Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

:; L. H. 1ipDieS, tne auNOcate Ol the
1 Poncas, has married Bright Eyes =
After paying his debts Lord Bea-
constie,C's estate foots up $500, ,000
-PriIcess Louise is expected to return
to- Canada the first week in September.
Extra writing is now the only pun
ishment inflicted on scholars in French
/, schools
!. Thirty years ago it cost Massachu-
; sets 81. 81 to educate each child; now
it costs Sl355.
: -The British Consul at Bagdad an
! nounces the extinction of the plague in
J that pai. Of Asia.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it is estimated
} that 5000 irrepressible boys and young
men carry firearms.
The failures of the first six months
of 1851, are slightly in excess of the
first half of last year.
-Garabaldi has accepted yearly
pension Of Sc, 900 offered him by King
Humbelt from his civil list
; The Baroness Burdett- Coutts gave a
garden patry at Holly Lodge, Highgate.
on the afternoon of July Is.
The blindness of the little Earl of
Arundel and Surrey, heir of the dukedon
OF Norfolk, Is now beyond q doubt.
Jefferson Davis says in recent in
tsrview that Albert Sidney Johnson was
the most perfect man he ever knew.
The American Bible Society, since
Its forn alton. sixty-One years ago, has
issued Sc, SS2, ,S11 copies of the Bible.
CT the 1000, 900, 900 acres of culti-
vated land in the United States, only
clever md half per centum are used.
u .ier the ruins of the Imperial
palace ut st. Cloud was found bag con-
tanning .en thousand francs in Napo-
Icons.
| The late DIR. Alexander II. Vinton
bequea' he'd $4,000 to the Protestant Epis-
copal Domestic and Foreign Missionary
Society.
A Maryland farmer claims to have
picked J07I bushels of peas from three
and half acres of land during the past
season.
| The official count of the cotton crop
of Georgia in 1S79-SO shows an aggre-
gate of Sl3, ,965 bales, the acreage being
2,615, SOS.
| Fifty millions of people in the
United States furnish the paper manu-
facturels with $50, 900, 900 pounds of
rags PEI annum-
| The New Testament is being sold
in England for a penny, and has been
purchased at that price by q quarter of
a million persons
The King of the Belgians has offered
prize of $4,000 for the best essay ON
the subject of the improvement of ports
situated on sandy shores.
1t is proposed in New Hampshire to
celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary
of Daniel Webster's birth, which falls
on the 18th of January next.
| The remains of Daniel Boone and
his wife were exhumed in 1S45, and de-
posted with appropriate ceremonies in
the cemetery of F'rankfOrd. Ky.
| "A Jersey COW, owned at Staatsburg,
New York, was MIXED $40 days last year,
giving 61S7 pounds of milk, from which
412 pounds of butter were made.
| The brass cannon that was captured
at Yorktown by Lafayette, and which
nearly cost the gallant Marquis his life,
is preserved at the Watervliet Arsenal.
| Charles Fl. Dennie, the retiring
City Treasurer of Boston, entered the
Treasury Department In October, 1852,
and has been City Treasurer since 1875.
Miss Ida Iveson, of Chiliicothe,
Mimi, public school teacher, has
fallen heir to 81, 500, 900 In Scotland, and
has left to take possession of her proper
| ty.
Mr.. Theodore L. Davis, who de-
signed the famous White House dinner
service, is engaged ON design for II
vase which is to be called "America in
1881"
In Z collection of books recently
sold in ] ,ndon was prayer book trans
lated into the Mohawk language for the
Indians and published in New York in
Ills.
Sir Bartle Frere lately stated that
in a single year more than g, 800, 600
(s17 800, ,000) worth of diamonds have
passed through the Cape Town Post
Office
The bomb that killed the Gar pos
sessed 120 times the explosive force of
gunpowder, a fact ascertained from
kibal.schitch, one of the executed Nj
hilists.
Colonel Daniel Thomas, of Hodg-
don, Maine, in 1878, at the age of sixty
six years, began fruit culture, and now
has between 700 and 800 fall and winter
apple !rees.
The City of London, Ontario, has
made seven years trial of wooden gas
pipes sneared with tar, and has decided
that they are unfit for the purpose of
conducting gas.
Five hundred acres of land around
Yorktcv have been purchased by the
committee association formed to cele-
brate ti,e centennial anniversary of Lord
Cornws Hiss surrender.
King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Is
lands, was formally presented the other
day to Queen Victoria, who received him
at Windsor, surrounded by several of
her sons and daughters.
Kit Carson's grave, at Taos, n. NJ,
is unmarked by stone or monument.
The grave mounds of the famous scout
and his Indian wife are two low gravel
heaps in desolate cemetery.
The treasurer of the Illinois State
husplld4 paul ING "aSco vi cupioIeS
in Mexican dollars which he bought at
a discount The profit of this was S19,
and the loss was position worth $1,000
year.
1t is estimated that the amount in
sured against fire with leading offices in
England, forming what is known as the
Tariff Association, exceeds 80, 900, ,000,-
600, and there is an outcry against their
profits.
1t is estimated that nearly 2,0O0,-
0O0, 900 pounds of paper is produced an
nually; one-half of which is used for
printing, a sixth for writing, and the re-
mainder is coarse paper for packing and
otheripurposes.
President Garfield, it is said, be-
came the owner of large farm in Fair
fax county. Va. last week. The prop-