Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-17

IN : : were no horses on this CONT
nent at e time of its discovery.
The floating population OF New
York city is estimated at 100000.
The Oldest note III the possession OF
the Bank of England is dated 1898.
-Rhododendrons have been planted
in st. Pauls Churchyard, London.
Among the Gauls, cutting off the
hair was inflicted rs punishment
Photography was known to Leouar-
do de Yinci in the fifteenth century.
The recent prosecution of ritualists
cost the English Government S21 900.
Coal gas, for the purpose of light
ing, was known ages ago to the Chinese.
The idea of fertilizing land with salt
was conceived by John Napier in 1893.
Australia has produced during the
past twenty years, 1885, ,O0O,0 900 in
gold.
Since 1851 there have emigrated--
altogether from Ireland-2, ,637, 1877 per-
sons.
Blind persons are admitted free to
musical performances ut the Boston
Theatre.
The estimated value OF railroad
property IN the United States is 81,
4l6,51O,si7.
The .nnney owed in shape OF foreign
loans IN Il iault to England amounts 20
$40, ,O5O, o, 1000.
The Il two steamers from China
to San francisco brought nearly thou.
sand Chinese each.
Mr.. Henry Irving has been elected
President of the Shakespeare and Burns
Society of London.
Building il active in Baltimore, oven
1000 permits having been granted since
the lat Of January.
One hundred and thirty three stu.
dents have passed the entrance tNami.
nation ut Princeton.
--Urcgor oldest pioneer, Anda La-
shupcllc. who recently died at 100 years
of ngr. WIS II Canadian.
The Miss Blood whom Lori Colin
Campbell did not marry " named
"Znlu" not "Gcrtrndo."
-I',rra IN II chestnut tree in Ogle
a. p, 'p,aty, Ga., which ~ nine feet
T 'nmotct at the base,
Smith College, ut Northampton, has
,rcciyrd II gift of S25, ,OeO Tot the estab-
Iimclt of an art gallery.
The Newfoundland cod fisheries
promise Ia be msre prolific this year
tina. Ior the past thirty years,
II is said Miss Dorothy Dix, the
great hearted nurse of the late war, IS
slowly dying at Washington,
CONTRACTS have been made in Eng
hand 10 carry sixty Thousand Swedes and
Norwegians tn the United States.
The annual expenses of the British
Government are more than One-thlrd
larger than those of the United States.
The number of deaths from starys-
ton, and Of deaths accelerated by phi
vation in London, during 1880, was
l0l.
In 1855 the planet Neptune was dis
covered, by which the solar system was
extended , 900 miles beyond its former
limits.
Mrs. Van Pelt, of Manuel, Rockland
county, n. T., has Just presented her
husband with sixth pair of twins III
successiOl..
Silk first came from China, and the
Chinese still have many important
secrets connected with it unknown To-
Europeans.
Another monster war irOnclad has
had its keel laid at Naples. The Italians
say that the Mediterranean must he un-
der their supremacy.
In Nevada, within a few weeks, an
Indian W, man has been sacrificed on the
grave of man whom she was charged
with having bewitched.
During the last six months there
We're, according to the Official statistics,
63 murders and 533 robberies in the
beautiful island of Sicily.
During the glacial period, the ice
in America, latitude Al y, Is supposed,
from evidences known to scientists, -
have beeen 5000 feet deep.
Louise. Victoria and Maud, the
three little daughters Of the Prince Of
Wales. had narrow, escape from serious
injury while driving out recently.
The young men Of Milwaukee.
Wis, are actively interesting themselves
in the proposed erection Of a monument
to the late Senator Matt II. Carpenter.
The increase in the gross earnings
of thirty-seven railroads during the
month Of March, Is stated by the Finan-
cial Chronicle at 81, ,l54. .6l2, or nearly
. per cent.
The number Oi converts male Ia San
Francisco bv Moody and Sanksy during
twenty weeks of reyivalism / place4 -
y. 600. AMI the churches are greatly
qUickened IN vitality.
-Notwiih,tanding the unprecedented
immigration ii the present year. II -
said. AZ Castle Garden, that the demand
for lahOrers carnOt he met and that
/ | .OO0 men are now wanted
Mr.. ". ". Ccrcaran. of Washing-
ton, has pun-hss,,l the DinWiiiie and
Washington papers sold IN London
this month. and has presented them -
he Virginia Historical Society.
4 little daughter Of Mr.. Wa II.
SeWari WIS baptized last week a. Au-
h-rli. y, Y. with water which was
,brought from the River J0r,ian BY So
ret..ry Srvard many yczrs asA
In Oregon no u,an is allowed - iAks
a drink n public b1r without taSins
out n - hccnse, and the neNSpopers
publish interesting hsts frun tias u
;ime { the men Who have obtained L.
cens>>
Ca. e the cloicsst fans IL the
, Ivafld ., one that bcloag@d to Mae.
fPotspetour. IL ! made Il lace. ~ss
nsne ' ears IN making and cost 81. .Otl
; The ivory far thai Vas presented BY ths
c;.y % psePpe ~ MAre Antosnette, on
the oceaSi0n of tho birth of the Danphin
Is stir IN eNiStenee.