Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-01
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NEWS IN BRIEF

Black bass fishing in East Florida
is very fine.
], General Garbaldi Is suffering from
a bronchial attack.
I There are now 10, 900 claims before
the Irish land court.
The average expense of one session
Of congress exceeds s, 900, 900.
Three hundred men exercise in the
gymnasium of Harvard College every
day.
The National Exposition at Milan.
recently closed, realized profit of $50, :
900 francs
"A rich copper mine has been redis-
covered IN the vicinity of Tucson, Arize.
ma, within few weeks.
1t costs S75 in California to prepare
an acre OF land and grow grape vines 20
the period of production.
In Florida there are 10, 1853 whit
people oyer ten years of age who can
not write their own names.
Canadians continue to obtain COM
paratively large numbers of polled Aber-
rdeen cattle from Scotland
| The tobacco monopoly of France
last yesr yielded a net profit to the
State of about $50, 10000
Mile. Jeanne Bonaparte receives q
dowry of 1000, 900 francs from her
brother Roland and his wife.
In China ladys distorted foot,
which naked locks something like
hoof Is called golden lily"
In one hand of corpse the Lapland-
eis place some money to pay the fee of
the porter at the gate of paradise
An indianapolis couple were mar
ried in 1872, divorced in 1877. remarked
III 1879, and now sue to be rediverced.
OF ever 100000 square miles of
timber lands in this country the South
embraces 460, 900, or nearly two-thirds.
Queen Victoria will remain at Os-
borne for month and then return to
Windsor Castle and stay there till April.
The recent crop of oranges in Flor
ida surpassed both in quantity and
quality any previously raised IN tho
State.
Indoor tennis is novelty for the
winter. II Is played III a long, empty
hall, with the regulation net, balls aud
rackets.
-Boston's Teachers are petitioning
that female teachers who have served
ten years shall receive a salary of nos
less than $1,000.
An Italian colony has been estab-
lished near Gainesville, in Florida, for
the cultivation of oranges and lemons
on large scale.
The Duke of Argyll has received
pre- sent of wild turkeys from this coun-
try, which he intends to try and breed
from at Inverary
Nearly $40, 900, 900 was taken from
the mines of Utah last year, and bull
hon product of S13, 600, 900 is predicted
for the present year.
Germany has a population of 49,
234 900, of whom about 1900, 900 are
entitled to vote, though only 5000, 900
voted at the last election.
The ice cone at the base of the
Yosemite Falls is 200 feet high. There
are numerous visitors, and there are
ffty-nine residents IN the valley.
1He uOu ore lulueS III tue VICINITY
of BOyertown, Berks county, Pa, are
shipping 160 cars of ore day.
Col. Samuel Colt had made in Paris
one of the first daguerreotype stands for
his own use In Hartford. It's still used In
that city for the taking of tin types.
The monument to Edward /. on
Burgh Marsh, in England, the scene of
HE I1oth f,lI
stored at the expense o: Lord Lonsdale
Lord Butte, who has a colony of
beavers near Rothesay, Scotland, is
going to present several to the Zoologi-
cal Gardens, the breed there having
died out.
-Four thousand barrels of petroleum
year was too much for the worlds con-
sumption twenty-five years ago. They
are using it up now at the rate of about
80, 900 barrels day.
Nevada used to send out wealth:
now 1t is taking it in. All the mines in
the State yielded during 1881 about
"a, 800, 900 less than enough to pay the
cost of operating them.
The Grande Duke Constantine.
uhSiC W NAiC N6shA. IAtio t4AhCh uOuh6 Ill
Paris, and 1t Is probable that he will
reside there In future, as he is not per-
mitted to return to Russia.
Nearly ! 800 of the 3, $50 streets of
Paris have during the last thirty years
had their names changed, chiefly for
political resons. This must involve in-
finite trouble to the residents.
Not single bushel of ~, coo, ,OOOof
grain sent to Europe from New York
last year went in an American ship. In
1880 about one per cent. of the ship
ments was by American vessels.
"A four-year old boy of Clay county.
Ind, Is undergoing treatment at Indi-
annapolis for spinal troubles, brought on
by excessive smoking. The invalid has
been a heavy smoker for year and a
half
Mrs. Gen. Sherman has been elect
ed President of Tabernacle Society,
Washington, an organization of Catholic
ladies which aims to provide for poor
churches of that faith the requisite altar
ornaments and vestments.
A curious undertaking is ON the
carpet at Batavia, n. Y. A monument
to William Morgan, supposed to have
been murdered by the Nasons, is to be
erected there, and over 1000 persons
have already contributed to its cost.
Still the Cologne Cathedral is not
complete, although it has been officially
declared so. There is yet some decora-
ton to be applied, and it is said that it
Will probably take another generation to
finish the structure in all its details.
Two surviving veterans of the
Grande Armee died recently in France.
Their names were Hahn and Appe. Each
had made the campaigns in Spain, Por-
tugal, Germany and Russia, and each
bad passed his ninetv-second birthday.
"A gentleman of Ottawa, Canada,
gave an order for asilver mounted claret
Jug to Montreal dealer, instructing
him to send it by express marked G, o.
ID. A couple of days ago the Jug ar.
| rIvad apOrova.1 in baau tifn larr.o L