Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-08-09
NEWS In BRIEF.

-Hrnce BlSm irck has of late taken
{ to wearing spectacles.
) The first telescope was probably
: used in England III 160S.
Queen Victoria has finished the for
ty-sourth year other reign.
The first saw-maker's anvil was
brought to America in 1919.
The first printingpre in the United
States was introduced in 1920.
The grst almanac was printed by
, George Won Furbach, in 1i60.
The first chimneys were introduced
INTO Rome from Padua. in 1858.
There are 10, ,229 dogs in Brooklyn.
The license is two dollars each.
Ordinary stable manure contains
upwards of 40 per cent. of water.
1t is said that Coleridge wrote his
poem 'kubla Khan" in dream.
Nevada reports 81. .Os7 horses with
In Its border. and 15S. 137 cattle.
In 1872, 10000 tons of coal was
mined III Alabama IN 1881 400. 900. tons.
james |. was called by Henri ". of
France The wisest fool in Christen-
dom.
The first steam engine on this con-
tlnent WAS brought from England in
1853.
The first act for the transmission of
the English mails by railway was passed
in 1888.
i Isaac D'Israeli claims to have intro
duced the term ''Fatherland' as an Eag-
lish word.
There were SO ,OGO. COO wcrth of
barbed wire fence built III this country
last year.
More than twenty-three thousand
british soldiers We're punished last year
for drunkenness.
In certain Arkansas towns Eouor
dealers are required topay $1,000 a year
for their licenses.
Notwithstanding England is great
dairy country, S26, 225, ,575 worth of
cheese was imported last year.
The total acreage of wheat in this
country is q, ,346, 900 acres. AN Increase
OF 100000 acres over last year.
Taking the United States as a whole
the ratio OF ilitsracy among persons
over ten years of age is one IN six.
Virginia has expended on her pub
he schools during the past year, 81 100
23o.96. She has 5,3S2 of these schools.
-Huntington's Portrait of Mrs. HAYES
has at last been hung on the wall of the
green parlor of the Executive Mansion.
At Lexington, Ky, a man who was
using the telephone received an nelectric
shock that Frustrated him for several
hours
Orchard grass is very early in
growth and furnishes good hay. 1t
starts out fresh Immediately after each
moving.
= -Gustave Dore has Just bought a
site IN Paris, for something more than
Sl15,O 900, on which he will build him
mansion.
-Thrty-three electric light compa-
MES have been started in England. and
they have nominal aggregate capita of
S33. 900. 900.
-One-half of the $50, 900 desired for
the new building of the Young Mems
Christian Association of Washington has
been subscribed.
"A few days after Victoria's Corona
ton, Mr.. Montefiore was elected Sheriff
OF London, the first jew who had ever
been chosen for that Office.
during the year 1881, according TO
the Registrar Generals report, 139 per
sons for every 1O0,O 900 of the population
of Scotland died of old age, and only III
for every 100000 of the population of
England.
Mime. Christine Nilsson has been
visiting the Duke and Duchess of Alba
ny at Claremont, England. She will
sail for New York in October.
The public schools of Wilmington
Delaware, contain about 5000 pupils
and only about fifteen are graduated
yearly from the High School.
Mr.. ID. ID. Lloyd, New York Jour
nalist, has written n political play, EMIT
led "FOr Congress, which has been ac-
lcepted by Ar. John I. Raymond.
"A man at San Antonio, Texas, threw
dynamite In the river to kill fish but.
miscalculating the distance, had both
his hands blown off by the explosion.
Col. Noah Orr, the Ohio giant, who
was buried at MaIysville on Monday.
required a coffin s feet long, q feet
wide and 2 feet high. HIS brother.
George Orr. who survives him. is feet.
1Ol inches in height.
The rapid growth of WinnIpsg il
shown by the fact that the assessed
valuation of Portage la Prairie amounts
this year to $500, 900, while last year
it was only 100000.
| -Falquierie, the French sculptor. is
erecting upon the summit of the Arch of
Triumph, Paris, group of figures of
heroic size, symbolic of the triumph of
progress and liberalism in France.
There has been marked increase
in the number of failures this year in the
United States. For the first SIX months
1857 are reported, as compared with
, 1862 for the first six months of 1881.
The success of the Paris Salon for
/ the present year has been decided. The
total receipts amounted to about $780,
900, and over half of this sum was clear
profit The exhibition was managed, AS
: it was managed last year, by the artists
/ themselves. The society formed by the
e artists has now capital of $40, 900.
I'm the Hall of the Five Hundred, at
Florence, Italy. a fortnight ago, was
unveiled before a large assemblage a
! statue of Savonarola. Among the
speeches that were made at the ceremO-
MES were one by Senator aud another
, by Professor Villari, the well-known
5iog apher Of the great Florentine re-
former.
A recent report on the estate of the
q late James Lick, of San Francisco,
shows it to be worth nov 81 94S. .350, SO.
, Out of this are to be paid 500, 900 Oess
S102, 97s, %. already paid) for an obser-
= vatory and telescope; to the California
School of Mechanical Arts, $50. 900; for
/ free public baths. Sl50,000; for bronze
sta.uary in San Francisco and to the
q IOId Ladies Home Sl00. 900 each; for q