Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-16
NO. 10.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

effects of wee,
Illinois has 81 800 pensioners who
draw s., 000 600 year
Finger nails two inches long are the
pride of Baltimore woman.
M. Victor Eugo has Just gwen
$4,000 to the poor of Paris.
"A monument to Dean Stanley IS to
be raised in Westminster Abbey.
William Rufus died the death of the
poor stays which he hunted.
The first sun DIAL was erected in
Rome IN the year of the city Al.
George Stephenson. inventor of the
locomotive, was born June 9, I7S1.
The wheat crop of the Canadian Do
minion for 1881 is %, 900, 600 bushels.
There are 1900 square miles of ice
in the Alps, from so to 600 feet thick.
The ivory of the walrus is covered
with enamel SO hard as to strike fire with
flint or steel.
From 5000 to 5000 people in the
United States are incurably addicted to
the use of opium.
William LII, died of ccnsumDt1ve
habits of body and FROM the stumbling
of his horse.
The Egyptians placed mummy at
their festal boards to remind them of
immortality.
-Surnames began in France in the
year 1000, and in England in the time of
the Conquest.
"A new public school building in
New Orleans has been named the Car
field School.
AT the Tallahassee Fla State Fair
a premium of So was offered for the
best darned stocking.
William the ComGueror died from
enormous fat. from drink, and from the
violence of his passions.
Among the Anglo-Saxons the science
of medicine and of the law was moaopo-
lIzed by the clergy.
The question of the Hanoyerian
succession to the throne of England was
carried by single vote.
"A child born in Anamosa. Iowa. last
month, weighed but one pound and
seven ounces.
More than 2000 Mormon converts
have left Liverpool for Utah during the
past summer.
Adelaide Ann Proctor's poems are
increasing IN popularity and are being
republished extensively in England.
The annual production ofpins in the
United States for several years past has
been about seven billions.
During the past year half the mines
on the Pacific slope yielded in gold
50. .41S,37S, AMI in silver 500, 2l4, 77S.
The Japeness sent 1.272. .75G teie-
grams last year over their own wires.
Pretty good for people who have no
alphabet
Massachusetts with population Of
l 800, 900 inhabitants, has 600 divorces
annually. England, with population
of "a, ,0OO, 900 has 500.
Stone collins oeeur among the
as early as 695, and were
not quite obsolete before the reign of
Henry VIII.
M. Gambetta says that the strength
Of France is, in great measure, due to
the thrift and industry of French wo-
men.
Tennessee cattle that have been
compelled to live on withered grass during
the long drouth are reported in remark
ably good condion
British trade returns for September
show a decrease in imports of e1 .OSi. GOO.
and an increase in exports of ESTE, 600.
The three hundredth anniversary of
tine annexation of Siberia to the Cars
empire will soon be celebrated at Irkutsk
and in other cities of Asiatic Russia.
Queen Victoria has Just been buy
ing several large farms in Wiltshire, al
though land in England is unpromising
rs an investment at present.
The network of German subter-
ranean cable is completed. 1t connects
221 towns, and has cost about $1,000
BOO.
According to the last census the
outlay for building and repairing farm
fences during 1879 In eleven Southern
and Southwestern States aggregated
s13, $50, 746.
The sowing of forest pine seed has
begun by the Shakers at Enfield, Conn,
and the State authorities are considering
plans to encourage this industry.
The Empress Augusta has been for
bidden by her physicians to ascend
stairs, and an elevator has been con-
III the palace at Berlin.
"A recent religious census taken in
Prussia shows that that country contains
1855, 1852 Protestants, 9.2Oj, l36 Catho-
lies, 1886 jews, 42,51S Dissenters,
and 2,0O6 persons protesting no reli-
gion.
The city of Bangor Is the headquar-
ters of the lumber business of Maine.
This year there have been 200. 900. 600
feet of logs in its bOoms and localities
above, and about 40, 900, 900 feet have
been manufactured and shipped to mar
ket.
The number of students at the
Vienna University Is now 3, 457, exciu-
sive of 50i unattached students, or con
side-ably more than Mt the German
University of Berlin and Leipzig. Thirty
five are Americans.
The funeral ear of the late Presi-
lent was removed recently from the
public square in Cleveland to Lake View
Cemetery. 1t understood that the ceme-
terry trustees viii at once have built over
it fine building, chiefly composed of
glass, with framework of wood.
Some wealthy Berkshire manufac-
turers are proposing to buy Mrs. Gar
field home In Williamstown, Mass.
The money is pledged, and they only
wait to learn whether she would accept
with view of being near her sons
during their college course
The school savings banks in France,
founded in 1874, have prove great sue
cess. Iu 1877 the number of these banks
was SU33, and The total deposits nearly
$500, 200. Now there are 1892 school
savings banks, and the deposits are
81. $50, ,755.
Secretary of the interior Kirkwood
and General Peter +. Bacon, of Wash