Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-05-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

IIOiH tnt fourteenth century.
-Armorica, which is now Brittany.
was conquered by Cesar 81 B. G.
The first recorded plague in all parts
OF the world occurred 167 B. G.
The celebrated mineral spring at
Cheltenham was discovered in Ills.
1t requires IL, 900 gas and ,. 36S oil
lamps to light the streets of Boston.
"A single grape vine at Cajon, Cali
ornla, Is said to bear live tons of fruit
Paris has 5000 houses. London
100000 more than Paris, New York and
Berlin combined.
The shipments of petroleum and
petroleum products from this country
for january were valued at S3. .0j6 ,953.
By the new census there are in Ire
land ), 93l ,SS1 Roman Catholics and l.
l9S, ,S42 ProteStants of all kinds.
The debt of the United States prior
to the war was about 500. 900. 900. The
debt of the Australian colonies is al
ready fivefold that.
1t is estimated that the 200 guests
at the Vanderbilt ball represented s..
OOo, ,OOO, 900, or 10 times the total valrla-
tiOn of Boston
| james I. of Scotland was murdered
at the Black FriarS' monastery at Perth.
in 1887, by Robert Graham and the Earl
of Athol.
sweet potatoes are beng success
fully raised in Mower county, Mime
sofa.
February and January were added
to the calendar 10y Numa about 7I3
b. c.
--Conchology was first reduced to
system III 1913 by John Daniel. Mavor
of Kiel
Tile practice of using a baldachin in
churches was introduced into England
in 1279.
The French Government intends To
| bold grand International exhibition at
Paris in 1885.
The hySsOp of Scripture is the caper
tree which ahOmds in southern Europe.
lower Egypt and Syria.
Chicago is said to waste 40 600 OoO
gallons OF water per day, and Cincinnati
j,000,0 600.
The revenue of the Dominion Gov
eminent for the first nine months of the
present fiscal year was S2G. 81, ,GSJ. and
the expenditures SIS, S,902, ,149.
! In Western China the mountain
Omi- which has a halo. -" and which is
IN height IL 900 feet, is almost exclusive
ly inhabited by Buddhist monks.
On the Colorado desert a species of
tortoise grows to weight of twenty
tve pounds, and the meat of this is con
Sldered great delicacy among the In
dians
"A man recently sold the timber
right ON tract of land in Cambria conn
ty, pennsylvania, for $4,000. He
bought the land and trees a few wears
ago for 81, 900.
/ -PlSlStratus founded public library
in Athens 80 B. c., and this is the first
institution of Its kind of which history
gives any account. Ptolemy Philadei-
phuS founded the second 2St b. c..
The cost of the Vanderbilt ball is
estimated as follows: Costumes. SI55
40; flowers, S1l 900: carriages. 81 OOO.
halr-dresSing, $1,000; supper and extra
servants, -, ,OO0;making total of near +.
ly 100000.
Ice men of the Penobscot river say
that the present season has been a suc-
cesSful one to them. They have har-
vested some 1S9, 800 tons, and they had
about $4,000 tons left over from last
season.
1t is said that Stonehenge. the
ancient monument on Salisbury Plain
was built IN accordance with Merlin's
advice by Aurelius Of Ambrosius. i'm
memory of 460 BritOnS who were mur-
dered by IIengiSt.
The virtues of Peruvian bark were
discovered by a Jesuit in 1j3j, and il was
used by members of the Society of Jesus
from that time. In 1919 it was intro
duced into France, and Sir Hans Sloane
carried it to England in 100.
"A contract was entered intoat San
Francisco few days ago by the Texas
and Pacific Railway Company for the
transportation of seven hundred ear
loads, being about 100000 bushels, of
California wheat to go to Europe by way
of New Orleans.
The five copper mines in Michigan.
which have declared dividends during
the past year, have a paid-up capital of
y, 800, 900, and the dividends paid
amount to S2,9OO,000. The Calumet
and Ilecla, which hasa capital of 81. 200
900, paid its stockholders in the past wear
=, ,OO0, 900.
The Western Union telegraph lines
in Texas have increased from :, ,30Omiles
of poles and !, 900 miles of wire ON Jan
l, 1880, to 4, 800 miles of poles and near.
ly 9,O00'mileS of wire on Jan. /. 1883.
thus nearly doubling its facilities within
, three years and still building.
One of the industries Of Australia is
, the cooking and canning of rabbits.
which are so plentiful in some districts
5 that whole crops are sometimes DESTROY
ell by them. One firm during the last
season, which lasted twenty-five weeks.
e canned $4,000 Of the animals.
In the Second revenue collection
T, district of Georgia, from December lst.
lSS2, to March 3lSt, 1883, there were
seized los Illicit diStillerieS; DESTROYED.
60; removed for forfeiture, 26. There
were Is, 150 gallons of beer DESTROYED
, and 1116 gallons of low wines and 3G7
! gallons of whisky seized.
! The INNING receipts at san Fran
: cisco for the first six months of the wear
j, amounted to Sl6, ,26O, 900. of which 81
: I099, 42l, was for the month of June. OF
this sum the California sent s. SD. 2g2-
= Eureka Consolidated, 81 ,j62 800; Con-
Solidated Virginia, 81, 494, ,571; Rich
; mond, 81 ,20O, 900, and Ophir, $4,000.
e The first annual report of the New
4 Jersey railroad commissioners says there
II are 1900 miles of road in the state; capi-
V tai invested, S2l4, COS, 349; cost of road
e and equipments, Sl6S, 1918, ,355; gross
n earnings in 1881, S3l SIS, SOP; net earn
Ii ings, Sll, ,5O9, ,9ll; interest paid on bonds,
K etc, 81. .j96, ,33S; gross earnings for 1851,
n S26, 900, 900; net income, after deducting
m all expenses. S15,000,0 900.
IS 1t is well known that the wine har-
T. vest last year was scanty in Italy, but
compared to that of France there is no
1t reason to complain. In France scarcely
nf 20 SCI, 20 hectnlitres Mere nh.ained