Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-04-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| -Chicago put up 5OO,OO1 yards o
mourning.
Commodore Roe, of the navy, Is
dangerously i'll in Washington.
Mrs. Garfield received another auto.
graph letter from Queen Victoria.
"A Michigan woman has gone to
England to bring back 800 servant giIls.
General G.. L. Beauregard has been
appointed AdiutAnt General of l. oui
| na.
Ex-Governor Stanford of California
has bought the stallion Piedmont for
$50. 600.
The first herrings of the season sold
at the rate of $50 per 1.OO0 at Alexan-
dria. Va.
Senator Edmunds Is preparing a
magazine paper N the political aspects
of Mormonism.
Second Lieutenant Rollen A. Ives,
of the Fifth Artillery, died at Summlt,
N. j., recently.
The Empress of Austria will take q
hunting seat n-Rutlandshire, England,
FOR the coming season.
Japan produces over 10000, 900
pounds of tea annually, and the yield
Is steadily increasing.
Archbishop Purcell is reported by
the Cincinnati Commercial to be
gradually passing away"
Tanners bark for hot beds was first
used by the Dutch, from whom England
borrowed the idea in 1858.
The Prussian government is to buy
this year 10000 tons of iron railroad
sleepers at a cost of S35 ton.
In early times shad and salmon
were caught in large quantities in the
Wllllmantic River rs far up as Tolland.
Among the SaxOns on New Years
day the ''wassail bowl" was carried from
door to door with song and merriment.
In 1902 Bartholomew Gosnold. a
mariner of the west of England, discov-
cred and named the peninsular of Cape
Cod.
In the fourteenth century glass
mirrors We're extremely rare in France,
while metallic ones were in common
use.
The question is raised whether the
business men who stamp their adver-
Elements on silver coins are amenable
to law
Judge Folger was congratulated
formally by his llow-citizens of Geneva,
n. Y, upon his appointment to the
Treasury portfolio.
1t is said that Monsignor ThouasJ.
Capel, the distinguished Roman Catho-
lie theologian of England, will soon visit
the United States
According to the latest census re-
turns the population of tie Bulgarian
Principality is now l ,99S, ,9S3. OF this
number 16, ,625 are soldiers.
The Texas and Pacific railway COM
pany have established an experimental
farm, hoping by its proauctiveness to
attrict settlers to- their land.
Tree planting is to be encouraged
by the Northern Pacific by carrying
fruit and ornamental trees free for actual
settlers along the line of road.
-MillaIs, the artist, Is famous an
gler. In company with friend he late
ly killed on the Tay in one day twelve
salmon. weighing 120 pounds.
The value of the ivory consumed at
Sheffield, where it is much used in the
handles of cutlery, is $40, 900, and fifty
people are engaged in working it.
The anthracite coal tonnage of Penn
sylyania, for. January, was l 1888, $40
tons gross. The corresponding figures
Of January, 1881, were 1,s72, ,s45 tons.
Senator Johnston. of Virginia, pro-
poses to quit politics at the expiration
of his present term. He says that while
in Congress he nsglects his private bust
ness.
Prince Victor, eldest son and heir
of the Prince Jerome Napoleon, is a stu
dent at Heidelberg, and gives promise
OF attaining high rank in the world
letters.
The International Monetary Con-
ference, which last fall was unable to ar
rive at any practical result, as TO rsas-
semble at Paris on the 18th of April
next.
Not a single passenger has ever
been killed on the Mobile and Ohio rail
road, which is 400 miles, and has been
in operation for twenty-five or thirty
years.
The Ontario Legislature voted a
grant of 5000 to build fence along the
river front at Niagara Falls, Ont, to
prevent visitors and other from meeting
with accidents falling over the precipice.
1t was suggested to them by the town
In the shape of a memorial:
The Lake Shore has contracted with
Pittsburgh parties tor 5000 tons of new
steel rails. They will be used in replac-
ing the old rails on that from Buffalo to
Erie.
The proprietor of large Florada
hotel says that the greatest number of
guests from the North have gray hair.
One of the heiresses in Germanyis
Countess Solms, a baby only year cd.
She has lately inherited the vast estates
of her grandfather, Count Arnim-
Zichow.
In his experiments with the strength
of insects, Plateau, the French natura-
list, has ascertained that IN proportion
to its size June bug is as powerful as
a locomotive.
Twelve thousand men are stated to
be work on the New York, West Shore
and Buffalo, between Cornwall aid
Syracuse, and the grading Will be COM
pleted September 1st.
The first steel rails ever used in this
country were laid in August, 1864, on
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
timore. The greater part of these rails
are still In the track.
Prince Prisdang, of Siam, who Is to
visit this country soon, is well yersed in
European manners, speaks English and
French fuently, and is said to have
decided taste for literature and art.
Wooden shoes are worn In the West
and enough of them are sold to keep
manufactury going at Green Bay. They
are cut out of green Eastwood, smoked