Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-02-14
NO. Z.
NEwS IN BRIEF.

of the Pension Office.
The Afghans are full of historical
ass ociations and tribal ties.
Fat wild ducks are sold at > eeuts
apiece at Lake Charles, L..
AT Lumpkin, Ca, sweet potatoes
sell for only % cents bushel.
Buffers scarce at 81 a pound in
some OF the Montana mining towns,
An Indians widow is expected to
keep in mourning for twenty moons.
-AS Marshfield., wood Is 81 a cord
at Winnipeg it Is quoted at S14 cord.
The Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church has more than leo, 600 members.
Six students at the University OF
Leipsic committed suicide during the
last term.
= Greensboro, n. c., grave-robbers
ask $40 for every corpse in tolerably
good condition.
1t takes S15 to buy one hundred
pounds of flour in the Baker mining
district OF Montana.
Mrs. Langtry spent much time in
Cmcago at rolier-skatiDg, a pastime of
which she is very fond.
Among the perfumes greatly used
IN London society are white rose, fran
gipanni and ihlang ihlang.
New York and Brooklyn have 81
600 people who earn their living be-
ween shutdown and sunrise.
Last year Great Britain made nearly
2, 100000 tons of puddled iron, and i'm
ported 10000 tons besides.
Nine new cotton factories. with an
aggregated capital of 81, 725, 500, have
Just been chartered in South Carolina.
While butter is only 20 cents pound
IN Marshfield, No., the dealers ask 20
cents pound ior 1t at Butte, Montana.
The mother of President Garfield
spends several hours every day reading
the published works of her lllustrious
son.
The Rev. DR.. A, z. Baird, of Syra-
cuse, y. Y, Is to succeed the Rev. DIR.
Hitchcock in the American church in
Paris.
-Messrs. Moody and Sankey intend
holding series Of meetings in London
next fall, beginning at about the Ist of
October.
In Genoa a mounted tablet has
been placed Ou hehouse in which. acen-
tury ago, OF October 81, 1882, Pagauini
WIS born.
Mr.. Gladstone's popular axe Is not
regarded IL all quarters rs the very
best Instrument of exercise for him to
use in his old age.
The Rev. W. III. Milburn is still
telling before country lyceums his in
terestlng story OF "What a Blind Man
Saw IN Ecgland.
MIR. James Russell Lowell is to have
the honor OF unveiling the bust of
Fielding, which Is to be erected IN the
native country.
There were twenty-four stormy
Sundays last year The average during
the past fifteen years has been 49,
stormy Sundays year.
The Britishers who recently bouabt
21,OOO acres OF FLORIDA land of the Dlss-
ton Company have taken 81, 600 acres
more, paying $3.50 an acre.
Yokohama merchants have sent to
New York 20,000,0J0 silk worm eggs
Tor gratuitous distribution among AmeTi-
cans interested IN silk culture.
The bell used at Wellesley College.
is from an ancient Bud
lhist temple, i'll Japan, and was pre-
5ented by Mr.. j. L.. Graves, OF Boston.
The institutions in New York sub
Iect to the bank department of the
State represent nearly 500. .OOO. 900 in
their resources, and probably over .
boo, 900 depositors.
During the year Just closed in Eng
land there were reported % mining ex-
ploslons, ID of which were fatal, the
number of deaths reaching 24l, exactly
the average for the past 80 years.
Teachers in the public schools of
France are very seldom paid more than
- a week. and as the expense for sal
aries Is now a little over SIS. .0OO. 900
the Minister of Public Instructions re-
fuses to add TO this amount and so in
crease taxation.
The crops of Texas for last season
are estimated at 400, 600 bales Of cot
ton and 150,000,OO0 bushels OF corn.
Texas now stands first on the list of
Southern States IN the production OF
cotton and corn.
OF all the men-of-war in Europe
Italy has the most heavily iron-plated
and possessed with the most formidable
guns. The ''Duilio' and the ''Dando-
10" have armor twenty-twoinchest thick,
and they each carry 100-ton guns.
Gov. Ordway, of Dakota, says in
lis Message to the Legislature that the
population of the Territory las doubled
n two years; and now reaches 300, 1000.
md that the amount of taxable proper
y is S5O,O00,0O0.
The City of Montreal has made
;laim for taxes ON a church on the
ground thar far was lately held in
he building for profit, whereas, to be
Exempt from taxation, buildings must
De used exclusively for divine purposes.
The Secretary of War has been di-
-ected to spend SIS, 900 in erecting a
&C the irth-place of General
K Warren at Cold Spring,
near West Point, y. Y, provided tine
ground, rectangular place on the Pal
rot estate, shall be gwen to the Govern
ment for that purpose.
Gar Alexander III makes a hobby Of
police and military uniforms. He has
the costume OF the st. Peters
burg police three times since his acces-
sion. and careful y examines the minutest
details of all new styles sometimes tax
ing hours to decide upon the pattern OF
OF a buttou.
The annual report of the New York
Custom House shows that the tonnage
receipts for 1882 we're 81, $40, ,O4j, divi-
ded among 6327 sailing vessels and 951
steam vessels. OF the former. 2461
were British. 1904 American, Gil Nor
weglan, 339 German and PSI Italian.