Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-06-21
NEWS IN BRIEF

are quarter tones.
Opium kills about 100. 900 persons
annually IN China.
-Cyprian locusts are again being
slaughtered to protect the crops.
The coronation Of the Car will take
place at &lOscow on September 6.
Farmers IN the Cumberland Valley
are importing horses from Canada.
The German Government has pro-
hibited boys under sixteen from using
tobacco.
In Java an inferior must walk with
his hands ON his heels till his superior
is out OF sight.
| -Oat of 1000 pictures ''sent in" to
the Paris Salon this spring nearly 4, 800
Were rejected.
The petitions sent to the President
asking for Mason's pardon contain near
ly $50. 600 names.
1t Is said that the barb wire trade
of the United States amounts to S10,-
100000 per anuum.
-Alvices from Missouri, Nebraska and
Indiana are very encouraging as TO the
wheat prospects for 1882.
The English Quakers are going to
try to adapt themselves and their Gus
toms to modern eXigencies.
Two thousand human beings and
over 30, COO head of cattle are annually
killed by snake bites in India.
The wild horses pasturing in the
pampas of the Argentine Republic s. A.
are estimated to number ., 500 900.
The oyster fishing and packing In
dustr1es of Maryland and Virginia give
employment to 40,691 hands. who re-
celye wages to the amount of 81. 955, 44l
yearly. The amount invested in this
business is 50, ,6O6, ,976.
The Chinese In California, as arule,
dress better than white workinemen.
1t Is estimated that the people of
the District of Columbia squander $50
900 every month in lottery tickets.
The Pension Appropriation bill has
been completed. The sum to be ap-
propriated is, IN round numbers, $780,
100000.
Mrs. Polk, tine widow of James X.
Polk, Is sitting for a portrait for the
White House. Mr.. Drury, of Knoxville,
Is the artist.
Near Vardo, Norway, is the most
northerly fort mihe world. 1t was once
the terror of the MUscovItes. They now
joke about IT.
There are 1000 saloocS in New
York. If placed side by side IN a direct
line they would extend distance of
forty-6ve miles.
The first elephant ever seen in Eng
land was given to the king by the king
of France in 1255, but only lived to be
twelve Years old.
In the May proceedings at New
castle, England, appeared blind min
ing pony aged %, which had never till
then been above ground.
The largest increase of Baptists
since 1870 has been in the fifteen South
en States, where the gain is 76I Alb,
mostly among the colored people.
There are less than one hundred
Thousand Chinese in California. The
assertion is made that they send home
annually $1,000, 900 to S45, 100000.
M. Outrey, the former French
Minister, left in his wine cellar at Wash
ington, to be sold at auction. about fifty
dozen bottles of Madeair Of the vintage
Of 1871.
The estimated total length of all tho
submarine telegraph cables in the world
is sixty-two thousand one hundred miles
and their money value Is computed at
S200, 200, 900,
Father Browning, who has been q
Methodist minister for sixty-fve years
preached a powerful sermon in St
Louis the other night Mr. Browning
is nearly ninety.
Grandmother Platt, the Oldest in
habitant of Niles, Mich, has been a
reader of a Pittsfeld, Mass, weekly
paper for eighty-two years and never
has missed a number.
A memorial window is to be placed
IN Hughenden Church. England, by
Sir Samuel Wilson, to commemorate the
Queens happy escape from assassination
by the lunatic MacLean.
Russia has II, 746 mobiles with an
average income of $4,000 per annum;
123. 900 merchants with yearly income
of 81 800 each; and 16, 2j4. .0U0 peasants
with an annual average of $50.
"A Butterfly hunter in Florida gets
an average of five cents apiece for his
captures, though some rare specimens
bring much more. One very rare speci-
men sells as high as Si5 per pair.
In Brooklyn, NY. according to
superintendent Patterson S annual report
there are 81 ,2S9 children on the public
schoolirOlls-an increase of 2,7jS dur
ing the past year-with 1889 teachers.
Edward Stabler of Sandy Springs,
Nd claims to be the oldest Postmaster
IN the country. He was appointed to
the Office he now holds by President
Jackson, 80 years ago, under the first
Postmaster General who was Cabinet
officer.
The average yield of wheat per acre
in 1881 was only 10l bushels. against
13l bushels for 1850. This of itself
would he equivalent TO falling off of
100. 900, 900 bushels in the total wheat
crop of 1881.
General ID. II. Hills proposed re-
tirement from the presidency of the
Arkansas Industrial School is a matter
of so much regret in that State that he
very likely viii reconsider the case. He
has made the school successful and is
popular at Little Rock.
James C. Hueston, the general
agent Of the Associated Press, has re-
ceIved from the German Government
the "medal for saving from imminent
danger" having rescued Therese Enke
from death by drowning on June IS,
1881. while he was at Ems, Germany.
"A prominent English physician ex-
plains Hanlan's wonderful success at
the oars on three grounds, namely that
he has brains and carefully studies his
work; that he never goes through the
absurdities of so-called training" and
that he never takes exercise so excessive