Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-10-12
NO. 40.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

= London has 1886 persons to the
square mile.
-Geese have been known to live to
u the age of eighty years.
Europe, it is estimated, uses two
e millions of matches per day.
b This country consumes II, $50 bar
e rels of kerosene oil every night
Y The profits of Mapleson's opera sea-
' son In this country were Sl50, 900.
The Boston Public Library contains
39l ,33S volumes, and is the largest in the
country.
Thursday, October 90, has been ap-
pointed as day of general Thanksgiving
, IN Canada.
They are manufacturing paper from
sugar cane after the sugar has been ex-
tracted in Louisiana.
Gen. Hancock was recently elected
President of the Aztec Club, and Gen.
Grant Vice-President.
One hundred and four landholders
in Great Britain own an average of more
than ], 900 acres each.
|. The millionaire Baron Hirsh will
give $40, 900 to enable Russian Jews to
emigrate to the United States.
The philebeg or short kilt worn in
the Highlands was introduced by Raw
hngston, an iron smelter, in 172S.
Charles De Yonng, who was muir
dered by young Kalloch in San Fran
cisco, left an estate worth SO, 705.
Dean Stanley has left each of his
god-children 81, 500, and as much to the
infant son of Mr.. Hyaeinthe Loyson.
| Augusta, Ga, has now in operation
LIS, 600 spindies in her cotton mills. re-
presenting an investment of 5000, ,000
Stone coffins occur among the Anglo
SaxOns as early rs 695, and were not
quite obsolete before the reign of Henry
VIII.
| The invention of harness is ascribed
to Erectheus, King of Athens, who lived
three or four hundred years before
Christ.
John of Finland on his return from
Sweden brought the first coach into that
country toward the end of the sixteenth
century.
French exports have fallen off SIC
PSI 900 and imports Sd, S27, 200. in 1881,
as compared with the first eight months
of 1880.
A ukase has been published at st.
Petersburg ordering that this years levy
of recruits shall be 212,000 instead OF
225, 900.
New York plumbers are in a state
Of wrathful indignation because trade
school there has started evening classes
in plumbing.
Queen Victoria's parents were mis-
erably poor, but she has saved $50, ,0O0,-
600 from her wages, which are 81, ,2j0,-
900 annually.
Chicago and New Orleans are the
only American cities that license gamb-
ling houses st. Louis is about to fo!-
low their example.
Lord Airey is dead. He was born
in 1906 and served in the army in the
Crimea and elsewhere. He was raised to
the pserage in 1875.
The pretty bride, Augusta of Prussia
is going to Schleswig- Holstein with her
grandfather-in-law, the Emperor. to
witness the antumn maneuvres.
Kentucky is to have a mushroom
farm in its Mammoth Cave. 1t Is said
to have room enough to produce mil
lion pounds of mushrooms daily.
The wife of the late General Burn
side was Miss Mary Richmond Bishop.
descendant, on her mothers side. of
Roger Williams. She died in 1876.
Bishop Simpson told the British
ministers at the Methodist Conference.
that there was no falling off in the OBJ
servance Of Sunday IN this country.
The population of Scotland has in
and is now 3,734, AL. Glasgow, the
largest city, has 511 900 inhabitants.
In 1880 the worlds wool product
was 800, 900, 900 pounds. In 1878 it was
1. .536, 900, 900 pounds. England with
her colonies, produces the largest share.
General Burnside's corps was at one
period so frequently moved from one de-
partment to another that it became
known as s"Burnside's Geography Class"
An Autograph worth having is that
of Rubinstein's which he lately gave to
a lady, with the first six bars of his ex-
quisite Romance in E flat" written above
it.
". - NldAt. OIe
hundred and eighty-six acres of land in
North Salem, Westchester county.
New York known as the Libby farm, for
S27, 800.
The Augusta, Georgia, cotton mill
has averaged 20 per cent. net profits on
its capital of 5000, coo since the war. 1t
has cleared 100000 in the last six
Marshal p. Wilder, who has been
President of the American Pathological
Society, for over thirty years, was re-
elected at the annual meeting in Boston
recently.
The Agricultural department esti-
mates the annual yield of wine in the
United States at %, 453, ,S27 gallons,
valued at S13, 424, ,174S7. The acreage
devoted to grape culture is 1S1, ,5S3.
lieutenant Governor Tabor, of Col
orado, it is announced, viii next winter
found in Denver a public library, of
which the building is TO cost S200,OO0,
and which will open with 100000
volumes.
Bishop Spaulding, of Peoria, H.,
the Colonization Society of
the Roman Catholics, has purchased co.
600 acres of land on the line of the Fort
Smith and Little Rock Railroad for col
onization purpose.
A vine-culture exhibition and con-
gress will be held IN Milan, Italy, this
month. Experts from all the great
vine-growing countries will give their
views regarding the nature of the dis
eases which have made the grape crop in
many parts of Europe so uncertain of
late years.
Six firms virtually control the poul-
try market in the South. Their COM
bined capital is $4,000. Their agents.
receive five per cent. for purchases not
only OF poultry, but eggs, butter and
sansages. The headquarters are at New
Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, and
Al