Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-04-26
NEWS IN BRIEF

St Louis numbers 10000 nstivs
hentucslans among her citizens.
The new city directory of Denver
gives that city 60, 600 inhabitants.
Fifty thousand slate pencils ara
made daily, at Castleton, Vermont.
There are 275,O 900 acres less land
seeded IN wheat in Illinois than last
year.
One point in the Mississippi river
was sixty miles wide during the late
J flood.
AT Tampa, Florida, $40, 500 worth
OF land was bought and paid for in
whisky.
Japan is DOW full of schools. and
the University of Toxic has over zoe
students
San Francisco estimates at $780,
fsO the necessary school expenditures
for next year.
7. 1t Is estimated that the Northern
Pacific furnishes employment for 10. OOe
men in Montana.
The savings banas of the State of
New York represent financial resources
of Si43, 100000.
Within one hour over l 900 peti-
TONERS at Chicago signed request that
Mason be liberated.
Boston has II. 500 street lamps, and
1857 OF them were broken during the
past twelve months.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has
gone to the South of France, by the ad-
vice of ms physicians.
Over $500, 600 horses are estimat-
ed to be running wild over the prairies
of the Argentine Republic.
A South Carolina lady has made
feather fans of the value of $500 for
prominent New York firm.
In several English provincial towns
butchers who have only American bee.
sell all that they can procure.
-Texas sells annually 4OO. 900 lead
OF cattle; at $50 per head it foots I'M n
grand aggregate of Ss,OOO,O0O
Sixty thousand bushels of seed ara
being distributed among the sufferers
by the forest fires in Michigan.
The exchanges at the Boston Clear
ing House during March were S12, ,OOO,-
OOO less than during March, 1881.
The last day of services by Barnes
at Louisville Kentucky, resulted in 35S
conversions. In all he made 2.473.
OF the II, ,061 persons committed to
prison In Massachusetts, last year only
about eighteen per cent. were women.
"A single days fog recently brought
INTO the London gas company near S6U,-
600, the price of 1900, 900 feet of gas.
In June next there will be opened
IN Paris an exhibition of plans and
models for school buildings of all kinds.
The Commercial Club of Chicago
proposes to establish Manual Training
School In that city at cost of S1OO. 600.
In Georgia negroes pay taxes on be-
tween S6, 900. 900 and S7,OOO,O 900. In
Louisiana they pay taxes on SIS, ,OOO.-
900.
A bell used by Boston ferry was
csst In South America for a convent In
1873, and after long use was sold for
old junk
1t is estimrted that beef shipped di-
rect from Texas to Los6on markets
will, when sold at . cents a pouId, Weld
profit of 2 sents.
Pope Leo XIII. rises at and says
Mass In his private chapel. He break
lasts early, dimes at and sups at 9. At
III he gees to bed.
1t Is estimated that the total length
OF submarine telegraph cables in the
world Is g., 100 miles, having a money
value OF about 5000, 900, 900.
The allisaters of Florida aspear to
be doomed. A Fort Ogden man has a
contract to deliver 5000 alligator hides
to st. Louls firm by May L.
The most popuIous township in the
United States, not incorporated as a
city, is Loke, ILL.,, with g, 900 inhabi-
tants. 1t Is suburb of Chicago.
1t Is stated that there are now over
200, 900 telephones in use In this couu-
try. At the beginning of 1870 there
were only $4,000; wear later SO. 600
The property of the late King
George of Hanover, which was eonfiscs-
ted by the Prussian Government In
1866, amounted to over 81 OOO. 600
in the year 1865, bearing about 600, 900
interest.
In recent computation made by
the municipal authorities, it was found
that IN twenty-four consecutive hours
1898 passengers and 10, 733 vehicles
crossed London Bridge.
The Southern Methodists are en-
gagged in an effort to raise funds for the
erection of monument over the grave
OF the late Bishop Wlghtman, in Magno-
LA Cemetery, Charleston, S. G..
A Marine bicycle was tested upon
the ocean recently by two gentlemen.
who started from Salem Neck for Boston
When oh Nahan. binding snow squall
came OF, and they put into Lynn.
S. G. Dalrymple, one of the great
wheat farmers of the Northwest, has
sold $50, 900 worth of his Dakota land
to George Howe, of Bradford, Pa. He
finds that it is necessary for him to de-
crease his acreage.
In the village Of Amsterdam, n. Y.
nearly 200, 600 brooms are madeevery
year.
-Forty-three pounds of blasting pow
der at the Sandy Hill quarry, near
Troy, u. T., recently, removed a mass
of stone sixty feet long, sixteen feet
thick and fifteen feet wide and weigh
ing nearly 1900 tons.
1t will astonish some people to learn
that since 1877 there has been an In
crease in the consumption Of tea grown
in India amounting to 20, 500, 900 pounds
while, at the same time, there has been
decrease in the consumption of the
tea grown in China of about 1900, 900
pounds.
"A kingswoman Of the Sieur lie Ia
Sale, the explorer, now lives in New
Orleans in the person of Mrs. Blanchard,
in her maidenhood Mile. Hermione de
la Sale, and now the wife of General A.
G. Blanchard, of the United States army.
She is the great-great-gTand-niece of the
ldiseoverer.