Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-06-14
NEWS IN BRIEF

The Koran was written about 6.1O
A. d.
Maud Granger is too i'll to set at
present.
Edwin Booth il worth over half a
million.
4 -EmerSon's eststs is worth upwards
of $780, 900.
Mexico Is dead set agains. Apache
m migration,
Susan B. Anthony Is q cousin of
Senator Lsphsm-
Maggie Mitchell has made $4,000
during the season.
Iowa farmers are now eating pota-
toes from Scotland.
The finger rings of America are said
to be worth S5S, ,0G0
-kalakaua has a new two hundred
thousand dollar palace.
A San Antonio (Texas) woman has
40, 900 silk worms at work.
| Chief Justice Waite will spend most
of the summer at Lyme, Conn.
1t is es timated that the Gypsy child
rem OF Eu9land number 30. 600.
The first abbeys or monasterios
were founded in the third century.
Il The creameries are mOnopolizipg
large share of the milk at this tlme
There are manufactured u 900
shovels weekly in the United States.
The cat was domesticated In Egypt
The Greeks and Romans did not possess
it.
Stephen Day was the printer of the
first almanac published IN America, in
1889
| "A Quaker affirmation was first s.,-
cepted as legal oath in England in
1896.
During the time of the Norman
conquest the game of dice was very COM
mon.
i The whale fishery first sprang up
In the Bay of Biscay, in the twelfth CEN
tury.
"A Chicago firm killed and packed
200, 900 cattle and 5000, 900 hogs last
year.
= Benedict, an italian, born 4s0, was
the founder of the order of Benedictine
monks.
james Gorden Bennett has given
Mrs. De Long $50, 900 in government
bonds.
One hundred and ten whalers were
sent out from the port of New Bedford
in 1876.
The annual consumption of beer in
this country Is only about nine gallons
per capita.
Seventy patents were issued to vo-
. / r,.,, gr,,,, ,bo IT,,tnI CtaG.s n
last year.
OF the 1S3 ministers of the Metho-
dist new convention In England, 120 are
teetOtailerS.
The losses by fires In 1881, as foot
ed mp by fire insurance companies were
SSl, $50, 500.
The Church OF England has 907
churches IN London, 476 of which have
, surpliced choirs.
. OF the 5l9 women prisoners at Shsr-
born, 1t Is stated that 456 were com
mitted as inebriates
=. The United States produces 80 per
cent. of the grain of the world, and 81
per cent of the meat.
"A S25,0 900 piano of unparalleled
splendor was the Prince Of Wales we'd
ding present to Leopold
The Washington monument reached
height recently of $50 feet. 1t is to
be five hundred feet hight.
: The fleet and spirited horses of
Hungary, are bred on wide plains, where
they scamper at liberty until they are
broken.
In Gold Hill, New, houses and lots
which few years ago were valued at
: from $1,000 to 5000 each are being
!, raffled off,
The Paris papers say. that a French
athlete has run l3l miles in an hour.
This is about 2 miles better than the
best English record
, Miss Gladstone, daughter OF the
| English Premier, will probably be cleo
, ted principal of the hourishing Ladies'
College at Cambridge.
The picture gallery Of Sir William
Armstrong, at Rothbury. England, is
Z lighted by the aid of tine force from q
little mountain rIvuler.
The importation of eggs into Great
e Britain last year was 750, ,000, 900. or
/ about two dozen for each man, woman
Howard Williams, colored, who has
+ been selected as caterer for the White
, House, has been for many years body
servant of Senator Conkling.
! The Princess Louise will return to
Canada this month and spend the sum-
msr there. In September, with Lord
: Lorne, she will visit British Columbia.
A French millionaire. in order to
encourage population, has left annual
: prizes of 81 200, $500 and $500 to the
: mothers of the largest families IN Paris,
e with preference TO the poorest in case of
0 equality.
+ The only child of Grace Greenwood,
= Miss Lippincott, is to make her debut
III opera next winter in America. She
r is reported as a charming singer and
2 lyric actress
} The French Cremation Society now
4 consists of 406 members. The receipts
e for the first year W ere 1000 francs. The
|. average cost of cremation has been but
, three francs.
4 Count Won Moltke, Germany's
> veteran Field Marshal and Chief OF
= Staff. has taken leave of absence for an
u indefinite period, preparatory to final re-
J. tirement from Office.
h The value of farm products in the
IS States OF Rhode Island. Florida, Della
> ware, Oregon, New Hampshire, West
h Virginia, Massachusetts and Connect
cut was $50, 140.1
aI Charlotte Cushman's cottage at
!, Newport has been let for the summer
III season of three months for $1,000. AL
Sc her beautiful antique furniture, her
ne statuary and her pictures are let with
9 the house.
IL The oyster fishing and packing in
\ Il