Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
-Tai,eyrand died In 1888.


magazines is So page.
The railroad bridge at st. Louis
earns about $40. 900 per month.
-Philadelphia consumes 1000, 900
tons OF ice annually.
The retail price OF ice has been re-
duced 40 Per cent. in Boston.
England imports $4,000, 600
worth of fertilizers annually.
The yield of corn in France for
1879 was 234. les, ,S20 bushels.
Cincinnati has ,0C0 Jews.
In Atlanta, Ga, coffee house
armed ten per cent. the first year.
The estimate of fire losses in the
United States last year is 500, ,00O, eco.
The nail mills of the Unlted States
produce yearly about Si.OJ0.0J0 kegs.
AT Napa-CItv, Cal, a single firm
last fall made $50, coo gallons of Wine
-Thiers was Go when he completed
his Consulate and Empire"
-Rafus Hatch has sold his seat in
the New York Stock Exchange for
s25 .0U0.
Denver City Is to be lighted by
electric light, at cost OF Sl4 900 per
annum.
The organized and unOrgiaized
militia in the United States number
$685., 1876.
In one fortnight las. August near
ly 2b children in various parts of
England were sent TO Jail.
George Eliot lett personal estate
valued at s2O0, 900, exclusive of the
property ia ner copyrights.
"A city of London offi :ial estimltes
the gross annual income of that clty's
CHARITIES at 81. 100000.
Chicago has 5,420 factories OF
different kinds, employing l25. .OOJ per.
sens, OF whom IL ,OU0 are femIles.
Paris, in the course of its history.
mas been besieged ten times. the tIr.c
lime in % b. q. and the last In 1870.
The gross Income derived from
tobacco By the farm RS of the United
States is about s22.OJO,0 900.
There is talk of resuryeyInr the
boundary line between New York anil
Pennsylvania.
AT Il recent poultry exhibition at
the Crystal Palace, IL. Englani, there
we're SUI exhibitors, showing $3.50 pens.
The sum OF So. 90, 900 has been with
drawn from the Dtnzs since the pIs-
sage of the refunding DILL.
The valuation OF the United Safes
Is So, ,OJU, GO .0OO, tine country standlur
lhIrd on the last OF all the great Il .tions.
Mrs. NJ. G. Kearney. of Eyaaville.
Ontario, Cdnadt, has just gwen bir-h
" her twentieth child.
The III rpers have sold 81, ,00O COPIES
of the Franklin Square edition or
"Endymion."
-FIfty-nlne national banks were or
gained in 1880, eleven passed into
voluntary liqul iarion, and three tailed.
There are 1000 people M Chicago
who wear glass eyes, one-third of the
number being women.
The wheat crop of Ohio l. worth
Sol ,OOO, 600, the corn crop $42 900 900.
aud tue hay crop 81 900 ,O0J.
Cologne wafer was first So clIlaI in
lIU9, when an Italian citiz en of Cologne
named Johann Maria Fdrina prepared
IL.
South Carolina VIII put abont $25.-
600, 900 worth of cotton and SO ODJ 90
worth of rice into the market this
year.
Virginia has 1854 public schools.
OF which 2O5 are graded. in these
schools 22O, 1876 pupils are instructed by
1873 teachers.
During the year 1880 there were
deceased in the city OF BIS on 3B6 per-
sons who had attained the are o.
eighty years or more.
"A company OF Philadelphia capita.-
lists has been formed to buy the ever
Slades OF Florida and drain them for
agricultural purposes.
The statistics of Massachusetts
show marriage rate of Is OS per 900
oi population; birth Fate OF 2I7prr
l,UOO. and death rate of Is 81.
American glassware to the amount
sf 81 sos worth was exported TO New
South Wales in 1877; in 1873 to the
amount of sS,735 worth.
Cardinal Antonelli was very fond
OF canary birds, and at one time had
more than 200 of then, which had been
presented to him.
An address to Queen Victoria by
the women of Canada, TO be presented
20 her next birthday, is being very
generally signed at Montreal.
This is the first season that actual
lcebergS have been seen in Like
Michigan. They have been formed
with base below the water of fifteen
feet liz depth.
-Taglioni.the famous ballet dancer.
is living in London, giving lessons in
dancing, and has had the children of
the Prince CT Wales as her pupils.
Fanny Ellsler is living in Austria.
-lowa's total losses by fire in 1880
are reported at 81 ,lS6, 100 against 81
Isl $40 In 1879. Inc total losses to IN
>urance companies were S63S, 800 in
1881, against 81 ,O5s, 100 in 1879.
1t is computed that Great Britain
derives an Income of $3.50, ,0OO. .OOJ a
year IRON the private investments of
ner people in foreign countries, which
she has $3.50, ,000, ,00J In America IN rail-
roads.
The value of exports ofprovisions,
tallow and dairy products in Januuy
vas sl5,2l9 ,OOJ; January last year,
50, ,547 ,OUU- Value of exports OF dairy
prodscLs tor nine months ended ANU
ary 3lst, S2l, los 900; "a ne time the
previoas year sl4 ,656, 100
An old farmer estimates the pro
ceeds of the 4 100 head OF game which
iell when last month the Prince of
Wales visited Lord Aveland at 81 80,
destruction OF produce invJlv.I in
Gearing and feeding IL at $50, 900.
The movement of gram from the
westward has been unusually large
his year thus far. During the live
weeks ending February 9Th. The ship
ments from the Western ports amount
cd To S.Sl3 256 bushels In 1851, and
,036, ,93j III 1879.
line passage over the straits of
Mdckiuac, Mich, is TO be made by rail-
road trains On powerful iron steamer,
capable OF carrying eighteen cars at
once, and crushing its way through ice
q foot thick. During the season OF
.hIcker Ice, tracks wi1 be LAID on the
frozen surface.