Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-05-31
NEWS ~ BRIEF


The main facts of circulation have
only been known go years.
-Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of Maine
is Threatened with paralysis.
Mexico has appropriated s1OO, 900
Tor military pest at Laredo.
Six hundred lions were killed at one
show given by the Roman Pompey.
Spain has determined to suppress
the autonnmist agitation in Cuba.
The Imperial Library at st. Peters
burg contains over |, ZOO, 900 volumes.
Twenty Bostonians born in 1904,
died togetner il that city recently.
-Embalming was in use among the
Egyptians at least 5000 years ago.
Montgomery, Ala, mas new cot
ton mill with capacity of 1.5O0 bales.
Lady Dufferin's sister had a Persian
girl for one OF her bridesmaids at Pera.
Queen Elizabeth granted ths first
ro- al patent conceded to players in
1916.
The AssyIians aud Greeks had tri-
monthly festivals as well as annual re-
vels.
-Gibbon began to write his Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire in Lon
don, IN 1872.
W. W. Astor's box at the Itnalia
opera, for 4 season OF 100 nights, cost
S37,0OO
Wren, the architect of St. PauIs. de-
signed more than forty public buildings
IN London.
Sarah. Duchess of Marlborough.
used to say she was born before nerves
came INTO fashion.
-Charles Bradlaugh Is said to have
declined an off OF SIC, coo to come to
America as a lecturer.
-Gereral Robert C.. Schenck proba-
bly viii run for Congress in DAYTON.
Ohio, district tins year.
-Ex-GOYernor Stanford. of California.
IS forming vineyard Of 1000 acres near
Chico, III that State.
The four passions OF John of France
were said to be novel rea ing. music.
chess and backgammon.
Lot VI. Morrill,. the ex-Secret.rv
and ex-senator. who is now Collector at
Portland, is in fulirg health.
The various Indian tribes have
''clalEls" against the United States 90
verment to he amount OF 800, coo. 900.
The largest accumulation Of money
IL the savings banks of California YVES
In 1877. when the line reached over
S76, ,OO0, 600.
During the month of April the
coinage struck at the Philadelphia mint
aggregated 4,lSl, 600 pieces, valued at
S.. .057, 800.
"A Northern company has recently
paid $4,000 for property near Athens,
upon which it will erect factories cost
ing $3.50 600
A petried fish, perfect in form and
nearly five fee. in length, and several
petrltied snakes were recently taken out
of a coal bank at Marion, Pa.
Charles Francis Adams, since his
adventure with the buuko men, has
given entire control Of his business af-
fairs to his sou. John Quincy Adams.
In two thirds of the French villages
there Is only the communal school. The
smallest Belgian village has a church
school, as well as q communal school.
The Du Sartel collection of Chinese
porcelain sold in Paris the other day
brought 40, ,000f ISIS, 0O0) The Sevres
Museum was among the purchasers.
Alfred Tennyson Is Lus.ly writing
at one of his country places. He has
finished his new play, and Mr.. Irving
Will soon bring 1t out at the Lyeeum.
The new German test for petroleum
Is equivalent to 1l5 degrees burning
test. Refined petroleum for the Ger.
man market has hitherto been tested at
10 degrees burning point.
-Mr. Alderman Flggins. who would
have become Lord Mayor of London
next November had he remained in the
Court of Aldermen, has Just resigned
! from 1t on account Of III health.
There are SIX large cotton mills In
and around Petersburg. Va, having ZS,-
900 spindles, consuming last year about
IL 900 bales of cotton and manufactur-
/ ing over l, 900, 600 yards of cloth.
! james Russell Lowell IL. as al
author, mtOlerant OF autOsraph-hunters.
| He drops the stamps enclosed by collec-
| tors into his stamp box and tOsses their
letters into ms wasta-paper basket.
On the anniversary of Lord Bea-
consfield's death Her Majesty sent
/ wreath of primroses, the Earls' favorite
flower, for his tomb in Hughenden
Church, where, in addition to the royal
monument and the banner and insignia
OF the Garter. a memorial window has
been dedicated.
/ The Prince OF Wales eldest son has
finished his seafaring life and Will enter
the Military Academy at WOolwich in
the Autumn, He is an erect and hand
some lad, with face that has not yet
put on the heavy outlines Of Hanover.
The gales which prevailed last win
ter III various parts OF Scotland, made
sad work with the trees. On the shores
Of Loch LomOnd, some 5000 were blown
down. Parts OF the Queens estate at
BalmOral lost some of their finest ones.
and at BallOchunie Forest nearly 2000
fell.
| Mr.. Robert NJ. Vail, of New York.
who was president of the Society of the
Crescent and Cross during the Russian
Turkish war, has received the decora-
ton of the Order of Chetket from the
Sultan, in recognition OF his services in
this country during that war.
The Hudson River Tunnel has now
} reached distance beneath the river of
S39 feet in the North Tunnel and Ill the
South Tunnel 700 feet. The worE Is
progressing at the rate OF 4 feet per
day.
The Jury of painting Of the Salon
. accepted 2, ,6l1 painting and l, 1852 draw
ing, enamels, water colors, &c. OF the
, latter 723 are drawings ami $50 porce-
! lains. Last year there were ?, 44S paint
. iugs and l ,110 drawings, water colors,
&c.
-Mtdame Nilsson has resumsd her
own name. and when visitors ask for
Madame Rouzaud the servant says,
r "You mean Madame Nilsson, do you
not?" She says she determined on this
E course shortly after her husbands