Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-05-17
y JEWS ~ BRIEF

Senator Jones, of Florida, learned
the trade of carpenter
The Chinese Of South Boston have
organized Masonic lodge.
The Mormons employ about !, ,OOs
proselytl missionaries.
Gen. Skobeleff has received 43 chal
les ges to duels in Germany.
The Bible has been translated into
thirty-hve African languages.
1t Is reported that :, ,2Ja woman ara
engaged IN farming in Indiana.
Over 1900 European immioran.,
landed at New York on the 22i.
The game of Pope Joan was called
Popo Julio in the sixteenth century.
"A locomotive that is to run 80 miles
an hour Is being built at Philadelphia.
-Signor Salvini is to make second
farewell tour through America in 1888.
| Work ON the monument 70 the lata
Professor Sillivan at New Haven has
begrn.
Wheat Is pronounced verv much
injured by frost in the Chester Valley.
Penna.
Next to rice, Indian corn is used
by larger number of people than any
other grain.
The physique of the Italian army is
described as superior to that of the
French army.
In the city OF London there are 5S0S
hanson cabs and 3Si7 four-wheeled
public carriages.
In the city of Chicago there are Is
l2S industrial Institutions, employing
III 40 persons.
The total population of Paris is now
:, 30, 900 against 1,9SS, 800 i'll 1876 and
,o51. 1872 Ill 1872.
Old sails are made inio the paper
used for bank notes, and old ropes reap
pear as brown payer.
There are IL ,662 Protestant ohurcnes
IN the United States, one for every 47y
Protestant population.
Foxes are reported to be very bold
and ravenous IN parts of Cambria and
Washington counties, Pa.
Since the passage of the Edmunds
Dill Salt Lake zeal estate has risen in
'"iuo aoOut HIteen per cent.
The medical leech is found only in
central Europe, Asia Minor and part of
the northern cost of Africa.
The rational elevaor at Chicago.
has posted 307.0OO bushels of corn as
suffering from heat and weeyil.
Chinese dentists attribute tootbacbe
to the gnawing of worms, and profess
to extract the same from decayed teeth
S. P. Colt, who received $50 900 by
Cornelius Vanderbilt's Will, Is the newly
elected attorney general of Rhode Is
land.
Philadelphia manufactures more
umbrellas than any city ixshe world
the annual production is valued at S1O.-
100000.
cyclones usually occur toward tina
end OF Spring and IN the Autumn-the
PERIODS vi change of direction in the
monsoons.
= The average daily attendance in
the public schools of New Orleans is
10, l4a, the number of pupils registered
being 19,946.
There Is school population of IA
3oi IN Missouri, and school funds to the
amount of S549, ,67l.S3 have Just been
distributed.
The total exports from the Sand
wich Islands in 1881 were S6,7I4.726.
and the imports into the Kingdom
a, ,547,97S
The uine leading ports of Great
Britain have tonnage of 8,724.l23.
while the first four ports of the United
States have only 1876, $40,
There are five cities in the world
having a population of over !, ZOO. 900
inhabitants. one each IN Britain, United
States. Germany, France and Austria
The average British soldier 10
about twenty-three years of age, about
hye feet seven inches in height. and
about thirty-seven inches round the
chest.
The daughter of the late Commo-
dore Maury, who assisted him in the
compilation Of his well known geogra-
phlcaI series, Is school teacher in
Richmond, Va.
There is said 10 be only one auto
graph OF Velasqu.z, the great Spanish
painter, IN private hands. This was sold
Paris recently for the extraordinary
prlce of $40.
Chain cables were first used or
shipboarG in 1911. The first vessel to
use them was West Indian ship. They
were invented and patented in 1908 bya
surgeon of the navy.
In the Chinese famine Of 1875 soma
of the inhabitants ate the thatch from
their cottages. A statement hardly to
be understood is that some of them at
tackled red slate-stone.
Mrs. Teller, the wife of the new
Secretary, is tail and slender, with black
hair and the blackest of black eyes, and
Is the possessor of an unusually gentle
and attractive manner
There Is every probability that the
company running steamboats, on the
Rhine will shortly attempt to hight both
shores of the rlver ahead by means of the
electric light for the benefit of sight
seers trov.l'ug at night.
The buff1lo Yield on the upper Mis-
sour, Yellowstone and Milk rivers This
year will be about 100. 900 hides and
60,000 robes. Last season from the
same sections $1,000 hides and GO, ,OOs
robes were taken.
Madame de Struve, the wife Of the
new Russian Minister at Washington. is
slender and refned-looking woman,
with the fair complexion Of the North,
and blonde hair just lighted with gray.
Mozart's manuscript of the famous trio
in E major sold for over three hundred
dollars at Berlin auction lately. and
his portrait, painted from life, on ivory,
for about one hundred and ten dollars.
There are now 20, 900 men and lOO,-
900 horses and mules employed in rail-
road building in Texas. There are
about 2, ZOO miles ofroad under contract,
and about 5000 more to be contracted
for.
Harvard college proper has been