Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-25

A mink has killed nearly 500 trout
in pond in West Cumberland, Ne.
Fifteen hundred miles of railways
are in course of construction in Italy
The Prince OF Wales has sent tive
elephants to the Geological Society of
Berlin.
The library of the late DR.. Chaplin
was sold at auction, for SIG, 600; it cost
$4,000.
AT Bildah, Algeria, NAV be seen
cuealypti, only five years old, sixty
feet high.
Cincinnati Is preparing to eele-
orate, in lSSS, the l0Jrh anniversary of
its settlement.
The first iron vessel built in the
United States was launched at Pitts
burgh in 1888.
1t Is estimated that there are over
l,5OO trotting horses training in the
United States.
Lord Derby is childless, of mex
pensive habits, and has an income Of
$3.50, ,0O0 year,
The Chester tEagjand) Commits.
sions find 1000 out of 4 $40 electors
guilty of bribery.
Paris has Il 900 tobacco shops. ten
times that number of drinking booths,
and few churches.
-Bessemer steel was first male in
the United States at WyandO,te, Mich,
in the autumn of 1861.
Seth Green affirms that an acre of
water can be made to produce as much
food as an acre of land.
On the third anniversary OF his
coronation, Pope Leo Xlu dispensed
nearly $4,000 in charity.
There were 124 persons run over
and killed in London in 1850, and
Z, 1850 persons injured.
More than 10000 persons were
kille0 in India, in 1850, by wild beasts
and venonouS snakes.
The butter, cheese, egg, and milk
business of the country are estimate
to be worth $40, 100000.
There was in Germany in IS7S 54j
paper mills which together produced
3 600, 900 cwt. of paper.
Elephants have been known 10
live 400 years, and it is supposed
whales may live 200 years.
Silk culture, which was introduced
in Louisiana in Ills has taken a fresh
start within the past few years.
The first iron manufactured we5.
of the Allegheny mountains was made
IN Fayette county, Pa, in 1870.
In the last fifteen years the star,
Of Louisiana has expend "a for Ievses
and repairs the sum of $ll ,65j 800.
Iron was first made in America in
le20, at a point on Falling creek, a
branch OF the James river, in Virginia.
There are 200 locomotives run
ming over the railroads of the Unitei
States, and over 100000 cars OF ali
kinds.
The London Religious Tract S,e--
ETY. has circulated nearly $4,000 OOl
books and tracks in I30 different IAN
guages.
The population of Chicago has in
creased 20 per cent. in 10 years and
membership In the churches only u
per cent.
1t is estimated thai the immiqrar.fs
pouring into this country will brin5
tNA ms 'ii~ N1AiANA a. AOdot foyOIU UJJ
hard money.
A dog stopped a pair of runaway
.orses in Clinton, Canada, BY taking
the trailing lines in his teeth and cling
ing to them.
The first BesSemer steel rails rolled
in this country were rolled at the
North Chicago rolling-mill on tile 2lth
of May, 1865.
According to the off .ial repo-t of
the United States local inspector Of
steam vessels, not a life was lost on
Lake Superior last year.
Sir Bartle Frere lately state 7 t6,,
in single year more than t3.50J.OOj
worth of diamonds have passed througI
the Cape Town Post Office.
The new census estimltes tn,
amount of standing pine in the three
States OF Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota at 81 $50. .000, 900 feet,
Over $4,000 buffaIo have been kill
ed in Montana within the past six
months, all but some 0,0OO beng slain
for their hides alone, which bring
from 81, ,25 to 1915 each.
The total immigration to this coun-
try in 1850 was 457 ,243. This is tne
largest immigration except that OF
1873 when 459 ,S03 foreigners landed In
the several ports OF the United States.
On the great battle plains of LON
hardy there are upward of twenty
houses preserved as having been the
headquarters of the great Napoleon
during his campaigns with the Aus
trians.
The Lehigh Valley RailIoad Com
pany is said TO have determined TO
hereafter employ none but total alb
stainers from strong drink and from
visits to places where ssrong drink is
al
The farm houses near Lille occu-
pied By Louis XIV, during his siege
of that city, In 1867, is about to be
rszed to the ground. The capitulation
by which Lille became French terri
tory was signed there.
The railroads In New York state,
the report made by the state engineer
shows, represent an aggregate OF stock
and debts of s662, SCI Ass, on which the
earnings in 1880 were SIS, Oh 754. of
which SAC, ,479, ,292 was profit.
The average receipts of the United
States Treasury for the last nine
months have been little over 81 Geo.
700 day. It is believed the total re-
ceipts during the present fiscal year
will exceed those of last year by $780,
OO0, 900, Notwithstanding the reduction
I of some taxes.
There are now supposed TO be In
Paris 200 Protestants, among whom
are $4,000 reform, $4,000 Lutheran.
and 10000 OF other denominations
This is an approximation. About
seventy-five pastors attend to the
spiritual wants of the Protestant pop
ulatio