Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

IrOm 1910 uutll 1000.
1t rains three times as often in Ire
land as it does in Italy.
In England and Wales there are 40
persons to the square mile.
An autograph letter of Mozart has
been sold In Paris for S400.
An inebriate asylum for women has
been established in Chicago.
Marion, Ga, has been for twenty
years without school house.
On Cape Cod there are about fifteen
hundred Portuguese fishermen.
There are $500 colored children
in the public schools of Virginia.
Opium kills about 100, 900 persons
annually in China, it is estimated.
Cotton has been used for garments
in India for three thousand years.
An eloping couple at Hartford, CT,
were black man of 80 and white girl
of Is.
Mississippi county, No., devotes
over 4, 900 acres to watermelon raising
this year.
The snow bank in Tuckermans ra-
vine in the White Mountains, is now ten
feet deep.
1t is proposed to raise the Lord
Mayor of Dublin's salary from $4,000
to $4,000.
-Fechter's daughter will, it is said,
marry Bosquin, tenor of the Grand
Opera at Paris.
The Municipal Council of Paris in
tend to tax telegraph and telephone
wires in sewers.
The circulation Of fiction from the
Boston Public Library is only 43 per
cent of the whole.
Thirty years ago it costs Massa-
chusetts $4.S1 to educate each child.
now it costs SIS, ,55.
The average price of prime mutton
in Melbourne Throughout the year is five
cents, and beef six cents.
There has been a marked increase
in eastern Europe of late years of publ
cations in the Hebrew tongue.
Lebanon county, Pa, has fifty-ons
tobacco factories and over a million Sc
gars are manufactured annually.
A South Bend dealer advertises
''bull-dog revolvers, the kind of weapon
Will hliIu tilC L IColutllt Wuo Sl4Ot
Only eight United States dollars of
1904 are in existence. There is one in
the British museum which cost $500.
The English Jockey Club has bought
for 5000, 900 a fine estate near newmarket.
1t includes $500 acres, with mansion.
"A white quail was shot in Virginia,
recently. About eighteen years ago
many white quails were shot in the same
State.
The Federal surgeon-generals con-
tingent fund last year was charged with
repairs of the value of S225 ON one
wagon.
General Robert Patterson has left to
his family an estate valued at 81 500, 900.
He made no public or charitable be-
quests.
81, 43O, 900 tons of coal were mined
in the Anthracite region of Pennsylvania
last year, an increase of II 200, 900 tons
since 1870.
The wife of the Rev Bryan O'AIal-
ley, Church of England divine, has OBJ
tanned separation because he kicked
and beat her.
The number of German emigrants
who passed through Hamburg alone to
America from the 1st of January to the
Both of June amounted to "a. 633.
Major Seth Pierce, of Cornwall,
Conn, the sole remaining representative
of the class of 1906 at Yale has Just died.
He was nearly hundred years old.
Two new wood pulp factories were
put in operation in Norway in 1880. and
eight of the nineteen old ones were en-
larged. Six more are about to be built.
-One-fifth more siding and flooring
is needed than the number of square feet
of surface TO be covered, because of the
lap in the siding and matching of the
floor.
In excavating at the Lord Lorne
Mine at Gold Hill, Nevada, at depth
of 300 feet, there was found in a stratum
of clay live worms about three-quarterf
of an inch long.
Prof. Rosendale Is said to have
translated another of the inscriptions on
the ancient sword of the valiant Captain
Myles Standish, making it to read 'In
God is all might"
Denver has a population of less than
| 90. 900, but it includes six men who are
worth from 81, 900, 900 to $1,000, 900
each, 20 who are worth $500, 900, and
200 who represent $3.50, 900 in their own
right.
The Rev. NJ Forrest, a missionary,
has prepared in the Japanese language
ten little books on the Ten Command
ments, setting forth the differences be-
tween Christian precepts and those Of
Buddhism
There are 80, ODD generals in Vene-
zuela, and the present president has
been very economical in his commits
sions, too, for he has issued only 5000.
The rest of the inhabitants are women
and children.
The crucifx which Columbus held
when he first landed in America Is as
serted to be in the possession of lady
in Colorado. Whether it be actually that
which was once owned by Columbus or
not, it is ceAainly very ancient crucI-
fix.
Ching Tsan Yu, the new Chinese
Minister, Is expected to arrive in Wash
ington in November to succeed Chin Ian
Pin. He is about 80 years Of age, and
been in the Government service many
years. At the time of his appointment
he was Collector of Customs at Tien-
Tsin.
The interior of DR. Johnson's house
in Cough square, Fleet street, London,
has been opened to the public. 1t was
in this house that he lived from 1748
until 1888. He wrote there his Diction-
airy, his VANITY of Human Wishes, I"
and portions of ''The Rambler" and
''The Idler."
Harvey, the discoverer, or rediseov-
erer Of the circulation of the bloods has
} now a bronze statue by Albert Bruce
Joy. The sculptor followed the por-
trait by Janssens in the Royal College
of Physicians. The site for the statue
is on favorite walk of Harvey at Folke-
stone, his native place.
Captain Glazier, who has been on
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