Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-04-20
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NEWS IN BRIEF.


e Lord Beaconsfield's "Endymion'
4 paid him about fifty cents word.
The United States makes the bes
and purest glycerine in the market.
The inhabitants of the globe pro
fess more than 900 different religions
The average consumption of sugar
in France in 1875 was 1912 per head
, I'm Paris alone LIS, 900 females carr
their livelihood in some department oi
trade.
The estimate for the new Tay
bridge, Scotland, is close on to SO. 500,
900.
Michael Soils of Bogota is 160 year.
o'd-6O years above par, and above
Parr.
The total number of languages and
dialects spoken in the world amounts
to 3,c6f.
Queen Victoria received last year
s2O5, 600 clear cash from her duchy of
Lancaster.
The Black Hills mines are report
ed to have produced In 1850 nearly So
600, 900.
"A dealer in Vermont has an order
from the West for l,OOo,O 200 pounds OF
maple sugar.
The son of Manzoni, the great
italian novelist, has been put in luna
tic asylum.
Milan is the second city of Italy in
population, and the first In wealth and
art attractions.
The famous copper mine of Fahlun
in Sweden, has been worked for
thousand years.
-Four hundred miles of railroad
have been constructed in Missouri dur
ing the past year.
Canada received nearly S5, 900 im-
migrants last yesr, as against 81 900
fer the year previous.
The Atlanta cotton fair, IN Octo-
per, Will draw, 1t Is estimated, $4,000
| strangers TO that town.
king Humbert, of Italy, is about
TO visit Paris under the travelling title
OF COmte de Pavla.
The Chinese OF Denver have a
large school, in which the EaglIsh
branches are taught.
Over 80 new butter and cheese
factories will be erected in Iowa this
year, making 400 in all.
John Clay, the brother of Henry
Clay, Is living in Kentucky, and is still
strong and active man.
Ground was broken on the Yellow
sto:le division OF the Northern Pacific
Railroad on September 18th.
"A $1,000 acre tract of land on the
Northern Pacific has been bought for
colony from Belfast, ireland.
Mime. LettellIer, the eldest sister
OF the late Alexander DGmas, is still
living at Grenoble, at the age OF Sc
king Humbert is 81, and has been
on his throne three years. His assas-
sination has boon attempted only once.
The railroads killed 30 persons
during February and injured lS2-the
blacklist statement for any month on
record.
bishop LittlejOhn, of Long Island,
has just received the degree of doctor
of laws from Cambridge University,
England.
The Empress Eugene is a very
wealthy woman. She has estates in
Hungary, Spain, France, Switz srland,
Italy and England.
The Crown Princess Victoria. of
Germany, is in ill health, said TO be
caused by her grief over her bereaye-
ments OF last year.
Hoe & Co., are said to have paid
81, ,OOO,O 900 TO the widow OF William
Bullock, inventor OF the printing
presses, for his patents.
The highest rate OF Indebtedness.
per capita, is that of Maryland. SIO3.-
u. and the next Maine, with sI0O.29.
The lowest is Oregon, s4.25.
The annual production of tobacco
10 the counties OF Rock, Dane, Jeffer-
son, and Green, in Wisconsin, amounts
10 nearly S2,OJO,0OO in value.
Chief Justice Waite is OF medium
height, straight, strong and firm. His
nose, mouth and chm are large, while
his hair and bearl are iron gray.
Josiah Deloach, the man who is
said to have saved General Grant from
capture by the enemy near Memphis
in 1862, has just died in Lhas city.
AT sale or autographs in Paris, a
letter of Catherine de Medieis brought
$50. one of the MarquIse MaintenOn.
S7S. and letter of Mary Stuart $50,
The Governors of New York and
Pennsylvania each receive $4,000 per
annum; the Governor OF Louisiana S.
600, and the others from 81, 900 TO ST.
600.
The difference in the value of sill
yer by the gold standard. as compared
with our standard silver doll IT, is about
50, 200, 600 year on our total product
of silver.
The number of immigrants to the
United States In 1850 was 475, ,257,
larger number by almost 80, 1000 tnaa
ever came TO the country in a single
yea- before.
A celery garden of forty-siX acres,
believed to be the largest in the world,
Is cultivated in the suburbs OF London,
and produces annually about half a
million plants.
The total number of periodicals
published in the Uaited States at the
beginning of the present year was TO-
l3l, with an aggregate circulation, per
issue, of 20,677 .53S.
-Governor John Endicott's auto
grapt soli at auction in Boston recent
ly tor s24, Ralph Waldo Emerson's for
81 05, John Browns for So 70, and
edward Eyerett's for 80 cents.
The public debt of the United
States is S6S per head; of Spain 1854;
of France, sl56; of England, sl47; of
Holland, Sll4; of Canada, S27; OF
Mexico, 500; of Switzerland, 81.
The shearing eorrals at Delano,
Kern County, CAL, present a scene of
curious activity. no less than l20 ex-
pert shearers being engaged in clip
ping the fleece from POO, 900 sheep,
The passage of the Coercion bill
finds Ireland garrisOned by an army of
26, $50 officers and men, 4l9S horses and
and y guns. This enormous military
terce Is distributed all over tn g coun-
try.
Probably the longest pastorate In
New Hampshire was that of the late
| Rev. Iaban AinsWOrth of Jaffrev-