Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-02-23
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Canada has 5,773 post-offices.

The fires Of last year cost Chicago
81, ,l64 ,159.
The heliotrope Is native of Peru.
"A tunnel Is proposed under Brook
lyn.
There are not 500 negroes in Ger
many.
70, 900.
"A Kansas coon is made to turn a
grindstone.
There are no horses in Greenland
and Lapland,
There are "a cubic feet of loose
earth In a ton.
The long Arctic night is of 145
days drration.
| Arkansas stands sixth in the list of
fruit growing states.
The diving bell was first used in
Europe in the year 1900.
| The banana ripens in Florida dur
ing every month of the year
The tobacco crop of Pennsylvania.
this year. is worth $1,000, 900.
$50, 900 cigars were male in Tioga
ana Potter counties last year.
| The Princess of Wales has lust
passed her thirty-sixth birthday.
| The Roman emperor Maximinus
was upward of eight feet in height.
| The population of Missouri is
2,16s SCI; that of Tennessee, ,5i2 1863.
| President Havs has on hand 400
unanswered requests for his autograph.
The Oldest monument: in the world
is in the Ashmolean Museum sc OK
ford.
An attempt was recently made to
assassinate President Solomon, of
Hayti.
The wealth of James G.. Fair, the
new Senator from Nevada, is estimated
at 81, ,00J, 600.
| -Roellof Won Barren, poor HOlIan-
der, residing In New Haven, has fallen
heir to s3O. 100000.
| Hermann, the magician, has in
herited s27, 900 from an uncle lately
residing in Germany.
of 437 persons employed In the
Government offices at Toronto, seven
ty families supply les.
Eggs received at New York in
1880 amounted to $50, 9,55I barrels,
| against toO,Oif III 1913.
From NoveE Der 18th to January
9TH Cincinnati and Chicago have salt
ed down ,S75 ,00J hogs.
The national debt of England Is
held by about $1,000 persons; that of
France by about 100000.
Shanghai Pierce, the cattle king of
Jackson county, Texas, lately sold
1000 cattle for SIG per head.
David Jones, a brewer died la
New York recently. He left an estate
valued at ten million dollars.
The Duke of Northumberland is
about TO introduce the electric light in
Alnwick Castle his family seat.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
, saws that he has just declined an offer
OF $500, COO to lecture Tor one year.
: -Dalrymyle, the great wheat far
Slnsr of QakoSa. cleared $3.50. 600 on his
fSs0 crsp. H&Makke>ed 50e, uuo bush-
els. =
There are 5000 professional
thieves III London, known TO tho au-
thorities. The police force number r.
900.
The acquisitions Russia has male
since Waterloo are equal in extent 10
all the empire she h al previously In
Europe.
Mr.. Brassey,a member of Parliment
for Hasting, England, has recently
purchased 10000 acres of laad in
Colorado.
| Vanderbilt is credited with ar in
come of 100000 per anlum, Jay
Gould with 5000, COO and Russell Sage
with 200 900.
Professor Richard A. Proctor. the
astronomer, is expected in San Fran
cisco this week on his way back from
Australia to England.
The Christian IHteUigsncer puts the
expense incurred for seeking Charley
Ross at $4,000, and describe his
father as still at tue task,
Sir Nathaniel Rothschild has for
the second time returned twenty per
cent. of the half-yeariy rents OF his
numerous English tenants.
The painter, Manet, has in hand
great picture, representing the escape
OF Rochefort and his companions from
captivity i'll New Caledonia.
The finest portrait extant of
Oliver Cromwell is SAID 10 be that in
the Baptist College at Bristol, for
which 81 ,625 has been refused.
Texas has 23G counties, of which
but 1872 are organized. There were
only liz organized in 1871, but they
count on having 300 eventually.
"A return issued by the German
Postmaster-Generals shows the number
of postcards used in Europe i'll the
year 1873 TO have been 3I2 ,O00,0
General Ord will be presented with
a residence in San Antonio, Texas,
'where his services in behalf of the
frontier are understood and appreci-
ated,"
Out of eight hundred and forty
seven tires in the city of Philadelphia,
during the year 1851, one hundred and
twenty-five were occasioned by the
explosion Of coal oil lamps.
The manufacture of agricultural
implements has doubled within the
last ten years. In 1850 this industry
gave employment to 1851 hands; this
ear it gives employment to 40.6SO.
The Lake Superior iron mines had
an output of l ,975, ,062 tons last year
and produced Is, ,512 tons of pig metal.
The product OF ore since 1856 has been
l5 3O3, l32 tons, and OF pig metal 49,
z77 tons.
Mr.. Obadiah Dawson, farmer in
Laporte county, Ind. who died re-
Gently, had lived IS days on water
alone, being unable 10 receive any
solid food because of cancer of the
stomach.
The State Secretary of the Illinois
department OF agriculture has issued a
h.r hsA
IN that State for 1850 was go, ,697 ,036, a
decrease compared with 1879 OF %, ,2l6,-
81 bushels.
Chicago is the only one of the five
largest cIIIes in the United States, the
others being New York, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn and Boston, III which the
males are in excess OF the females by
the present census.
The cultivation of tea in India has
greatly increased during the last HI