Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11
NO. 80.
BRIEFS.

Cadet Whittaker's ears already
have cost the government $40, ,O1O.
Venice is blilt on ~ Islands.
1t costs over $4,000 year for the
repairs at st. Peters, Rome.
Five thousand tons OF ice are to be
shipped from Maine TO India this sum-
mer.
There Is deficiency % about 800
600 In the State Auditors office of Vir-
ginia.
-Dolgourouki, widow of the late
car has $4,000, 600 to her credit in
Berlin.
Forty cords of oak wood will yield
JUS about ten cords of merehantable
charcoal
ten. John A. Gordon is reported
to have sold Southern coal mine foI
sl00, 900.
The last census in this country
gave as relative numbers 9S3 women to
every 1000 men.
The new census in Germany shows
a total population of 45, ,194,I72, and IN
crease of =, 2,4GG, ,Sl2.
Over twenty-five thousand tourists
have visited the Yosemite Valley since
its discovery in 1865.
Colonel Jerome y. Bonaparte, of
Baltimore, is to build residence for
himself at Washington.
New York last year spent $7,OOO,-
OOO for amusements and SGT. .0OO, 600 for
intoxicating beverages.
In the English university holr
race Oxford defeated Cambria re by
fully four lengths.
The Chicago Packing and Proy.-
sion House kills 0.0e0 hogs every day,
a day being ten hours.
Judge Choate is rapidly recovering
his health. he has been spending
some time at Wallingford, ,CJnn.
The elevated railways of New York
carried s., 600, 900 last year without the
loss OF a passenger, it Is claimed.
OF the cities of Holland Amstsr-
dam has population OF 5000; Rot
terdam, 1900; the Hague, so 900.
The Mexican Government has paid
81, ,2OO,OOO on account OF sGbventions
TO sections of railway thus far com
pleted.
A lady about to remove from HART
ford, Conn.,, to st. Louis had four cats
shipped to that city by express a few
days ago.
Within the last ten years ,, 800 car
eouplers and draw-bars have been pat
ented, yet but five patterns are in gem
eral use.
The Gutenberg Bible, about the
first book published with moyeable
types. was recently sold in New York
for s., ,0Oo.
During the war 5,221 officers and
eO, s6S privates belonging TO the Union
Army were killed in action or died OF
their wounds.
The portrait of Milton, which was
once owned ty Charles Lamb, has lust
been bought in London b. Mr.. o Iar-
itch for sl,775.
The annual report OF the Ameri-
can Steamship Company, OF PhiIadel-
phia, shows deficit on the business of
1880 of s57, $40 10.
Since March 1st, 1850. the Denver
and Rio Grande company has laid 367
miles of track, and will lay many more
this season.
1t is estimated that during the last
year over 100 miles of telegraphic
and telephonic wires were placed over
New York City.
The best time for visiting the
Holy Land Is in NJ ircb, April ami Nav.
Later in the season there Is danger of
malarial feyers.
The managers of the State Agri-
cultural Society have decided to offer
premiums to the amount o! $2S, 900 at
the coming fair.
In 1880 the number of miles ofrail-
road in the United States was only
twenty-three; we have now more than
"a 900 miles, and by the end of the year
we will have over. 100000.
Over four hundred men and boats.
and probably over 10000 pots, are en-
gagged on the Massachusetts coast aIone
in the lobster fishery.
There were 1.9S6 failures In the
United States during the first quarter
OF the current year, against ,39l i'm
the corresponding period of 1880.
Mrs. Elizabeth Givens, who was
the first girl baby born in Louisville.
ky., died on Sunday, aged I03 years.
She has never ridden in a steam car.
Capt. Mayne Reid, the famous rO-
nance writer, has a small estate in
Hertfordshire, England, where he
takes great interest in sheep breeding.
The Brandy lana, in Roekbridge
county, 1,OOO acres of mountain land,
assessed at ten cents per acre, has been
sold to Pennsylvania firm for $4,000.
Mrs Amelia Lewis asserts in Food
and Health that nearly sl5 200, ,0)O is in
vested in oieomargarIne factories, and
that they have added nearly 81 TO the
value OF every OK killed.
Bishop j. l.. Spaulding, of Peoria,
ILL.,, is IN Arkansas looking for a suta-
BILE location for a Catholic colony.
Funds are ready to purchase 100000
acres of land for the purpose.
"A box containing slf 900 in bonds
and other securities, and belonging to
a private deposition, has mysteriously
disappeared from the vault of the Fay
ette National Bank, Lexington, by.
The average age of members of the
Garfield Cabinet is 81. Mr.. Gladstone's
Cabinet averages IS. There are two
septuagenarians in the English Cabinet
but the majority are between 80 and
20.
The Marquis of LOrne will go to
Quebec early in May. On the arrival
OF the Princess Louise aid party two
weeks will be spent in salmon fishing,
after which they will proceed to Hall
fax to witness the military review on
July lst.
When the Austrian Empress goes
to England or Ireland, she carries her
own bed with her-a plain little bed
with an extremely hard mattress. Her
own room is always arranged in so
plain and simple manner that it looks
almost cOnventual.
Admiral Carr Glyn, to whom
Adelaide Nelson left the bulk of her
fortune, has determined to set aside
the sum of sl5, 200, the interest of
which shall be devoted TO the relief OF
necessitous members of the profession
TO which Miss Nelson belonged.
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