Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-06-28
NEWS IN BRIEF

niue AT bangor 10 ptrtleS III Liverpool
The seventeenth year locusts have
made their appearance in Cayuga coun-
ty, n. Y.
The cost of recent foggy day IN
London was 500. 900 for 70 900, 600 feet
Of extra gas.
New Jersey has appropriated S70,-
900 to replenish Ter oyster beds with
Maryland oysters
Seven thousand horses were eaten
in Paris lat year. the meat beng served
in variety of ways.
Among the 275. 900 Indians in the
United States there are 2l9 churches
and 80, 900 members.
Land is cheap in South Australia
For tract of nearly 5000 square miles,
only 81. - a mile was offered.
The Iowa State UlIversity is this
year giving instructions IN stenography
TO seventy yeung men and women.
Paris spends in education about 81
per capita OF her population, while Lon
don expeDds about Sl.30 per capita.
Last year p, ,073 books were taken
out of the library OF the Toronto Me-
chanIcs' Institute, and 21, 462 of them
were novels.
1t is estimated that there are 6,000,-
900 miles of fence III the United States.
Chief Justice Chase's remains are
to be moved f1om Washington to Gin
cinnati where n monument to his memo
ry will be raised.
1t is estimated that the humber of
horses IN the United States l. 12,O00,-
900. Illinois is said to contain one
tenth of that nImbeI.
The year 1881 Will be long remem-
bered for Its earthquakes. Not since
1912 has there been such a wide circle of
terrestrial disturbances.
The steamship Persian recently
landed at Montreal ore thousand young
English farmers, who brought drafts
amounting to S350,0J0.
They have been trying in Honolulu
to induce Japanese to settle on the
islands, but the Japanese Government
prohibits their leaving
The Ohio State Board of Agricul-
ture estimates the coming wheat crop of
that state at 80, 1912, 100 bushels, as
against 1851 ,09i for last year.
Tie Australian colonies are the
richest in the world. Among their pos
sessions are 50. 000,000 sheep, and the
total population is only 3,000,0 900 souls.
during the month of April the
British imports increased over S4.O00,-
600 and the exports over l,OO0.OOO, as
compared with the same month last year.
Two young colOred men trainepi
st. Augustine's Normal School at Raj
eigh, were recently ordained deacOns of
Episcopal church, orwork in the South.
One hundred and fifty thousand
cords of bark are to be peeled In Tiog.
county, Pa, this year. This will be
the produc, of about IS, 600 acres of
timber.
A million of dollars in our gold
coin weighs 3,6S5,71 pounds avoIrdu-
pOis, and million standard dolllrs in
our silver coin weighs 5S,922, 81
pounds.
The bronze statue OF the elder Du-
mas, by Dore, soon to be erected in
Paris, represents the great stOry-teller
at the age of forty five, in the prime of
life and genus
Cham cables were first used on ship
board in 1911. The first vessel to use
them was a West India ship. They
were invented and patented III 1893 by a
surgeon of the navy
; The Freedman's Eank property in
Washington mas been sold to the
Government for S250, 900, and the de
pOsitors Will soon get their final divi-
delld of fifteen per cent
| Cincinnati, III the year ending
March l, produced S1SG, 329, ,6S7 III her
various manufacturing enterprises, of
which S32, ,S47, 100 went into liquor and
S23, S3l ,346 into food products.
Frankfort ON the Main, with popu-
lation of 100, 900, is the richest city in
the world, where the wealth, If equally
distributed, would give 81, 900 to every
man, woman and child in the p ace.
The imports of France for the first
three months of the present year show
an increase over the corresponding per
iod in 1881 of $50, 273 600 and the ex-
ports an increase OF 81. .SS3, 800.
Mr.. William III. Vanderbilt. of New
York, recently gave his check for $1,000
to pay off the debt of Grace Church
Lexington, Va, which was erected IL
memory OF Gen. Robert Z. Lee.
The imports this year at New YorI
have been SOS, 33i, 40, an increase OF
81 600, 900 over the corresponding per
iod last year, leaving a heavy balance tC
be paid with produce, gold, or bonds.
Berlin last year had beggars enough
snd to spare. The police alone arrested
: 30 931 OF whom 30, ,0i6 or nearly all
= were men. The women numbered 1888.
and the children under II years of ag,
, 1908.
DIR. Haygood, of Georgia, Is, it i
said, the second man who was electe,
l Bishop and who declined the office II
/, the whole history of Methodism. VII
a bur Fisk, President of Wesleyan UnI
versitY. Middleton. Conn. was the first
-Switzerland has 1884 miles of rail
road, representing over 5000. 900, 900 Q
capital. 1HtSS LdAAIOshNlS uO lbt pa
: well; some have paid no interest 70
: years, even toGebentUre holders. Owe
; 13, ,OO0 persons are employed. Accident
are few.
Ancient bric a-brac Is being mani
= iactured and planted at the South.
e bowl or dish was recently unearthe
Y near Chattahoochee, Fla. In qualit
.e and cJlor it resembles h1rd-burnf
n brick, and on its bottom is mscrib5
n .'Desoio, $40"
,e The deaths in France in 1880 We
40 S57, ,337, and the marriages 279, ,03
Compared with 1879 this shows u d
= crease0f 3,471 In marriages, with ;
Oh increase of is, 455 in deaths. The yea
III augmentation of population was 81
g. $40 as compared with 96, ,6l7 IN 1879.
D. The Prince of Wales has been ele
n ted. unanimously and by acclamatio
:, Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squa
ron. Ia place of the late Earl of WIlto
u' The position, the most distinguished
he IL .-aoft;Dor world IL one tOpo coyat