Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-31
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The rose gardens of Adrianople COW
er Il, 900 acres.
Coaches were first let for hire in
London in 1925
Richmond voted $4,000 for York
town festivities.
-Parpyrus was used until about the
seventh century.
First gas works established at West
minister, 1S10-12.
-Pliny mentions twenty-three differ
ent kinds of apples.
A parrot in Harlem, n. Y, speaks
$50 different words.
-One person out of every PIG, 532 is
struck by lightning.
Cotton has been used for garments
in India for 5000 years.
OF the $50 missionaries in India,
III are from the United States.
The profits of Mapleson's opera sea-
son in this country are Sl50,060
1t is estimated that the cotton crop
of 1881 will yield I. 1000, 900 bales.
The value of the taxable property of
Iowa increased sic, 200, 900 in 1880.
A strip of land one inch wide and
800 feet long was sold in Milwaukee for
81. 800
The late Asa Packer, it has Just been
discovered, left an estate of So, Alb,
S49.74.
1t Is proposed to tunnel the Thames
between London and Poplar at a cost
of 81 900, 900.
In 1779 the British peerage contain
ed q dukes, and in 1879 precisely the
same number.
The Orkney Islands have exported
during the last twelve months more than
IL 900, 900 eggs.
Texas expects soon to have a school
fund of 500, 600, 900, derived from the
sale of public lands.
The coinage of the United States
mints in July was 2,952, 900 pieces,
valued at So, 500, 200.
The amount of common salt in the
sea is estimated to be about five times
the bulk of the Alps.
There are said to be 134 Baptist
churches in the Indian Nation in popu-
lation of about 10000.
There is said to be thirty-six Me-
thodist churches in Baltimore, with Il
membership of II, 800.
Forty Indian prisoners have been
sent from Vancouver barracks. ". T.,
to Fort Hall reservation.
The two church of England Foreign
Missionary Societies report this year
total income of 81 ,6S9, $40.
Professor Charcot, a Paris doctor,
is said to have been paid $4,000 for a
consultation in st. Petersburg.
Pennsylvania now holds third place
as tobacco growing State, having adj
vanced from the twelfth since 1870.
The revenue collected on cigarettes
the past fiscal year was 1898, ,000-an in
crease of $299, 900 the preceding year.
Judge Watts, of Dallas, Texas, re-
Gently named little daughter Com
missa Appella, in honor of his court.
A Thermometer plunged INTO the
snow to the depth of four inches Will
mark nire degrees more heat than at the
surface.
Mr.. George /. Seney, of New York,
has recently added $4,000, to his
endowment of Emony College, near Gov
ington, Ga.
Eight bushels of good lime Is bush
els of sand and one bushel of hair will
make enough mortar to plaster 100
square yards.
| There are in Great Britain and Ire
land %, ,S36 doctors. OF these there are
15, ,S18 in England in Scotland, 3, 454;
in Ireland. 1864
Concord, n. c., has organized cot
ton factory and 100000 of the stock
taken. The company has the privilege
to increase it to 100000.
1t is admitted that the Royal
Irish" received the greatest amoun. OF
appreciation of all the regiments recently
paraded before the Queen.
Chicago has one single rolling mill,
the capital of which is s., ,000, 900, and
the annual output is 470, ,24S tons of iron
and steel, valued at S12, 297 ,2i6.
| One thousand shingles laid four
inches to the weather will cover 100
square feet of surface, and 3 pounds OF
shingle nails will fasten them on
A salmon, supposed to be the largest
ever caught in the Colunsbia river, had
weight when dressed, of eighty-four
pounds, and filed sixty-nine cans.
i California has shipped to Europe
since the beginning of the present cereal
year, in round numbers, 225, 900 barrels
of -four and u, 800, 900 centals of wheat.
From Cairo it is learned that, in a
single catacomb in Upper Egypt, thirty
six wellpreserved sarcopha9 of ancient
royal personages have been brought to
light.
in 1870 the cost of moving a ton of
bread stuffs from Chicago to New York
was S16.O5. In 1881 the same ton can
be moved from Chicago TO Liverpool,
via Montreal, for 80.
j From brick from the pyramid of
lDashour, which dates between 3300-34Q0
B. G. remains of animal and vegetable
life and of the manufacturing arts of the
} time have been obtained.
: The German Government have an
: pounced that, commencing from Feb
= ruary, 1888, English will be a compllz
7 sorry subject of examination for the en-
8 trance of officers into the army.
The late Lord Hathorley was Sun:
day school teacher for foity years, and
the only.two men now living who haye
! been.L ord Ehancellors-LordC Caifns and
s lEord dSeiborne-have also been Sunday
:. sels66f:enchers.
= .EAHk. Rosa Bonheur has Just pre-
= scented the Jardin des Plantes with hon
. about three years old and honess about
: couple of years older, which she has