Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-14
NO. Sc.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Disraei's home, Hughendon, Man
or, is to be let for term of years.
-Ex-President Diaz of Mexico has
become governor of the state of Oaxaca.
Germany intends to spend s., 900, 900
on the Notifications of DantZic this
fall.
| The carpet mills of Philadelphia
turned out "a, ,037, 900 yards of carpet
last year.
A bedstead factory at London,
Tenn, turned out 75, 900 bedsteads last
year and 125, 900 this year.
There arrived in this country dur
ing July, $3.50 immigrants, against
IS, 800 in July, 1850.
The thirty-eight States of the Union
contain 2, 299 counties. Texas leads off,
having Isl counties.
The Minnesota wheat crop this
year is in excess of that of 1880 more
than 10, 900, 900 bushels.
Americans are said to have spent over
s., 900, 600 lii France last year for works
of art, engravings and books.
"A new monument has been erected
over the grave of William NJ. Tweed, in
Greenwood Cemetery, in Brooklyn.
During the last two years Senator
Plumb, of Kansas, is said to have clear
ed g, 900, 900 in mining operations.
The Lebanon Shakers number $50
two-thirds of whom are women and girls
and their property is valued at 81 $780,
600.
"A monument to the Emperor Max
imilian is to be erected at Queretaro,
Mexico, by decree of the State Govern
ment.
There are 324 Baptist churches
with about 10000 members in Florida,
connected with which are 600 Sabbath
schools.
Ex-Governor Washburn has a mill
at St Paul that grinds 5000 barrels of
flour day, The Pillsbury mill grinds
), 900 barrels.
The oldest son of the King of Greece,
George, Duke of Sparta, boy about
twelve years of age, gives evidence of
extraordinary literary abilities.
The free library of San Francisco,
started two years ago, now contains over
30, 500 volumes, and its readers in July
l..
A willow tree in Bristol. \. H.,
measures % feet 8 inches in elrcum-
frence one foot from the ground and is
Is feet 3 inches nine feet from the
ground
Herr Krupp, the great German gun
maker, Is so much pressed with orders
that he has engaged 5000 more work
men, making the total force of workmen
13, ,OOe.
In all mines in Great Britain there
are, it is estimated, 37S, Isl persons en-
ployed, and the length of underground
tunnelling in which they work is 5S,-
IA miles.
Lady Borthwick appeared at re
cent London dance attired as u Dresden
china figure. The costume was per-
feet imitation both as regards design
and coloring.
Scotland derives million and a
half of dollars per annum as rental for
sporting grounds. The Duke of West
minister pays ten thousand dollars TO
one tract
The number of new houses built In
London during 1879 was 81 $50, and 4O1
new streets were opened. Street acci-
dents resulted in death to 124 persons,
and in lesser injuries to 1850.
Railroad travelling is not very dem
gerous after all. Out of one hundred
and thirty-nine millions of passengers
on French railroads last year only twen-
ty were killed by accident.
There are As, coo persons engaged
In the manufacture of pottery in Eng
land and Wales, The death rate among
the males Is 3S per cent. higher than
among the male element at large.
Over 800 students of various Ger
man universities held recently grand
aHti-Semitic meeting in the Thuringia
Wald. Congratulatory kilograms were
sent to Prince Bismarck and the Empe-
ror.
The Prince of Wales has Joined the
Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Yacht
Club, of which Prince Edward, of Sake
Weimer is the Commodore, and has in
timated his desire to take part in one
of their races.
There were 10, 654 births in Boston
in 1880, there being an excess of 21O
males. The marriages in the same time
numbered {, ,973 and the deaths S.612. no
less than 1904 of the latter being under
one year of age.
Excavations on the site of a new fort
near Antwerp have brought to light
number of curious bones of extinct and
living animals. Teeth of the mammoth
and an almost complete rhincceros skel-
eton are among the Dumber.
Drinkers of India tea will be glad to
learn that the area of its cultivation is
rapidly extending. About 20O, 900 acres
are now devoted to the plant, and this
years crop, it is believed, will not fall
short of SO, 900, 900 pounds.
The existing cedars of Lebanon are
only 900 years old The cypress tree,
at Montezuma, Mexico, according to
French botanist, are 5000 sears old
and consequently he makes them out,
cOeval with the creation of the world.
M. Clerget, a painter, who died last
year in Paris, bequeathed $3.50. 900 and
q country house to the "Hospice de
Nevers" to provide retreat for poor
and infrm French painters, draughts-
men, sculptors, engravers, and archi-
tects.
The statue at Folkestone to the me-
mory of Harvey, the discoverer of the
circulation of the blood, has been un-
yelled in the presence of large and dis
tinguished company, many of whom
were delegates to the Medical Congress
in London.
An Incorporated company for sheep
l. l. l.
souri,, $50 miles from st. Louis.
They propose to locate $4,000 acres of
land on the side of the Ozark Mountains
and to start with 4, 900 sheep, fenced in
at less cost than herdsmen can be en-
ployed.
There are 600 building associations
in Philadelphia, and ], 800 elsewhere IL
Pennsylvania, with an aggregate capital