Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-10-18
NEWS IN BHIEF

ne land OF the Tree Is divided into
10000 townships.
-Pennsylvania's colored vote Is esti
mated at about "a 900
There are over 1, 700 licensed dogs
in Paterson.
Macon is making carriages for a
house In Connecticut.
There are 81 cities Of over 1900
inhabitants in this country.
Indian canoes aud light goaIolas
are popular on the Thames.
"A Lady in San Antonio, Texas. has
40, 900 silkworms at work in her y..rl.
Cadet Whitaker has returned to
Camden, 5. c., after a long season of
notoriety.
The assessment of Minneapolis this
year is S51 ,455. 1874, against s31, ISS, ISG
last year.
"A Seneca squaw. ia yeaIs of age,
IS said to be living on the TOnawanda
reservation.
Virginia has l72 tobacco factories,
which consume $4,000. 900 pounds OF
the weed annually.
&C. W. DePaw, of New Albany. Iad.
proposes to give Sl,000,0 900 to Asbury
University at GceencastlA, in that State.
Mrs. John Pratt, OF Mich, Is over
one hundred anu two wears, and her
husband Is living, at the age Of ninety
three.
The Post Office Department viii
turn 81 900, 900 into the Treasury. the
amount of its earnings over expenses for
the past fiscal year
The insane population ofti.e United
States in 1870 numbered 81 .4I2 or on,.
To each l, l0J. In lSSJIt was estimated
at so, 900, or one to each so OF the en-
tire population.
Toronto papers say that much COM
plant OF extortiOns by hackmen Is
being made by American visitors 10
that city, ami they advise that strangers
consult a policeman before making bar
gains with them.
1t Is claimed in Boston that every
building in the city available Ter Il anu
featuring purposes Is now occupied.
and that suitable sites for other manu.
factories are III demand.
| The deaths of two veterans OF Ira
falgar have just been announced in
England-J Ohm Crawford, OF Dundee
aged 80, and Charles Williams, OF
Iwlckenham, aged, lOl.
-SOIourner Truth, now los years
old, lectnred in Decatur, Mich, tbs
other evening. and devoted the pro-
ceeds to furJueriag the woman su.ftase
campaign in Nebraska.
Captain Eisdale, of the Royal En-
gineers, II practical bailoonist Of the
British War Department. Is IL Halifax.
experimenting III a series of Inventions
III Dallooning Tor war purposes.
The Princess of Wales. now IN her
thirty eighth year, is described as look
ing scarcely day older than when on
March 10, nmtteen years ago. she stood
at the altar by the side OF her yo1ng
husband.
General George b. McCleilan's
SONS and the sons OF General Horace.
Porter, Murat Halstead and ex-Gover-
nor Bowie, of Maryland, have entered
their names ON the roll Of the entering
class at Princeton
| The New Orleans Times DcDlOcrqf
estimates that the Hood OF ISSl cost the
Southwest over SD, 900, 900, OF which
Loulsiana's share was Sl5, 900, 900. To
replace this loss will require 600. coo
bales OF cotton.
The Princess OF Wales and her chill
dren, and their suite, aud the King and
Queen of Denmark and their suite.
have all been living together like one
large family party, at Wiesb lden. and
nave rarely appeared IN public there.
Lieutenant Dannehower was the
first to greet Chief Engineer Melville
upon the latters arrival III Washington.
Pushing forward, he grasped ms hand
and sad; "Heilo George" to which
Melville responded Hello. Dan"
Father ROquette, an aged priest,
who has congregation of ChOctaw IN
dians IN st. Tammany parish, Louisi-
ana, says that the Indian Will accept
christianity, but that ali efforts to IN
dnce him to adopt the manners Of civil
zation are futile.
Investigation into the death rate of
English watering places give very
satisfactory result. FOrty-six OF these
resorts containing / 900. 900 inhabitants.
gave an average rate of only I6. ) deaths
per 900, the zymohc rate being but
LIZ per LOCO,
LANDED proptietors in Hungary
still hold absolute control over the IL
lquOr traffic on their estates. Tnis is
now to cease. The power is 10 pass
into the hands of the local government
authorities. and tine landowners will
receive $4,000, 200, Compensation.
Under the patronage of the King of
) Italy an association has been formed at
Urbino to celebrate the our-hundredth
anniversary of the birth OF Raphael.
Ii Is proposed to erect his statue, in
Carrara marble, upon a pedestal bear
ing bas-relief5 illustrative OF his most
famous works.
Mr.. Porter, of the census bureau,
says the census report will cost s., 600, o
; 900. The WORK was begun In 1879 and
Will be finished in 1888. after five
: years Of solid work. 1t Will be the
completest work OF the kind ever done.
The English census cost only 500, 900,
and was begun and completed IN one
night.
The children OF Donaldson, the
|, lost aeronaut, are at present living IL
= Il RJchester, y. T., with Mr.. keefer.
they were boarding with hun at the
. time of their f4ther's tragic death, all
since then he has careI for them as
: his own. There are two of them, boy
: and girl, aged respectively ten an
= twelve Years.
. The annual production Of Caaad
4 malt is about 66, 0O0,0 900 pounds o
n = this nearly %, 100000 pounds are ex
- ported to the United States. The in
m ports-almOst wholly conf TO Brltlsl
~ umbia-baIeiy exceed 1j1.0o'
- pounds. Ia Tor INTO alone there ar,
J. / 800, 900 gallons of beer brewed. whil
% the capital employed amJults 70 3,
40 00O.0
as Statistics have been collected show
ly ing that the number OF blind persons /
OF Prussia has considerably decreased with
g. in ten years, in spite OF an increase O
% IN ner cent in pOpulatiOa. The faliIn