Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-05-03
NEWS IN BRIEF

The population of France, as shown
by the recent census, is 30, 100000.
There are over 5000, 900 pounds
of butter produced annually in Iewa.
Ontario has 10, 46S prisoners in her
iaIis and 1905 lunatics in her asylums.
The British people expend annually
f12O,0O0.O 900 or about $500, 900, 900 for
alcoholic liquors.
Germany hNs about 81. .O00, 900 acres
OF forest lands, nearly one-th'rd of which
belongs to the State.
American railroad companies ara
| treating with Austrian manufacturers
for 10 locomotives.
1t is expected that million of I'M
migrants will arrive in the United States
| from Europe the present year.
The amount of fruit shipped from
California during the present season
viii bring about 81 .000, 600 profit to the
State.
Locust eggs in Cyprus sell at sos
ton, which is paid by the government,
IN order to reduce the ravlges of these
hungry insects.
Throughout the reigns of George
LII. and George the ". of England the
Wing party was ont of office for about
seventy-years.
The total losses by fire in the United
States last year aggregate SS1, ,2SO,9 900,
of which the insurance companies paid
S4i. fill 300.
1t is estimated that 1OO, COO ele-
! phants are annually slaughtered to sup
ply the world with ivory England alone
uses 80, 900 tusks each year.
On the railroads of Continental
Europe the introduction of mineral oil
for lubncating purposes IS proving
both efficient and economical
| The estimated cost of sustaining the
English army for the coming year is
f15, 500, 900, or over S75, 900, 600. The
force consists OF 159. 900 men.
The Secretary of War estimates that
1913, ,5S2,11 will be necessary to pay
pensions to the survivors of the Mexi-
can and Indian wars prior to 1916.
A vein of hot water has been tapped
near st. Etienne, France, at depth of
about 1900 metres. This new geyser
sends a volume of hot water and car
bonic acid to height of 26 metres.
Ex-Governor Oglesby, of Illinois,
built house at Decatur, in that State,
twenty-five years ago, at a cost of S12,-
coo. The other day he sold the house
for SIC, 800 and will move to a smaller
house in the same town.
Paul Minor, who died at Auburn,
n, Y. recently, aged ninsty-eight years,
served In ali the camp aigns of the First
Napoleon. He left France for America
shortly after hearing the news of Napo-
Icons death at st. Helena,
From 1870 to 1880 the percentage
of increase of population in Dakota was
S53; in Washington Territory 213. and
in New Mexico 30. The total population
of the first is 135, $50; of the second 75,-
100, and of the third, $50, ,430.
General Gordon, who has made a
great deal of money out of railroads
since he resigned his seat IN the United
States Senate, is going to Europe ON
business connected with the develop
ment of land in the Southern States.
The quantity of soda imported into
the United States from England in 1S47
was s, 200 tons.
The United States has expended
s., ,05S, ,S21 on Indian wars during tho
past ten years.
The State of New York expended
50, ,675, ,9S2 last year upon her public
schools.
The yearly consumption Of quiniaa
IN the United States Is computed at
800, 900 ounces.
In tina different PACKING establish
ments of Maine, $50, 900 cans of mack
erel, 500, 600 cans of HOLSTERS and 25O,-
900 cans of clans are put up annually.
The savings banks of the State of
New York represent financial resources
of SAB, 900, 900. The savings banks of
New England represents as much more.
LabOring men are in great demand
at Apnlachicola, Fla. One man recently
offered % cents an hour or 81. 80 per
day and board for laborers without ef-
feet.
The emperor William and the king of
Saxony went out hunting together re-
Gently, the former killing thirty-nine
deer and wild boars and the latter thirty
five.
Gen. George Macdonald, now over
81 years old, has the honor of being
father of the British army. He Is
colonel of the Bedfordshire regiment,
and entered the armv in September,
1906.
The proposed tunnel through Mount
Blanc, Switzerland, will be "A, ,292 feet
in length, will cost upwards ofS10, ,0OO,-
900 and require SIX years for its compile
ton.
A pasture in Texas is described as
containing $1,000 acres, and requiring
to enclose it sixteen miles offence, which
Is all built of rock four and half feet
thick.
The present sugar crop of Hawaii Is
estimated at 100000, 600 pounds, the
great increase in the staple having been,
however, at the expense OF the Manila
product.
The Emperor Of Russia has given
90, 600 rubles TO the st. Petersburg Geo
graphical Society toward meeting the
expenses OF another polar station at
Nova Zembie.
German soldiers have been given to
understand that they are not at liberty
W WOW thONC paintings VI NCAcSCutScut
the Russian artist, which portray the
horrors OF war.
The sardine has disappeared from
the coast of Brittany, where it used to
bring the fishermen an annual revenue
of 5000, ,000f. VI. Blavier thinks that
some channel in the Gulf Stream may ac-
count for the fact.
The importation of eggs INTO Great
Britain last year was 100, 1000, 900, or
about two dozen for each man, woman
and child in the country. Their money
value was over $4,000, 900.
Coal has been discovered twenty
miles northeast of South Pueblo, Col,
and one mile from the Denver and New
Orleans railway A company has been
formed to work the mine.
The $4,000, 900 OF our population
have Protestant minister for every 728
persons and Sabath-school teacher for