Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-29
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New Years day Georgi had S97I,-
ASS "A in the treasury.
Chicago obtains revenue of $751;
42S yearly from saloons.
There are eighty cotton and wooIlen
mills in North Carolina.
The latest novelties in canned goods
are frogs and sweet potatoes.
"A firm in Fleming county. Ky, has
killed 90, 900 turkeys this season.
The Mikado has ordered twenty-five
splendid carriages in London.
1t takes 500 full blown roses to
make teaspoonful of perfume.
About 1000 Indians are being fed
at Fort Walsh, Montana territory.
One hundred and fif:y-four failures
are reported for the past week.
Boston has 12,S96 gas lamps, and
1887 of them were broken last year.
The State tobacco monopoly of
France yielded last year $50, ,OOO, 900.
1t is said that ten years hence there
will be 25,0O0 carp pounds in Illinois.
Iowa spent Sl.Sf3. .O9s for common
schools and about $40, 900. 600 for liquor.
Black walnut Is so plentiful in Ken
lucky that the people use it for fence
rails.
The standing army of little Belgium
Is twice as large as that of the United
States.
Liquor licenses to the number of
1851 were issued in New York last
year.
Eighty nine congregational churches
were established last year in the United
States.
The speaking trumpet is said to
have been invented by Alexander the
Great.
The timber OF Prince Wittgenstein's
estates in Russia Is estimated at s., ,000,-
600.
The first Admiral of England was
Richard de Lucy, appointed by Henry
Ill. in 1923.
The Christians of Egypt burnt but
ter instead of oil In their lamps. in the
third century.
The total number of periodicals and
newspapers published throughout the
world is 1924
One thousand ole hundred and fifty
eases ornament the United States su-
preme court docket.
-Algernon Charles Swinburne is in
a state of such good health as promises
muchgood work.
-5S9, ,5l4 gallons of corn whiskey
were made (accordIng to law in North
Carolina in 1881.
Birmingham, Ala. has eight thou
sand inhabitants. Twelve years ago it
was a cotton field.
"A boy in Portsmouth, Ohio, has
been badly bluIsed and scalded by the
bursting OF toy engine.
Five thousand ChIcagoans under
took to send valentines through the
post-ofiice without stamps.
Augustus solemnly degraded and
overthrev the statue of Neptune because
his fleet had cen wrecked
Oyer %, 900 steerage tickets have
already been sold to emlgrants in Ger-
many coming to this country
Five thousand five hundred and
eisiity-two failures was the result of last
years trade in the United States.
Tho total stealings by public Off
cisls in Newark, New Jersey, for six
months aggregate 50, ,1S2, 345.
The assessed wealth of Massachu-
setts is s1.6S4, ,923, ,4S1, or on an average
of 81, l42 80 to each inhabitant.
jacob Thomson, formerly Secretary
of the Interior IN President Buchanan's
Cabinet, is now living in Rome.
The City Council OF Chattanooga.
Tenn, has issued an order for the des-
truc;ion of the English sparrows.
A Fall River turkey in being pre-
pared for the spit WAS found to have
handsome gold thimhle in Its gizzard.
-Lampreys at one time was favorite
dish in England, and, cooked in many
different ways, and eaten in large guam
titles.
The report of Madame Taglioni's
death in Berlin Is contradicted. The
great dancer is alive and well in Lon
don.
-Gustave Dare is at work upon the
statue of Alexandra Dumas, which Is
for the Place Malesberbes in
Paris.
The late Gov. Blue Jeans Williams,
of Indiana, is to have granite monu
ment % feet Q inches high, and to cost
$1,000.
Sir Edward Thornton's first recep-
ton at st. Petersburg was attended by
l 800 people and pronounced great
success.
Harvard College no longer demands
that one of the two names on every stu
dents bond shall be that of a Massachu-
setts citizen.
Senator Voorhees, declares that he
has cured himself of rheumatic gout by
taking lemon juice IN warm water twice
or thrice day.
Nineteen thousand dollars was the
sum brought by Montpelier, the home
and Durial-plac of President Madison,
ut its recent sale.
The number of hogs packed in Gin
cinnati during the season which closed
recently was 38i.S7S. This is 137, ,347
less than during the winter season of
1SS0-S1.
ID thiSuAdlCL liAC PdpCAo
the United States ISSUE ], ,051 DOC, 900
copies yearly, and the other periodicals
bring the total up to 1000, 0,00O,0 900
copies per annIn-
"A BaltimOrean wishes to sell TO the
Federal Government, for $500, General
Washington's sword-knot. 1t is well
preserved, is of silk and silver bullion,
with n tlnsei rosette and its cenulneness
Is said to be well attested,
The Protestant Christian Cinnamon
have been relieved from taxation for re-
hgious festivals in China. They number
about 1900. The Romans Catholics
secured suca exemption many years
ago.
-, 100000 persons in the United
States are engaged In agricultural pur-
suits. Tne total value of farms and
s. -r. = 4nr 600