Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-04-13
NO. 10.
BRIEFS.


year.
Weston has walked $1,000 miles
since 1866.
There are 10000 Catholic schools
In France.
-Louisiana's rice crop is estimated
at 250. 900 barrels.
There are 175 breweries in Iowa,
and 1000 saloons.
Herbert Spencer, the philosopher,
is In delicate health.
Half the population of the UnIted
States is in nine States.
The winter pork-paeking at Mil
waukee was 325. .5S5.
Alexander Iii is 35 years old, and
has four children.
Last year the government sold
293, ,OoO, 900 postal cards.
-Queen Victoria made 81 900 on
stock farming last year.
During the pork packing season,
81. Louis put up 474. .l59 hogs.
There are $500 groeers In Phila-
delphia who employ 5000 hands.
The weight of the circulating blood
is about twenty-eight pounds.
"A man annually contributes to
vegetation 12f pounds of carbon.
The public schools of the United
States cost sS3, ,529 200 year.
The value of the New York hav
crop is estimated at $50, 1000, 900 a year.
The exact population of New York
State by the census of 1880 is 5,0S2 $50.
The centenary OF George Steph-
enson, June 8, 1881, Is to be celebrated.
There were 100 fires in New York
during February, an average of six
day.
Queen Mary III, daughter ofJames
by Anne Hyde, died OF smallpox in
1884.
The famous destructive earthquake
which occurred at Lisbon was IN the
year 1872.
There are in this country 729 Uai-
versalist churches, with % .947 men
bers.
Twelve torpedo cutters are to be
added to the Russian fleet in Chinese
waters.
The revenue of the Sultan of Tur-
key is $1,000, 900, of which $50 COG. 900
goes to the army.
of 257 women in Burlington, Vt,
entitled to vote at the recent election
only 16 did so.
A site has been selected on George
town heights for a naval observatory.
to cost $63, 900.
Mile. Bernhsrdt's receipts in Bos-
ton were SIS, ,l57, as against s5l ,s67 in
New York.
The crown prince of Sweden is to
marr7 the eldest daughter of the grand
duke OF Baden.
The cost of cremation at the cele-
brated Washington, Penn, furnace is
now placed at s45.
Mount Ararat, on which the Bible
say Noah's ark found resting place,
Is 7,1l2 feet high.
In few cities are there more than
half dozen railway stations. In Lon
don there are at least $50.
1t is calculated that sixty tons of
steel are annually consumed in the
of steel pens.
The coinage at the mints for Feb
ruary amounted to So, ,55S 600 of which
81 ,7O3, 900 were silver dollars.
-Ex-Judge Strong will devote his
leisure to literary and scientific studies,
and may practice law.
The poor department in Rochester
food and fuel to 200 families
1t cost OF about 81 800 month.
Sir. Francis Lycett, of England.
has left more than 81 ,259. .ODO for the
erection of Wesleyan chapels.
"A new oil well was sunk recently
in Beaver county, Pa, which produces
fifty barrels Of heavy oil per day.
The land that has been granted by
The United States for rail and wagon
roads amounts to l9S, ,165, ,764 acres.
French Canadian farmers have
been selling frozen milk in Montreal
during the winter at cents a pound.
1T is said that postal card writing
has diminished the sale of writing
paper sl2,0OO,00O annually In the
United States
Gen. Robert ToOmbs, of Georgia,
has given a thousand acres of Texas
land TO aid in founding a university in
that state.
1t is stated that the new cigar
factory just started at TIoga, Pa, will
employ about one hundred cigar max
ers.
The average yield of Indiah corn
per acre throughout the United States
is 1872 bushels, of an average value per
oushel of 2s1s cents.
The Oxford University calendar
shows slight increase In the number
Of undergraduates. There are now p
$50, against 2,Sl4 a year ago.
"A stone pitcher used by John
Brown during his imprisonment in
Va, was sold recently at
auction in Baltimore for S2.
The average of the pulse in infancy
is 120 per minute; in manhood, 50; at
50 years, so. The pulse OF females is
more frequent than that of males.
The late earl of Seafield was the
chief of the Clan Grant, one of the old
est families in Scotland, having an un-
broken line of descent for 600 years.
The exports of Swiss products to
the United States for 1880 were greater
than any other year on record, exceed
ing 1879, by 100000, 600 francs.
There are $500 children in Massa-
chusetts under the care of the State,
and of these over 1000 are the off
spring of criminals.
One of the vaults in Treasury
Building, which is about ten feet
square and fourteen feet high now con-
taIas 1919 600, 900 in registered govern
ment bonds.
The total number of hogs cut up in
Cincinnati during the winter season,
from November lst TO March lst, is
52O, ,425, showing a decrease, compared
with last wear, OF II AS head.
There are in Scotland 29S priests,
2S6 churches and chapels, 2l0 Catholic
schools, and forty religious eommuni-
ties, with an estimated Catholic pOpu-
latiOn of 81 1884 souls.
Clark Mills, the sculptor, took
plaster cast of the features of Senator
Carpenter after death, from which a
bust is to be made for the Congres-
sional Statuary Hall.