Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-04-25
NO. IL.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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-Longfellow's daughters are spend-
ing the winter in Washington.
The Pdrisiaa Florist saws that sDring-
IS the very worst season for selling flow
ers.
Oscar Wilde is studying for the
stage. One of his first efforts will be
Romeo"
In the United States one person in
30 IS said to be a pauper; in England
one in -.
There are 2.lS7 miles Of telephone
wire in Paris, and what is better. they
are all under ground.
Under the new law, the State Treas
urer of Colorado has to give bonds in the
sum of half a million.
Ex-senator David Davis is to be
presented 10y admiring friends in Texas
with a chair made of OK horns.
-Dr. Yates, of Shanghai. saws the
Chinese pay Sl54, 752, 900 annually to
quiet the spirits of their ancestors.
On each 1000 OF SILVER dollars the
Government clears SlS3.7j. The silver
costs SSO3.15 and the labor ST.. 80.
The Crow Indians Of Montana num-
Der about 3,4O0 and are chiefly engag-
ed in agriculture and stock raising.
"A thousand dollar bill was placed
upon the contribution plate in 1t. Paul's
Church, Pawtucket, Il. l.. Easter MORN
ing.
"A lady tourist at Jacksonville. Fla.
took to jeweller live lizard, asking
that 1t be mounted in gold for a scarf
pin.
Franklin Pierce's old home in the
outskirts of Concord. y. H.. is to be.
transformed into a Protestant Episcopal
school for girls.
a man up town made a wager with
a lady that he could thread a needle
quicker than she could sharpen a lead
pencil. The man won.
-IarrIng and fedthering is a Euro
pean invention. 1t was one of Richard
C9ur de Lions ordinances for seanen
III punishment for theft.
Edward the Confessor was the first
monarch of England who used seal in
his charters. This is the origin of the
broad seal of England.
Between the years of I7S3 and 1Sj7
SIN great earthquakes took place at Ma
pies, which lost thereby / 800 mhabit
ants per year for that period.
Orange trees are cultivated from
seed. \ tree requires fifteen wears ~
reach maturity, bat produces both flow
ers ana irult III the fourth or fifth year.
canal locks were known III Upper
Egypt from the most ancient times
known to history. They Were intro
dueed into England from Flanders in
16j2.
OF tine Sl5O,00O. 600 worth of wheat
imported by Great Britain last wear
SlOO, 900, 900 worth was from the United
States.
There IS talk in Georgia Of pur.las-
ing Liberty Hall, Alexander Ii. Steph-
en- S late residence, by voluntary contri-
buttons, and to retain in it his famous
rolling-chair and other relics.
Mrs. Carter, Of BeIlair.O saws in
her application for divorce that her hus-
band compelled her to swallow spools.
buttons, long strings of wrapping warn
and marbles as punishment for smiling
at other railroad men as they passed the
house
OF the II, 900, 900 acres of land oc-
cupied by the Sioux Indians in Dakota
Uncle sam viii take 5000. 900 for white
settlement, placing the Indians on sepa-
rate reservations. The Indian territory
west of Arkansas viii he the next Gus
toner.
For a long time official circles in
London have been agitated over the
question whether or not a woman should
he appointed to be superintendent of the
female employees in the post-oflice. 1t
has at last been decided by the appoint
ment of woman physician.
French mails have increased in in
closures, etc, sent from So. 600 900 i'm
1871 to |, $40, ,000, 900 in 1881: French
telegraphs from 5, S,174,OOO dispatches in
1876 to 10, 4G6, 900 in 1881 French money
orders from Sl,3ll 900 in 1879. when
they were established to -, 40 900 in
1881.
Since the Cotton Exhibition at At
lanta last year, 81, 500, 900 of capital has
been invested theresa grain elevator and
cotton compress built; a spinning COM
pany completed, and nearly filed its
capaclous building with machinery. and
a concern organized for the manufac-
tue of OleOmargarine.
There is an earnest attempt being
made to root out the terrible disease of
leprOSy from the Hawaiian Islands.
Fifty leperS have recently been removed
from Honolulu to the leper settlement
at the island of MolOkai, to be separated
from their friends and families forever.
The law library of the late Justice
Clifford, of the United States Supreme
| Court, is now offered for sale at Port
land, Maine, and an effort is being made
to have 1t purchased as whole and kept
in that city as a public library. 1t is
said to be the largest law library in New
England except one in Boston.
Sir William Thompson finds that
sunlight has about 10000 times the in
tensity of the light of the full moon at
any place on the earth, and about 53. 600
that of candle flame. The latter result
differs widely from that obtained bv
Arago, who found the light of the sun
to have about 5000 times the intensity
of candle flame.
Antwerp, city Of 100000 has no
water supply but wells and canals, and
in 1879 works were built to filter the
waters of the Nethe by passing them
through filters of sand and spOngy iron
and gravel. The plan has proved sue
ceSsful, but the supply is very small, ac-
cOrding to American ideas, being receiv
ed in tank of only $40, 900 gallons.
The number of newspapers now
published in Great Britain and Ireland
Is 1862, of which 1870 are published in
England alone, London claiming $50 OF
them. In Wales there are 7Jpapers, ia
Scotland lS4, III Ireland 152, in the Isles
Il. The daily papers are thus distrib-
uted: Ia in England, in Wales, - in
Scotland, 10 in Ireland and ? in the
Isles. In 1916 the number of newspa-
pers in Great Britain and Ireland was
only sol, or about One-fOurth the num-
Der now, and only Ii of them We're dai-
lies. The magazines now in existence.
including the quarterlies, number 1911