Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-07-18
NEWS IN BRIEF

railroad.
Montgomery Blair has a spinal af-
, fection.
-Nillson will sail for America on the
18th of August.
The number of destitute children in
Chicago is 10000.
Connecticut was the first State in
the Union To coin money
From January to May 81, 173, l27
immigrants landed in New York.
The total catch of Connecticut river
shad last year numbered 272, 1903.
The value of the taxable railroad
property of Iowa is S2S, ,}3i 1870.
"A Mexican woman Ill years of age
died few days ago at New Laredo.
Over $4,000, 900 of haddocks are
annually ''cured'' for sale in England.
Mrs. Frances Willard, the temper
ance advocate, has gone to the Sandwich
Islands.
| British capital to the extent of thirty
millions went into Wyoming and Texas
last year.
The City Council of Toronto, Can
ada, has appropriated $4,000 towards a
public library.
The late Sir George JeSsel's will
disposes of personal property worth more
than 81, 125, 200.
Cadet Whitaker's father has just
died, leaving 5000 and a fine farm. He
was once slave.
Dukes, the murderer, left property
valued at from s., 900 to ST., 900, a great
deal of it in western lands.
Captain John Ericsson, still hale
and hearty, is now eighty, looks about
seventy and works like sixty.
The Summer business of New
Hampshire is estimated at from five to
eight millions of dollars annually.
More than 81. 12O, 900 has been sent
to the German flood sufferers through
single house i'll New York City.
Preliminary steps have been taken
for the erection of bronze statue of
Martin Luther at Washington, ID. c.
L. A. SENEGAL of Montreal has given
200 to provide a permanent exhibi-
tion In Paris of Canadian productions.
In 1867 the cost to Boston of each
pupil in public schools was S29. IS; in
the past year the cost for each was S23.-
30.
Silk culture is attracting consider
able attention i'll Kansas, where the
worms feed greedily on Usage orange
leaves.
Vermont was at first called New
Connecticut, ard took its present name
III 1871, when it was admitted into the
Union.
"A bill has passed the Illinois Legis-
lature which cOmpels the erection of air
and escape shafts in the coal mines of
the State.
1t takes 100000 to pay the sala-
ries of ministers in the United States, and
SID, ,0O0, 900 to pay the government tax
on dogs.
Mr. Matthew Arnold now expects
to visit America this autumn on lee
turing tour of four months, beginning
in October.
The New York papers say that the
new drink is called dude cocktail, and
is made out of mush, cruel, and chopped
ice and fresh milk
Judging from receipts at Key West
thus far, over $4,000 dozen pineapples
will be shipped North from the port of
Key West this year.
OF the 100000 acres of land in
Ireland only 100000 are under culti-
vatiOn, and even then she exports food
to all quarters of the globe.
The widow of Senator Henry 5.
Lane of Indiana has erected an ObeliSk
of Aberdeen granite over her husbands
remains at Charlottesville.
One year ago there were not over
200 people in Dickey county, Dakota.
Now the population is from 4, 900 to D.
600 and rapidly increasing.
The S300,O00 appropriated by Con-
gress for lands ceded to the United
States by the Cherokee Indians has been
paid to Chief Bushyhead.
Vanderbilt drove Maud 5. and AL
dine one day last week to heavy road
wagon a mile in 2154, eclipsing all pre-
vious dOuble-team records.
North Caronna has four graduates
at West Point this year, greater than
that of any other southern state. One
of these stands fifth in a class of fifty
two.
Out of ,343 members of the Massa-
chusetts Medical Society, 700 reply
''yes," 400 say mo-" and % are indif-
ferent to the question: ''DO you favor
the admission of women to the society
on the same terms with men?'
Some idea of the extent of specula-
ton in New York may be gained from
the statement that from January to
MAY IL of the present year the sales of
wheat at the Produce Exchange i'll that
eity amounted to 527 ,J97, 800 bushels, or
more than the entire crop
of 1882.
The United States Fish Commission
has this year distributed throughout
every State and Territory in the Union
so ,000, 900 white fish, 10000, 900 shad,
and 100000 of the salmonide species.
The commission has also distributed H.
900 German carp.
There was a cash balance in the
New Hampshire treasury of S204, ,622.49
on May 31st, against S61 ,233.4S at the
same time last year. This favorable
showing is largely due to the adoption
of biennial sessions of the Legislature.
The State debt amounts to 5, ,3S3, ,O6O.-
o.
During the last seven years Brahms,
Joachim, Goldschmidt, Spitta, Wullner,
NottIebohm and other prominent Ger
man musicians lave been engaged in
editing Breitkopf and Hartel's complete
edition of the works of Mozart. The
task is now completed and comprises 52S
genuine works of Mozart, to which will
lie added supplement containing works
not completed by Mozart. About one
third of these works had never before
been in print.
"A curious deity has been worshiped
for years past by pious Hindoos In the
Temple of Bharata, in the Fyzabad dis
tr.ct, Bengal brass casting OF the
al ms of the old East India Company.
TIE D-ass used to be bathed and annoint-
ed with sandal-wood oil eveiy day, In
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