Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-15
NO. 10.
NEWS IN BRIEF

The reports Of the last United
States census Will occupy 20, coo print
ed pages.
DIR. I. Sterry Hunt has received
the honorary degree of doctor of laws
from Cambridge University, England.
The Cambria Iron Company is
erecting a large vitriol manufactory at
Johnstown. Penna.
A church adjoining that of the
"Holy Stars, at Rome, Is used by the
Italian Government as q stable.
AIR. F. Wise, of ireland, has given
500, 900 toward the restoration of the
Cathedral in Cork
A Philadelphia magistrate has been
fined $50 for making an excessive charge
of 30 cents in a fee.
The population of the city of Rome.
Italy, and suburbs Is 800, 292, an in
crease since 1871 of 55, sos
A narrow gauge road of three feet
costs IN construction about five -eighths
as much as a broad gauge.
Nearly 5000 tons of wrapping
paper were made in one month, by fifty.
i OAc III tllt OldtSS-
General Tom Thumb celebrated the
nineteenth anniversary of his marriage
by dinner in st. Louis recently.
-fhe favorite maxium of Philip III.
of Spain was: 1T is better not to reign
at all than to reign over heretics.
The Basque costumes near Bayonns
and the villages IN the Pyrences are be-
ginning to be replaced by Paris fash
ions.
Toward the end lie eighth Gen.
tury the sale of slaves beyond their na-
tive provinces was in most countries for
hidden.
The American consul-general at
Shanghai has lately sent twenty boxes
OF bamboo cuttings for transplanting in
Oregon.
The attempts to light the streets of
Liverpool by electricity have not proved
successful and the project is to be aban-
doned.
"A colossal pine which was lately
uprooted by an inundation in Oulais,
Finland, was found to have 1929 annual
rings.
AT the beginning of the fourteenth
century the church for the first time
gave permission for the dissection of hu-
man bodies.
1t is estimated that there are in
Philadelphia between q, 900 and %, 900
children who are not attending any
schools.
-Toole, the English comedian, o
favorite of the Prince OF Wales, is build
ing theatre for his own performances
in London.
In Switzerland nc child who cannot
present certificate of vaccination il
permitted to attend public or private
school
Twenty years ago nearly 30, 900
men IN the British army were returned,
who could neither write nor read. The
number has now been reduced to little
over 1000.
Since 1910 the Atlantic steamers
have increased their average speed from
S.3 knots to 15.6 knots. or nearly double
while the consumption of fuel per horse
power has been diminished about sixty
per cent.
-Ex-king Amadeus was recently
robbed by one his servants In his palace
ct Turin, of 100, 900 francs worth of
jewels and silver.
agriculture is taught in q, 900 of
the 1000 schools of France, which
have gardens attached In which practical
instruction can be given.
Patti, Lucca, Albani and Minnie
Hank are the only bearers of the title
of Hammer Saengerin" to the Impe-
rial Court of Germany.
The commission appointed in Ger
many to revise Luther's translation of
the Bible, has held its last sitting and
brought its work to close.
1t is estimated that the total length
of submarine telegraph cables in the
world is $4,000 miles, having a money
value of about S2OO,000,00O
President Arthur has rented the
cottage on Cedar avenue, Long Branch,
opposite the lodge of Hollywood Park.
The cottage is nearly completed.
In Europe a copy of the first edition
of the Decameron has been sold for over
Sl1 900, and one of the Gutenberg
/
In the year go A. U. c., Caius
Gracious caused law to be made sup
plying the poor with corn at price
that was little more than nominal.
Massachusetts has 3,l4S miles of
railroad track representing with rolling
stock 1922, 155, GA. Last year 1S4 per-
sons were killed and lis injured.
| Two Mormon colonies in Arizona
pay no territorial or county taxes.
They are so isolated that the cost of col
lection is much more than the taxes.
| 1t is understood that the projected
ship canal across Cape Cod has been
abandoned. Recent surveys show it
Will cost million more than expected.
The city of Boston boasts that the
cost of its public schools during the past
ten months has been S25, 900 less than
for the corresponding period last year.
The designs for the Expiatory Cha
lpel, which is to be erected on the site
lof Alexander HIS assassination, haye
been exhibited at the st. Petersburg
Hotel de Vile.
| Nevada used to send out wealth;
lnow 1t Is taking 1t H. All the mines IN
the state yielded during 1881 about S4,-
I5O0, 900 less than enough to pay the cost
of operatin 9them.
The silver coins of the United
States and of France are made of niae
parts of silver and one part of copper.
Less copper is used in making the silver
of Great Britain.
A hfe-siZe bronze statue of General
Mosquera, President of the Colombian
Republic. has Just been successfully
cast at Munich. 1t Is intended for the
Colon bian capital, Bogota.
The women teachers of the Junior
Divisions of the Toronto schools have
applied to the School Board for increas-
ed salaries, arguing that at s27 month
. they canot support themselves.
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