Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
NEWS IN BRIEF

throne Of Scotland In the year 1896.
The silver 3-cent pieces were first
coined in 1851.
Our dime or 10-eent piece was first
coined in the year 1796.
The first fire engine drawn by
horses was used in Cincinnati.
Governor Plaisted, of Maine, has
quit the newspaper business.
I'm Alaska the ruling price for q
good wife is SIS in trade.
-Ex- Governor AntelI, of New
Mexico has farm near Morristown,
y. j.
The famous destructive earthquake
which occurred II Lisbon was IN the
year l472.
-Bradstreet's estimates the to.al
yield Of the cotton crop of 1881 st
6 .2S3, 403 bales.
The gold coinage at the Philsdel-
phia mint amounted 10 over 81 ,250, 900
in March, 1881.
"A granite monument is TO be cree
ted on the spot in Mexico where Maxi
milan was shot.
Between 900 and 100 Hlndoo faml-
lies in Belasore, India, have recently
abjured heathepism.
No more five cent nickels will be
coined at present, the country having
absorbed all it will bear.
"A French engineer proposes the
construction of a railway viaduct
across the English Channel.
Miss Clara Louise kellogg has
made contract to sing twenty nights
in Paris, and receive sl2 ,0JJ.
In London there are said to be 100
900 householders of Scotch blood. or a
Scotch populatio. of 400, 900.
New York lights 4J2 miles OF
street, two and halt miles of piers
and slxty-one acres of parks.
-Abram johnson, a survivor of the
war of 1872, died in Wayne county re-
Gently at the age OF los years.
The beautiful city of Florence.
ltal y, was founded about "a century
before Christ's time on earth.
ireland was first called the Emer.
aid Isle by DR.. W. brennan, in MS
poem entitled Erin" Q154-1s3O).
The Ceylon Observer saws thar ip
the island 80, 600 acres are planted in
cinchona aud 10000 acres ia tea.
Plato was born April ., 429 B. c..
and died peacefully among friends at
wedding feast April >, 3iS B. &.
The conscience money sent TO the
chancellor of the English exchequer
last year amounted 10 oyer $50, 900.
-Thirty-three thousand bufTalohides
were sold at Miles City. Montana.
alone, during the past fall and winter.
The State of Ohio has IN its Cant
tol l9o flags, l3l banners, ami 90 mark
ers, all priced relics to the L mon sold
iers,
An order has been issued declar-
Ing postal cards unmaI- able with any-
thing but the direction on the address
side.
Some freight from Boston reached
Madison, wis after being fOrty-seyen
days on the road owing 10 snow block
ades.
-Egbert was the first King of all
England, and William the COnGueror
was the first Norman King OF Eng
land.
The crowns of England and Scot
land were united in l613- The union
OF Great Britain and ireland was not
until lsel.
The California vintage for 1850 f.
estimated at over ten and a halt million
gallons, by the State VIticulturaI Com
missioners.
The deposits In the savings banks
OF Vermont have increased $685., rs ia
the past three months. and amount 10
SIC, ,292 .407.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott lately
bought, at sale in Northumberland
county, Pennsylvania a clock made bv
his uncle in 1870.
Ten million of cattle are annually
slaughtered in this country to sapplv
the home demand for meat, which Is
valued at 81, 100000.
The late Senator Carpenters estate
Is said To amount to sol 5000. All this
is In life insurance except SI2 900
which is in real estate.
A boy fell over the preclpice at
Rochester into the Genesee river. a
clear drop OF 10 feet, ard was taken
out OF the water unhurt.
The number of burglaries in Lon
don has lucreasel 2G per cent. since
1869 while 1t has decreased 80 Der cent.
in the rest OF England.
-rhirty-fOur thousand pounds Of
tobacco were raised on twenty acre. ot
Senator Cameron's farm in PepnsvI-
vania- Ii sold for 5000.
The silk industries in the United
states last year gave employment 10
"a 440 operatives, who were paid Am
aggregate of 50, lO7, $50 in wages.
The school population of the
United States is "A 500, IS3. OF tbis
number 9,373, 1913 were enrolled In 1875.
There were in that year 27l, IA teach
ers.
The Baldwin locomotive works. in
Philadelphia, PS., have just received
an order from Mexico for two hundred
locomotives. They Will cost 81, 500
900.
I'm the year 1900 February will
have but twenty-eIght days, although
leap year. This phenomenon occurs
once only in 2UO years, and always in
the odd year,
Roughly computed, about 100, 900 =
900 of the worlds inhabitants SPEAK
English; about 6O,OO0,OO0 German;
about oU,OOo,OUO French, and about
45, 900, 900 spanish.
An international convention of
Hebrews from all portions OF the world
will be held in Paris, September IJtn,
} under the auspices OF the Alliance
Israelite Universelle.
The Prince OF Naples, Crown
Prince of Italy, is so sick and puny
that 1t is feared he will never ascend
the throne of his father. His father
AID mother were double first cousins.
Liverpool reports the arrival OF
16, 769 head of American cattle from
New York, Boston, and Baltimore
during the past three months. The
number lost on the passage was 1,1l5
: head.
Millions of bushels of wheat are
lying unthrashed and in good condition
in the Northwest, so that even in case
II NrxSo saI r..sl. II. Il.