
sent from the census Bureau, over
4Oo failed to make any return.
The new capital at Albany, y. Y.
requires at least 81 100000 TO put the
dnishing touches upon it, and &c will
then have cost at least sl5 ,00O, ,001.
1t is said that Queen Victoria will
Visit italy In June, accompanied by
her sOr Leopold, with q view of re-
crulting the health OF the Prince.
One of the four known copies of
the first complete edition of MOliere's
works. volumes II no., I673-was
sold at Paris few days ago tor 81 ,92O.
Queen Victoria Is so convinced that
Prince Albert caught the cold which
caused hi, death at Edinburg, that she
has stopped only one night at Holyrood
since that event.
Prince Bismarck is said to have re-
Gently purchased several estates I'M
medlately adjoining the old homestead,
Schoenhausen. thereby increasing its
present area to ] 900 acres.
The United States government has
presented two gold medals to the
Chiefs OF the Indian tribes, on Van
couver island who succored the crew
of wrecked American vessel last sum-
mer.
The United States has more miles
of telegraph lines than any other cOun-
try in the world-l70, 103, comprising
about 300,0 900 miles of wlre-pet in