Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The Eureka, Colorado, postofice sends
of in postal orders SIC. 600 a month.
The capital invested in railroads is g.
tmated at twenty milliards of dollars.
1t is said that Maggie AGtchelPs net
profits this season will reach 500. 600.
Mexico proposes to make only native
Mexicans eligible to seats in Congress.
Another extensive discovery of coal
has been made on Nancouver's Island.
Connecticut tobacco lands give sn
average annual yield of 400 pounds to the
acre.
OF 26O cottage hospitals founded of
late years in England, eight only have
failed
The worlds population of I,4S7. .OOO.-
600 includes 4l0, 900. 900 nominal Christ
ians.
"A son OF Stephen \. Douglas is to be
Fourth of July orator at Marshalltown.
Iowa
The first application to practice of the
use OF gas for illumination was made in
1902
Brooklyn, n. Y, is down for aro.ber
elevated railroad, with a capital o. 81 COO
900.
The Queen has made Lord Rowton.
Beaconsheld's Private Secretary, her own
Secretary.
The pyramid of Pueblo, in Mexico. is
larger than the great pyramid of Cheops,
IN Egypt:
There are 42, 600 Postmasters appoint
ed by the Postmaster General and 9, 900 by
the President,
Arkansas is crowded with men buying
up timber lands. Thousands of acres are
sold weekly.
The daily average gain of an italian
peasant is one franc and twenty-one CEN
tunes per day.
Thousands of trees in Northern Wis
consln were destroyed by mice during the
snow blockade,
Secretary Blaine is to have the largest
private residence in Washington, He has
two architects.
The Thames river, England, dis
charges from 50, 900 to 45, OOO-cubic feet of
water per minute
The railroads of the old world now
cover two hundred Thousand miles, and are
steady being extended.
The report comes from Havana that
the United States have bought the Danish
West Indies for $4,000, 900.
The specie In the three banks of Eng
land, Germany and France has decreased
s4S, l75, 1S3 in the past year.
Congressman Updegraf of Ohio has
presented his friend, President Garfield,
with span of blooied horses.
Gardening as an art was introduced
into England at the commencement of the
10th century by the Flem;ngs
MIR. Irving has received an offer of
slOO, 600, all expenses paid, for a seven
months theatrical tour in America.
Twelve thousand steamers, and over
hundred thousand sailing vessels, are en-
gagged in the commerce of the seas.
The wool clip of the world has in
creased five times since 1880, when it was
about 32O, 900, 900 pounds in weight,
The farmers of Acwotth, N. H., made
nearly l43, 900 lbs of maple sugar during
the past season, which sold for $ll, 500,
The business of paper making in the
United States is estimated to employ over
800, 600, 900 of capital and 10000 per
sons.
During the logging season just closed
8, 279, $50, 900 feet of lumber have been
felled in Michigan, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa.
Count Arnim' who has lived so long
an exile from his native land, will, it is
said. be buried in the family sepulchre al
Berlin
Genoa is bn1ding several street rail.
ways. As the city is built on the slope of a
steep hill they will mostly have to ruu IN
one DIRECTION.
"A Catholic Congress will be held in
Madrid, SPAN, in October, which will be
attended by Catholic notables from every
part Of the world.
About four thousand millions of letters
annually pass through the worlds mails.
and about three hundred thousand tele-
grams are sent daily.
of the cultIvatable land IN Russia pro.
per about oHe-third IS held by the State.
One-ifth by landed proprietors and one
fifth by the peasantry.
The dome Of the cathedral at Rome ia
Illuminated inside and out by the Siemens
electric light, and the effect is described as
brilliant and charming.
John p. Clarke, of Milton, is the
heaviest taxpayer in Vermont. His pro-
perty is assessed at $500, 900. The state
Is without a single millionaire
king Charles of Roumania was crown
ed with crown of steel, wrought out of a
cannon captured from the enemy at Plevna.
and his Queen with one of gold.
= 1t is estimated that from $50, OOO. 900
to 500, 900, 600 will be required to make
the Mississippi river a highly serviceable
and safe stream for western Commerce.
There are 2s. 532 departments in the
English and Scottish schools in which
music is taught. In 691 of these the fixed
do is used; in 676, the movable do, and in
1887, the toaic-sol-fa not4tioas.
documents recently discovered In the
archives ..of Venice show that the house
inhabited by Marco Polo stood on the pre.
else spot now occurred by the Malibran
Theatre.
"A monument Is to be erected at Char
lotte, N. C., in time to be unveiled May 20,
1882, In honor of the Mecklenburg declars-
ton of independence and in memory of the
confederate dead.
-Twenty-one cannon balls, weighing 20
phunds each, were recently unesrthed on
the peninsula Of Ere harbor, Pennsylvania.
There was block house at this point
during the war cf 1912
&C. w. Harrison, of Philadelphia has
been authorized by the Governor of Penn
sylvanra to proceed to England and aid the
preparations to remove to Philadelphia the
remains of William Penn.