Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-01-11
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NEWS IN BRIEF

souls.
There is red and green as well as
black ebony.
Candle is from Greek word mean
ing to shine.
General Grant has insured his life
for 100000.
The Republic of New Grenada was
organized in 1851.
A cod fish produces 3, ,6S6, 760 eggs,
n mackerel 454, $50.
-Voltaire. the great French free
thinker died in 1894.
General Butler is a commitment of
the Episcopal church.
There were geological gardens in
China more than 100 years ago.
Tin mines in Cornwall, England,
have been worked for three Thousand
years.
A Bath, Me-, fisherman claims to
have caught over 4. 200, 900 porgies this
season.
Chief Justice French, of the British
Supreme Count OF China and Japan, is
dead.
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Lees staff, died at Cumberland, Nd,
on Sunday.
General Mcdowell is expected to
retire from active service in the army
next spring.
Mr.. Longfellow is now able to take
long walks. His health appears to be
improving.
The Mormons are obliged to pay to
the church one tenth of all they lalse,
or make, or earn.
1t is found that brandy augments the
rapidity and force of the pulse as much
as 13 per cent.
Professor Goodwin Smith has finally
refused the Mastership of University
College, Oxford.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has
left off smoking under the advice of the
court physicians
"A farm of 81 800 acres in Barry
County, Missouri, Is to be devoted to
the breeding of mules.
The betting against Mr.. Pierre
Lorillard's Gerald for the Derby for next
year is only to /.
Hogg, one of Scotlands sweetest sing
ers, usually styled the "Ettrick Shep-
herd" died in 1885.
The King of Siam has Just purchas-
ed In London; through an agent, furni-
ture valued at 81 100000.
The compound lens microscope was
invented by the Jansens, spectacle
makers in Middlebury in 1885.
Cardinal Mazerin played cards on
his death bed, when 50 weak that his
hand had to be held by others.
The substitution of iron for bronze
in the casting of canon was first attempt
ed in Queen Elizabeth reign
Napoleon issued his celebrated but
futile "Berlin Decree" against British
commerce, November 81, 1906.
According to Ehrenberg a cubic
iuch of water may contain more than
800, 900, 900. 900 of animalcule.
The train from Paris to Milan by
the new Saint Gothard route will make
the journey In twenty one hours.
The Count De Perrochel, member
of the Frencl. Chamber of Deputies for
the Department of Sarthe, is dead.
During the last three Years Ger
many consumed 1851 $50 tons of rails.
Nearly all the rails were made OF steel.
Counterfeit five and ten dollar gold
pieces, bearing the date Of 1880, are re-
ported to be plentiful in San Francisco
-Musurus Pacha. the Turkish Am
bassador to England. intends TO publish
a Greek translation OF Dante's Infer
no."
The yield of potatoes of all kinds
last year IN Ireland amounted to 3.6
tons per acre, against 1.3 ton the pre-
vious year.
AT cOnsistory to be held shortly
after Christmas the Archbishop of Ar
magh, Primate of all Ireland, will be
created Cardinal.
), The assertion Is made that, at Har-
ward University. in the last fifty years.
no smoking student has graduated at
the head of his class.
President Madison's home, ''Mont-
lpeler,' near Orange, Va, was sold to
MIR. Detrick, of Baltimore, on tho Ist
instant, for $4,000.
At the village of Morita, in Echizen.
Japan, field of 900 vars square was
swallowed up during an earthquake and
turned into deep hole.
Travellers report that in Africa
there are falls on the Zambest river five
hundred feet high, or mare than three
times the height of Niagara.
The town of Yarmouth. by an an
cient character, was obliged to send one
hundred herrings baked in twenty-f 'ur
pies and pastries annually to the king.
There is a monster orange tree near
Fort Harley, Florida, that measures
nine feet one inch in circumference. 1t
Is over fifty years old and some seasons
has borne oyer 5000 oranges.
The Maquis de Rochambeau has been
made an honorary member of the Massa-
chusetts Historical Society. He had
formerly been corresponding MEM
) ber.
Professor Nordenskjold is going to
Russia where the Government wishes to
consult him on the best method of
1 opening North Siberia TO European
navigation
q -Bernhardt's season in Brussels has
been extremely successful. In a single
week the proceeds of seven perform
ances were more than 73, ,000f.
The Pensions Commissioner states
the annual charge upon the country for
: pensions now at S33, 900, 900; but S70,-
F. OOO, 900 is wanted this year and $780,
q OOO, 900 next year to hiring up arrears.
/, illuminating gas az made from
4 coal, was described by DIR. Clayton In
h 1879 i. was first used for street light
: ing in London in 1907. In Paris, moi
until 1919.
n "A farmer living ON the banks of the
u Conestoga, in Lancaster county, Pa.
s lately made and put into his barn sever.
5, al loads of hay from a meadow situated
a on the bank of the stream, Haymskine
10 in November is certainly novelty.
70 Chicago handles about one-third o
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