Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-07-26
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


-Cresus was King of Lydia in the
middle of the sth century b. C.
In France S1,SJ0.OO0 worth Of
mushrooms are eaten every year.
Georgia supplies Its own beef LOW.
instead of getting it from the North.
st Petersburg was founded 10y
Peter the great in 1703.
| The gastric juice IA more acid
while digestion is going on than in the
intervals of the process.
| Northern com contains mosa-oiI aud
starch and Southern corn most mineral
AMI albuminOus matter
The Marquis of I.orne and Princess
Louise will visit San Francisco in Sep
teniber.
Baltimore has more eolored Sum
day school scholars than any other city
IN America,
Professor Maria Mitchell, the Vas
sar College astronomer, has been made
an LII. ID. by an Indiana college.
MIR. Tenuyson, now in his seventy
second year, Is able to read verv little.
his eyeslght being sadly impaired.
1t is said that there are upward of
5000 steam -plouShing machines now
employed in England and Scotland,
The output of coal from the mines
OF Alabama has increased from 10. 900
tons in 1872 to 400. 900 tons in 1881.
Ohio, with over 1900, coo of peo-
pie has only Sc, 600 paupers, who costs
the state something over $500, 600 year
ly.
Sugar, according TO a prominent
physician, promotes digestion, and may
be prescribed in certain cases Of dys
pepsia.
The colonists Of ireland among
whom Cromwell portioned out the con
quered territory are still called Crorn-
welians.
The aggregate ages of couple mar
ried at Winchester, Ky., last week.
amounted to 147 Years. The groom is
n and the bride 20.
Louis XII. was the most famous
King Of France since the days of Saint
Louis, and acquired the title of "Fa-
ther of his people"
AcScLLotANtN O4l SOllt IsuSSlHn
railroads are heated with crude naphtha.
which is introduced into the tender as ii
comes from the wells.
Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke. of
Harvard College. has been honored by
Cambridge University, England, with
the degree of Doctor OF Laws.
The Oldest brick building in Eng
land, except those built by the Romans.
is SAID to he a castle in Sussex, built by
DE Flennes, treasu'e er of Henry vi.
A contract has been awarded at
Montreal for tunnelling the St. Law
renee at a cost OF s., 800, 900, the work
to be completed wItuil four years.
james Longworth. who gave $50
OOO to Cincinnati, as n endowment for
an art school, proposes to add fund of
SIC, coca year towards the same end.
"A Scotch woman residing IN Salem.
Mass, not quite 40 years Of age has
borne sixteen children IN sixteen Years.
IN no case twins. Thirteen are still iy
ing.
Florida papers are saying that some
very large turtles are being caught on
the Cult coast, and instance one recent
y captured near Tampa which weighed
500 pouIds.
Pure butter at fifteen degrees mas
the same specific gravity as alcohol of
13. - per cent. (926), and oleomargarlne
rs alcohol of 50.2 per cent. or .915
specific gravity,
Senator Bayard has written TO some
friends at Charlotte, n. c., urging that
AN impressive monumental column" be
raised to the memory of the Mecklen-
burg patriots of I77j.
The price of iron has fallen in Eng
and as well as IN this country since
January 1st. The fall has been SI.IO
IN pig IRON, 81 80 in bar iron and nails.
and 81 in hoop iron.
Bella Hubbard, a wealthy resident
IF Detroit, has presented that city with
ife-size statues of Marquette, La Sale.
Cadillac and Father Richard, to be
placed in outer inches of the City Hall.
"A workman i'll an iron mill in Phn-
llxyille, Penna., recently, rolled
round, three-quarter inch bar of iron.
lS6 feet in length. This Is claimed TO
De the longest bar of iIon of that size
ever rolled.
Mrs. Priscilla Goodwin, a grand
laughter of Ex-President Tyler, is Civ
ng very successful readings in the
southern States. She is the grand
laughter oil her mothers side of the
lctor, Cooper.
Ashland, the home of Henry CLAW
mas come back into the possession of his
iam1ly, having been purchased by Ma
or Henry Clay Mcdowell, who married
The daughter Of Colonel Henry Clay, of
Buena Vista fame, granddaughter of
he statesman,
The Duke of Hamilton is evidently
not bankrupt. He has purchased the
Westburn estate, III North Lanarkshire-
ior $500, 600, IN order that he may work
the minerals under the property, of
which he Is the proprietor.
Mr.. CORVALLIS Vests estate of
Llanarmon IN Northern Wales was re-
Gently offered for sale at public auction.
Dut was withdrawn when only S2s9, 900
had been bid. 1t comprises more than
300 acres, including several thousand
lcfes OF the finest grouse moors in the
kingdom.
The Prussian Government has Sc
ected Aiken, s, c., as one of the sta
lions for the observation of the transit
IF Venus In December next, and the
members of the expedition from the
Royal Observatory in Berlin, are expec-
ted to arrive there about the end Of
October.
Miss Mary Anderson visited Mount
Auburn Cemetary on Decoration Day
and placed beautiful wreath of flowers
upon the grave OF the poet Longfellow,
who was one of her kindest and most
valued friends. She also decorated the
grave of Charlotte Cushman.
Cardinal Newman, in his earlier
years. was a performer of marked ability
upon The violin, and now, at the age of
he still takes delight IN
drawing sweet strains of music from the
that has been ms companion
for more than three score years.
Captain Paul Boyton has swum
nnnr.. than Oh Oln miles saVad huudrais