Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-12-20
NEWS IN BRIEF

land cost 500 coo.
Mrs. Logan has acc0mpanied the
Senator TO Washington.
The rye crop viii probably reach
20, 900, 900 bushels.
"A mountain sheep weighing 300
pounds was recently killed iu Arizona.
Many seeond-rate German towns
have fine collections of casts.
The yew in Tortworth churchyard.
/ GioucestershIre. is sail to date back tn
/ the time Of Juiins Caesar.
For coaching horses in England
hunters are now being used, 500 10
500 being paid.
in the year 1850 there were pro
duced IN japan POS, 756. 400 gallons of
alcoholic liquors.
Ohio has 2325 lumber establish
ments, with capital of 5000, 600, and
mploying Is. 600 hands.
1t Is calculated that 70 fewer than
three hundred and sixty different dla-
lects are spoken IN China.
--COngressman-elect Finerty. of Chi
cagO, a year or so 60 MAS reporter on
the Times of that city.
Forty eight million pounds of to-
bacco are annually consumed in Vir-
ginia's 172 tobacco factories.
-Nebraska does not want the women
to vote, and has Just said 50 by moIe
than twenty thousand majority.
The fierce discussion IN England Ia
regard to cremation has brought forth
a great many advocates OF the practice.
At a recent Vermont squirrel hunt
by two teams Of eighteen men each OF
the winners counted 13. 091 t0the losers
5O10.
The actusl coinage of the L. ).
mint during the past fiscal year Is the
largest on record. having been Sl17, 7,S41,-
5sl.
OF buckwheat, Pennsylvania pro-
duces nearly one-half the entire crop.
The total yield will be over II, ,0O9,O0O
ushels
A woman III Portland. O.eg0n. Is
suing her divorced husband for 5000
damages for alleged breach Of promise
of marriage.
Ducks infest Coos Bay ii Oregon
by millions, ana are killed and captured
in every conceivable manner by men,
women and children.
THE enormous sun OF S2O2, ,Ol0.OJO
ls>lyststd in the submarine cab.1s OF
the world. supposed to aggregate o.
600 miles IN length.
England has thirty electric hgbt
companies. with capital Of over S30,-
900, 600. Nearly rs much money Is SINH
larIy invested ia France
Cheering news from Egypt has had
a marked beneficial effect upon Lady
Wolseley, who has been staying at
Homburg for her health.
Mr.. Holman Hunt has now about
finished his great picture Of ''The
Flight into Egypt" which WAS begun
at Jerusalem SIX years ago.
Mr.. William Winthrop, Of Boston.
long United States Consul, III Malta,
has given $4,000 as a binding fund to
the Massachusetts, historical Society.
The public wealth o: Great Britain
has more than doubled IN the last TO
years, showing at presenf an ;fyeT.-.s1 ,f
e249 per Inhabitant, against GIjS at
the beginning of the present reign.
An English company offer Sl, ,000,-
900 for the privilege of draining Lake
Leman II Switzerland, provided they
can have the land thus laid bare. They
propose to drain it into the river Rlone
by means of a canal twenty miles long.
Miss Frances Z. Willard, Of Evans
ton, L., has been reelected President
Of the Womans National Christian
Temperance Union by acclamatiOn.
The potato crop covers an area ap-
preaching 1000, 600 acres, with a yield
of about so bushels per acre. \ short
crop is foreshadowed in New York State.
More than one-half of all the bar
ley produced in the United States Is
raised II New York, California and Wis
consin. The average yields %. , bushels
per acre, and the total product viii
reac6 IS 000.0G0 bushels.
The Mississippi and its tributaries
constitute tine drainage system Of a
basin that covers about two-thirds
Of the whole surface of the United
States. OF ?, 100000 square miles, and
including the minor basins Of go s1aal-
Ter rivers.
Taking all the world, the Unitsd
States III 1873 had the greatest mileage
of railroad in proportion to the popula-
tiou, having little over II miles for
each 10, 900 persons. In Europe, Swe-
den led with 81 miles to every 1900 Of
her population.
In continuance of 4 custom which
dates back $50 years, a sermon Is
preached annually in the Church Of st.
Katharine Cree and st. James, London,
to commemorate the escape from a lioa
of SIR John Mayer, at one time Lord
Mayor OF l. ndon.
The first large iron works IN Oregon
are tO.be established at q place called
Oswego, in that State Extensive
smelling works and rolling mills Will
be in operation perhaps within q year.
If successful, this enterprise VIII be the
Of a very important Industrial
in the great Northwest.
India tea has increased IN use in
Great Britain until, in place Of seven
teen per cent, Of the national supply
coming from that country, thirty per
cent, Is now exported from India.
Higher qualities of Indian are, it is said,
more easily procured than IN the case
o. Chinese teas, rs in the latter country
the best varieties are used at home.
The total stock Of gold IN tns
world IN use as coin or rs banking re-
serves in one shape or otheris estimated
at about s5S0, 600, 600, o which total Eng
land has El26, 600, 600, France S136, ,OCO.-
lOO, Germany ESQ, 100000, andthe I'm
ted States 500, 600, ,OO0 Other nation
come in for shares varying from $500, 90
IN the ease Ho land, to e30, 100000
SPANS.
ylls,.joo the latter mart of Sentautbdr