Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-01-19
BRIEFS.

!, -Dnbuque's school census shows
s, ,476 children between the ages , and
ri.
i The late Judge Peleg Sprague, of
Boston, left an estate valued at Sl9i, :
9s3 5S.
A sausage fifty-two feet long was
made at Altoona, Pa, by Jacob F.
Almes.
The population of Oregon is
Males, 103. .3SS; females, 1879 total,
74,76S.
Detroit reports the erection of
twelve hundred buildings during the
past year.
The President of Buenos Ayres Of
fers free lands to fifty thousand Irlsh
emigrants.
A.! -Messrs Moody and Sankey have
refused TO 60 and labor in Virginia
City, New.
The Edgar Thomson steel works
are said to have orders for 81. 900 tons
of steel rails.
The old home of President Lincoln
in Springfield, ILL.,, is now d cheap
lodging house.
Speaker Randall has had an acute
attack of gout since Congress ADJOURN
ed, but Is better
The motive power of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad is now working To its
utmost capacity.
Utah has population of l43,S07
of whom SO, ,436 are females and Is, 933
of foreign birth.
Eighty million dollars worth of
hogs are sold every year by the L. S
to foreign lands.
In Pennsylvania there are 81 daily
newspapers, GIL weekly and l37 Tiers,
making total OF S3j.
The Gar has placed e3OO, 900 ster-
ling in Berlin bank in the name OF
the Princess Dolgorouki.
The fund of sl3o, 900 for the HlI-
ward Divinity School, at Cambridge,
Mass, has been made up.
The amount of butter now made
in Iowa creameries is estimated AZ So
900, 900 pounds per annum.
Only 81 for each So, 90, of person
al property is said To have been given
for foreign missions last year.
The cOnsoli latiOn OF the New
Orleans, Pacific and Texas PacIfic rail-
roads has been consummated-
Two of General Garfield's sons are
10 enter Williams College next year.
One is seventeen the other fifteen.
Brazil, covering nearly half OF
South America, has a population Of
IL ,OO0, ,0Oc, OF which over Il million are
slaves.
The imports of Great Britain I'D to
date exceed those OF lat year by over
$3.50, 900, 600, the exports by over $780,
100000.
There are more than 5000. 900 wO-
men IN England and Wales rying to
earn living in the various trades and
industries.
1t is stated that the family of J. w
Aackey, the bonanza king. live ia
Paris at the rate of nearly 81 ,0O0, 900
per annum.
Kate Lawler. who manages the Roy
atty theatre, London, will tOrswear the
stage and wed a youth with a fortune
of ESQ, 900.
In 1879 the gain to the revenue of
the U. s., from the increased classili-
cation of sugar was S3O3 367, and in
1880, 81 ,239 ,S72,
The value of American exports for
the year ending October 81 It was $S67-,
94l ,227, against S743, 500, ,56l for the
year preceding.
Justice Hunt of the United States
Supreme Court has learned to write
with his left hand since his right hand
became paralyzed.
Mr.. Thomas Carlyle has Just COM
pleted his eighty-flfth year. His
friends show much anxiety about the
state of his health.
The annual pro laction of kero-
sene is now abOus l5,000, 900 gallons.
The first oil well was sunk nearly
twenty-one years ago.
The Bank of France is a govern
ment institution. Its circulation Is
S466, 755,O 900. Its capital is $50, 10000
and it has 81 branches.
1t is estimated that the sugar-cane
crop of Louisiana will yield this year
3S, 900 hogshead of sugar, and l3, ,00O,-
900 gallons of molisses,
Mile. Bernhardt proposes hereaf-
ter to prosecute whoever circUlates
false reports about her life, whether
he be clergyman or other.
Berlin, the German Capital. has
population of LIS $50, which Is an
increase of 10 per cent since 1870 anu
of over 100 per cent since 1850.
Minneapolis boasts of growth
from 5 500 in 1860 to 4S,05 in 1850.
Her bonded Indebtedness is 100000.
Only one-tenth OF her water-power
has been utilized.
The average price paid tor silver
bullion of standard tineness tor the
past year, by the Treasury Depart
ment, of the L. 5. was equivalent TO
52.7 pence per ounce.
director Burehard, of the United
States mints, estimates the annual con-
sumption OF gold and silver in mInu-
factures and the arts at $l2,0JO,OOO,
$1,000, 900 of which is gold.
The population of Berlin, inciud-
ing the military element, now num-
Oers l, ills $50, or an increase of l5i,-
39J. or 10 per cent. on the hugures OF
1873, which were only 964 ,2lO.
There were %, 767 applications to
enter the United States regular army
last year, when only 5000 men were
wanted. Oh the , 700 who were accep--
ed 5, III were born in America.
The indianapolis, Peru and Chicago
road in the ten mouths ending NOyem-
Der !, 1880, received anI forwarded at
indianapolis ),24l cars, while in the
year 1879 but 81 ,4J2 were handled
The number of people rescued from
wrecks by the llfe-s tving service er
the L. >. during the past year WAS 7O5,
besides which I2S vessels with their
crews were aided out of dIngerOu5
positions.
A handsome o5elisk has been cOm-
pleted at Berlin and sent for erection
at Folkestone, III memory of the vic
tins OF the disaster which overlook the
Grosser kurfurss. lG is dedicated 10
their memory by the German Navy.
The little Prince OF Cumberland,
Princess Thyra's son and AlexInIra's
nephew, has just been baptized, re-
eeiving ten Christian names-GeOrge
William Christian Albert Il lWard