Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22
NO. II.
NEWS IN BRIEF

settlements in Florida.
There are 3, $50 streets in Paris with
Q length of 5000 miles
| The first French guillotine was
made Dy piano maker
| Marc Antony paid 1000 pounds for
a pair of handsome boy slaves.
The Spanish Celts raised temple
and sang hymns of praise to death.
The Laplands suffer more than any
other nation from the annoyance of
gnats.
Some of the terra-cotta vases found
| at Hereulaneum are thin as the thinest
glass.
Somebody figures out til It it costs
S23 minute to run the House of Repre-
sentatives.
1t Is estimated that quarter of a
billion pounds of teas are used every
year.
In single day. at the dedication of
the Colosseum by Titus, 5000 animals
persisted.
Public ceremonials will be dispensed
with on the occasion of the coronation
of the Gar.
The school population of Ontario is
4S9. .924, and the total expense of in
struction is 81, ,S22.O5
The largest masonry arch in the
world is that of the aqueduct which SUD-
plies Washington with water.
At the beginning of the present
century the English laws made 100
crimes punishable by death.
One man has gathered loo. 900
pounds of dried clover blossoms out
West for some famous remedy"
The numeral characters of the Per-
SLAMS and Brahmins are similar to the
Arabic characters in use among us.
The Prusslan Government is to buy
this year 20, 800 tors of iron railroad
sleepers at a cost of about S35 ton.
Art classes for mechanics have been
established IN most OF the large towns
of Germany, and are largely attended.
The riding whip of Isabel. wife OF
Edward the III. In 1925, is described as
very short staff ith numerous lashes.
There have been more earthauakes
in Spain than in all the other parts of
Europe taken together, Italy excepted.
The animals of the opposite sides
of the Pacific Ocean are entirely unlike.
no species being common to both sides.
The emblems OF suprems authority
among British kings used to be bracelets
of gold about the neck arms and knees.
An effort is being made to raise a
fund of $4,000 for the equipment of an
observatory for the Toronto University,
Canada.
-Muncakzy's great picture, "Christ
Before Plate" has been purchased by
the French Government for the Luxem-
bourg.
The Ojibways pulled down the
house In which any one had died, and
chose another place to live as far off as
possible.
In the columns of Berlin papers are
frequent notices offering children as
presents to whomsoever wishes to adopt
hem.
1t is said that the watermelons may
be preserved for an indsfinate time by
giving them three or four coats Of var
nish.
The Nile, in course of l ,250 miles,
receives no tributary.
-Megret, the friend of Charles XII,
exclaimed at the instant of the kings
death; 1.-The play is over, let's go to
supper.
The new Jesuit College at Canter-
bury, Eng, will provide residence for
1000 of the youths exiled, with their III
structors from France.
Marcus Aureleus, by compelling
gladiarors to fight with blunt swords,
rendered the combats for a time COM
paratiyely harmless.
On the Laramie Plains of the Rocky
Mountains there are, at an elevation of
5000 to 1000 feet, fresh and abundant
pastures, often well watered.
The vineyards of Frasno county,
Cal, now cover 1920 acres. This sea-
son the aggregate will be increased by
$500 acres, making 4, ,420 acres.
Many Swiss who have settled il
California have sought the hillsides,
where they have made thrifty vineyards
and where they make excellent cheese.
The first senior class of Colorado
University will be graduated this year.
1t has SIX members. The whole num-
Der of students now in attendance is
lis.
In st. Petersburg this year $50 wo-
men are pursuing the higher courses of
education; 610 of these students are of
noble origin. Physics and mathematics
are studied by 521, and AT take itera-
ture.
Illinois last year expended upon
her schools the sum of 81, ,531 ,941, the
teachers of the State receiving 81, ,5S7,-
OILS 10. The school population of the
State is 1,O1O,S51.
"A company has been organized in
Springfield, Mass, for the manufacture
of VARIOUS articles from clay. The pecu-
liarity of the association is that it is
composed exclusively of negroes.
There are about to be established
in France five technical schools for cab1-
net making, building industries, scienti-
nc instruments, domestic economy for
girls and industrial chemistry.
The Crown Prince OF Germany can
boast of 65. 534 ancestors, according to
genealogical tree of the House of
| Prussia which has been compiled for
the Berlin Heraldic Exhibition.
1t used to cost the city of Boston
1875 81 per year to light Scollay square
by the thirteen gas lights then used.
! For year past the Brush electric lights
have been used, and they are to be con-
tinued another year at an expense of
Sl1S6 %.
The collections in London on Hos
pltal Sunday amounted to $50, ,735 of
which the Church of England gave
eleven-ffteenths. All denominations
Jews, Greeks, Friends, etc.-are repre-
sented in the collection.
, According to Herr Richard Andree
there are 6,139, 900 Jews In the world.
Five-sixths live in Europe. Asia has
1S5. .847. The greater portion is in Rou-
mania or twice as hioh "a in Russia