Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Germsny has 800, 600, 600 in silver
in circulation.
Cromwell refused the crown Of
England in 1856
-Rerks county hat factories turn out
500 dozen day.
Victor Hugo has a $3S0. COO inter-
est in Brussels bank.
"A Broadway milliner has an in
come of $50, 900 per year.
A Swiss colony is about to settle in
Laurel county, Kentucky.
Dice was invented and used extern
slvely in gambling 800 B. C.j
There are now about forty lady
students in the Harvard Annex.
-Germany has put 2 800 miles of her
telegraph system under ground.
The circulation of the national
banks now amount TO 1852, ,7O0, 900.
1t is said that there are q, 900
feminine farmers in Great Britain.
The Bank of England was founded
in lt94. The capital is GA, ,533 900.
-lncendiarism has been a eapital
ohense in South Carolina since 1873.
The first volume of Gen. Beaure-
CARDS history OF the war is completed.
The number of miles of telegraph
wires In the world is placed at 492 5a3.
About S0e0,0 copie. of the re-
vised Testament have been sold al
ready.
The mileage of telephone wires in
the United States is estimated at 60. 900
miles.
The resignation of Gen. Melikofr
has been accepted by the Emperor of
Russia.
England manages to keep up her
spirits on $4,000, 600 worth of liquor
annually.
The new Texas Capital will cost
81 500, ,OOO, and will be built by Detroit
architect.
The desert interior of Australia
probably affords the hottest elm Ite in
the world.
The population of Prussia is "A the
proportion Of eleven Protestants TO
seven Catholics.
More than 100000 pounds of
honey are produced and sold in this
country annually.
Nebraska has school population
of lf2 ,34S and an enrolment of %. .59l.
with 4, 100 teachers.
Since 1866 1000 divorces have been
granted in Italy, Milan being set down
for no less than S,00e.
The first normal school on this side
Of the Atlantic was established at Lex
ington, Mass, in 1879
Lord Caithness was buried In the
chapel of HolyroOd which, strange TO
say, remaips rOOHess.
jay Cooke has paid ell his creditors
in full and purchased his country seat.
Osontz, near Philadelphia.
In the whole commonwealth of
Massachusetts,, only 4 4,35S women have
voted in the last two years.
The GIFT of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians to the Irish land league
will amount to about SIS 900.
Since gold was discovered In Aus.
trslia in 1851, ore to the value of
81 ,305, ,WO, 900 has been dug out.
Partial records of the live stock in
terests OF Texas show a yearly yield OF
something over 400, 900 head OF cattle.
The report of the Marylebone Club,
the most prominent cricket club in
England shows a membership OF , ,579.
The Common Council of Boston
has appropriated Sl5, 900 for the cele-
bratiOn of the coming FOnrth Of
July.
Louisiana and Florida are the warm
est climates In the United States Min
nesOta and Wyoming Territory the
cOldest.
Mr.. Ashmead-B Bartlett, otherwise
known as the husband of the Baroness
Burdett- Coutts, will visit this country
In June.
I'm 1850, 1851 hands were employ
ed in the manufacture of agriculture
machinery. Last year 1850 were so
employed.
The receipts of the Cunard Steam
ship Company for 1880 were close ON
81 ,4O0, 900 and the net profits about
f2oO, 900.
The gross value of the manufac-
tured silk products In the United
States for the census year 1880 was
$40, ,s75.2s5.
The total debt of the United States
outstanding is now 81 $50, ,24S, l33. De-
ductilg the cash in the treasury it Is
81 Se4 ,072, ,693.
The Cowpens monument was un-
yelled at SOartansburg, South Caro-
lima, on the 1lth of May In the presence
Of Is, 900 people.
The school fund of South Carolina
amounted to 1851 1850 in 1850. There
were 1913 schools in the State, with
l34 ,672 pupils.
Two Boston Hotels, which last
summer paid 81 ton for their ice, have
this year contracted for their supply
at s2.25 per ton.
The Indian Commissioners con-
tracted In New York the other day for
u, 900 100 pounds of beef for Indians
at s3.44 per cwt-
Moody and Sankey will sail for
Scotland in October. Mr.. Moody is
now at Northfield, Mass, and Mr.
Slnkey at Brooklyn.
The gross earnings for April, 1881.
OF forty-two railroads amount to sI2.-
2s5, ,49i. For the same month last year
hey we're 50, ,9l9 ,254.
The French ascribe the invention
Of billiards 70 HenriGue DevIgne, in
the reign OF, Charles TX, about 1871.
Slate bills. a; tables are very modern.
"A bronze statue of Dante has late
ly been set up In the square OF the Col
lege de France, this being the quarter
In which ne lived when in Paris in
1902.
"A company has been formed in
Chicago with a capital of 500, 900 to
run the 800 Herdic coaches on the
str, ess Of that city. The fare is to be
i've cents.
-Ex-President r. B. Hayes has
been elected President of the Board of
Trustees of the Green Spring Acad-
emy, recently founded at Green
Springs, Ohio.
Judge Robertson, the new Collec-
; tor OF the port of New York, is fifty-
! eight years old. His hair Is a gray
! white, and he wears q large goatee.