Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-10-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The canary bird was introduced into
Europe early IN the sixteenth century.
The real name of the Tunisian lead
er, Bou Amena, is Kadoura Benhamsa.
The dog tax this year brings S1263
20 the public library fund of Springfield,
Msss.
| "A great portion of Macaulay's hb-
rary was picked up at secondhand book
stalls
English cities are refunding their
debt at 81 per cent, against 5 per cent
befsfe.
/ The Emperor Justinius, not being
able to write his name, invented the
stencil
| Five hundred and fifty thousand
cases of salmon will be packed in Oregon
this season.
In st. Louis Is, 729 German child
rem and 1851 Americans have been
studying German.
During the siege of Sebastopol by
the English 25S, ,O42 rounds of shot were
thrown into the city.
The present Princess of Egypt, the
Khedive's only wife, is cultivated and
liberal woman.
Large number of Mexican families
are leaving New Mexico and Arizona for
the northern states of Mexico,
-Elihu Stevens, of Belgrade, Me-,
aged ninety-two years, the other day
walked eleven miles in three hours.
A new oil field is anticipated IN Elk
county, Pennsylvania. where the oil
bearing rock is found in abundance
The eggs sold in Cincinnati will this
year undoubtly reach the figure of
5000, 900 dozen, or 60. 000, 900 eggs.
There were IS, ,4SO glasses of beer
drunk during the third day of the re-
cent Philadelphia Canstatter festival.
San Francisco has already spent
80, 500, 900 on its new City Hall, and it
will take g, 900, 900 more to complete it
Some 81 900, ,00s have been added
to the wealth of the nation by the mines
of North Carolina within the past five
years.
A gap of only thirty-ive miles re-
mains 10 be filed on the Canada Pacific
road TO connect Winnipeg with Lake
Superior.
1 -AUBlstAu W I1dDNCOll. II
tired naval constructor, is dead He
built he famous double-turreted moni-
tor WOnddROck
The tooth of a MastOdon, weighing
six and a half pounds, was found by
Ettle boy in the Kentucky river, at
Marion, KY, recently.
Coal has been discovered in excel
lent quality and large quantity in the
State of Oalaca, Mexico, along the route
of General Grants new railroad.
Dan. Holly and wife, of Edgefeld,
s. c., have IL children, five daughters
in-law and thirty-seven grandchildren,
making grand total of fifty-fve.
Mr.. John W. Garrett, President of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in
tends to give to the city of Baltimore
beautiful fountain to cost 800, 900.
"A Saratoga hotel employe has
found $4,000 during the past four years,
which he returned to the owners. His
rewards for his honesty amount to 81 80.
Maud S. has travelled over 1000
miles and won $40, 900 during the past
season, which was not much more thar
half finished, on account of her sprained
leg.
The house in Holborn, London,
wherein lived Haydn, the composer, is
about to be torn down. In this house
he is believed to have written his ''Crea-
ton"
Miss Braddon has in hand curious
project, an abridged edition of the
Waverly Novels. Each novel in its
abridged form Will be published at a
penny.
-Pere Hyacinthe has written letter
on the death of Dean Stanley, in whom,
he believes, the moment of which he is
a representative has lost one of its best
friends.
A man recently sold timber-right
on track of land in Cambria county.
Pennsylvania, for S45, 200. He bought
the land and trees few years ago for
81 900.
The portrait of Ex-Governor Leland
Stanford, of California, which was re-
Gently painted by Meissonier, cost 50,-
900 francs, and measured about ten BY
| thirteen inches.
| Herr Rubinstein will not wholly re-
tire from the stage, in spite of his fail
ing sight. But he will pass several
months in quiet at st. Petersburg, en-
gagged in composition.
The New Capitol of Minnesota, to
supply the place of the one destroyed by
fire last winter. is to be built entirely of
Minnesota brick and stone. The inter
ior viii be finished in natural woods
throughout.
An edict has been published by the
Chinese Government extending to Pro-
testant Christians the exemption from
assessment for the benefit of heather
ceremonies which was accorded to Ro-
man Catholics In 1852.
-Congressman Robert Vance, of
North Carolina, has q beautiful home on
the French Broad River, near Asheville.
Here Mr.. Vance every night holds pa
triarchal service, reading the Bible and
leading in family prayer.
Massachusetts, with l 800. 900 in
habitants, has 600 divorces in a year. But
England has only 800 with "a, 900. 600 of
people, 1t is astonishing how much
wickedness those English people will en-
dure for the sake of appearances.
DR. Quinn, one of California 'smillion-
aires, keeps twenty ships busy transport
ing his wheat to England He owns So
900 acres of rich grain land, 1000 of
which were in wheat this season. One
continuous furrow is seventeen miles in
length.
Professor Pictet, the discoverer of
the liquefaction of oxygen, has invent
ed an improved steam vessel, with which
he expects to attain a speed of thirty
five miles an hour. A model vessel is
being built, and will be tried on the
Lake of Geneva.
Wooden Thread.
The manufacture of thread from wood
for crochet and sewing purposes has, it Is