Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-08
NEWS IN BRIEF

: revenue Of about $50. 600 a year.
, - The Southern States report this
3 years wheat crop in fine condition.
In 1923 Amsterdam was visited by
IO2 American vessels; in 1880 by only
5 10.
: Boston paid SS, 900 to hear Patti
the first night, and Cincinnati will pay
$4,000.
Columbia College has fund of
81, 100000, or nearly 81 600, 900 more
than that of Harvard.
Moses Taylor, the richest merchant
IN New York, says he made his S4O,-
900, 900 ''by politeness
In Egypt there are hospitals for
superannuated cats, while human suffer
ing scarcely eiicits case.
M Coquelin, the elder, the great
French comedian, has just received the
Portuguese order of St James.
Nearly 5000 tons of Wrapping
paper We're made in one month, ny fifty-
one mills, in the United States.
Buffalo Dones are industriously col
lected in Texas now. They sell at the
railway stations for Sl2 ton.
Paul Tulane, New Orleans mil
lionaire. proposes to give 81, ,OOO, 900 to
the public schools Of that city.
1t is expected that this year great
er crowd of pilgrims than usual will be
gathered in Rome during Lent.
j. W. Henley, the oldest member
of the British House of Commons. is SO:
James Dickson, the youngest, is %.
AT Richmond, Va, lady called
upon notary last week and took the
oath as director OF a bank in Texas.
An earthquake in 1919 caused a
large area of land near the delta of the
Indus to become large inland sea.
Because of threatened trouble with
Indians, the Canadian mounted police
force is to he increased from 300 to 500
men.
The Truckee Lumber Company
used 100000 feet of lumber for boxes
IN 1881. In 1880 they only used 8, 3,OOO,-
900.
Mr.. LongfellOw's seventy-ffth birth
day is TO BE- celebrated at Portland. ON
February ~. by the Name Historical
Society.
A colossal pine which was lately up
rooted by an inundation in Oulais. Fin
land, was found to have 1929 annual
rIngs.
There are thirty Egyptian obelisks
scattered over Europe. Rome has eleven.
four of which are higher than the one IN
New York.
"A black walnut grove, which Wis
consm farmer planted about twenty
years ago on some waste land, recently
sold for S27, 900.
The elevated roads in New York
now operate 3, ,25U trains per day, run
ming only one minute apart during the
busiest hours.
Silver was first coined IN Rome in
the year of the city 4S4, five years be-
fore the first Punic war. Gold coin was
first struck in $40.
Along the mnin road from .Sacra-
mento to the summit pass of Sierra Ne
vada the annual rainfall increases at the
rate of one inch for every hundred feet
latitude.
"A good yield of cranDerries at Cape
Cod Is a hundred barrels per acre. SIN
gle rods have yielded over a barre, at the
rate of nearly two hundred barrels per
acre.
Count Waldersee, the successor of
Won Moltke as head ofthe German army
has an American wife The Countess
was once Miss Mary E. Lee, of New
York.
MIR. Henry Lansdell, an English
traveller, says that, III no other country
has he found so great an eagerness for
the Scriptures and good books as In
Russia.
Five copper mines in Arizona pio-
duced 100000 pounds of copper asst
year, including nearly 5, 200, 900 pounds
by the Copper Queen Mining Com
pany.
The Canadian Government is with
drawing its twonty cent pieces from cir
culation, they being unpopular. The
Deputy Receiver General at Toronto
recently sent $40, 900 worth of them to
Ottawa.
Madame Christine Wilson's favor
lite amuse ment is shooting. She has
been staying at a country house belong
ing to Queen Isabella, where she shot
quantity of pheasants in the royal pre-
serves.
More than three hunderd designs
for the proposed monument to Victor
Emmanuel are now ON exhibition il,
Rome, many of which are said to be ut
tcrly impracticable in Their nature.
They include models in wood or plaster
rs well as drawings in charcoal or
There is not single vessel under
in any of the sLipyards ON
the st. Charles, Quebec, this season. 1t
is almost the first time within the mem
DRY of the oldest inhabitaut that such a
thing has happened.
When Russian Peasant seeks
work in the Capital, his wife and
daughters are required by law to remain
at home on the land, So that in St.
Petersburgh there are 10000 more
males than females.
MIR. EdmOn S. Conner, although re-
tired from the stage and in his seventy
third year, occasionally appears with
company near his home, in New Jersey.
His Riehelieu is still powerful.
The loss to England by the last
three years bad harvests Is estimated at
from hundred to a hundred and fifty
million dollars year.
The Lelande Pr1ze of Paris, award
ed Professor swift, of the Warner OBJ
servatory at Rochester, is 800 in gold
or a medal of that value Professor Hall
and Alvin Clark, Jr., are the only other
Americans who have won it
The number of post cards despatch
ed In Germany during the year 1880
was 123, ,000,0 900. In the Post Office
Museum at Berlin there are exhibited
41S different kinds of post cards.
The yield of the Richmond Com
pany, Eureka, New. in Dore bars of
silver for the year 1851, was s1.172,-
900. This does not include the lead
turned out at the company's refinery.
Professor NOrdensklold intends to