Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-03-07
NO. 10.
NEWS IN BRIEF

in 1879.
Egypt became Roman province
80 B. c.
The first lucifer match was made
in 1898.
The first iron steamship was built
in 1880.
The first telescope was used in
England In HOS.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared IN 1862.
The first copper cent was coined in
New Haven in 1857.
The first printing press IN the Uni
ted States was worked in 1920.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the eighth century.
The British Museum lately acquired
thiIty-nine Babylonarn objects of silver.
The first attempt to manufacture
pins was made soon after the war of
1915.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., III
1916.
An exhibition of the works of the
late Hablot X. Browne (''Phiz'0 is to
be held at Liverpool.
Mr.. Blaine intends 10 sail southwark
in the yacht Blaine, with her Boston
owner, IN the spring.
Professor Nirchow, of Berlin. owns
nearly 5000 human skulls OF all ages
and natIonalities.
The Marquis of Lorne has been re-
elected commodore of the ROYAL Nova
Scotia Yacht Squadron,
The consu ption of thread of the
best grades in the United States is 2l.-
OOO. QUO spools per annGm.
"A bottle of 90 gallons capacity. the
largest ever blown in this country. was
lately made at Alillville, n. j.
The police of Berlin will no longer
permit pubic performances OF tanners
OF hons and other wild animals.
john Cabot received the magnificent
sum OF flO from Henry VII. BY way of
reward for discovering America.
The strength of 120 pounds is re-
vmred to tear asunder an IRON wire one.
of an inch IN diameter.
England paid about 81, 900 900 for
convincing Arab Bey that he ought not
to rebel against his own government.
The total cost of the new C,pitoI
IN Albany up to January 1, 1888, is sta
led by the Capitol Commissions at sl4.
1873, 663.
The Prince of Wales has at Sand
nngham 100 short-horn COWS and %
,hort-horn bulls, which are kept in two
ilstfnet nerds.
The debt of the United States prior
% the war was about 800, 900, 600. The
iebt OF the Australian colonies is Al
ready tivefold that.
The famous chestnut tree on Mi
hfna measures 2lO feet at its base. Its
age Is at least 500 years. Italy has
many renowned trees of th.z species.
The next exhibition of works bv
russian and foreign artists will take
'lace IN May and June, at the Polytech-
nc School at Charlotteburg, near Ber-
in.
"A man over go years of age is re-
'orted, by a British paper, to have made
90 miles In "A hours oD q tricycle.. A
Younger rival did 1S6 miles in the same
ime.
The whole number of ofletters mailed
n this country during the year 1880
vas 1858, 252, $40, or an average of 81
o each man, woman and child in the
ountry.
Sarah Bernhardt-Damala has closely
off the big frizzes of hair that
Ised to overshadOw her brow, to the
'reat Improvement, it is said, of her
ppearance.
"A cargo of pig iron, sunk in Long
sland Sound, off Saybrook, twenty
even years ago, now being recovered
y divers, comes out from under the
and in good condition.
The hazing for which five SoDbo-
nores of Bowdoin College have been
consisted IN cutting off v,o-
entity One-haf of the slow-apDearine,
nustache of reluctant Freshman.
From the deposit discovered in
o72 on the AppOmattox River at Rer-
nuda, Va, there are low taken OOO
OBS annually or about a third of the
inc ochres used ID the United States.
Artificial eggs are now manufsct-
red IN Germany. A woman who bought
dozen OF peddler found them filled
nth water, the yolk having been ex-
racted and the hole covered with paste.
The schools of Portland, Me. re-
emily held ''LongfeIlow hour" on
Ihich occasion interesting exercises
ere held in all the schools, and a hand
ome sum was realized for the memorial
md.
HANNIBAL Hamlin has given to Col
J University copy of the Cristopb.r
Columbus oil portrait in the Naval
luseum at Madrid, supposed to be the
My authentic likeness OF the great dis
OyeIer.
The Hon. Alexander III. II. Stuar,
as been requested by the HistOrcaI
oclety OF Virginia to prepare history
the events of 1869 (which led to the
estoratIon OF the State to her place in
le Union"
-AlDert fictOr, son OF tine Prince Of
'ales, is to be educated at Christ
hurch, Oxford. Like his uncle. Prince
'eopold, he will wear cap and gown
n!y on occasions where they are re-
Gired by law.
Custer County, Montana, is the
lrgest county in the United States Its
rea IS 81, 600 square miles. Its Larger
nan the States of Vermont Sex
hampshire, Massachusetts,, Delaware
I'D Rhode Island, all combined.
The real estate subject to civ tax
l Philadelphia is s562, 6S7. $50; furpi-
ire, S5,698, ,280; horses, 81, ,3O4 965.
attic, S139,25O; pleasure Carriages
653. 2O5. The increase over 1Ss2 IS
II, 7US,0
The Japanese Department of Arri-
ulture Is planting oyster beds near
okohama, The Japanese oysters are
onsldered among the finest in the world.
nj hopes are entertained of exporting
hem largely in a preserved state.