Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-07-12
NEWS IN BRIEF

1851.
Long Island has over a hundred
trout farms.
The cotton worm eats Sl5, 700, 900
of the cotton crop every year.
California has lately shipped %. 900
pounds of spring grass butter to New
York.
/ 1t Is estlmlted that the Penns Viva
MIA Railroad has $50. 900. coo invested
in workshops and mae chinery at Altoo-
ma.
Coinage at the Philadelphia mintin
May. SO, ,6S2 400. which included 1876, =
coo eagles. 5000 silver dollars.
South Australia has population of
279, ,S66. Its debt had grown from S11,- =
900. 900 IN 1873 to nearly $50. 900, 600 in
1881.
/ Buffalo. n, Y. will be fifty years
old on 4th of July. Elaborate pre-
parations are being made to celebrate
| the event.
General Sheridan and John McCul-
lough. the tragedian, Will take summer
trip together through the Yellowstone
country.
Twelve million bushels of corn
were last year made into glucose in the
United States alone. Brewers were the
largest consumers.
Three hundred and twenty post
offices were established and rs discon-
tinued during May. On May l, 46, 900
were III operation.
The King of Siam, who has Just
built new palace for 81, 900. 900. Is
furnishing 1t With 400 tons OF furniture
at cost of S5O0.000.
The Rev. F. j. Caskey, of Cncin-
natl, is the rector-elect of the new
American Protestant Episcopal church
IN Dresden, Germany.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, gave
one fourth of the $4,000 recently
raised for building parsonage for the
Second Baptist Church, Atlanta
The Earl of Roseberrv has purchased
Mr.. Boehm's fine Static of Carlyle and
Will place it in the hall of his mansion.
Daimeny Castle, near Edinburg.
-Jeiusalem existed 700 years before
Rome was founded. 800 before the siege
of Troy. and 500 Years before the hang
ing gardens of Babylon were built
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe had
grand reception given by her friends in
Boston on the seventieth anniversary of
her birthday, Wednesday, June II.
Professor C. V. Riley has deposited
IN the National Museum at Washington
his collection of insects, comprising
$50. 900 specimens and 30, 900 species.
The total exports of this country
amounted last year to 1888, 955, 917, tho
proportion produced by agriculture be-
ing S729, $50, 0l6. or very nearly S3 Per
cent
Members of the British House of
Commons have sought to induce the
British Museum authorities to keep
open the Museum at night but have
failed.
The failing health of Mr.. W, W.
Corcoran, the Washington banker and
phllanthropist, continues to excite the
grayest apprehensiOns of his friends and
physicians.
| Alexander III. has recently d. escn-
ted to the Emperor of Germany four
norses, two of which are, it Is said, the
very ones that drew the late Cars ear
rage when he was assassinated.
| Card playing is practised Ill no
country to so great an extent as in Rus
STA. All ages aud both sexes are passlO-
nately fond of it. The manufacture of
playing cards is Government mono
poly, and there Is only one factory, from
which "a 900 packs are turned out daily,
or over 1000 900 a year.
| The Princess Beatrice is now al
lowed by Queen Victoria to manage the
royal establishment Mt all the palaces.
She pre- fe.s this with music and paint
ing to marrying u German Prince.
| A Polish Roman Catholic nOblemaD,
member OF the Austrian Imperial Par
lament, lately paid off the debt go, 900
hOnns) of Polish synagogue in
Vienna, thus saving 1t from the hammer
Out of 2O0,6 immigrants who
landed at Castle Garden from January
1st to May 3lst of 1882, 136 were des-
tined for West Virginia as against TO-
500 for Ohio, and IL, 0OO for PeHnsylva
MIA.
The Hon. Alexander III. Stephens
has SO much work on hand now that he
has to employ constantly two secretar-
les; one to revise proof-sheets of his
his ory, and one to attend to correspon-
dence.
MIR. Dwight l.. Moody, the evan
gel.st, VIII remain for some time III
Glasgow, where his son is at school. Mr..
Slnkey Is now travelling III Germany
with his sou, for the benefit of the
latter's health.
-Four of tine eight recently appOin.
ted assistant surgeons III the United
States Army, with the rank Of second
lieutenant, are graduates of the medical
school of the University OF Virginia.
w. Z. Hopkins. of California; @. E.
Burrows, of Mississippi: George f.
Wilson, of Oregon; and VIM. o. Owens
l Jr., of Lynchburg, Va.
A bust of Thackeray at the age oi
' fifteen years has Just been presented tC
8 the National Portrait Gallery IN LondoI
by Miss Ritchie, the authors daughter
II is taken from a cast male by wan
dering Italian peddler of plaster work.
There were 800 stones IN DIsraeli'
Star of the Garter, and his executor
a have had them removed from their sett
e ing, remounted IN rings, with an Earl
o coronet and the word 'BeacOnsfield
q engraved on the inside of each ring, an
have offered them for sale to those al
mirers of the Premier who are willin
to pay something handsome for memer
n toes.
lie The recently published returns {
n the Austrian QSS0) census shows tbs
r. 80 per cent. of the people are employe
IN agriculture, A. in commerce, bankin;
- and transportation, 81 in liberal profes
'y sions, 3 l are landowners and capita
es lists. As servants, ! per cent educ
st tionists, 26l are engaged in mining, an
he the occupations OF $40 per cent. a
~ unknown.
Japanese literature gives signs
: large progress in point of the numbe,
ia ,yo,kS r,,1Tiiahed For last wear n