Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-02-16
BRIEFS.

-1ss1 can be turned upside down
and read the same.
"A man in Mt. Pleasant owns 1000
geese.
Boston real estate is worth s427,-
239, SEQ.
Apples are worth $3.50 barrel in
England.
| st. Louis railroad bridge earns si0,-
600 month.
The Usage Indians own Il, 600 cat
tie and ponies.
Gold leaf is the $50, 900 part of an
inch in thickness.
New York pays s., ,24O, ,965 Interest
on the city's debt.
The total Indian population of
Michigan Is 10,14l.
| queen Victoria has an income of
s3, ,OOO, 900 annually.
I'm Germany the ladies take their
knitting to the beer garden.
An outbreak of rinderpest is report
ed In Derbyshire, England.
John Clay, a brother of Henry
Clay, Is living in Kentucky.
-Gambetta is a liberal host end
-Petrified grass is found about the
mineral springs of Calistoga.
All prosecutions against Cuban in
surgents are to be abandoned.
Lord Beaconsfield's "EndymiOn"
paid him about 80 cents word.
chicago consigned 81 ,O00, 900 worth
of wild game to Europe last year.
Pittsourg is to have $500, 900 hotel,
stock company being the builders.
The state debt of Wisconsin is ST.
252 ,O57; that of Name is s5,ss3, 800.
On single rancho in Texas ,0O0
lambs were killed by this winters cold
snap.
There are 35, 5,613, ,0OO, 900 matches
consumed annually IN the United
States.
Our Indian wars from 1865 to 1879
are estimated to have cost the govern
ment s22 $50, 900.
The balance of trade in our favor
on last years business with the world
foots up s73. .OOO.OO0-
"A female salmon as rule carries
about nine hundred eggs to every
pound of her weight.
New York saloonkeepers, of whom
there are 10000, are said TO control 75,-
900 votes in the city.
kellogg is to get 5000 per night for
a twenty-night engagement at the
Grand Opera in Paris.
The miAes of the United States
have produced during the past seven
years $3.50, ,00o, 900 in gold.
1t is estimated that the British
army the coming year, will cost the
treasury over slo0, 900, zoo.
The Greeks have for 200 years had
monopoly OF the trade in dried cur
rants in the London market.
Walter Scott was born in Eddin-
burgh August 10th 1771. His father
was lawyer or eonveyancer.
I'm Missouri last year 4s2, $50 of the
children attended school, leaving 249,-
495 who received no schooling.
An Indian farmer deposited in a
bank last week s., 900 that he had had
buried In the earth for II years.
Philadelphia has forty-two night
schools in operation, with a nightly
attendance of over three thousand.
The increase in the population OF
Pennsylvania, as shown by the present
census, is 76O. $50 over that of 1870.
of the seventy-six United States
Senators only thirty-three were born
in the states which they represent.
The Parker Memorial Chapel, in
Boston. which cost $4,000, will be
sold to a leading SpirItualist for slo,-
600.
AT a recent paper exhibition in
do nf
were shown. A German invented
them.
1t is estimated that the cost of the
Whitaker corrt OF inquiry and of the
Whitaker court martial will be about
10000.
The expense of the White House
964, of which the presidents salary
was $50 900.
The first complete translation of
the Bible in English was printed in
1922. A perfect copy OF it was sold in
1888 for $3.50.
The annual sale of pews Cf Ply
mouth Church took place recently.
The first pew was bought by Horace
b. Claflin for 500.
During the year 1880 s32, ,2S3, ,279
worth of gold coin was turned out OF
the United States mints, and S27 ,409,-
706 worth of silver.
"A harp, discovered in Egypt in
1923, had several remaining strings
which responded TO touch, and awoke
from rest OF 5000 years.
The Journal Official of Paris has
been purchased for s120,0OO by the
French Government, and will here
after be the official organ.
Frederic X. Guernsey, of The B0s
ton Herald, is preparing for the estab-
!ishment soon OF an AnglC-Spanish
commercial paper at Boston.
They are very exact in Russia. The
wellfed government officials report
that 70l ,02S peasants are starving in
certain district in that empire.
Public schools In Tennessee during
1850 numbered 5,522 against 1892 in
1875. IN 1880 the teachers employed
number 1854 against 4 4,2l0 in 1875.
The University of Berlin during
this winter has more than 1000 stud
ents, the largest number ever yet
reached by any German university.
The Manhattan Elevated Railway
Company has ordered twenty-five new
Baldwin locomotives, similar to those
now in use on the Third avenue line.
The Paterson On. j. rolling mill
has spent sl5, 900 in boring an artesian
well through 2l00 feet of red sand
stone, only 10 strike sire am of salt
water.
Wade Hampton no longer goes
about ON a crutch. He has q wooden
leg to replace the one lost by the kick
of mule, and is able 20 walk without
a cane.
Connecticut has sec, 900, 900 invest
ed in manufacturing establishments,
employing 10000 persons, the annual
product OF which is estimated at $780,
100000
Lord Wentworth, grandson of
Byron, was married December Both,
TO Mary Caroline Stuart-Wo Wortley. The