Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-04-27
BRIEFS.

Nebraska has been scourged with
floods.
Greece has raised an army of S5,-
coo men.
Mark Twain has male Sl25 900 out
of his books.
There are $4,000 females farmers
In Great Britain.
The Detroit House of Correction
cleared $50, 900 last year.
Mississippi has had % governors,
OF whom % were lawyers.
Mary l.. Booth. of Harper's Bazar.
receives salary of 81 900.
I'm five years New Hampshire
judge has divorced 227 couples.
One of the Rothschilds owns $780,
OOO for every pound he weighs.
-Ex. Governor Seymour is going to
visit the Pacific coast this sumner.
Rev. Simon Parmelee, OF Osweso,
n. Y, is in the Tooth year OF his age.
-Burnisbers of bloodstone are used
for putting gold-leaf or china ware.
"A single game of ecarte for $4O,-
600 was lately played in club at Nice.
Petersburg, Va, has six cotton
factories, employing 900 operatives.
"A Dakota farmer has a single
wheat field covering thirty six square
miles.
There are 200 students at the South
Georgia Agricultural College at Thorn
asyille.
1t is said the English Government
has practically decided to abandon
Cyprus,
The com mpIetion of the Mississippi
river Improvements Will require ST.
100000.
The properly LETT By Marshal ..
K ,berts, of New York, is estimated AT
s., ,0OO. 900.
Canada has &, 459 sailing vessels
and 9lS steamers, with agross tonnage
of 100, ,l59 tons.
In the Cherokee Nation there are
lO7 schools where the English Ian
guage is taught.
Three years ago there was no hi
cycle club in the United States to- lay
there are 100.
The national debt of England is held
by about q, 900 people; tn lI of France
Uy doOuG f.VUU,UVU-
1t Is estimated that the estate of
the late Senator Carpenter is from
$3.50, 900 TO $3.50, 900.
The net earnings OF the Oneida
Community, New York, last year were
trifle over s97 900.
Oscar De Lafayette, Senator OF
France and grandson OF General La
fayette, died IN Paris recently.
Experts think Gen. G. G.Imore' es-
timate of $50 200 900 for the Florida
ship canal altogether TOO much.
There are l SOC convic,s In Sing
Sing, New York, and call of the roll
the other day showed only four sick.
From March 1, 1880, to M.reh 1,
1851, 7,0OO, GOD of hegS entered Chicago,
and not one of them left toe city alive.
Among many of the West India
Islands adzes and axes OF shell are
used. When it was procuraole, flint
was also used.
Bellows were used in Egypt 400
b. and are represented on a tomb
bearing the name OF Pharaoh, Thoth-
mes Ill.
The number of deaths from the
theatre fire in Nice is SO. There were
no Americans or Englishmen among
the victims.
The fruit canneries of California
are turning out stock worth $1,000
900 year, and the business is largely
increasing.
During the last ten years the royal
lottery has yielded the Italian Govern
ment Sl24 100000 from l.7S6 1882
tickets Issued.
Tine expenditure at Rome during
the Carnival this year WAS very large,
$40, 200 having been taken in one
theatre on one evening.
Since 1866 nine thousand divorces
have been granted in Italy, Milan
being set down for no less than 5000.
Since 1870 Rome has had co..
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun, recently spent a6oIs 81, ,O00
IL the construction of cave for the
cultivation OF mushrooms.
twenty-five hun dred new build
ings were erected in New York city
last year at cost of s23 900, 900, or an
average OF over sl6 900 each.
The number of persons who wash
ed in the free baths of New York from
June 1st TO Sept. 10, 1899, was ) .l93,-
$50. of whom 060.2l4 were males.
There are at present about 800
Cherokee Indians in North Carolina,
owning $4,000 acres OF land and S40,-
coo in cash, which the Government
holds in trust for them.
The birth rate in Montreal is 47.50
per GOO in excess of that of any other
American city, But this advantage is
offset by the fact that the death rate is
10 or 10 per cent higher.
line swords of Genera. Anthony
Wayne and that OF Judge Z EIVari
King have been pre,entei 70 che city
of Philadelphia, in accordance with
the will of the late Dr.. William King.
By the census returns it is seen
that the number of cities having over
$4,000 has increased from thirty-six in
1870, to sixty-four in 1880, and the
number having over 100, 900 from four
teen To twenty,
The Revue des Deu1 hondes, found
ed fifty years ago, and to-day the
principal review in France, failed To
pay during the first twenty years OF
its career. 1t now nuInb bers 20, 900 sub
scribers at $40 year.
-Salvini, the Italian ira yedIan has
for years taken lessons in Esglish In
order to be able 10 interpret Shake
spere in the original text: but he says
he despairs of ever plying in E1ghsh
on the stage.
The Pope's new journal and organ,
the Aurora, started at Rome, Jan. |
1879, has reached a circulation OF 5 5,O0J
and is now considered firmly establish
ed. 1t is contributed to by personages
in the Vatican.
"A machine has been invented
which can make 200, 900 cigarettes a
day. The consumption of cigarettes
In 1880 amounted to 40S 900 600. and it
IS estimated that l ,000, 100000 will bs
required to supply the demand for
1881.
There was recentiv cast in San