Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-07-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.


"A race of kings re Igned in India 2300
B. C.
Queen Victoria was born May 24th,
1919.
Duluth talks of new S75 900 hotel.
Key West shipped 900, 900 cigars last
week.
The British troops in ireland number
so, 900 men.
The census of 1850 gave Is slaves to
New Jersey.
The Chinese physicians receives no fee
until the patient is cured.
The cost of Solomon's Temple is esti-
mated at S77, ,531, 693, $50.
The Whitaker court martial will cost
the government 100000.
st. LOUIS has 2O2 miles of public
sewers, costing s5,000,00O.
MIR. Blaine is about to build the largest
private residence in Washington.
The wheel foundries at Altoona, Pa,
are making $50 wheels per day.
The Bank of England was founded IN
l1s4- The capital is els, ,53S, 600.
Presidents Garfeld's life is insured for
SIS, 900 for the benefit of his wife
-Bismark has salary of s15, 900 as
Chancellor of the German Empire.
Emile Girsadin, the late Partisan editor,
left an estate of $40, ,0C0, 900 francs.
The total human population of the
earth is estimated to be l,42l, 500, 900.
Suicides have increased annually, IL
Italy, from 1864 to 1878, from so to 81.
In Massachusetts during 1854 dry fish
was taken as cash, and boards also in 1857.
canada was surveyed in 1912 under
Sir William Logan and Alexander Murray.
The crops In the neighborhood Of Que
bee were badly damaged by frostsrecently.
"A turtle dated 1921 was recently dis
covered waddling across Franklin county.
Pa.
From China and Japan last year this
country imported 6s, 775, 143 pounds of
tea.
The deepest known worked mine is in
Australia, a shaft having been sunk 5000
feet.
journalists of Paris propose to erect y
statue to the veteran poet-journalist, Victor
Hugo.
The profits of the bank of Montreal
during 1880 were s40O, 900 more than in
1879.
The Secretary ofWar has prohibited
the use of tobacco by the cadets at West
Point.
The RothschIld family and house was
founded by Anselm at Frankfort, IN l743
to 1872.
Profile pictures. it is stated, original
ed with Philip of Macedon, who had but
one eye.
The passage of fifty-sevcn bills con-
prises the work of the Legislature OF
Pennsylvania.
A system of rewards is to be establishe
to encourage target practice in the regular
army of the U. S.
There are 100000 people living
within radius of twenty miles of the City
Hall of New York.
| The Crown Prince OF Sweden and
Princess Victoria of Baden, are to be mar
ried about October l.
I NtLC Ddlu
out in wages at the Cambria Iron works,
Pa, in one week recently.
The Chinese claim an extreme anti
quity. Fo-hee, their first Emperor, reigned
about the year 2950 B. C..
-California's wheat crop for 1881 is estI-
mated al $1,000, 900 bushels, againgt 53,-
900. 600 bushels last year.
Mrs NaIfia Grant Sartnr,5 will yornb
ably spend part of this summer with her
parents at Long Branch.
General Grant receives $40, 900 a year
salary as President of the United States
National Bank, New York.
There never was a slave owned in the
State of Vermont. The first Constitution
of the state prohibited slavery.
The census of the city of London just
compiled shows population Of 3.Sl4, 57l.
In 1871 its population was 8, 25l, S04.
The debt of New Hamsphlre was re-
duced Sl39. .696.1O last year, leaving
50, 372, no. % as the total present debt,
The Scottish Regalla consists OF the
Crown, the Sceptre and the Sword of State.
The crown is of the tine of Robert Bruce.
The sugar crop of the world il 1880
was 1892, ,9sS tons, of which 1857. .9SS
was from cane and l .565, 600 beet-root su-
gar.
Iowa became Territory June Il,
1888, with q population of p, $50 and
State, December 2S, lS46-population 97,-
5ss.
The Princess Stephanie received
dowry OF only $3.50, 600. while Princess
Mills, bride of Whitelsw Reid, received
$500, 900.
The net earnings of the Milwaukee &
st. Paul railway for the year fOOts up
s., cos, 900, an increase of $500, 900 over
the previous year.
The ore production of the Rio Tinto
Mining Company, of Spain, was 9l5, ,657
tons last year. The company produced
S559 tons pure copper.
The trustees of the graveyard at Jor-
! dams, in Buckinghamshire, England, refuse
to allow the removal OF the remains of
VIM. Penn to Pennsylvania
AT the close of the year 1850 there
were in the United States 10, l03 miles Of
telegraph lines, and during that year 49,
l55. 99l messages were Sent
The first recorded patent granted by
the United States government bears date
July 81, 1890, issued to Samuel Hopkins
for making pot and pearl ashes
The Oldest church in New York State
is In Tarrytown. 1t Is built of stone and
brick, the latter having been imported from
Holland for the express purpose.
The public debt was decreased curing
the month of May SI1. $50, 72l, and during
the past / l months $50. Psi, 1928. The cash
balance now available is S155, l6l, ,S96.
In 1880 Great Britain carried 90, 0O0,-
90 tons of merchandise at sea, while the
United States only carried $3.50, 900 tons,
sweden and Norway carrying $3.50, 900
tons.
The number of horses exported from
England during March and April was 442,
and the value e2S. 228. In the same per1Od