Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-SHerrleS were nrSt piauteu III Dsltalu
100 years B. c.
The canary bird was introduced into
Europe early In the sixteenth century.
-Vanderbilt's daily income from
United States bonds is 80, 700.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
viii visit Ireland next year.
Alexander H. Stephens is in COM
paratively good health
The library of the late Judge Cliff
ford is valued at $50, 900.
The late President left material for
voluminous biography.
Queen yictoris is worth about $50.
OOO, 900.
On train from Florence to Pisa a
robbery of 100000 WAS committed by
brigands last month.
1t is stated from Rome that Father
Beck, general of the Jesuits, is danger
ously ILL.,
The flag of the rebel cruiser Alabama
is on exhibition in Boston. Its possess
sor says that he values it at so, 900.
Out of 100000 negroes in the
southern states, only thirteen are COM
municants in the Lutheran church.
The grandson of Lafayette has seLt
to the Mt. Vernon association an old
chair once belonging TO his grandfather.
The thirteen trees planted by Alex.
Hamilton in honor of the thirteen Origi-
nal states of the Union are still living.
-General Francis A. Walker has been
aoEal -, The of tl,,
Worlds Fair at Boston.
Berlin has vegetarian restaurant,
in which no snimal food nor spirituous
drink can be had
Emigration from Canada to the
United States has risen from 81, 81 in
1873 to lis, ,O74 in 1871.
Red and green are the cOlors which
the color blind are the least able to ap-
preciate.
"A man in Cumberland Mountain,
Tenn. Is shipping wild ferns to the
North and realizing good profit.
"A half tent, half shanty, at Sentinel
Butte, Montana, bears the sign. REV.
G. A Duffy, Sample Room.
Mrs. Hannah Cox. of Holderness.N.
H., married when she was 50 years old,
and died recently aged 105 years and 2
months.
There are 163, 293 more Baptists in
this country than there were last year.
The present total is set down as $780,
327.
The stamp duty in Greet Britain of
three pence on each pack Of playing
cards amounted in the last financial year
to the sum of f14 652 15s. 81.
Mrs. Bayard Taylor is about to
erect at Longwood, to her lamented hus-
bands memory, monument in the
shape of a circular Greek altar.
The first article made from CalifOr-
MA gold is believed to be rosary, the
metal of which was mined in 1912. 1t
is on exhibition in Los Angeles.
Kentucky is said to have 5S, 600, 900
gallons of whiskey IN store, very nearly
-tifths the annual production of the
country.
The next President pro teHlpOre of
the Senate will draw a so, ,000 salary.
this being the provision made for that
officer when there is no Vice President.
The shipments of grain from New
York during September were nearly
G, 900, 900 bushels less than during Sep
tember, 1880.
The first postage stamp used in tins
country was designed by Hon. E. A.
Mitchell, postmaster Of New Haven,
Conn.
During the year ending September
80, 80, 552, 500 pounds of tobacco were
sold in Danville, Va, at an average Of
s10.S SO per 100 lbs.
Last week there were distributed
$50, 493 standard silver dollars, against
7S1 ,450 in tine corresponding week of
1880.
Miss Menora Horn, of Peru, Ne
braska, has head of hair sixty-eight
inches long. She has refused $500 for
the treasure.
The autograph of Martin Luther
was recently sold for $50; that of Me-
lancthon for $50. and that of Voltaire
for S2250.
The crops Of British Columbia show
an enormous yield as many as fift
bushels of oats to the acre are reported
The hop crop is the most abundant for
years.
The Auditor of Virginia reports that
there are 1S7, 1876 white and Ia, 1913 col
ored voters in that State, q total of 301,-
$50. The total vote for President year
ago was 2l7,615.
Dean Bradley, the successor to Dean
Stanley, intends to summon a meeting
to consider proposition to erect
monument to Dean Stanley in West
minister Abbey.
Five hundred people find profit in
pearl hunting in Stone river, Ruther
ford county, Tennessee. One pearl has
been found which sold for eighty dol
lars.
The Agricultural Department esti-
mates the Pennsylvania corn-crop this
year at ,374, 900 bushels, and hence the
State will rank Seventeen" among the
different States.
In the town of Nagar, in India, a
destructive epidemic prevails among cats
During a single month recently more
than 300 died of the disease-whateve
the disease was.
The earliest snow storm on record
visited Pontresina, In the Engadine, on
Sunday, Aug. 90, and for two days the
whole country round was clad in virgin
white, and covered in by deep blue
cloudless sky.
The consumption of cotton for
manufactures in Great Britain for the
year 1901 is stated at 3, $50, 900 bales
of 400 pounds each. for the continent
1912 900 bales, for the United States
1,915.OOO.
-Nutmegs are said to produce sleepi-
ness, and probably that is the reason
why certain firms drill ont the insides OF
nutmegs, fill them with prepared wood
and sell the drillings well mixed with
dust for the powdered article.
Paris and its suburbs now contain
about $50 miles of street railways, or far
more than all the cities of France put
together, since those having the greatest
lenght of tramways, after the metropolis
are Lille. Rouen. Roubaix and BeZiers.