Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-12-07
NO. Is.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pierre Pauliuier, Archbishop OF
Besancon, Is dead.
Bismarck Is in a state of irritability.
He Is suffering from neuralgia.
Minister West was presented by
Secretary Blaine to- Mr.. Arthur of the
18th
Out of every hundred inhabitants
OF the United States siN'een live IN
cities.
The finest thread IN a SPIDERS well
Is composed Of no less than 100 strands
The entire loss Of the German
armies IN lS7O-7l WAS -, 600 men
Edward Young Is the author Of the
line, Death loves a shining mark
Gov. Roberts of Texas says he would
galk rather than ridc on a railroad pass
a penny edition of "Uu,le Toms
] Cabin has been puhlished in London.
-There are now over loo stltioner,
IN Boston In lSi9 there were only
twenty.
1t j, c,timtty'l that there reside in
London, England. not less than p, 600
/ thieves
The average English jailhird gets
260 ouuces -! food. the average pauper
! l66 ounces.
The Queen uf Sweden has tor de-
wee swallow with the motto, To
Seek the Best
The average wages oi workingmcn
IN France are only go cents a day
| those If woman 81
-Boston's net icit. exclusive of
water loans, was Sl5, ,773, ii6 on the 1st
Of September last.
The pawnbrukcrs of Great Britain.
1872 IN number, take in during year
200, 900, 900 Of pledges.
1t is said that there are only one
hundred Modoc Indians left. and tney
are engaged in farming
The cotton factories in the South
have, since the war, paid AN average
dividend OF 22l percent.
Mr.. Stephen Fiske has accepted the
position OF chief of The editorial staff of
the New York STIR
The Empe ror and Empress of Aushid
will return the visit of the King an
There 23O, 900 goats ON the island of
Cyprus.
The Boston public library contains
924, ,}3S volumes.
There are 100000 Masons in the
United States.
Oranges are splitting terribly ON the
trees in Florida.
a medical college for women is to
De opened in San Francisco.
-Gunpowder Is composed of pota5sic
nitrate, chcrcoal and sulphur.
1t is said that Vanderbilt now holds
$50, 00O, 900 in government bonds.
Queen of Italy next autumn.
A little California boy sent 81 to the
Garfield Fund, stating that it was the
first money ne had ever earned.
The Star Chamber was named from
the Starra or Jewish covenants, deposit
ed there by order of Richard l.
The soldiers OF Italy cost that nation
f36 per head annually, Of France Ejl
per head, and Of England, Eli0.
Miss Arthur, the daughter OF the
President, Is blonde haired young
lady who is now at school IN Albany.
At his death Washington WAS the
richest President the United States ever
had. He left an estate worth $500. coo.
Boston has a project on foot for
club for both sexes. where wines and
liquors are to he excluded
Boston last year consumed GIL sos
barrels Of larger beer-two barrels to
every man, woman and child.
Gold quartz has been discovered in
Brown county, Ind, thirty or forty
miles south Of indianapolis
Columbia county, Fla, has several
cClored farmers who make annually
from $1,000 to $500 worth of sen island
cotton.
BY the Saxon laws twelve years OF
age WIS fixed as the earliest possible
Development of the legal understand
ing,
As late as 1j76, the Emperor Maxi
milan III. kept a park of animals near
his castle, III which he frequently hunt
ed.
The Fabii, noble Roman family,
are sad to have derived their name from
Faba, bean, because their ancestors
cultivated pulse.
The Thirty Years War in Germany
WAS between Catholics and Protestants.
and WAS concluded by the Peace of
Woatphalia, III 1913.
The population of Europe to the
square mile Is Belgium i69, England
and Wales 3S6, Italy 2SS, Germany 2OI,
Holland lSj, France $50, Switzerland
10, Austria 17J, ireland 169.
Prisoners Of war, among the ancient
nations, ere usually cnSlavcd. IN the
| thIrtccnth century civilized nations be-
gan to exchange them.
The wine Of the Lords Supper was
laid aside, aud the community by the
| lJIty under the form of bread alone took
its risc IN the West IN 1896.
a Rabbi recently died in Hungary
in his lOlst year, after holding for sew
enty-fvc years the same position in his
native town.
! -AccomaG and Northampton coun-
ties, Virginia, nave peach trees now liv-
ing AMI bearing, which were planted in
1916.
| Lieutenant Governor Weston Of Mas
sachusetts has gwen 81 900 for the Gar
field profes5orship at Williams College.
Secretary Blaine has on the wall of
one Of his parlors fine engraving of
Gladstone, sent to him b. Mr.. Gladstone
himself, with an autograph.
Sheep cheese Is very popular in Aus
tria, and an enterprisIng Austrian has
started a sheep dairy near Chattanooga,
Geo, with !, 900 head.
Eighteen miles was the length OF
boat race rowed by three crews of Min
nesota lumbermen. They were com
pletely exhausted by the effort,
The authorities of the hospitals in
Paris have given banquet TO Surgeon
J. Spencer Wells, vice President Of the
. Royal College of Surgeons of England,
for his services in surgery concerning
disease of woman.