Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-04-06
NEWS IN BRIEF


| -Rov. John Hall has been offered
sc. 600 to go Chicago 10 preach.
There are go 900 fewer srres under
wheat in England than in 1874.
The hay crop of New York Is
worth over $50 900 coo par anum.
The farm fences of Pa. cos s179.-
S4, ,4O4, and the annual repairs 9,ssS,-
0lS.
| About a quarter of the Vermont
towns have elected women as superIn-
: tendents of schools.
| "A sleeping-csr costs, OIL an aver
age. about $l2 900 and earns about ST.
600 mouth.
-Harriet BeeGher Stowe is sixty
nine years old and hsr husband seven
ty-one.
From 1s4S to January l, 1881. CAL
ifornia turned out in gold and silver
s., ,139 ,25S. 900.
--Ex Governor Walker, OF Virginia,
is about to become a citizen OF New
York.
The ffrs6 censps of the United States
was taken in 179U. The population was
929, ,32s.
Ohio has 23, ,36S pensioners, OF
whom 2 026 are widows OF soldiers Of
the war OF 1872.
The Masonic fraternity. according
TO the latest figures, has a, 500 mem
bers in Germany.
Virginia claims i've of the twenty
eight new iron furnaces Luilt in the
United States last year,
-Mezzo-tihto engraving was invent
ed by ,he celebrated sol i'er aud Al
miral, Prince Ripert, in 1880.
Canadian papers report an un1su-
ally large demand for horses, particu-
larry for export 20 this country and 10
Manitoba.
The population of the German En-
pire, according In the census juet COM
pleted, is 40, ,l94 Ia.
The report of the New York saw
ing btnks for 1850 shows an Increase
in savings of s45 900, 900.
The amount OF money Invested in
manufacturing ehterDrisas In New
Jersey is about $50 000,00.
The net earnings of Sing Sing,
New York, Peeitentia-y for the month
OF December were 2,295.
The total number of German i'm
migrants to this country during the
past year wss 10 800.
over $50 new butter and cheese
factories Will be erecsed in Iowa this
year. making 400 in all.
Two hundred ana fifty thousand
dollars worth of California fruit was
sold in Chicago last year.
Queen Caroline, widow OF King
Christian VIII. of Denmark, 10 dsa /,
a. The age OF IS. She was married. in
1915.
Mile. Litta Is engaged to be mar
ried TO Mr.. Cleveland. the tenor of the
Strakosch Concert Troupe and mana
ger as we'll.
The amount of money authorized to
be expended by the appropriation b lis
which Congress has passed is $l9l ,2sO,-
les.
1t is estimated that the insurance
companies of this country are no car
rying risks TO the amount oil S7,00O,-
700.
There are two aud a quarter MIL
lions of horses in England AMI Scot
land. Their worth is averaged $I5J
each,
There were laid in the United
States during the past year Z ,207 miles
of new railroad track on 234 different
lines.
The receipts of tho Patent Office
for the year ending December 81, 1850,
were 749 ,6S5, and the expenditures
53S, ,S65.
The yearly value of the London
smeke winch ir 10 proposed &c convert
INTO u-eful products is reckOned at
$40 .625 900.
During the last ten years the royal
lottery has yielded the Italian gov .rn-
ment Sl2f 1900 from l,7S6, IS5,772
tickets issued.
In France the damage caused by
the ravages OF wolves has Dsen roughly
estimated 10 Reach a sum OF 5J.OOJ,UO0
oi francs year.
Senator Blaine pays taxes In Au-
gusta, Maine, on Si5, 600 W ,rth of pro-
perty. He also owns $4,000 worth of
Maine Safe bonds.
-Nine-tenths of the fixed capital OF
all the civllIEed people in the world is
Ell parked IN agriculture, which en-
ploys 2OO, 900, ,0UO OF men.
TIE Illinois Senate passed a bill
appropriating 81 80 to erect a mouu-
ment over the grave OF Shadrock Bond
tue hrst Governor OF that Seite.
The estimated value of school pro-
perry In the STATE, outside PLilad lpnia,
Is SIS, ,s33 1872. In tn, city named the
value Is Set down at s5,935. 80.
1t takes one hour and a half to
wind up the clock in Trinity church.
n. Y. The wire is $50 feet long and
sustains weight u 1000 pounds,
General G. NJ. Dodge says that at
least 1900 miles OF new railroad track
viii be laid In the Uaited states aud
Mexico within the next twelve months.
Secretary Evarts is said to have
spent 81 ,UUJ year ABOVE his salary
white he was at Washington, mucn of
iG being FOR en5eI talnmedLs properly
chargeable To the President.
Upward of 2,22) young glrls are at
present attending the painLIng and
irawing classes III State aud muuteipaI
schools in France, while 1850 are
studying music in various colleges,
Two ailOpathic physicians, one
nou &c Jpathic, and one ecle;L,c are ser
wing amtesoIy together as a con ritlee
appointed by the CJnnecticu. l. Lsglsla-
Gure TO draft medical pfacGlce act.
The UnItei States possessed only
forty nine public LIBRARIES in tue year
1881. The number has now rIsen To
almost $500, and the Eumber OF VOL
umes contained in them eXceeds thiI-
Teen ml.l.ons.
Newman Hall, the lady's college
at Cambridge, England, has SIX rest
lent lecturers and ninety students.
Hiss Minturn, daughter OF tue late
Robert MInturn eI New YORK, Is one of
Newnham's alumDA.
During 1881, according to the fig
ures just made up by the American
IRON and Steel Association, the total
amount OF pik iron was 4.2J5 ,5li tons
az sainst 3,U7U.S75 tons in 1879, al in
..rex<e AT I 3ll 40 n..r rnn