Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-04-19
NEWS IN BRIEF


The skins of large Newfoundland
dogs are made in beautiful robes.
Professor Nordenskiold will start on
another Polar expedition in July.
Archibald Forbes is visiting some
OF the friendly Indians on the plains.
During the last year 273 cases of
suicide occurred in the Prussian army.
Ontario has 10, 46S prisoners in her
Iails and 3,O65 lunatics in her asyluns.
A team of English cricketers vii
go to Australia during the coming sum-
mer.
MIR. Gladstone has given ESQ to the
fund for the projected Royal College Of
Music.
.-General George Washington was
made Marshal Of Franco by Louis
XVI.
The whale fishery first sprang up in
the Bay of Biscay, in the twelfth cen
tury.
-Ike annual laisin production of
California amounts to about 81. 900
boxes.
David Dudley Field is said to bs
the Oldest practlcins lawyer In the
United States.
Havana, Cuba, has trotting races
every Sunday at the Hippodrome during
the winter
The cat was first domesticated in
Egypt. The Greeks and Romans did
not possess it.
One hundred and ten monasteries
were suppressed in England by the order
of Henry V.
New South Wales. with a popula-
ton OF less than 800, 900. has a debt of
800, 10000
The average Italian farm hand at
home works eleven hours day for about
81. 80 week.
The sewers of Paris discharge 262,-
646 cubic metres of liquid matter in
twenty-fOur hours.
The original name of the city of
Albany, when founded by the Dutch
was Beaverwick.
-Paracelsus is said to have cured
leper by keeping him for sixty hours in
bath of hot mud.
"A large number of young men are
reported to be leaving Vermont, for Da-
koto, this spring
An association has been formed at
Indianapolis to protect the food fish in
the waters of the State.
The amount of capital invested in
the liquor business in Brooklyn, n. Y,
is said to be SIS. 100000.
= In Egypt there are hospitals for
superannuated cats, while human suffer-
ing scarcely elicits care.
The vineyards of Nspa Valley Cali.
fornia, averaged, in 1880, about eight
tons of grapes to the acre.
Nearly 5000 tons of wrappingpaper
were made in one month. by fifty-one
mills, in the United States.
1t is reported that twenty thousand
people in India in the year 1880 wer0
killed by snakes and tigers
1t is estimated that the number of
people rendered destitute by foodin the
lower Mississippi is 1000.
james Keene is said to have given
instructions for the building of $780,
900 cottage" at Newport
The act abolishing fogging in the
United States navy was approved by
Congress, September lS, 1850.
Miss Longfellow. the poets daugh-
ter. is fitting up Massachusetts, room
in Washington's Mount Vernon.
An earthquake in 1919 caused q
large area of land near the delta of the
Indus to become large inland sea.
There have been moro earthquakes
in Spain than in all the other parts of
Europe taken together, Italy excepted,
The blackleg, or mountain fever,
has made its appearance among the cat
tie of Chew, Oregon. A few have died.
More than 5000 women are en-
ployed in the railway Offices of Austria.
They receive a salary of SIS to s3Oa
month.
The state of Pennsylvania has re-
covered S42, 900 from ex-treasurers who
withheld money received for liquor IL
censes.
The gold yield of the Nova Scotian
mines from 1862 to 1880 inclusive was,
by the official reports, valued at So, 212,-
J25.
New York state is first for the past
year in number of killings. 1t has had
101, of which 81 were committed in tho
city.
James Gorden Bennett gave ball
in Paris recently that cost him about
81 800. The dancers tarried until six
o'clock.
In the year 1880 the total loss by
fires in Boston was 81, 173, ,594, while up
to Dec. l, 1881, the losses footed up
S435, $50.
Ole Bulls residence at Madison is
offered to the Wisconsin Legislature for
an Executive mansion. The price asked
is $4,000.
The years peanut crop in Tennes-
see, Virginia and North Carolina is
about 5000 bushels, against 2, $780,
900 last year.
1t is estimated that from $50, ,000.-
coo to $50, 600, 900 is invested In the
Jewelry trade of the United States, e1-
elusive of silver ware.
AT a meeting of the American Tract
Society in Washington the receipts for
1881 were stated at 1917, 900, and the
expenditures at 1915, 900
Steps have been taken in Chicago
for the establishment of an institution
in which women who are addicted to
stimulants and to opiates may be re-
formed.
The railway system OF India in
cludes 8,611 miles. The gauge Is three
feet six inches. All lines are built pri-
marily for military and not commercial
purposes.
"A Cbinaman, dying Of consumption
in Chicago, erected an altar in his laun-
dry and worked before it, with his face
to the East, as long as he was able to
work at all
The Canadian banks were forbidden
last July to issue any more four-doiiar
bills, but by some queer freak the public
demands them, and the Dominion Co
verment will hereafter issue bills of that
denomination.
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