Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-10
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The population of Savannah. Ga.
by the new census is 3O,747 In 1879 it
was 2S, 235.
1t is reported on scientific authority
that, gold exists in large quantities in
Iceland
The population of Prussia is in the
proportion of eleven Protestants to seven
Catholics
! There Is now more money on deposit
III the 81 ings banks of New Hampshire
than ever before.
New Hampshire has n new law tax
ing church property when it exceeds
Sl9, 900 in value.
During last year there were 5.O96
lost children picked up by the police of
New York city.
The old battle ground of Tippecanoe
belongs to the State of Indiana and is
enclosed with fence.
| j. x. Emmett, the American actor
has been on spree and broken his en-
gagemeEt at Liverpool
-Herceforward the State of Connect
cut will exact from all itinerant phvsi-
The new Spanish minister's wife
speaks Erglish fiuently. and is said to
he very agreeable in her manners.
The Tarquis of Harrington Is heir
to 2OO,GOC acres. John Bright has no
landed possessions of any account.
1t is ,xpected that the deficit this
year on account of the payment of ar
rears of pc lsions will reach $50. 600, 900.
The members of the Paris news
paper prt * intend to raise a statue to
Victor Fl 90 IN the street where he
lives
-lgnatir1, Russian minister of the
interior, Will recommend a reduction Of
2OO, 900, OOC roubles in military expendi-
lures.
There is a Chinaman doing busi-
ness in Carson City, Nevada. who paws
faxes on S25, 900 worth of real estate in
San Francisco.
The Marquis of Lorne proposes to
establish a Canadian literary academy.
somewhat analogous to the celebrated
Academic Franchise.
Captain Paul Boyton is in New
York arranging for his contemplated,
l. ,2O0O mile swim down the Mississippi.
starting at Minneapolis.
"A block of ice melted in Charles
Bartine's ice chest, at Comersville. Ind.
was found to contain frog weighing
quarter of pound and in good health.
The latest statistics show Il. .67s. 900
school children in the world, So far as
the census takers We're enable to ascer-
tain. These have about l, ,O00. 900 teach
ers.
1t is said of Mrs. Senator Logan
that at recent Cabinet lunch she was
the only one out of twenty-five ladies'
who abstained from wine. She never
drinks.
The Duke of Sutherland is Men
toned rs greatly enjoying his American
trip, repeatedly referring to the warm
hearted hospitality of the people of
America.
Moses Robinson had for MANY wears
paid taxes on his property at East North
field, VT, at a valuation of only SlO.O
W hen recently 1t was put up to $4,000,
ne became insane and committed sui
eide.
The approximate value of the YES
sels OF all natlOnalities, with their car
goes, lost during the year 1879 was no
less than EDS, SOC, 900, including British
ELS, 230,OOO
1t is asserted that Krupp cannot
meet his big gun orders, viz: ROumania,
100; Greece, 700; Sweden, 30; Holland,
12O; Italy, 400. Such are Europe's
peace prospects.
The United States sends about S.
600, 900 worth of goods to Brazil in the
course of year, and Brazil in the same
time sends some $4,000, 600 worth TO
the United States.
-DalhOusie College, Nova Scotia. is
the second university in the Dominion
Of Canada to cOncede all its privileges to
Queens University at Kingston
having already done so.
During the year 1880, the French
railway companies issued 139, 900. 900
900. 900 for first class passen-
gers, 10000 for second class, and
36, 900, 900 for the third class.
The Virginia Historical Society in
tends to have bound IN a handsome man
ner the valuable Memoirs of Columbus
lately presented to it by Samuel l.. NJ.
Barlow, Esq, of New York.
The Revolutionary War cost the
United States s135, 1913, ,7O3. Great
Britain lost 80, 900 men, incurred debt
'f f100, 100000 or s5OO,OOO, GOO, and
ost her American colonies.
The corn crop Of 1880 was reported
oy the L. ;. Department of Agriculture
It ,537, ,535, 900 bushels, 4 decrease of
10, 475, 900 bushels below 1879, which
vas the largest ever produced.
Professor Virchoff-s sixtieth birth
lay and the twenty y-fifth anniversary Of
lis appointment to his chair at Berlin,
ire to be celebrated together, October
3, by the Medical Society of Berlin.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad has
,iven orders for the hiring of 5000 Chi
lese labOrers, the Northern Pacific Will
AXE several thousands, and ] 800 are
wanted for railroad grading in Mexico.
SO little satisfaction was afforded
~ the recent experiments in illuminat-
ng the House of Commons with the
electric light that when the gas was
urned on the first night after the con-
.lusion, members broke into cheers.
The Upper Mississippi lead fields
include 9, zoo, 900 acres 200, ,000in Iowa,
loo, 900 in Northern Illinois, and ,40O,-
100 in Wisconsin. The value of the
ross amount of lead produced in that
ield since 1926, is about s7O,OOO,OOO
The number of business failures for
he first six months of this year, as an
bounced by the Mercantile Agency Of
Iessrs. Dun, Wilman & Co., is 1882.
The number for the first half of 1880
vas 2,497, and for the same period in
1873, 4,01S.
The proprietor of a Philadelphia
lotel has called down the wrath of ac-
resses upon his head by discriminating
against them. He has issued an order
hat they shall receive no male guests