Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-04-05
NO. I:3.
NEWS IN BRIEF

English cuckoo. 'A'
-Dusters were first made of the tails
OF oxen or foxes.
The earliest mention of parks is
among the Persians. -
Mr.. Gladstone has sat in Parl;,rar.
ior exactly half century.
-Ihe leech has eight or ten ewes sa.
In its back near the head. '
Two new gambling establishments
are being erected In Nice.
Il 1.-Two million barrels of salt ara an-
nuaily exported from Michigan.
-Ihe late Professor Draper took tho
hrst photograph of the human face
The fruit exports of America have
increased hundrsdfold IN five wear.
The Swiss legislature has passed a
compulsory vaccination law-S9 TO %
The mother of the late General
custer died at Monroe, Mich, recently
-Buckingham palace has four bun
ored rooms, without counting corridors.
The pearl fisheries of the Persian
Guif afford support to about 35 OOO
families. 'V Voo
-Ihe new post office building going
900. WI 'OOo'
-Gauze is SAID to receive its mama
first made. ""'
Fourteen kinds of dogs can be di.-
tlngnshed In the Greek and Roman,
records
forty thousand dollars worth of
chewlng gum Is gathered annually in
the State of Maine.
A tame wolf, presented to Princs
6ismark by Russian, has arrived AT
fnedrchsrube.
, Several thousand colored people of
South Carolina have made Arrangements
TO go to Arkansas.
Inc tobacco monopoly of Franco
last year yielded net profit the State of
about 500, 0,0OO,O 900.
There are now 19, 900 900 more peo-
pie IN the United States than there wers
before the civil war.
"A washervoman of Franklin, Pa.
mas twenty-eight living children. She
Is about 80 years of age.
-Ihe number of persons killed. on
always In England Is proportionalIy
vice as great as In France.
"A boy at Moline. Ill. had to be
whipped thirteen times before he would
consent to be vaccinated.
The revenues at the port of CbarIas-
ton, South Carolina, have Increased
four-foid within tour years.
English artists in landscape who
exhibit at the Royal Academy are far
ahead OF those who paint figures.
The milk Of the elephant contains
less water and more fatty matter and
sugar than that of any other animal.
Texas furnishes pecaps to the valus
of S2,OOO, 900 per year. and thinks the
crop can be increased to S10,OOO,OOO.
The Bible is translated into tbirtx-
two African languages, in eight of which
the whole of the Scriptures are publish
ed.
The expenditures made upon the
suspension bridge beIween New York
city and Brooklyn amount now to sI3.-
49s, 1894.
"A lady IN Rochester, n. Y, who i.
3 feet inches in height, has light
brown hair which measures feet 8
inches in length.
The Prussian government has prs-
sented IN the landtag bill for the pur-
chase OF SIX private railways, at a cost
of All 200, 900 marks.
Colonel Arnat Won Steuben il busv
preparing report on the Centennial
celebration at Yorktown for the Emperor
William of Germany.
Lord Overstone has RENTED fiftaen
per cent. of the rents due at Michael
mas from his tenants at Wing and Aston
Abbotts, Buckinghamshire.
Real estate in Paris is advancing.
In 1Sf1 home and garden in fashion
able quarter sold for s15, 200. 1t sold
within few months for S123, 200.
The age of an oyster may be reckon
ed by counting the lines in the groove
OF the hinge OF the bivalve. These lines
indicate the annual layers or she'll
growths.
Major Cathcart, who was one of the
principal members of General Fremont's
expedition, which in 1S4S made win.
ter journey across the plains to Califor.
MIA, Is dead In London.
There are now stored in the oil
country %, 100000 barrels of crude De-
troleum, sufficient quantity to supply
the present demand for illuminating
purposes for the next five years.
There were shipped from San Fran
cisco last year IS, l66,377 pounds OF
wool, valued at 81, ,000,000 The total
wool product OF California from 1854 m
1881, inclusive, was sos, 624, 12i pounds
The war footing of the German
army has been established by the budget
of 1882 at 500, 900 men. In the event
of war, the number could lie doubled
at twenty-five hours notice by tele-
graph.
On the house 7 CIaYen street
Strand, London, a circular tablet ba.
been fixed, with these words: '.I,iyed
here, Benjamin Franklin, Printer. PHI
losopher, and Statesman. Born I7O6.
Died 1870.
The remains of a mastodon- esti-
mated to measure 80 feet from the tins
OF Its tusks to the tip of its tail. have
been discovered IN bayou two miles
and half east of Richmond, Ind. DIV
workmen engaged in excavating for
fish pond.
Madras has breakwater built by
British engineers at a cost of g, ,OOO.-
900, but they neglected to band the
great blocks OF concrete properly, and
the first storm has knocked the whole
thing to finders
DIR. Jessup, of Syria, writes that
the Sultan has granted permission 10
the Russian Jews to settle in Asi,
Minor, but prohibits them entering
syria or Palestine, on the ground that
they might attempt Judaic empire.
General o. o. Howard has sent n
number of large Photographic views of
West Point Military Academy to the
Marquis de Rochambeau, who desires
to use them In the preparation of a VOL
ume descriptive of the visit of the French