Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-30
No. I3-
BRlEFS.

Harvard has graduated Il 063
students; Yale, IL 909.
There are in this country 25. 57O,-
$50 males, and - 633 ,2S4 females
, The valuation of Maine has in
creased over sll ,0OO. 900 IN ten years
The corn eroo of Illinois for the
past year was PSI 900 600 bushels.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is sixry-
nine years old and her husband seven
ty-one.
i Kansas now rivals Maine as a pro-
hibiIion State. The new law goes into
effect on the first of May.
There are l 100000 Baptists in the
United States, and only 260,00 in
England.
The colored population of Arkan-
sas has increased from I22 $50 in 1870
to 2lO, ,622 in 1880.
There are thirty-eight agricultural
colleges in the United States, 3S9
teachers and 1917 students.
| President Eliot says that In the
near future Harvard will have need of
Cd, ,0OO, 900.
Vermont has 475, 200 sheep.
| There are 4S9 churches in New
York.
| In Boston Sunday School there
is a class which contains fifty Chinese
youths.
The Pullman Company is said to
earn on each OF its 474 cars about 800
a month.
| The dividends paid by the Lake
Superior mines during 1880 foot up to
So, ,O55 coo.
Minnesota has appropriated ST.
500 in the last i've years to encourage
tree plating.
of the $50 members in the House
of Commons, England anI Vale. have
4S5; Scotland 80, and ireland los.
Sixteen steamers and two hundred
and three sailing vessels were lost In
December.
Dead cattle by thousands, frozen
70 death. are seen along the line OF the
Union Pacific.
"A statue of Beethoven is to be
erected in Central Park, New York,
by the Philharmonic Society.
Mrs. J. j. Astor has sent sl3 home
less children to farms in the West and
| South, at an expense Of sll 500.
The thread for glass cloth is spun
from bar of molten glass at the rate
of 20O0 yards in minute.
The shortage of pork in Chicago
this year from what it was last Ii is re-
ported will be at least 100, ,0O0 barrels.
The consumption of coffee in this
country last year was 300, coo bags less
than the preceding year.
"A man has been offered So, 900 for
a lot in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that
ne purchased for sl1.
One OF the leading chemical manu-
factories OF Germany employs six
regular chemists, with salaries vary
ing from 81 500 TO s., 500 yearly.
Within the last ten years the
Merhodists of Cleveland. 0hio, haze
Quilt over twenty church edifices, at
cost of over $500, 900.
Last year the South raised 6OO.-
600, 900 pounds of tobacco, which ex-
ceeds the production OF fany other year
by Il, ,OOO, 90 pounds.
The salt istriet of Saginaw, Mich,
has about ninety-five companies at
work, with an annual capacity of
i, 600, 900 bushels.
The State of New York has in its
various public schools, ], ,lS3, ,765 pupils.
In ITS common schools il had last year
30, 73O teachers, of whom p, 73s are
wOme1.
A bill has been introduced in the
fnf
and six months imprisonment for
carrying pistol.
There are $500 shoemakers in
Chicago. The average of wages is
81 day. In the making of shoe
mere are sixty-four parts.
Louisiana has 81, ,45l white and S.
O24 cOlored voters officially registered
Or the whites 1913 cannot write; of
The negroes ii .4J3 can write.
New York has a police force Of
2,579 men, but only 1,709 men are
available for night and l 1,SS5 for day
duty.
Lieutenant Schwatka is writing
book about his Arctic experiences. He
is a guest of General Hancock on Gov
errors Island.
Mrs. Garefild says that her hus-
bs nd may do as he chooses about hay-
ing wine at state dinners, but for her
private household she will insist upon
total abstinence.
"A copy of Gilbert Stuart's protrait
of Washington, now in the Boston
Athena Inn, was presented to General
Garfield recently by the students of
Oberlin College.
1t is SAID that eighty-seven per
cent of the American 'emigrants who
nave recently arrived at Paso del
Norte, Mexico, are professional gam
| Dlers
Mother GoLzaga of st. Joseph's
Orphan Asylum, Philadelphia, makes
and gives away what most OF the
Catholics of that CITY believe is speci-
ic for smallpox.
The number of vessels belonging
to, or bound to or from ports In the
Uuited States, reported totally lost and
missing during the month of January,
1851. Is Al.
The two facts that America con-
sumes 80 per cent more Ice water tn an
any other nation, and has 20 per cent
more OF Bright's disease have been put
together.
! Canada imported $50, 900 worth of
cheese twelve years ago, but now she
exports $40 O,OO0, 900 worth a year, and
her exports of butter and cheese are
81 ,0O0, 900 larger than those OF wheat.
DIR. Abraham Senseny began the
practice of medicine in Cnanbersburg.
Penna., In 17Sl, and his son, grandson
and greargrandson have continued the
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