Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-01
NO. !.
NEWS IN BRIEF

els of coal in one day recently.
Mills for draining water from lands
were first used in Holland in l40S.
The iron stairways in the new capi-
tol at Des Moines will cost S27, 1874.
The Duke of Devonshire and the
Earl of Leicester are fond of skating.
The late Colonel Forney's journal,
Progress. will be continued by his son.
AT the end of the fourth century
incineratiou had fallen into general dis
use.
Quarantine originated IN the Board
OF Health of Venice in the fourteenth
century
An English syndicate has invested
in fifty thousand acres of coal land in
Ohio.
John Quincy Adams was in the
habit of reading the Bible through every
year.
One Key West gardener expects to
send North the tomatoes from $4,000
plants.
Large numbers of polled Aberdeen
cattle are imported from Scotland to
Canada.
Iowa sheep owners hope to get
/ law this winter directing a general
slaughter Of dogs.
Sir names began in France in the
year 1o00, anil IN England at the time
of the Conquest.
The first introduction of plating on
copper was ia 11i2 by cutler of Shef-
field, England.
Brick layers hods, like those of
modern times, are mentioned IL the
fourteenth century.
No forks are found ut HeTculaneum,
so they are not supposed to have been
used in that era.
Among the Anglo Saxous the
science of medicine and law was mono
pclized by the clergy.
The daughter of the late Senator
Carpenter, of Wisconsin, viii spend tn
winter IL New Orleans.
Chief Justice Comegys, of Dela-
ware, who has been very i'll. Is now re-
garded as out OF danger.
Richmond now has Il fund of about
$50, 900 with which 10 build a mOnu-
iment to General Il. Z. Lee.
The sales of the public lands for the
fiscal year ending III June were 0,093,
900 acres realizing -, i0S, 900.
according to the Nevada City, Cal,
Transcript, only five men in that city of
:, 600 inhabitants wear silk hats.
The first telegraph line was erected
less than forty years ago, and now
900, 900 miles are i'll operation.
When President Garfield was sick
Minister Lowell hal to read and answer
an average OF 800 telegrams a day.
The Princess of Wales has Just
passed her thirty-seventh birthday.
Maud, her youngest child, is twelve.
international skating contests are
among the sports which, this winter, are
counted upon in England, Austria and
Holland.
An enterprising microscope man Is
showing Cleveland people drawings of
1872 different living creatures found III
the city water.
Queen Elizabeth used to embroider
book covers with gold and silver thread.
A New campaign in favor OF an
, glisEnhmanmarrying his deceased wifes
lister is about to open on an increased
scale in England.
Mr.. James C. Flood distributed
$4,000 among several benevolent associa-
, tions in San Francisco. Christmas morn
I ing, Protestants and Catholics being
5 treated impartially.
-Ex-Gov. thomas A. Hendricks de-
clines all invitations to lecture this win
ter, saying that he is wholly occupied in
professional labOrs.
A bust of William Gilmore Simms,
| made by J. Q. A Ward, has been pre-
, sented by two New York men to the city
, of Columbia. S. c.
The Associate Justices of the Su-
preme Court will welcome their new col
league, Judge Gray, with round Of
dinners in Washington.
The capital invested in iron indus
d tri IN the United States duringt he last
5 ten years has increased by as much as
nearly ninety per cent.
!, The Polar regions are reekoned a.
extending over All ,S75 square miles.
= the only inhabitants being ", 600 in Ice
land, and 10000 in Greenland.
Mr.. Kimball, the director general
S of the Atlanta Cotton Exposition, says
n that twenty-seven exhibitors are going
g to establish factories at that place.
= Joseph Cook ate his Thanksgiving
- dinner with his wife on the Acropolis at
Athens and was expecting to find his
Christmas turkey at ConstantinOple.
The wool production of the United
States is estimated to have risen from
e I46. 900, 900 lbs, to 264, 600, 900 lbs, an
IS increase of lis, 900, ,O01, lbs, or almost
v 10 per cent.
: Deaths have increased III New YOrb
y city from an annual rate of twenty-twO
p to one of thirty-twO per 900 during the
il last eleven months, as compared Will
re the same time lat year.
20 jean Baptiste Faure. the well
known baritone of the French OperI
'o and professor of singing in the Paris
IN Conseryatoire, has been appointed 1
ly cheyalier of the Legion of Honor.
lg- John NJ. Starin, of New York, wh'
m now has an income of 100000 year
of began lite selling horse liniment.
Ok The Emperor of Brazil has sent al
of honorary canon of the Imperial Chape
all the way from Rio Janeiro to Paris
:, with orders to see Victor Hugos grand
III children and give them sundry Nev
OK Years presents.
ht In the royal hunt, which occun
nj every winter near Berlin, 300 head q
=. big game, principally deer and viii
boars, were recently slam. Thirty min
rs fell to the German Emperor and thirty
*, five to the King of Saxony.
he MIR James Trimble, residing nes
ng Fairville, Chester county, claims ths
he he has the char that Daniel De Foe 81
,,r IN while he wrote Robinson Crusoe. TT
80 chair is said to be 800 years old, al
' came into the possession of Mrs. Trim
iS- bic, who is descendant Of De Foe.
va The collection of lace belonging
tic 1.-THE Princess Beatrlce can hardly
tic equalled. 1t contains g part of that Ale
re- con which was found in lumber rool
some years ago, at st. James Palac