Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-04
NO. Is.
NEWS IN BRIEF

-lowa's butter and cheese product
last year was worth sl9, ,000, ,000.
There are %, GOO feminine farmers
In Great Britain.
! "A Philadelphia candy factory uses
seven tons of clay per month.
Twelve bodies have thus far been
cremated at Washington, Pa.
The decrease of the public debt in
March was So, 1872 ,Sl9 IA.
The public schools of the United
States cost sso. .529, 900 per year.
-Papier- buttons were made
in 177S.
There are in Great Britain and Ire
land p 1886 doctors.
/ Gold IN the Bank of England
amounts to fl5, 100000.
Bottles of glass were first made in
England abour the year 1858.
The first United States Congress
met in New York, March 4, 1879.
The New York street ears carry
annually hundred million passenger.
Shoe pegs require annually for
their manufacture 1O0, 900 cords of tim
Der.
1t is said THAI Col. Thomas A. Scott
Of Philadelphia is worth about twenty
millions.
The celebrated Italian embalmer,
Paolo Gerini, lately died at Lodi, a. ell
sixty-elght.
Canada has 6,459 sailing vessels
and 91s steamers, with a gross tonnage
of 100, ,lo9 tons.
About 100000 bushels of hemp seed
are annually consumed tor bird food in
the United States.
st. Louis acknowledges a httIe
municipal debt of SIS, ,607 900. Ii was
sl2 ,379, 200 in 1874.
George Aldridge, one of the sur-
vivors of the Light Brigade" =" Is nov
running an omnibus.
The destruetio by fires in the city
of New York last year averaged about
1865, per month";
The first tame sheep in the United
States were brought from England 10
Virginia in 1909.
There was in Germany in 1878 $40
paper mills which together produced
1900, 900 cwt. of paper.
The number of Roman Catholics in
England is estim1.ed at one million:
in Scotland, at 800, goo.
The butter. cheese, egg, and milk
business OF this country are estimated
TO be worth sS+0, 100000.
A city of London official estimates
the gross annual income of that city's
charities at s22 100000.
The paper wheels on the new cars
of the New York, New Haven, and
Hartford Railroad cost $40.
Tho Presbyterian church In Canada
has membership of I07,s7I. There
are $50 churches and stations.
According to the late census,
California, with population of S64,-
$50, has only 75,025 Chinese.
The London Sunday School Union
has issued a call for universal prayer
for Sunday schools Oct. 18th and 18th.
The British Government. spends
s70e, 900 annually on its Consular SER
vice and the United States only $780,
0oO.
switzerland was visited, according
to statistics collected by she Alpine
Club of Italy, by / 100000 tourists in
1879.
The object of King Kalskaua's
visit to Japan Is said TO be TO propose
scheme OF emigration of NATIVES to
Hawaii.
The total value of metals and min
erals produced in Great Britain and
ireland In 1879 was slightly over $685.
100000.
Tho 1f r,.a1 hr~ h,
butchers of San Francisco is obtained
by solar evaporation from the waters
of the ocean.
The annual number of deaths
throughout the world is at the rate of
81, ,790 day; that of births is at the
rate Of 104, 500.
There is a tax upon wedding rings
in England of IL shillings an ounce,
and the revenue therefrom Is about
per year 100000.
The National debt reduction dur
ing March was s5, 49,, ,Sl9, and the min
tsge of metal sl3,05S, i6l, nearly SILL
900, coo of which was gold.
The tonnage of English sailing yes
sells has decreased by about 500 900 tons
since 1870, but steam tonnage has In
creased by about ], 400. 900 tons.
-Vinton County, Ohio, has a family
named Reynolds, whose combined ages
amount to 9zs years. The father
ninety-one, the mother eighty-eight.l Is
The hammer with which John
Paul Jones nailed the historic flag
to themast of his ship is owned bv a
gentleman in Indiana, Pennsylvania
I'm Hungary it is said fully 6OO. .OOO
children of school age do not 90 to
school at all, while those who do go
frequently stay only three or four
years.
The English gold coin the guinea.
was so called from the fact that il was
made from gold brought from the coast
of Guinea, In 1873. 1t was then worth
thirty shilliIgs.
President Elliot, of Harvard Col
lege, is about to build summer resi-
dence at Northeast Harbor, Mt. Desert,
Bishop Doane. of Philadelphia will
also build in the same locality.
In the last agricultural returns ef
Great Britala the growth Of woods and
forests is shown TO be going on very
last, and in the last ~Iiye years has in
creases ov half mill on acres.
lin 1871 the census nave Great
/ Britain 81, sos ,063. An esti1ka based
on births and deaths last JuNie gaze a
population Of a miEiiOn more. The pre-
sent census will. 1t Is estimANed, give
Great Britain -, e,OOp, 900.
There are now IN use In Ney Zes-
land slone ever ), coo feapiug- machines,
4 kN.mw. :.