Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-11-29
NEWS In BRIEF

The schools of Burmah are alnes
entirely monastic.
Silk culture has become thriving
industry In Louisiana.
| San Francisco has population o.
275, 900, of whom 45. 600 are Chinese.
-Pizarro completed the conquest of
Peru at thirty five, and died at forty.
Philadelphia manufactured S10,-
900, 900 worth of umbrellas last year.
Pennsylvania produces nearly one
half the buckwheat crop of the country.
The coffee plants sent to Manatee
county; Fla, from Cuba, are growing
finely.
"A brakeman who lost hand while
coupling cars got So, 900 from Chicago
jury last week.
AT three vegetarian restaurants in
the city of London the dinuers daily
served average 1850.
The population of Athens, Ala, is
5000, aad its valuation $4,000, ,000-a
thousand to each inhabitant.
Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas,
says that Texas will this year raise more
than a million bales of cotton.
There has been a terrible snow
storm in the SieTras and focks and
herds are buried three feet deep
-Cortez effected the conquest OF
Mexico and completed his military ca
reer before the age of thirty-six.
Ninety death sentences have been
passed In France since 1879, but only
ten of them have been carried out,
During 1881 the British Patent Of
fee received 5,751 applications, the lar
g est number recorded for any year.
Luminous paint is now being uti-
Iized for door plates, house numbers
and signs. The advantages are obvious.
The potato crop IN Switzerland is
SAID to be total failure. The denaEd
for American potatoes Is expected to be
brisk.
1t is estimated that there are about
% 900, 600, 900 rect of lumber in the
nine States comprI ing the Southern
pine belt.
The first conference of Wesleyan
IuttiiOuAsts, Mdo uClu litt ~ COH-
slider "How to teach, what to teach and
what to dc"
1t is estimated that there are three
thousand industrial establishments In
the Republic of Mexico where steam
power Is used.
His Royal HIghness the Prince OF
Wales has presented the Metropolitan
and City Police Orphanage with
valuable American olgan,
-Meissorier Is to receive 10000
francs for his Lies Derniers Moments
de Ia Vie de Sainte Genevieve," which
Is III hand for the Pantheon.
1t Is asserted that in the three years
ended 1880, there were EO fewer than
252 theatres destroyed by fire, or partly
80, resulting IN i,37G deaths, aid -.5ou.
3, 400 injuries.
The population of Manitoba, by re-
cent census, is 65,954, divided among
natlonaIities as follows: IL, ,663 Scotch,
ii SOB English, 10.173 IRISH, 9,949
French, and S,652 Germans.
The pension agent IN Topeka, Kan
sas, recently cSshed the largest pension
ever paid out to one person IN that dis
trict- 1t Was arrears to date, and the
amount was upward of 81 900.
I'm the high school OF Dedham,
Mass, the experiment Is being made of
using daily newspapers instead OF text
books III the reading class. The prin-
cipal thinks that the plan is successful,
james Collins, of Lawrence, Mass,
claims to be 110 years old. He is a ma
tive OF Ireland. His father died be-
fore James was born, and his mother
died when he was but SIX months old,
Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender,
has taken up his abode for the winter in
the Loredan palace, one of the Oldest
and most splendid ducal houses III Ven
Ice. He will visit London in the
spring.
OF sixty-nine provinces OF Italy.
only SIX are exempt from malaria. 10
abolish it 10J, 900 plants of the eucalyp-
tus have been lately set out by rdI-
road companies and private individuals
all over Italy.
The hay crop in Iceland has been
nearly destroyed, rendering the whole
sale slaughter of cattle unavoidable.
Some flour Is wanting In many districts.
rhe population are unprepared to meet
the winter,
The revised census gives the popu-
lation OF Scotland at 3, ,7S5, ,573, an in
crease OF III per cent. since 1871, rate
Of progress not exceeded since the tnIrd
decade OF the present century. In 1850
the population was 500, 800.
-Of the 123, 900 square miles which
Norway contains, only 3, 800 are pastu
rage and only $50 are under the plough.
Inc consequence is that not ouly corn,
Dut also butter and meat, have to be
imported III large Quantities.
1t Is estimated that the net revenue
Df the money order dIvlsIol of the Post
Oilice Department will excel $4,000
Tor the past fiscal year. The total cost
Df the free delivery service for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1852, was 81, ,623,-
l53, an increase over last year of Sl2j,
}lo.
The lItest official statistics Of the
Japanese Statistical Bureau show that
the total number of porcelain aud pot
terry factories In Japan is 322, and tnat
they give employment to i,0J4 persons,
Df whom $50 are women. the single
province oil Owsri contains NO fewer
than Pol of these factories, leaving,
only 61 to be divided among the othef
provinces in which sucl
work Is carried on.
"A movement mas been started IL
England for the erection OF chapel or
some suitable memorial OF John Wesley,
At Epworth, his birthplace.
In the Madras Presidency, ln India,
during 1881, f2025 $50, l25) was paid
As rewards for destroying l36 tigers, 750
panthers and leopards, and 543 osher
1902 persons and S,93S AMI
mails were killed by wild animals and
snakes, tigers killing l3j people and
3 ,328 cattle. The cattle killed by wild
animals III the Presidency dunug t1e
year are valued at cl7, $40 CSS9, $50.
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