Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-02
NO.. 9.
BRIEFS.

4
J Of a Cremation Society.
The Duke of Westminster is the
richest man in England.
The school expenditures in Michi-
gan last year were So, los. .9l5 Il.
q leen Victoria has ordered pain:-
ing oil the capture of Cetewayo.
Public school real estate in New
York State is valued at s3l 900, 900.
To soften brass, heat it up to a
cherry red and plunge it into water.
The population of London is 3. .707,-
l30, an increase of 4o2 $40 since 1871.
|, President Hayes was tina guest OF
the Baltimore Press Club on FEBRUARY
II.
4 Father Hennepin discovered coal
in 1859, in what is now called Ottawa,
Ill.
i The new census shows the total
number of Chinese in CalifOI mia to be
75,025.
The richest man IN the United
States Senate Is said to be Mr.. Fair, of
Nevada.
Mrs. Thackara, General Sherman's
daughter, is now considered out of
danger.
4 TIE value of the tobacco crop in
Clinton county in 1880 is estimated at
Sl0O, 900.
The most durable woods in dry
places are cedar, eak, yellow pine and
chestnut.
Sound ice, ten inches thick, will
bear a pressure of 200 tons to the
square foot.
| -Wisconsin's railroad facilities have
increased from ten miles In 1851 to B.
l33 miles il 1881.
sl00, 900 each on his two daughters as
wedding presents.
1t is estimated that 40, 900 cords of
wood are annually consumed by the
people of Dubuque.
In one grove, in California are
1850 trees, none measuring less than
six feet in diameter.
The average deposits in the salt
Lake banks in 1850, were more than
double those of 1876.
Canada has public debt of f30,-
000, 600 which is equal to f7 los. per
head of her population.
Ten vineyardists in Napa county,
California, produced last year over
,l00, 900 gallons of wine.
"A sister OF the King of Sweden is
a missionary in Lspland, and has sold
her jewels TO aidher IN her work.
Mrs. Thomas, the widow of the
, General, is now living quietly at Troy,
n. York. She receives no pension.
: The salary of that noted hOrseman,
Joseph Cannon, as ''trainer to LORD
! Rosebery," is said to be $40, 900 year.
Pope Leo, who has been very ill
2 for several weeks, is now recovered.
He will be seventy nine years old in
: March.
/, Mrs. Leopold de Rothschield has
: new necklace which, although IL is
only single row of pearls, is valued
l al $1JO, 900.
The theatres and other places of
amusement in st. Louis are open on
, Sunday evenings, and some OF them
give matlnees.
The st. Louis and San Francisco
railroad has sold $50, 900 acres of land
in Barry county, Missouri, TO a colony
of SEQ: clmen,
The late f. A. Sothern, the actor,
1t Is said, lett only about $40 ,0U0, al
thought he had carried al annual in
come of sl50,OO0.
Ben Butler sends his yacht to Nor
folk in February, and will embark
from that port for three months
cruise in the West Indies.
Lord Suffolk has sold his famous
La Vierge aux Rochers, by Leonardo
da Vinci, to the National Gallery, OF
London, for the sum of 5000,
The New Mexico and Rio Grande
Railway, incorporated, capital 81 ,000,-
OG0, from Arapahoe county, Colorado,
to Soccoro county, New Mexico.
The net cost of the war in Afgha-
nistan, including that of the frontier
railways, was about twenty-one erores
of rupees, or Ell 500, 900 sterling.
According to the recent census,
Switzerland has population of $780,
600, or III, 900 more than In 1877 when
the last previous census was taken.
| up to the close of the year the
Lake Superior copper mines have pro-
duced since their commencement 300,-
900 tons of ingot copper, valued at Sl40,-
OOO, 600
Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather
Of the great President OF that name,
was killed by Indians on LinkhOrn's
Run, as the stream in Kentucky was
then called.
School attendance in Georgia has
had remarkable increase. From 49,
576 in 1871, 1t ran up TO 226, ,627 in 1879.
OF the latter number 79, ,4S5 were color
ed children.
The peach orchard of John Par
nell, in Troup county, Ga, is the
largest In the world. 1t covers 250
acres of land, and will probably yield
$70,0 900 this year.
An ounce of SILVER Is worth 81 Of;
a poun1 Sixteen ounces)Sl6 50; a ton
q ,2i0 pOunds) s37 ,632. a cubic inch
Is worth $ll; a ca0ic foot, Sl9, ,00S; Il
cubic yard, s5l3, 3,2l6.
The number of the bee hives IN
this country is estimated at 2,00O, ,0O0,
and the annual product at sI4, ,0U0, 900,
or seven dollars TO the hive. The bee
keepers number 10000.
The racing fund liz the United
States for the current year will ap--
proximare 81 100000. Nine English
horses have reached New York, TO be
entered In our summer contests
The Nordenskjold, the largest tor
, pedO boat in existence, was recently
} launched ut Copenhagen. She meas
ures 2l5 feet in length and AZ feet in
breath, She can make fifteen miles an
heur.
-Shipbuilding on the Clyde was un-
i usually active last year. Two hundred
, and forty-one vessels Of ali kinds were.
launched, of q total Of fully 900
tons, an excess of IL 900 tons over 1879.
Their marketable value represents an
outlay OF about $50 900 900.
AT Steyer, which Is the largest rifle
1 manufactoIy in Austria, one thousand
e additional workmen were recently en-
: gagged, and ali the shops are In full
e SWING, doing work for the Govern
ments of Bulgaria, Servia, R0umania
{ and even tor that of France.
9 The introduction of American