Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-10-19
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

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100 years b. c.
The Apaches who are on the war
ipath number 80
The Spaniarls discovered cochiural
in Mexico III 1913.
The use of the name Puritan heSar,
according to Fuller, in 1864.
The steam hammer WAS pateuttdby
James Watts, April %. 1864.
! The excavations of the ancient city
of Herculaneum were begun in l7i1.
The canary bird was introduced isto
Europe early IN the sixteenth century. o.
The italian Government has order
ed the Mont Gems forts to be armed.
-Advices from Honolulu indicate that
the lava flow has ceased to he danger
Gus.
1t is denied that any dynamite WAS
found among the freight OF the steamer
Adriatic.
Iron can he made so thin that it
takes 1896 sheets to make an inch in
thickness.
One hundred jews who escaped
from Russia are ON their way To the
United States
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts
refuses to permit women to practice law
in that State
Cincinnati has eighteen Methodist
churches. The highest salary Is s., 500,
the lowest 1886.
The great grain elevators and ware
houses of New York provide storage for
., 800. 900 bushels
The marble quarrits of Vermont
have become enormous excavations, sev-
eral being $50 feet deep.
One hundred and fifty thousand CO.
coanuts have been planted in Monroe
County, Fla, this season.
Several of the New Zealand sheep
kings keep each from Is, 0OG to 800, eco
head of these profitable animals.
1t Is estimated that during the
strawberry month" Chicago receives
10, 900 bushels of this fruit per day.
The New Orleans exports tins year
showed an increase of S9,Sli, go, on
nearly IL per cent over those of last.
Augusta, Ga, has now in operation
17j, 900 spindles in her cotton mills re
presenting an investment Of $4,000
M. Roustan, the French Ministerin in
Tunis, recommends that the army OF oc-
cupation there he increased to l2O. 600
men.
1t is quite clear that in October the
Treasury Department will have a surplus
of sl40, 600, 900 with which to purchase
bonds.
In 1850 Iowa expended for school
purposes 81, ,621 ,2iS, more in proportion
to its population than any State in the
Union.
1t is calculated that the world CON
tains | 455, ,923, 600 inhabitants. or
Is, rs, 900 more than it did twenty-five
years ago.
AT recent wedding reception at
st. Petersburg over 300 artistic
dresses were ordered for the ladies of
the Court
-Ex- Governor Bullock, of Georgia,
Is making tour of the North, and has
left his daughterto to be educated IN Udca,
New York.
The London papers state that, uc-
cording to present arrangements,
Princes. Louise VIII return to Canada
ON Oct. 90.
THAT little unpleasantness between
England and Afshanistan viii have cost,
when all the bills are paid, the snug lit
tie sum of S1l7, 7,OOO,O 900.
Sir TaOmas l.. Seecombe. Financial
Secretary Ot the India Office, has Just
retired on pension, after a term OF ser
vice of tifty-One years.
The value of the unoccupied land at
the. east end of the Thames embaukmeut,
London, has risen from $500 900 10
1920, 600 an acre in ten years.
The latest return to Parliament
shows the total National Debt of Eng
land To be G736, los, i2O, in American
money about SI3, 800, 100000
Mr.. Christian Moerleiu, the we'll
known Cincinnati brewer, made last
week handsome gift TO each of lis
children, amounting To $3.50, 900
Ernest Renan will publish IN lS5'
the secret correspondence 81 Napoleon
III with his foster-sister. Nine. Coruu.
the manuscript Of which Is IN the strong
room Of the National Library.
The Protestant Episcopal DIuc,,,.
bA -hat7'stf Att'f - AAttA-a'f - rfA '.'aa
mJnIcants- Inc population "i the 9iai'
Is l,'o7,oIZ' mus the EtlS'' i''ii-'-'
are aiont one per cent "i an iAt people
IN the state.
Numerous fires occurred dUuu- A--
gust IN Sardinia They are supposed to
have been "ccaslpue't nE iAe -i' p-'ld-
a. a vendetta against the pr1pn-t"i7 90
the woods, vino have pr"Hlhii'b Sh''i-
lns tins year.
Lord Rtvtou IL In London VrsFar-
iu- % commence his editorial laH.~- u
connection with th" papers heIur't--l
To- him 10y Beac1H-ne.i certain ---.l
iurmalItIcs prevented t.-ir being -i'.u
/ mp before
Their u d" abatement -l the '-..."i
immigration, the arrivals OBJ Castle tr.r-
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