Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-12-13
NO. 90
NEWS In BRIEF

ing laid with steel rails.
/ There is still u large migration
from Canada to Montana.
/ The excellent harvests have made
good shooting in France.
There are 1l7,0OO SunIay school
scholars in New YORK State
| -Lieut. Dannehower has recovered
I the sight of one eye, but still weals
blue glasses.
The mildest hazing IN the Wiscon-
sin University Is promptly followed by
expulsion.
Bishop Ka;a, OF Wheeling. Is to be-
come coadiutor to tue Arch bishop OF
San Francisco.
| Colonel BouJiaot, an educated
| Cherokee, Is editing paper IL Enc elsh,
at Fayettevi le, Ark.
! The prince Of Wales persists IN his
/ desire that the young princes shall not
yet take part IN active pubic life.
"A Nebraska saving bank has opened
a children's department, IN which a de
/ post AS small as one cent can be made
There are tifty-two breweries IL
Brooklyn which produce 1 1000, GOO kegs
OF lager annually, aud paid a revenue
81, 1,0OO,O 900.
/ Prince Victor Napoleon has gone
back to Germany, 10 complete, at
Bonn, the course ut study begun by
hlIn at Heidelberg,
| -Ninety-tLree Thousand acIes have
/ been planted under the rev arboncul-
ture act III Kansas. Preference Is
given 70 tine cotton tree on account Of
its rapid growth.
The ccrn crop of Texas this year Is
estimated at 40. .000, goo bushels. The
value OF the agricultural products OF
that State Is S94. 07i, ,99S.
"A Missouri tree mas Welded 500
rails, 800 fence posts, 10 cor,.s OF wood,
Il squirrels and l raceoon. 1t Is sup
posed to have been 800 years old.
-Kalamazoo, Mich IS one Of the
/ greatest celery raising centres OF the
/ United Sta es, as regards both quantity
and quality OF the vegetable produced
! Count Won lIoltke, the veteran
j Prusslan Field Marshal, spent October
%, his eighty-thiri birthday. in strlctest
retirement ~ his country home, as has
/ been his custom since the death Of his
wife.
1 Tho I.OthsciIlds aye virtual owners
of one-ffth OF tine fertile land II the
Delta Of the Nile. Their share II
Egyptian bonds Is popularity estimated
ut El2, 900, 900
john Gilbert, the veteran actor,
was moved last week from his sumner
home at Manchester by-tEe-sea to his
sisters house in Boston. His health Is
steadily improving.
Five of Sir George GIay's former
private secretaries, including Lord
NorihbroOk, now First Lord OF the
Admirably, attended his fdneral at his
old home, ii Northumberland.
| Nj Herman = A. Hepping. the
. we'll known Baltimore sculptor, Is deco
rating the interior of the dome OF Iowa's
State Capitol. The decorations will
include twelve hle-sIzc marble statues.
Two ninety-ioot lathes, said to be
tLc largest III Che world, have been
n.a,ie Tor thelr own use by tine South
! Boston Iron works. Each lathe CON
tsius co., ,UU0 pounds Of non, and Is III
Z tended fJI boring out cannon
MIR John Il. Cough thought that
his health was good enough to enable
him to lecture tIis season, but he
: caught 4 cold at the outset, and now
he has cancelled all his engagements.
Mr.. Cough Is III MS sixty sixth year.
The imperial fanny OF Russia has
s ut last, 1t Is reported, decided TO recoS-
e nize the Princess DolgOrOUki, and has
q accordingly invited her to return to st,
Petersburg, where she VIII henceforth
make her home IN one of the royal
palaces.
Il New Zealand covers an area OF
e 105, ,3l2 square miles. 1t has pOpula-
e ton Of nearly 5000, 600. In thirty
q years its trade rose from Il value OF
; .c6 900, 600 to eG3, 900, 600. In 1871 1t
I Was E63 900, 600; II 1880 1t had risen
. to e9i, 100000.
y The competition Of young girls for
5 appointment in the English postal ser
4 wee is increasing. At an examination
IA to test the qualifications OF applicants,
q a fortnight ago, there were 500 candl-
/ dates Tor thirty places. The salary Is
1t very small, beginning at only SOU
e week
4. The census III the French colony Of
Il Algeria Tor 1882 gives total population
{ OF 1910. sos. THIS shows an increase
Il since 1876 OF 442. 939. OF the total
IL number given, 233, ,937 are French and
.e ,, ,S6l, ,Ol9 Mussulman natives. The
r rest are made Up OF Eaturalized Jews
l: and foreigners.
ID Our exports of domestic breadstufis
he during August amounted IN value 10
IS S2S. .S64. .9S7. against SO, 81 ,52l during
a, August, 1881. During the eight months
Ii ending August 81, 1882, the total value
ne OF such exports was SllO,Ol5, 7uS,
20 against S157, ,j0j, 205 during the cores
lie ponding period OF ISL.
Is A recently published census return
"a furnishes bi-ceutennIal item Of IN
(, terest. The number OF native Pennsyl-
la v.lnians living III the United States IN
III 1881 Was 4,1SI, $50. This Is equal to
III the whole foreIgn-bOrn population oi
" the United States. excluding the natives
"a of Great Britain and Ireland.
= Mr.. George Drury, of Nashville
W Tenn, viii soon finish the large pOr
=" trut Of Mrs. James h Polk, recently
ordered Tor the White House, at Wash
= Ington. Both Mrs. Polk and the CON-
- mlftee OF ladies' who have ordered the
h portrait are greatly pleased with 1t.
= The old slave market OF Zanzibar,
=, where formerly 80, 900 slaves were sold
= annually, has been transformed into
:, mission premises, with church, mis-
49, 49, sion house and school, under the charge
80 Of tine Universities mission 10 Africa
- - started in 1853 at the suggestion OF DIR.
- Livingstone.
~ ~ More than two-thirIs OF all thC
~ ~ Jews In the United States are cOrgre
gated IN the principal cities. New Iori
- has CO. 90, san Francisco, l6, 90. Brook
u lyu, 4, 900, Philadelphia. $4,000, CHI
'he cago, 1900, Baltimore, 10000, GIN
NO ciunati. s, 700, Boston. 1000, st, Louis
ms {. 500, New Orleans, $500. Cleveland
en- o,0O1, ana NeN'.iA' 49, -. ,I,e,,,,
hat Inc state biie''" % i.'oo- =.