Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-10-11
NEWS ~ B"lhk


Augusta, Ga. has ST. 600, 900 in
vested IN manufactures.
-Camp-meetiugs wers held in this
country ss early as 1779.
-Banlo-playing is a favorite diver
sion at the summer resorts.
The Roman Catholic Church claim.
to have 100000 converts in China.
Alexander H. Stephens has COM
pleted his history of the United States.
At the Iowa State Fair forty-four
women exhibited quilts for premiums.
Although it is sill unfinished tho
Brooklyn bridge has already cost S14,-
600, 600.
Sixty Thousand Americans have
been spending their money in Eu-opo
this summer
Consumption has been cured
Germany with creos0te associated with
balsam of tClu.
Mr.. ". H. Vanderbilt has pur-
chased FOR 1880 Little Round Island
in the st. Lawrence River.
There are in Dakota As Catholic
churches and A priests, against 20
churches and II priests IN 1880.
1t is found that the effect of the
electric light IN cOnservatories Is stima-
latIng to the vitality o; the plant.
The artist commissioned by Queen
Victoria to paint a portrait of Cete-
wayo, is Carl Sohm, OF Dusseldorf.
Three japanese students in tls
university of Glasgow carried Off most
Of the prizes at the last commencement.
-Ex- Gov. DIllinham aui wife. of
Vermont, have recently celebrated their
golden wedding at their home, in Water
bury.
-Germany has sgb.erraueln tele-
graphs connecting two hundred and
twenty-one towns and costing 7,O0O.-
coo.
1t is beiIeved that the sum which
the widow OF John Brown will receive
from Chicago people will he about
81, 800.
The Fail River mills turn out 500
bed quilts day, and the Holliston,
Mass, mills $50 pairs of blankets
week.
Citizens of Bath, Me-, have sub
scrIbed Sl5, 900 of $4,000 needed to
establish an iron ship yard AMI engine
works there.
Seventy mills in the South now
work up 20J. 900 tons of cotton seed,
making 1000 900 gallons of oil, worth
S2s, 600, 900.
The cotton mills of the North Weld
but an average profit of seven per cent.
while eighteen per cent. is realized in
those of the South.
1t is proposed to erect an equestriau
statue of General Harrison, tue hero of
rippecanoe, ar one o. the gate, of Circle
Park. indianapolis.
AT Hamburg, says the UhHchaH
RcCicC, ''the Prince Of Wales. on his
arrival, devoted his attention particu-
larly TO the Americans.
The late / ord Beaeonsield's resi-
dence at Hughenden Is now occupied by
an Australian millionaire named Wilson.
whose eldest son Is at Eton School
The Chinese residents of Boston
have established lodge of Free Ma
sons, numbering 30 members, In
China there are many thousands of
MasOns.
The Post Office Department has
nearly complated its accounts tor the
quarter which ended on June Both. The
surplus for that period is estimated at
81, 100000
MIR. Guildford Ouslow, VI. p.
whose death has Just been announced
Is said to have spent nearly Sl5, 900 III
behalf of the Iichborne claimant. whose
advocate he Was.
"A member Of the Quebec Legisla-
ture Receives IS 20 wear for his seryi-
ces. The reduction OF tins salary To
$500 Is being agitatcd By some of the
Canadian newspapers.
-Gustaye Dore mas Just laid the
foundation of lis magnificent new man
sion III Paris. just opposite the princely
palace built by the Late VI. Meni.r. OF
chocolate-making fame.
"A red passiOn-hower. secretinp
honey in the glands of ITS young leaves.
was found guarded by a species of amt.
which consumed the honey and rove
way all other insects.
In Russia the suufOwer has a prac-
teal, If not an ;estbeticli value. IL Is
cultivated for the OIL it yields. The oil
Is used III cooking, as we'll rs in lamps,
ami Tor making soap and paint.
The clippings OF sole leather in the
New England shoe factories, that we're
formerly considered worthless, are now
stamped into battons for clothes and
fancy tack heads for upholstery.
The paper makers of L gland i'm
port annually eighteen or twenty thou
sand tons Of rags. Some English ones
require no bleaching at all, while those
of Italy bear away the palm foe DIRT.
OF the II Methodist bishops. only
six are on duty, the ethers, bishops
Peck, Foss, Merrill, Scott and Bowman
being disabled by sickness or the mfr
nifty of age, and Bishop Harris absent
on tour to Africa.
The thousands Of doves in Milan
which have for centuries past made
their nests IN the roof OF the Great Ca
thedral, are finally making sad havoc
with the artistic mountinSs of this beau
tiful tracery of architecture.
-Scme of the finest walnut trees III
the mountains of North Carolina have
been sold at $40 each Just as they
stand III the woods, the purchasers re-
serving the privilege to take them away
within certain number of years.
Sir. Christopher Wren's belfry in
Jn~ of the towers of Westminster Alb
beg Is in a sad state Of nntidness. A
recent visitor 10 it says he does not
think the place has been cleaned since
Sir Christopher finished the tower.
The British Museum has come in
TO the possession Of what IS SAID to be q
fine marble statue of a DIscobolus,
similar IN type to the well-known fig
ures Of the Vartican aud Louvre. The
London Times, which makes the an
nouAcement, fails, however, to tell
whence the statue comes.
About So, PA 600 has been placed
in increasing the number of cotton
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