Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-23
NO. 46.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-LisZt Is sick with dropsy at Wei
mar.
The water in Great Sal. Lake is
twenty-five per cent Salt.
Paper is being made from sugar
canes, after the sugar is extracted.
The coronation of the Gar viii take
place in April next.
Seven thousand Morwomen are di-
vided among 5000 Mormen.
-Balsam tulu, com IL, 4 with creo-
sote, are new German r, s,lies for con-
sumption.
The French Government encourages
smoking by its prisoners, and, it is said,
the profits are great.
The leaves from the trees in the
Paris boulevards and gardens are dried
and used for stueing mattresses.
All the White Mountain hotels are
closed. after what has been on the whole
a prosperous season.
"A memorial window to Lord Bea-
consfield has been dedicat ed in Hughen-
den Church.
On Hospital Saturday nearly ], 1000
ladies sat in the London streets in
charge of the collecting boxes.
The President of the French Re-
public receives a salary Of 5000, 900 per
annum.
There is land enough in Texas TO
give four acres to every man, woman,
and child in the United States.
Pennsylvania is said to supply
nearly one-half the eggs that New York
eats.
A leading Chicago builder calculates
that 2, ,000, 900 brick are being laid every
day in Chicago.
Large deposits of gold have been
found in the bed of the Little River,
Blount County, Tenn.
-Four barrels of water of the Great
Salt Lake will leave, after evaporation,
nearly barrel of salt
The annual production in the
United States for several years past has
been about 1000, ,000, 900 pins.
The total area planted with tobacco
in the United States is 63S. S41 acres,
producing Az, ,661, ,159 pounds.
Six valuable marble quarries are
now giving employment to many hands
in Hawkins County, Tenn.
"A new street railway company III
Chicago will charge only three cents for
fare and expects to make money at that.
The Crown Prince OF Prussia has
reached his fiftieth year. HIS birthday
WAS celebrated with much splendor.
The well-known popular tree plan
ed by Marie Antoinette In the garden of
the Petit Trianon at Versailles has been
blown down.
Japan has enacted code of crimi-
nal procedure and penal code based ON
the Code Napoleon and framed by a
French jurist.
Senator Davis keeps n splendid esta-
blishment in Bloomington, H., his resi-
dence on the eastern outskirts being one
of the finest in Illinois.
Mrs. Barney Williams, the actress.
lost $4,000 worth of property-cos-
tunes, manuscript, etc.,-in the late
storage-house fire in New York
I'm 1869 Nantucket Island was deed
ed by Thomas Mayhem to ten purchas-
ers, for thirty pounds and two beaver
hats.
Arkansas has more coal than Great
Britain. At least three other States in
the Union have-Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Illinois.
Senator David Davis is the most ex-
tensive land owner in Central Illinois,
his wealth being set down at g, 900, 900.
His yearly taxes amount to S27, 200.
Somebody estimates that the recent
heavy frosts did $4,000 worth of
damage in the territory within ten miles
of Boston.
The completion of the canal around
Mussel Shoals, ,whick viii happen within
two years, Will render the Tennessee
navigable from Paducah to Knoxville, a
distance of 500 miles.
"A London journal records that the
annual poisoning of children by the eat
ing of toadstools has begun, and that
now there are cases of their dying from
the use of homemade wine.
-Four hundred Hungarian families,
with capital of some S400 each, have
notified the American Vice Consul at
Pesth of their desire to find homes in
this country.
OF 1O6 ministers OF the Northern
Presbyterian Church who died last year
2 were over 80 years old, 10 were be-
tween so and 80, 80 were between 20
and so and 30 were under 20.
The King of Bavaria has made Mr..
Lothar Won Faber, proprietor of the IA
nous pencil factory of ga. W. Faber,"
at Stein, near Nuremberg, hereditary
baronet.
The first American flag used by citi-
zens of California is still in existence.
The people made it themselves, and had
to buy a seaman's shirt in order to get
the blue.
The revision of the war treasure of
the German empire will shortly be made.
This treasure, which is said to amount
to 120, 900, 900 marks in gold coin, is de-
posted in the Julius Tower at Spandau.
Records show that in 13 Septembers
in the past 81 years no rain fell in San
Francisco. The rain in the remaining
1S Septembers ranged from OF. of an
inch to LES inches.
The garrison hospital at Metz con-
talns complete stores and equipments, to
the smallest details, for 5000 sick for
three years. These stores are untouch-
ed in time of peace.
President HarrisOn's grave, on a
little hillock overlooking the Ohio river,
fourteen miles from Cincinnati, is
marked only by plain stone nearly hid
from view by weeds and other rubbish.
More than 5000 women are employ
ed in the railway offices of Austria. They
receive salary of SIS to $50 month.
The majority of them are the widows,
wives or daughters of defunct or active
male employees on the different roads.
A brakeman who lost his arm coup
ling cars ON the Iron Mountain road, has
brought suit for SO, 900, on the ground
that the cars were of unusual construc-
ton, and that no notice of the fact had
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