Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-01-25
NO. 3.
NEWS IN BBlFF


600.
-Archimedes invented a screw for
facilitating irrigation in Egypt. b C.
$50.
The first altar mentioned in Scrip
ture was erected by NOAH, after the
flood
Margaret Gorden lady Banner
NAM is said to have been CarIyle's first
love.
Miss Maggie Blaine, daughter of the
ex-SecretaIy. is pursuing her studies in
Paris
years old and weighs less than six
pounds
General Joshua L. Chamberlain, of
Maine is passing part of the winter in
Florida
II. f. Burgess. ex-President of the
old Transvaal Republic in South Africa,
is dead
Gen. Franz Sigel Is now school
inspector in the eighth district of New
York City.
There are ten female students in
the Homeopathic Medical College. in
Cincinnati.
Sara Bernhardt viii receive it Is
said e20, ,000 for her engagement at st.
Petersburg.
-Gibbon bgan to write his Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire" in Lon
don, in 1772.
The assessed valuation Of Colorado
is S96, 0J9, 600, an increase Jf SO, ,000.-
900 SINCE 1880
Alligator teeth, in Georgia and
Florida, are purchased FOR between 81
and 50 pound
In Moscow the plague introduced
by the Turkish army carried off 10000
victims in a month.
"A new law in Kansas forbids any
person to marry within SIX months after
procuring divorce.
Captain De Long, of Arctic fame,
was an office boy at 8 week in New
York twenty Years ago.
In London Queen a lady advertises
her wish to exchange her engagement
ring for black fur cape.
The late Thomas Il. Gould, the
sculptor, considers his Cleopatra, now
III Boston, his best work.
During the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, in France, guilty animals suf-
fered death on the gallows.
Complaint Is made in some of the
rural portions of New jersey that cider
made of drugs IS being introduced
-Peacocks were carefully reared in
the island of S,.mnos and sold at such
high prices that Varn says they fetched
yearly e2,0OO.
So great was the desire 20 see Mrs.
Langtry on the stage that some of the
audience paid, it Is reported, rs much as
$50 for stall
There is a heavy demand on the
UuIted States Treasury for bright new
dimes, for bangles. There are none in
the Department.
Mr.. l.. Won Faber, proprietor of the
lannon's lead pencil factory at Stein. near
Nuremberg, has been made Baron by
the King of Bavaria.
1t is stated as probable that the
Duke of Connaught. who has n strong
desire to visit India, will be elected for
an Indian command.
One hundred women in this country
have offered to go to Ireland TO promote
agitation there. and a majority are will
ing to serve without pay.
MIR George NJ Pullman, the origin
ator of the Pullman cars, is about II
years of age, and said to be worth from
Sl5, 900. 900 to $4,000. 900.
The Duke of Wellington is Presi.
dent of the British Goat Society, and
actively promotes goat keeping among
the peasantry on his estates.
In the city Of Denver more than
81, 900, 900 was expended in the erection
of new buildings, and the total assessed
valuation Il the city shows an increase
of 80, 460,0 900.
The Washington school trustees
have, by n vote of thirteen to three, de-
cided against the admission of eolored
children to the schools attended by
white children.
1t is proposed to erect n monument
to Sallust at Aquila IN the Abruzzi,
overlooking the River Aterno-the site
of the ancient Amiternum, where the
historian was born.
The school population of Ohio is es-
timated at 1,0i6, 22j. The increase is
about 5000 every year. The average
daily attendance III the schools is only
forty-six per cent.
There arrived at New York during
1881 from foreign ports 6929 vessels of
which 1853 were steamers; and from do
nestle ports ii 1888 of which 1906 were
propelled by steam.
| Eighteen steamboats, are now plow-
ing the waters of the St Johns, Florida,
Carrying passengers and freight, exclu-
sive of those employed III towing and
for logging purposes.
There is said to be no male descen-
dant of the GUNNER family. Its only
Representatives are the three neices of
the great Senator-the daughters of his
sister, Mrs. Julia HASTINGS.
There is a weekly sale in Paris of
toads. which are brought in casks filed
with damp moss. One hundred toads
are worth from sixty to seventy shill1ngs.
These are bought for gardens.
| A company has been formed IN
Winnipeg to supply Eastern cities with
canned frogs. Large canning houses
are to be built early in the spring in the
vicinity of the town of WhitemOuth.
1t is officially announced that the
great St. Gothard tunnel will DE opened
for the regulur passage OF trains ON JAN
uary l. The total cost Of the work Is
80, sos $40 francs. or about S11, 900, 900.
General George Mcdonald, 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 army in September
1895.
l. The total value Of school propert,
I in West Virginia is S1.347, ,929. Tn,
/. school population Is 2l3, Al the attend
! ance is 81 ,298. There are 1927 publi
a school teachers in the State, III OF whom
e are colored. The average salary give
3 to teachers is S26.61.
!, In the Annual estimation of th