Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-09-27
NEWS IN BRIEF

OF the l, $50 conyicts in the Ohio
Penitentiary but II are women.
The ancient ell. measure. was
the length OF the arm Of Heny |.
Fifty thousand watermelons are
shipped north IRON Atlanta, Ga., daily.
| --Boston's present valuation Is S672,-
490. loo, a gain OF 81, ,935, 800 over last
year.
Mime. Marie Roze Mapleson has re-
turned to London from her vacation in
Auyergne.
"A system of graded schools leading
up to the college and university is con-
templated for Wales.
-Albrecht Won Graefe, the eminent
ophtnalmogollst, has had statue
erected to him in Berlin.
Mrs. Tyler, widow of ex-Presi-
dent Tyler, is staying for her health at
Old Point Comfort, Virginia.
The earliest known invention of an
English double Christian name is deed
of the time of Edward Ill.
The King of Siam buys his house
hold furniture by the ton at the rate of
over thousand dollars ton.
Greek and French have been ad-
ded as optional studies to the course of
the Indianaro is High School.
Baron Won Broc&dorf. nephew OF
Moltke, recsntly Professor of Modern
Languages IN the Maryland Agficultu-
raj College, has resigned that position
and gone back to the German army.
California has school population
OF 2l5.522, and has Just distributed
among her counties an apportionment of
1884, ,O59, 10.
The laws of the Mexican king
Montezuma L., related chiefly to the iI,-
tercourse of ard distinction between
classes.
Mr.. George Derr, of Lawi,burp.
Penna., died worth S25 900, all OF winch
he left to the Christian church Of that
town, OF which he was a member.
Baron Wilhelm Rathschild Of
Frankfort, returned his list ears In.
come at 81. .197. 900, while his b-cther
Baron Meyer Carl, returned s. ,I4J,OO
john McCuIIough, whose father
was eYlcted from a small Irish farm.
says America Is the best country. not
only for actors, but for everybody else
California received an Increase of
about ., 900 to its Chinese population
III the first seven months of the present
year, p, ,1O5 arrived and !, ,l41 departing
for home.
Mrs. Fletcher Webster has pre-
sented to Mr.. G. f Williams. of Bos-
ton, the armchair aud table used by
her lllnstriOus father-in-law IN his
Marshtield study.
The United States has one medical
nan to every 600 inhabitants. while
Canada has only one to 200 inhabi-
tants, Great Britain one to 1.672. and
Germany one to 5000.
The first shipment of Russian IA
troleum from the oil wells in tina
province OF Baku was sent to the
European market on July 2l by the
English steamer Alfred.
MIR. Edwin Booths daIyhteraccom-
panies him on his tower tarough HoI-
land and Belgium.
There are said to he lS.ODO loco
motive engines IN use III the United
States Pennsylvania has the largest
number, 1900, while in all New Eng
land there are but LOO.
Herr Fuchs report states that 2il
earthquakes are known TO have occur
red during the year 1881, of winch So
we're IN winter, 81 in autumn, 56 in
spring and Al in summer.
Mr.. John J. Gilbert, of PhilaIel-
phia. has been engaged to take the
place of the late George A. Comfy as
basso with the Emma Abbott Opera
Company for the next season.
The Austrian military authorities
have decided to aban Ion the fortress in
honmSgratz, Northern Bohemia, close
to which the decisive battle OF SadOwa
was fought. The site and the buildings
have been sold 20 the Commune for
$50, 700.
The two British Princes, Albert
Victor and George OF Wales, who have
been making the tour ofthe world, have
Just been confirmed at Whippingnam
Church, Newport, Isle of Wight.
Miss Maria c. Benton, a grand.
niece OF the famous Thomqs II. Benton.
was married recently in St Louis TO
Benjamin F. Cable. only son OF T.. l..
Cable, the Rock Island millionaire.
Spain, with school population of
2,60G, 265, has 2S,1I7 elementary
schools, instructing /, 40, 476 pupils.
Upon the heels of the report that
the Car OF Russia now rides out with
ont an escort comes the announcement
that the Imperial family will spend the
coming winter IN st. Petersburg where
Court festivities will he resumed.
Nine Nilsson, after her American
tour, proposes to live permanently in
England somewhere near London.
Nine Missions fortune has been con-
siderably diminished by unfortunate
purchases of houses and land III America
and by the disastrous BOurse specula-
tions Of her husband, but she still has
competence,
1t Is proposed to erect a monument
IN Montreal to the memory of the late
bon. Thomas Darcy McGee. The
project meets with gseat favor with all
classes and both nationalitleS
Brother Quentmian, of the Chris
tian Brotherhood, of Hartford, CT, has
been sent 10 Paris by the Superior of
the order to remain for year, to study
the system and methods OF teaching
now employed by the Brother IN the
French schools.
OF all the RomIn Catholic Clergy
men in the United States in 1884, it is
said that the only one now living Is the
Rev. Father Hamermans, VINO, recently
celebrated the tifty-third anniversary of
his ordination and the forty-tirst OF his
present pastOrate, st. Mary :, Troy. y.
York.
The bronze statue of Lafayette ON
which Mr.. J. Q. \. Ward Is new at
work will cost So, 900, aud on its COM
pletion, III September, will be presented
by j. p Howard, of Burlington Vt, to