Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-09-20
NO. 3S.
NEWS IN BRIEF

"A IreIcn watering place cSSlUn c
Is OF amber meTino.
The cold season has hurt business
at the German baths.
In the cities Of Venice and Amster-
dam there are $50 bridges.
Camp meetings were held IN this
country as early as 1779.
The corn crop IN Cuba has been
destroyed by the drought.
Russia has increased 1850. 600 in
population in the l-si twelve years.
The demand for French cookies Is
greatly on the increase III England.
Nevada viii send from 10000 10
80, coo beef cattle to market tins year.
In 1875 sixty tons OF human hair
we're exported from China to Europe.
An ostrich egg Is considered equiya-
lent to twenty-four eggs of the domestic
hen.
"A Pittsburg firm is turning ont
glass slabs for use on furniture IN lieu
of marble
Cyprus Is said to entail a clear AZ
nual expense of Sl50, 600 on the English
Government.
"A movement Is on foot among the
lawyers of Texas to orsanizs a State
Bar Association.
In Java an inferior must walk with
his hands on his heels un.il his superior
is out of sight.
1t is reported that Genl. Abe Buf-
orti viii soon start ''C hrIsti0p Army
paper at Louisville.
France and Germany viii purchase
800, coo, $50 worth OF grain III the
United States this year.
"A new military post has been or
dered constructed on the NIobrsra river
in Northern Nebraska
Captain Carey has written a long
account of Prince Napoleon's death for
a London society journal.
| The bankers If Indiana are To hold
meeting in indianapolis on the 1st of
October to form a State society.
in one part of Russia they were re-
Gently praying for rain, while inanother
part 1t had raIned six weeks Inccssantly.
DR.. Franz Hoffman. whose story
books delighted two generations OF
GenOan children, has Just died in Dres-
den.
In 1871 the revenue of the Suez
Canal amounted to about 81 ZOO, 600;
in 1881 it had grown 20 more than $10,-
0OO, OOO.
The product of California quicksil-
yer mines last year was 90, Sjl tasks.
and the exports 10y sea and rail wore
45, 779 TASKS.
Mime. Christine Nilsson Is at Div
onne, watering place III Southern
France. She viii sail for the Upited
States on October II.
Mr.. SackviIe West. the English
Minister at Washington. will make a
brief trip to EngiaEd III October to at
tend to some business matters.
The Summer corps Of New York
physicians recently visited j,07S tene-
ment houses and 30,012 familier, and
prescribed for 739 SICK persons.
Savannah refuses toaiiow any more
street railways in that city, for the rea-
son that ting present companies have
abused the privileges granted them.
Joseph Jefferson, the actor, has
presented to his lifelong friend, Attor-
uey General Brewster, fine view Of
Southern landscape, painted by him
self.
"A marriage is announced as ar
ranged between the daughter Of Baron
Gustave de ROthscLild and Dir. Lam
bert, the agent oi the house of Roths-
child III Brussels.
| 1t is said that Prince Alexander, OF
Bulgaria, Is betroth d to tie younger
sister of QIeen Nathalie Of SeryIa.
Her Majesty Is daughter OF Colonel
Kechko In the Russian army, and OF ms
wife nee Princess Stourlzl.
They make something besides Of
fice-holders IN Washington. the MANN
featuring establishments of tie city
having a capital OF SJ,38l, 226, employ
ing Z, l16 persons. while their pToiucts
are valued at Sl1 ,Gn, lS5.
The families Of two men lynched
for cattle stealing at PueJlo. Col. have
u.d the county for SJO,G10, on the
ground that the men were not properly
protected by the officers.
1t Is said that Minister Hunt VIII
soon return from Russia, 70 look after
the large property left 10 hIm and his
daughter by gentleman who died q
few weeks ago at New Orleans.
The Crowd lands Of Australia bo-
sides the reserves for roads, bridges,
etc., comprise 81, 10000 uualienated
acres, classified as follows: Agricultural
lands, 1900, 600 acres; pastoral, l., ,OOO,-
, GO0 acres; inferior land, called the
Malice scrub, " II, ,OOG, 600 acres,
of the United States is SO. 500. =
900, 900, or 5000 per capita; Of Great
Britain, S4i, 900, , go, O,0OO, which Is 81
; 260 per head France, S37, 200, coo. COO.
or 81 ,O45 per capita. In 1910 Great
Britain's wealth was five times as great
| as ours.
r President Grevy Of France has
been invested with the order Of the
Golden Fleece by the King OF Spain.
his neck being adorned by the same col
lar worn by the late Gar Alexander III.
: Tins Order Is one Of the most distin-
guished in all Europe, having been
founded in 1927 by Philippe Ill, Dake
of Burgundy.
Fisherman in PeHobscot Bay say
that the mackerel fishing has been a
V total failure there this season, and Ia
} spite of dealals, they reiterate the story
{ that the menhaden steamers seine for
mackerel along the coast OF Maine and
threaten their destruction.
Paul Tulane, of Princeton, y. J.,
who has given New Orleans q handsome
= school fund, Is about 81 years old. He
y rode on horseback from Princeton to
IS New Orleans in 1918, and as early rs
;. 1928 had amassed fortune Of some
v S150.000 He is a bachelor ani lives
quietly at Princeton, where he IS knowE
for his charitable deeds.
, The excavations undertaken by DR.
Is Schiemann at Hissarlk having come to
e a close, Hamdi Bey. Director Of the
i Imperial VI lseum at COrstautinOple, has
, gone to the Darllanelles with several
other antiquarians for the purpos. Of
> receiving the share OF the discovered
I. l.