Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-29
NO. 26.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

.North Carolina has SO, 500 colored
voters.
There are no horses in Greenland
and Lapland
Mrs. John Mackay pays her cook
sc, 900 year.
The Government is now feeding
II, 900 Indians.
Senator John Sherman Is worth
about S3O0,OO
Boston is to have a music hall that
will cost S325, ,0OO
Counterfeit $40 silver certificates
are in circulation.
"A son of Stephen A. Douglass is
quite good orator.
The net profits of the Cunard line
last year We're 1866, 900.
The colored Baptists in the United
States number about 100000.
Mrs. Bell, wife of the inventor OF
the telephone, is deaf mute.
One of the New York Broadway
milliners nets $50, 200 year.
| 1t costs 81 cents to send bale OF
cotton from n. Y. to Liverpool
The Italian army numbers l, ZOO. GOO
men if the militia are called out.
Col Bob Ingersoll has made $40. 600
from his lecture ON the bad place
Alma Tadema's ''Sappho" has been
bought by an American for S15, 900.
About 5000 dead bodies are sent to
the Morgue in New York every year.
-Four million dollars have been
spent in improving the Tiber at Rome.
during NAV the Philadelphia mint
coined 4,24l $40 pieces worth S7,66S,-
$50.
One hundred and one people died
last year In London from actual starva-
ton.
1t is estimated that the acreage In
winter wheat is per cent. greater than
asst year.
The number of New Yorkers who
will go to Europe this summer Is said to
be 5000.
The average age at which students
enter American colleges is II: century
ago it was II
The American Bible House issued
,0S5, ,696 copies of the Scriptures during
the past year.
The Indiana school fund to the
amount of 81, ,O36, 4O5. 90 has Just been
apportiOned,
The new Texas Capitol will cost
81, 800, 900, and will be built bv a De
troit architect.
All the floeks of Merino sheep in
Addison county, Vermont, are assessed
at Sl5 per head.
The railroad mileage of III. is 1913:
it takes the lead. followed by New York
and Pennsylvania.
There are 1900 species OF grapes
distributed over the wOrld-all adapted
to special localities.
In 1739 a society in London, Eng
land offered premium of f1O0 for coch-
meal grown in India.
1t is estimated that insects iniure
crops of the United States to the value
of $40, 900, 900 annually.
The West front of St. Adams
Abbey, England, is to be restored at an
estimated cost of 1925, 900.
| -California's wheat crop for this year
is estimated at 4O,OO0,OOO bushels,
against 50, 900, 600 bushels last year.
Andrew Johnson's heirs are now In
litigation over the DISTRIBUTION of his
property, which is valued at 800, 900.
Over 4, 900, 900 bushels of grain have
been shipped down the Mississippi since
the opening of navigation in February.
4 rh,aoor, II
month of May were as follows: Hogs.
46S, 1896; cattle, 122, Alb; sheep, S0,92O.
! On the first day of It's issue 2,OOO, 900
copies of the New Testament were sold
in England and 1000, 900 in this coun-
try.
The tunnel under the Hudson river.
between New York and Jersey City, Is
being pushed at the rate of five feet .
day.
The Beacoasield memorial to be
erected by the Conservatives in London
will consist of fine statue of the late
earl.
1t is estimated by good judges that
the mills of Minneapolis will grind the
present year 20,0OO,0 900 bushels Of
wheat.
-Ihe receipts of the Cunard steam
snip company for 1880 were close on
f1, 140, 900, and the net profits about
f2O0, 900.
| There have been ! no buildings
started during the present year in New
York, the united cost of which is nearly
sl9, 100000.
The Agricultural Department Of
Ohio reports an annual increase in sheep
while the number of hogs has decreased
30 per cent.
The stamp duty of six cents per
pack was paid on 1,094, ,823 packs OF
playing-cards in England last year.
amounted to S65. $50
In 1868, when Jackson retired from
the Presidency, the number of post
offices IN the country was II, ,767; IN 1880
the number was 42,9S0.
The trOusseau of the Princess
Stephanic is worth 100000, but the
dowry voted for the future Empress Of
Austria does not exceed $50, 900.
The son of General Ord, a young
man of twenty, whose sister married
General Trevino, has been offered O
colonelcy in the Mexican army.
The 3s2, ,92O Congregationalists in
the United States gave last year for
their religious work g, 692, 922. q, or an
average of nearly so per member.
The most magnificent head of hair
in Russia belonged to the Princess Dol
gorouki, but she cut il all of, and placed
it in the coffin of the Gar, her dead
husband.
"A steam-tug drawing 10000 tons Of
grain, equal to 333, 900 bushels of wheat,
{! equal to !, 900 car loads, has Just made
the trip from st. Louis to New Orleans
in five and half days.
The Woman's Medical College, in
New York city, has, during 80 years,
graduated 276 women as physicians, OF
whom Isl are now in active practice, with