Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-01
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

ing in England.
The Sultan of the Sooloo Islands Is
dead.
The Hudson river was discovered
in 1909.
Welcome that i'll that comes alone.
All Europe has 81 $40 miles of rail-
way.
-Hibernia is the Latin name for
Ireland.
Iowa has 400 butter and cheese fac
tories.
-Spurgeon has 5,2S4 members In his
church.
Cotton Mather wrote 3s2 works OF
all kinds.
Patti has the bronchitis. She also
has $780,
-Melikoff has accepted the Premi er-
ship Of Russia.
-Atianfa; georgia, holds -a-cosssn
fair in October
1900 French troupe are occupying
Biserta, in Tunis.
Detroit collects $4,000 annually
from liquor shops.
There are 5000 families in Ala
bama without a Bible.
Bulgaria wants Seryia to buv the
town of Prot Tor 81 900, 900.
Queen Vietoria's gold and plate Is
valued at SIS, 900, 900.
Some of the sheep-raisers of Aus
tralia own oyer SOC, 900 head of sheep.
Three or four ounces of oil can be
extracted from one hundred pounds of
water.
Queen Victoria received last year
S2Oo,OOO clear cash from her duchy OF
Lancaster.
"A dealer in Vermont has an order
from the West for 1000, 900 pounds OF
maple sugar.
-Millais, the English painter, has
commissions Tor portraits amounting
TO $500, 900.
"A new puzzle is to find the LETTER
M" three times on the legal tender
silver dollar.
The statue of Gen. Mcpherson Is To
be unveiled July y, the anniversary
of his death.
The records of immigration at Nav
York shows &c, 600 arrivals durino the
month of April.
"A thousand workingmen are want.
ed in Iowa this spring. 1t is a good
State to work into.
Employment Is given by the rail-
ways OF Great Britain and Ireland tn
about 500, 900 persons.
The velocity OF the electric waves
throughthe Atlantic ca bles Is from : 600
to s 900 miles per second.
France spends s11O, ,OOO, 900 annu-
ally to maintain her military system
and 81 SOC, 900 for free primary educ,-
ton.
The shipment of corn since Sem
tember 1st, total for 1881, is SO. 200, ,O00
against $500, zoo last year from five
points.
"A magnet weighing two ounces
sustalns weight of three pounds two
ounces, or twenty-five times its own
weight. Wv"
Col. Thomas Scott, ex-pres,de,t
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad. ia said
70 be worth from $4,000, 900 to $50
100000. W F'0'
The total acreage under cereals
potatoes, tobacco. hay and cotton in
the United States in 1879 was I4247i-
900 acres.
-Ihe Jewelry trade in England
revivlns, and Birmingham is TURNING
out silver bracelets at the rate of 10 :
600 per week.
The Maryland Historical Soeiet,
mas nearly complete files of every i'm,
portant newspaper Published In Ralri-
more since 1913.
The National Industrial Exbisi--
tlon at Toxic, Japan, was opened nv
the Mikado March L. The attendance
is said to be large.
The Sultan writes to the powers
that ne accepts, without reserve. the
proposed settlement OF the Greek
Frontier question.
Three firms are now enpayed In
canning Boston baked beans, and their
annual production is not less than
4 ,OOO, 600 10 5000, 900 cans,
The lumber cut upon the wiscon-
sin shore OF Lake Superior has in
creased from 100000 feet in 1874 20
over p 900, 900 feet in 1881.
-Alligator-skin boots and sbos.
have become so popular that 25 900
hides were consumed in their mann
iaeture last year in this country.
The two colossal bronze spbinx.z
which are TO be placed at the foot of
CIeopatra's needle on the Thames Em-
bankment, will be finished by August
next.
The exports Of flour are 500 O00
barrels greater since September lst
this year than last, being !, ,6OJ, 900 bar
rels from the ports against 4 100 900 for
1880.
The total loss by fire In Chicago
during the year 1880 was I.I36 BIG.
The report of the fire marshal places
the number OF buildings in the city at
1872 ,942.
There were $500, 600 bushels less
wheat exported to May Isr, this wear.
than tor the same time in 1850. the az
gregate being %, $40, go and ~, 800, 900
respectively,
The Empress of Austria recently
sent to reporter dressing case, en-
bossed in silver, as a mark of her plea
sure at his account OF some of her ex-
ploits In the field.
The extraordinary increase in the
receipts of the French railways in 1880
is naturally the subject of sincere re-
joicing in the newspapers. The avg
mentation for that year reached no less
sum than l14.0OO, 900 francs.
The ratio of vote to population IN
New York, at the Presidential ell, etion,
was about one to five; in Philadelphia
and Chicago, one TO six; Boston and
St. Louis, one to seven; In New
Orleans. one to niae. and in Proyi-
deIce, one TO eleven.
The consumption of opium Is
rapidly increasing in San Francisco.
There are 45O places where opium Is
sold, and each one of them receives an
income averaging s75 a day from the
traffic. The religious and secular press
are calling attention TO the matter.
The death of Lord beaconsfield
leaves Mr.. Gladstone the one living
Englishman who has held the Office CT
Prime Minister of England. Since 1902
only eight statesmen have occupied
| this position for a longer period than