Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-03
NO. 30.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

policem II.
i There is to be revised New Testa-
ment in Welsh.
Japan is now supporting six large
universities on the European plan.
j The population of New South Wales
Is, by the recent census, $50, 900.
Boston is going ahead with her pro
ject for a Worlds Fair in 1885.
There are 5S5 Chinese children in
the San Francisco public schools.
: A tricycle., propelled by steam, has
been made in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Comtesse de Chambord has
Just presented $1,000 to the Pope.
! One person in every six of our 80
. 49,, 500 population is a church member.
! Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is pro-
nounced beyond recovery by her physi-
clans.
/ Three or four ounces of oil can be
extracted from one hundred pounds of
water.
The yield of wheat in Texas this
year ranges from Is to 30 bushels per
acre.
Gov. Hoyt has been made doctor
of laws by the University of Pennsylva-
MA.
The Presbyterians of Los Angeles
are preparing to build a church, to cost
$4,000.
kangaroo tail soup is now canned
in Australia and exported in great guam
titles.
The census reports show that the
cotton acreage of 1S79-S0 was II, 1872
00S.
Shanghai has a scheme for an Inter
national Exhibition in 1882 under con
sideration.
Mr.. James Russell Lowell is said to
be collecting materials for memoir Of
Hawthorne
One hundred and nineteen members
OF the House of Commons voted against
adjournment on the Derby Day.
Employment is given by the rail
ways of Great Britain and Ireland to
about 500, 200 persons
Lord Beaconsfelds late London
residence, with its furniture, is adver-
tised for sale by auction.
The Mexican government has de
posted in the city of Mexico Sl45, 600
for American claims.
In the anthracite coal regions, since
the beg inning of 1869, there have been
nearly 300 deaths by accident.
The Marquis of Lorne will, it Is
stated, continue In office until the close
of his term IN December, 1882.
Notwithstanding his blindness, the
British Postmaster General is an expert
angler, md lately had some good sport
ductio of wool in the United States for
the year 1880 was 260, 900, 900 pounds,
an increase of 81, 900, 900 over the clip Of
1878.
The New York Indicator figures
that the wheat crop of the Union will
fall short of the yield of 1880 as much rs
125, 900, 600 bushels.
The trustees of the Lemoyne fur
mace at Washington, Pa, have almost
made up their minds to quit the crema-
ton business.
Prince Bismarck is Knight Grand
Cross of sixty-four orders, more than
half of the existing number of such dis
tinctiOns.
The United States carried $3.50, 900
tons of merchandise at sea in 1880. Swe-
den and Norway 9,150,OOO and Great
Britain s., ,OOO, 900 tons.
The Japanese Mikade is to have Il
new palace at Yeddo, which is to be
built entirely of wood, and will cost
nearly S5,000,OO0
-Governor Colqrntt of Georgia, is re
ported to have recently made $4,000
by the sale of coal mine in which he
and General Gordon were interested.
Senator Wade Hampton is collecting
full data about the burning of Columbia,
for the purpose of fixing the responsible
ity for that act on Sherman.
Fifteen States produce now, as Ill
1870, more than 80 per cent. of the to-
baccO of the United States, though it Is
reported III twenty-five other States and
six Territories.
The census of Ireland shows pop
ulation of 3, 159, $40, being a decrease of
252, ,53S since 1871. The population is
composed of 2, 522, ,S04 males and 9, ,637,-
OBS females.
Recent shipments of honey from
California to Great Britain have been
received with great favor An English
order recently calls for So, 900 pound
cans.
The fisheries on the Pacific coast,
recent census return shows, employ 16,-
745 persons and 5547 boats valued at
SiOf, ,695. The total amount of capital
employed is s2, ,74s, 1888.
The silver coinage bill became law
three years ago last February, and M
der it over so, 600, 900 silver dollars hava
been coined.
"A farm in Mid Kent, Md which was
sold within the past twenty years for
S112, 500 was put up the other day at q
reserve of S45, 500, but there was not
single bid.
Last year Switzerland was visited
by 1,40O, 900 foreigners, among whom
were %, 900 Englishmen, 20, 900 French
men, and no less than 900, 900 Germans
and Austrians.
There were only twenty-three miles
Of railway in operation in the United
States in 1880; in 1879 there were S6,-
497. During the year ending with
March last 6, 113 miles were constructed.
Prince Bismark has given, reluct-
ant assent to the marriage Of his son
Herbert to the Princess Carolath. This
lady is described as a very handsome,
and gifted with all the accomplishments
of her race, the Hartzfeldts.
1t appears from some of the police
reports that in London alone there are
no less than 80, 900 regular thieves, 15O,-
600 habiiual gin drinkers, and 10000
people living in systematic debauchery
and vice.
The total number of newspapers
now published in Greece is 1895 of
which appear in Athens alone Most of
them are of very little value, either from
a hterarv or political point of view.
The will, as contained in eleven diff
ferent papers, of the late Pope Plus TX,
who died on Feb. 7th 1878, has recently
been proved in London, the personal es-
tate in England being sworn under
f800.
The New York City Directory for