Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-08-02
NO. 81.
NEWS N BRIEF

-Mr. Beecher IA Il recent lawsuit ia
fused 10 swear upon the Bible
The tobacco crop in Missouri gives
most excellent promise.
After the first of July Canada will
abolish Postage on newspapers.
There are 33. 900 blind people in
Great Britain.
-Car1er-pigeons are being trained
for use in the German army.
More potatoes have been planted
this season than usual.
There is but one negro voter in
Newton county, Ark.
-Georgia's this years wheat crop
VIII be the best in twenty years.
1t is said that Alabama has had but
Tour Governors who are ratives of the
state.
Herr Bittern, OF Germany. has neen
decorated with the order Of the Red
Light
Mr.. Clarence King. of the United
States Geological Survey,i is travelling in
Europe.
The Pope conferred the Cardinals
hat upon the Archbishop of AIgiers
recently
In Havana Is one sugar-cane factory
capable OF producing 125 tons of sugar
per diem.
Tennessee has &c copper furnaces
that turn out 100000 pounds of COP
per yearly.
The ladies of New Orleans have
formed society for the propagation of
silk crIture.
Ashes from corncc bs contain three
times as much potash as the average
wood ashes.
The property of Trinity Cnurch
New York, is estimated to be worth
s5O,OOO,OO0.
The cotton worm is estimated TO
destroy SIS, ,OO0, 900 worth of the cotton
crop every year.
The lens takes its name from bean
which grows In Italy, and which is the
shape of lers.
-Concentrated essence of flowers is
very unpleasant. Otto of violets smells
IKE prussic acid
Gold pens have been initiated Inv
pens made of galvanized iron. aneI tb;nIv
plated with gold.
-1he ensllage advocates saw that
their opponents are those who have not
tried the process.
In London has been founded a na-
tional society for the suppression of
juvenile smoking
"A movement is af0ot for the erection
OF a bronze statue of the Scottish poet
Tannahil, at Paisley.
President Arthur is to hs his
Portrait for the White House taken bv
the artist LIE Clear
In Ashantee the teeth and smaller
bones OF the slain are worn by the vic
tors about their persons.
The languages of the Algosauip
family OF lndians are as diverse rs the
lndO-European tongues.
There are over 5000. 600 children
IN Americl still outside of any direct
Sunday-schOol influence.
From January l, to June l. 1882 in
the Southern States 1852 miles of rail
road have heen constructed.
1t Is said that permanganate of
potash Is an etfectual antidote for the
venom of snakes ard insects.
Virginia. New, Is said to be slowly
sliding down hill, owing to the settling
OF the ground over the mines.
The electric hight fades the color of
cloths as well as paintings, the same as
moonlight, though not so quickly.
Over 100, 900 Bibles we're gwen TO
emigrants during the past year upon ar
rlvlng IN this country by the American
Bible society.
Colonel Chambers, who presented
GarlbaldIs sword to the city of Rome.
has been created Commander of the
Order of Maurice and Lazarus.
Louisiana is said to consume annual
yhquors the aggregate cost Of which am
mounts to more than the selling price of
her cotton, sugar and rice crops.
The semi-aunCaI dividends payable
In Boston this month aggregate $40, ,OO8
392, which Is an excess of S451, ,0I6 over
July of last year, but $3.50, ,0O7 less than
in January, 1892
Mrs. Jane Van Wart, a niece of the
Isaac Van Wart who assisted at the
capture of Major Andre, near Tarrytown.
died on Tue:day, IN Jersey City, in her
eighty-tirst year.
The Duke of Somerset has accepted
the presidency of the British Arch:eol-
oSical Association, and is expected to
deliver an address at the opening of its
twenty-ninth congress, at plymouth, Au-
gust 2l.
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