Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-09-06
NEWS IN BRIEF

The list Of the English Cler1y CON
taIns 20, 900 names.
Constant use OF the telephone is
said to cause deafness.
Canada caught nearly SIC, 600 900
worth of goldfish last year.
Nazareth. in the Holy Land. has
telegraph office, by order of the Sultan.
-India raises Al 900, 900 pounds more
OF tea than 10 years ago.
No clergyman is eligible to seat
In the house of commons.
-Messrs. Moody ana Sankey will re-
visit this country next spring.
-Boston's present valuation Is S672,-
49O, 100, gain OF So, g35, 500 over last
year.
The district messengers boys at
Newport, r. l are to be provided with
bicycles.
There are 2l9 churches and 1000
church members among the Indians OF
the United States.
The people of tue United States
spent SO, 500, 900 ON theaters last year
"a large fun fuad.
The Baptlsts in the South number
altogether ], 1,7l5, 75i, Of whom 775, 100
are white, and 81 ,69i negroes.
Cattle valued at Sl4 ,O0O,OO1 are
now grazing IL. what was six years ago
absolutely an Indian country.
1t is said that the steam power
actually in use throughout the world is
equal to 13.5O0,00O horse power.
Tho first expectation of orange
peel ever made from the United States
was shipped to Hayre last week.
"A tract o. $1,000 acres Of laud has
been purchased in Sumter county, Fla,
for colony from Duluth. Alinn.
A French paper says that English
soldiers clear their throlts of dust bv
taking teaspOonfuls of sifted sugar.
1t is proposed to build an under
ground railroad in Paris. The cost of
its construction is put at 30,000,OOO
The Paris Muncipal Council has
purchased 200 portraits of Washington,
to be given as prizes in the city schools.
The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicho-
laievitch, uncle of the Gar, has boen
put GA an allowance of 81 600 roubles
year 1855, ,272), with residence, horses,
&c.
"A whale ship arrived recently at
Shetland from North Greenland with
200 bottle nOsed whales and 500 seals
on board.
1t is estimated that 600, 900 acres OF
fraa1prufa GnfI or, ,-,t-a-, ~, e +,T.,..o
and that the crop will reach $40. 0.000,-
600 or s50.0G0.OOO
1t Is believed that superstition is
the reason why the Italians will not
cremate Garibaldi's body, in accordance
with his last request.
The farmer who leaves his plough
to rot in the fields all winter is usually
the one who finds most fault with tho
condition of the country.
"A large part of the Bahama Islands
, Is devoted to pineapple culture. A
million and a half Of fruit have been
, collected from single acre.
The cultivation of mushrooms ID
paying branch of gardening in France,
where this esculent ia consumed every
year to the value of S1,S00,00O.
There are over 80, 600 orange trees
in Florida, and the number Is rapidly
increasing annually. The product tins
year is put at 80, 900, 900, oranges.
/ Cuba bears an enormous burden in
the way OF taxation. The rate for tho
coming year Is something over S26 to
each man, woman and child on the Is
land.
The Iowa capitol, work on which
was commenced in 1871, is nearing
completion. The cost Of the edificc will
be about s., 800, 900, and it is to haYc a
gilded dome.
The city Of Boston, by establishing
its own shop for tho repair ofapparatus
belonging to the Fire Department., has
reduced the yearly expense from about
800, 900 to 81, 200.
Some OF the pests that have
! troubled the vineyards of france have
been discovered in Switzerland, to the
great alarm of the producers Of wine in
tho neighborhood of Geneva.
Prof. Charles P. Boerner, the State
Observer at Yevsy, Ind, reports the
remarkable fall of Z! inches Of rain IN
that locality in July, 81 inches falling
on the last day of the month.
A great Northern Railroad train,
with an eight-feet single driver outside
cylinder engine. lately ran from Leeds
to London, 1864 miles, in exactly three
hours-si1ty-twO miles an hour.
1t is estimated that during the
year 1881 there were pa shocks Of
earthquake, ei9hty-slx occurring in
Winter, sixty-ene in Autumn, fifty-six
in Spring and forty-one in Summer.
The committee that have In charge
the erection Of monument 20 the late
Lord Frederick Cavendish have en-
trusted the execution of the work 10
} Albert Bruce Joy, the Englishsculptor.
Among other things shown by the
recent census report Was the fact that
the number Of working oxen in use on
the farms of tie United States had de-
creased twenty-five per cent. since 1870.
The regular army of Great Britain
is composed Of lS3, ,942 nOn-commis-
stoned officers and men. The total es-
tablishment Of reserve forces is 44i, 10
; men. OF the regulars, 97,099 are
, abroad.
The number of schools in France,
, where the system of a savings bank had
|, been adopted, was 16, 494 at the close
of last year, against Il, ,372 at the be
ginning. The average number OF de
posltors was twenty-one per-schOol,
: against seventeen the year before.
AT Goodwood races, In England,
the Duke of Norkfolk came over with
his Duchess and a large party from
Arundel Castle in the old-fsshioned
ducal style. The duke's cOrtege con-
r sisted Of four carriages, each drawn by
a four splendid grays, with outriders on
steeds OF the same color.
The census OF 1880 showed that
there were 12,s3O,3f9 voters in the
y United States, II, ,343, ,005 being white,
= and 1.iS7, ,34i colored There were