Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-22
NEWS IN BRIEF
A palm is three inches.
A league Is three miles.
There are 2. 760 languages.

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A great cubic is eleven feet.
At Key West one pile of sponses
sold for 81, 900
There are eighteen known species
of the bat in England
Hydrophobia is said to be least known
In the warmest climates.
The Prussian government draws .
revenue of 81, 900 from amber.
Mr.. Caird says that the average
English farm consists of 168 acres.
The butcher bird is said to impale
its victims on thorns and devour them
at leisure.
"A new law in Kansas forbids any
person to marry within six months after
procuring divorce.
The average French family il
three, the average English five, and the
average Irish seven.
AT Point Pleasant, on the Missis-
sippi. the river has advanced nearly
three miles in sixty years.
-Horse-car lines are projected be-
tween many villages in Italy on the
roads built by the old Romans.
st. Louis mills produced l, III, ,62S
barrels of flour last year, against 2, ,O77,-
625 in 1880 and 2, IA, ,949 in 1879.
Judge Drummond, of the Uuitsd
State Circuit Court at Chicago, denies
that he intends to resign at present.
The Scotch memorial to Dean Stan
ley is to take the form of stained glass
window in st. Giles Cathedral, Edin
burgh.
| Mr.. Patrick s. Gilmore, the musi-
clan and orchestra conductor, is now
recovering from his recent serious i'll
ness.
| -Voltaire was the first writer in
France to recommend the adoption of
incubation for small pox to the people
of his country.
Nineteen thousand dollars was the
sum brought by Montpelier. the home
and burial-place of President Madison,
at its recent sale.
of the heat emitted by the sun,
only the 227 millionth part is caught by
the planets, and this is nearly all yield
ed again to space.
| A rage for comfits existed in the
reign of Henry LII. When the body Of
the Due de Geuse was found he had q
box of comtits in his hand.
A London medical journal states
that there are in that city twenty physi-
clans whose incomes range from S25,-
900 to 100, 900 year.
In 1751 the dress of a French dandy
consisted of black velvet coat, green
Ill xrnlx
breeches and blue stockings.
The new catalogue OF Oberlin Col
lege, Ohio, shows that 1,325 students
are in attendance this year, of whom
GAL are gentlemen and 6S4 ladies'.
The emigration from Germany in
1882 promises TO exceed that of any pre-
vious year. 1900 tickets have already
been engaged from Bremen to America
The Dutches of Edinburgh deposit
ed with the Art Department of South
Kensington 4 collection of water-color
copies from the old masters by Stohl.
They will be exhibited at Bethnal
Green. There are siIty-five of them,
and were originally ordered by the Em-
press Of Russia.
-Thirty-four species of insects new
to science have recently been discovered
in the Sandwich Island.
Last year there were 250 persons
killed and 32S injured through boiler
explosions in this country,
AT Baden, near Zurich, the first
calendar WAS published 1868, and it has
been continued until now.
As late as the time of James l., the
disposal OF. the hand of young orphan
heiress lay with the king.
1t is singular fact that one of the
earliest English theatres had a monk,
Geofrey, for Its manager.
Last words of Fontelleno, al do
not suffer, my friends, but feel a GER
tain difficulty in existence"
Two thousand one hundred and twen-
ty churches in England have been named
in sole honor of the Virgin Mary, and
102 in which her name is associated with
that of some other saints.
The Princess of Wales b az sent to
King Kalakaua several photographs Of
herself and her Sons as a contribution
to bazaar to be held in Honolulu in
aid of the building of the cathedral
there.
-Fifty-eight thousand and ninety
seven pupils are enrolled in the Public
Schools of Chicago, the average attend
aDce being 1859. The city employs
972 teaches.
Representatives Of four generations
live in one house in Toronto, great
grandmother aged 81. grandfather
aged so, father aged %, and a daugh-
ter aged 3 weeks.
France and Italy have hitherto pr
duced sugar only from the beet roo.
The sugar cane has lately been intro
duced in both countries, and its rapid
growth threatens the beet root indus
try.
! W. W. Story is hard at work upon
his statue of the late Professor Henry,
and experts to have it ready Tor erection
in Washington next spring. 1t is to be
placed in the grounds Of the Smiths02-
ian Institution.
1t is calculated the daily papers =.
the United States issue l, ,051 ,200, 900
copies yearly, and the other periodicals
DIluS tuC tctdi up W s,VOVpVVV,~NV
copies per annum.
At an important sale of celebrated
stud flock of merino sheep in Victoria,
Australia, a ram four years old brought
the large sum of $1,000, while several
others were sold for prices ranging from
5000 to S2250.
Letter envelopes bearing a stamp
impression we're first used in Sardins In
1919. The English people write moro
letters than any other European naticn,
although they do not lead them in the
use of postal cards.
Queen Victoria, combining mother
ly affection and musical taste has COM
missioned that crusty composer, N.
Gounod, to write nuptial march for or
chestra and organ for the marriage Of
her youngest and favorite son, Leopold,
, Duke of Albany,
The war footing of the German
army has been established by the bud