Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-11-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

PoHeAS t2AC Y 1Aitu sotttteS.
Mississippi has one insane person
to every 500 of her population,
Dakota has more daily papers than
any one of the Southern States.
No gold has been coined in Eng
land since the 18th of July, 1881.
Uncle Sans income for this year
Is found to be about $3.50, 900, 900.
France eats more than 80. 900. 900
francs' worth OF sveet-melts every year.
The profits of the New York post
office the last fiscal year were 81, ,SSl,-
$50. ....
A cocoanut grove of 800 trees at
Key West, Fla, Is in foarishing con-
dition.
The Suffield county. y. Y. farmers
have harvested 3tO, 100000 pickles this
summer,
The property of the Boston and
Albany Company in Boston is value, at
81, ,0OO, ,OOO,
--Spurgeon's gout is worse than ever.
yet he is as active and earnest Is ever
In the pulpit.
OWLS a piece Oi
land at Niagara Falls and refuses to sell
1t at any price.
The sum of =, la was realized last
year by the gold and silver sweep at
| the British Mint. --
The total valuation of properly in
Texas Is now put ut Si0), 10000 IN
round numbers.
AT q recent welding at Sherman.
texas, the groom was aged lG years and
the bride ii years.
Ten thousand four hundred and
| seyenty-nine new hou,es have been built
in PARIS since 1876.
Fourteen young women have thus
year passed a successful examination ut
the Harvard Annex
! There are now living in the United
States 291 persons VINO were born at sea
under the United States flag.
-EIghty-eight Swiss converts con
tain 5i6 male and 2,020 female inmates.
The aggregate wealth is 25,O0O,0OO
francs.
The price Of logs has been adj
yanced from nifty cents to 81 per thou-
sand on the st. Croix, Wis aud alonS
the Mississippi.
"A London lHnat.c tasted 81 days,
and then died, while fool was being
forced down his throat, of excitement
and exhaustion.
Leone Lew, the statistician, says
that the number OF crimes III Ireland Is
absolutely aud relatively less tran IN
England and Wales.
The centenary of Bolivar is TO h..
celebrated on July u, 1888, ut Carac
cas-, Venezuela, by the dedication OF IL
statue OF Washington.
Joseph G Hester, OF Washington.
has beeu appoin ell to tIke the census
and make IL new roll of the Cherokee
Indians east OF the Mississippi.
There are in Lucknow aud Gavin
pore, lnha, 10 publishing houses en-
gagged principally IN issuing anti-Chris-
tIau books, Tracts and periodicals..
French artisans are now making
smoking pipes OF IL quality pronounced
quite equal to the meerscnaum, from
celluloid obtained from potatoes.
The Cambria Iron Company, of
Johnstown, Penna., paid last year for
freight charges over 81, ,2JO,0U The
same company supports b, 900 people.
The School Board of Liverpool,
after ful discussion, have decided to
use novels occasionally instead of orlI-
uary reading books IN the pubic schools.
a beginning will he made with some Of
Scott's works.
Sir Samuel Wilson is about to place
u stained glass window III the north
aisle of Hughenden Church in com
memoration of the Queens escape when
Mclean fired asst March.
According to bulletin Just ISSUED
by the census bureau the population OF
the United States in 1880 classified by
nativity. showed of native born whites,
j6, ,Si3, 29l eolored, q, ,632, $40 foreign
! born, o, 679. .943 total. 30. ljj. 7Sj.
In China there are two dozen mis-
sionarIes who are also physicians.
Eight of these are ladies' At Canton
the Presbyterian Hospital has treated
rs many as $4,000 outdoor patients in
year.
The Marquis OF Lorne asserted III
speech ut Victoria, British Columbia.
the Canadian Pacific, from Montreal tn
the ocean, will be opened by January l,
1887.
The estimated farm products OF
Kansas for 1882 will aggregate Sl7G.-
OJO, 900, or 500 for eacd OF the POO
200 families IN the State. The number
of farms in Kansas is 100000, which
gives 81 100 rs the average yield per
farm.
There are 6S6 blast furnaces III this
country with an annual capacity of
eight million tons OF pig irOu. There
are 3g3 rolling mills, - of which make
2 nails. There are fourteen Bessemer
z steel wOrEs.
Al "A marble cenotaph, with inscrip-
ton and portrait bust, has Just been
placed in Dunfermline Abbey, ~
b memorial of Lady Charlotte Locker,
: siste. of the late Earl OF ElgIn, and
{ wife OF Mr.. Frederick Locker, the poet.
!. 1t was executed by Mss Mary Grant.
I OF London.
4 Fires have been very destructive
this year. In the eight months of the
i year now passed the losses have been
Y cbl, ,DUUfubt, Dtiub -Dso''fopO III tAO'7o
q of last years record Of eight mouths,
and about 81, ,0O0, 900 greater than the
!. average for the same peuod Of the years
= 1873 to 1881 inclusive.
-e The cOldest place on the earth l.
e not AS has hIIhertO been Delieyed by
N meteorological, Yakutsk, III Siberia, but
Verkoyansk, IN the same region, lying
in sixty-seyen and one-half degrees
north latitude, on the river Yana. Its
lowest mean winter temperature Is forty
eight and six-tenths degrees below zero
A Centigrade.
e -Sixty-three different Cyprus wines
, are ON exhibition at Bordeaux, the own
% ers OF Cypress vineyards believing that
v in consequence OF the phyllOxera III
le France, t.le time has come for them to
a tput their products into the worlds mar
N ket. Nearly hall of the samples are
.. rough. cheap stuff, with flavor OF tar
s., tba iorS anl GOAT skins m which