Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-15
NEWS IN BRIEF

tnat city worth over 81 900, 900 each
The average profit on barrel Of
beer In Germany is a dollar and quar-
ter.
The timber on Prince Wittgenstein's
estate IN Russia is estimated at s., 900, =
900.
Lewiston, Me-. manufactures |, ,5OO,- =
GOO bobbins valued at 500, 900. every
year.
In life OF sixty-fve years one
must have eaten thirty tens of solids
and liquids.
There were l, 40 pounds OF dia-
monds shipped to Europe from Cape
Town last year.
The Prince of Wales has ordered q
Coventry tricycle. for the use of one of
his daughters.
General Grant pays 81, 200 a year
for his pew in Parson Newman's now
church New York.
An Atlanta gentleman recently sold
| Confederate bonds to the amount of
$500, 900 for 5000
Sarah, Duchess OF Marlborough.
used to say she was born before nerves
came INTO fashion.
Wren, the architect Of St. Paul's,
designed more than forty public build
| lngs IN London.
For forty years the light of the
Eddystone lighthouse consisted of row
of candles in hoop.
British railway Ines have not been
paying as well as formerly. Receipts
500, 600, 600 last year.
Governor Gear spent So, 600 more
than his salary while an occupant of the
Iowa executive mansion.
w. H. Vanderbilt paid S2O1 900
for State Taxes to the Comptroller of
New York one day last week.
1t is said that the $4,000 girls en-
ployed at various trades III Chicago
average III wages only 81 week.
"A dog which had been accidentally
confined at Metz tasted 80 days before
he was released and recovered.
TIE ancient Sclndinavians cele-
brated days of death with rejoicing, and
those of birth with mourning.
The religion of the Siamese forbi1s
them to kill animals. but they elude the
law by selling them to Manometans.
The State of Wisconsin, which is
33 years old, has had II separate Cover
nors, and all but four are still living.
-Langiewitz, the DICTATOR of the last
hopeless Polish insurrectiOn in 1858,
died recently at Paris at the age of "a.
The census of Paris, taken on the
18th of December, gives a population
of 2.225, 900, against !, 9SS, 500 in 1876.
The tercentenary of Sir Francis
Drake Is to be celebrated, and the
Prince of Wales has contributed TO the
fund
-One-third of France Is owned in
large estates, one-third in estates of
moderate size, and only one-third by
peasants
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., will,
it is understood, accept newly endow-
ed professorship III the Harvard Law
School
The southeast corner stone of the
north wing Of the Capitol at Washing
ton was laid by Gen. Washington in
1892.
-Ex Governor Throckmortou, of
Texas, has recovered his health after
sewers illness, and is once more able to
attend to his law business.
The eggs of the Dinorius, an ex-
tinct species of bird, from the island of
Madagascar, were large enough for
foot-bath.
1t is said that in some of the Flor
ida hotels the guest who thinks that he
is eating fresh vegetables gets them
from the can.
When the ostrich farming fever
struck South Africa old birds used to
fetch 81, $50 a pair; now they sell for
from S55 to $40.
Nearly 0,OO0, 900 was taken from
the mines OF Utah last year, and bull
hon product of s13, ,0O0. 900 is predicted
for the present year.
The guard of honor at the tomb of
Victor Emanuel il the Pantheon is still
religiously kept up by veteran soldiers
from all parts of Italy.
1t Is calculated that E5, 900, 600, 900
of gold and silver have been extracted
from the earth since the discovery of
gold mines in California.
Henry Ward Beecher's staunchest
standby in the matter of money is
Horace B. Claffin, who has made about
81, 900, 900 in the iobbing trade.
Recently there was cut out of one
log at Orange, Texas, fifty nine ties,
containing 1888 feet, and 1877 feet of
boxing, making total of 2. .675 feet, all
heart.
Prince Roland BOnaparte has been
sued by Versailles hotel keeper for
$4,000 for the board and lodging of his
mother and sister and money lent to
them.
-Horatio y. Foster, of Machias,
Maine, was deaf, dumb and uneducated.
just before his death, lie made Will in
pantomime. devising $1,000. In court
at Machias recently the Will was sustain
ed.
In Holyoke, Mass, are twenty-five
mills, with SC, 200, 900 capital, and en-
ploynS 3, 800 men engaged in making
writing paper. Their product is $50
tons day, more than one half of the
entire American production of writing
papers.
-Eleur-de-ll5 Is nos, as some suppose
lily, but an iris, the common name for
which is Flower de-luce 1t was as
sumed by Louis VIII. of France as his
device.
| Amherst College will receive S30,-
900 sor its library fund from the estate
of the late Joel Giles, Boston lawyer,
who was for one year a member of the
class of 1925.
"A good old lady of Plymouth, Mass,
collected money for the benefit of
poor family and bought groceries for
them The family are now suing for the
cash.
The salary of President Grevy. of
the French Republic. is $3.50, 900 year.
He lives within it, but Marshal Mac
Mahon when President spentaboutS200, :
900 year.
| I'm the Summer of 1775 Washington
informed Congress that the stock Of