Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-09-13
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF

Inc area OF J1fa0 Is abOEl lOu,bUU
square miles, comprising nearly 5000
islands.
Chicago claims an increase Of popu-
lation in two years of 81, coo or a total
of SCI, 900.
The Carson mint rate for tine silver
has been reduced TO Sl.47 7-10 per
ounce fine.
There are said to be 1000 acres
planted with tomatoes on the Malitee
River, Florida.
Within the year the mines of Ari-
zona territory have paid nearly 81 ,000,-
600 III dividends.
There are 125 newspapers IN the
country edited by colored men, only
one of them daily.
Notwithstanding England Is a great
dairy country, S26, Do, SO worth of
cheese was imported last year.
The mileage of railroads in the
United States is over 100, 900 miles, with
an invested capital OF $. 1000, 100000.
No less than $40 periodicals were
started in the United States last year,
the majority of them filling early graves.
The production of window glass III
the United States in 1881 was nearly
2, $50, 900 boxes, valued at about ST, ,000,-
600.
"A London surgeon says that only
one fashionably dressed woman in 500
can draw full breath with her clothes
on.
The new bridge ON the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad across the Susque-
hanna river at Harrisburg will cost
5000
The famous lead farm in Bedford
county has been sold to a mining com
pany for S7,315, and prospecting for
lead will begin.
In July 23l outrages, including
two murders, were committed in Ire
land. In June there were 2S3, includ-
ing five murders.
The number OF Chinese, according
to the records of the Custom House,
who have arrived in San Francisco for
the four years ending August 4, is Co.
on.
The assessed valuation of the city
of Boston this year is 1872, 400, 100, an
increase of Sc, 935, 500 since last year.
The tax rate is advanced to SIS 10 per
900.
Miss Annie Louise Cary Is now en-
| joying excellent health, but has not
recovered the use of her voice. Her
Il t.lf
to sing again for year.
Mr.. Samuel Swan, who has re-
signed the office OF principal of the
Phillips School, Boston, has taught in
the public schools of that c!ty without
interruption since 1875.
Mrs. Hope has given her grand
daughter, the Lady Emily Pelham
Clinton. the handsome wedding present
of 100000 on her approaching mar
riage with Prince Doria.
The Trustees of the British Museum
have decided to refuse to open that in
stitution any longer at night on the
ground that neither gas nor electricity
can be used there with safety.
| II nc NitttSl-esluBt IillIustti Jtt It
ported is said by an exchange to be IN
operation in Washington Territory. 1t
is an eIght-foot gauge logging roai
running back from Skagit river.
The largest diamond cutting house
is in Amsterdam, employing 40c per-
sons, where the Koh-i-noor was cut.
The trade is difficult, and the wages are
from 81 to Sl2 or even Sl4 Il day.
The growth of missionary contribu-
tions from 1920 80 to 1S70-S0 has been
an advance in home missions from
S233 ,826 to S26, ,921 ,625, and in foreign
missions from S7i5, rs to S21, ,7i0,O ,O56.
M. Saint Paul has offered the
French Academy of medicine a sum of
s., 900 to found prize for the discovery
of cure for diphtheria, the competi-
ton to be open to the medical profess
i0.
Mrs. r. P. Dana, daughter of the
poet LoDgfellow, has purchased Healy's
portrait Of her father. Mrs. Dana ap-
pears in the painting as a br'ght-eyed
little maiden, with golden tresses, peep
ing over her fathers shoulder.
The golden rose which the Pope
blesses ON the fourth Sunday of Lent
and sends as a mark of especial favor to
some Catholic Princess was this year
| sent to Stephanie of Belgium, bride of
, Rudolf, Prince Imperial of Austria.
! Senator Edmunds has gwen s., 900
for the endowment of room at the
|, Mary Fletcher Hospital, at Burling
ton. Vt, for the use of young female
) patients, in memory OF his daughter,
who died a shot time ago.
1t is said that Prince Charles of
3 Germany, brother of the Emperor, con-
sumes daily from eighteen to twenty
r four strong Havana cigars. He smokes
! three at a time, in a triple-barrelled
holder made according TO his own design.
: Lady Agnes Mclean, the daugh-
ter of an English marquis, the widow
first of the Comte de MontmOrenci, and
la'er Of clergyman named Mclean,
r died lately in London, in the waiting
l. room OF st. Pancras work house, having
e been elected from her poor tenement.
/. A French Government vessel has
- recently succeeded in dredging III the
Bay of Biscay at depth of 1000 feet
: or three and one-tifth miles. The AM
n mails found at that distance be cath the
surface were numerous, but of smal
u size.
at A very rare and interesting Prin
7 has been acquired by the trustees OF th'
British Museum, namely, The rolal
= progenei of our most sacred King Jamet
T." 1t is engraved by Benjamin
Wright, and published by John Wont
in neel, 1908.
re A locomotive boiler, it Is calculate
We will last until the engine has trayele'
X over 35O,OO0 miles, On some hines
: however, the boiler, under favorabl
C circumstance, particularly when pur
q water is used, may travel 4OO,0OO o
A 500. 600 miles before becom nS unset
n viceable.
g. The award to NJ. Nerot, Frene
h. artist, of the prize of SlO,O for dc
mi sign Of a monument to Victor Emmi