Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-02-07
NO. 6.
NEWS IN BRIEF

| patents nave Deen Sranteu-
There are deep complaints of power
" and distress IN Hungary.
| There are now IS. l36 volumes IN
the New Jersey State Library.
-Gambetta's brain weighed a few
grains less than forty-six ounces.
The reserve IN the treasury at
Washington has fallen toless than Sll1,-
600, 900.
The Washington mine at Port
Dram is worked out and has been gban-
dored.
Millionaire Vanderbit's check foI
fourteen cents has been framed at Au-
! burn.
Mr.. Chaplin, the Speaker Of the
New York Assembly, is only 81 years
of age.
"A fox was recently discovered asleep
IN an old crows nest IN high pepper
Idge tire near Middl, town, Conu.
Millionaire Tabor, OF Colorado, has
been granted divorce from his wife,
whom he gives 800 900 In hard cash.
For the first time within living
memory the Potomac is frozen soiidly
across from Washington to the VrgIuiI
shore.
A rich and eccentric CAlifOrnian
has paid seventeen different JOhn
Smiths in the State $500 each to change
their names.
-SuicIde is said to be increasing in
Prussia, the figures having risen from
l3 per 100. 900 population IN 1869, to
is IN 1889.
The butter tree was discovered in
the central part OF Africa from its
kernel Is produced nice butter which
Will keep year.
There is an S,OJO-acre ranch IN
Texas entirely devoted to tine breeding
Of ponies for children.
The Duke of New Castle is at
Jacksonville, Florida, taking rest
from travel.
twenty-five thousand dollars are to
be expended this year in improvements
to the Oil City.
An almest inexhaustible supply Of
emery stone has been discovered near
Schimersville, Pa.
The Erie car works have il their
yards 10000, 900 feet of pine lumber
10 be made up into cars.
The total cost of fencing the land
IN most of our States exceeds the cost
OF all the buildings"
Two years ago there were bat seven
cotton mills in the Dominion NOW there
are tweEty-one, with an aggregate capt
tai OF $4,000, 900.
-"Ihe taxes paid by the farmers in
New York are 33 cents per acre. The
annual taxes that fences occasion Is
81. II per acre"
The new railroad construction of
this year Is reported at 10, 1921 miles.
making the total LII the Uulted States
at the present time IL, ,634 miles.
Railway President Garrett has pre-
sented the Johns Hopkins Hospital at
Baltimore with a marble bust of Escula-
pIus, executed by MIR. Kcyser in Rome.
The number of arrests made by
the Mayors police of Philadelphia,
during 1882 was 46 130. The stolen
property recoverd was valued at $685.
76S 46, of which sum S3l, ,S47 80 was
credited to the Detectives.
AT stenographlc exhibition IN
Paris twenty-fOUr different systems OF
short -kand were on view. Among other
curiosities there was post card con
tanning A 900 words.
The age for marriage of European
prince is from twenty.fOur to forty for
princess, from eighteen to twenty
eight. There are at present thirty-one
manageable princes, and only twenty
tour manageable princesses.
1t Is said that Mrs. Frank Leslie.
with a number of artists and personal
| friends. will make tour OF the South.
She will herself write the descriptions,
which the artists will illustrate.
Three thousand London policemen
followed the remains OF one of their
number to the grave one day recently.
The London force now consists of T.
QUO men, not counting special officers.
Texas has 81, ,000, 900 lying idle III
her treasury, but is unable to apply it
to the reduction of her debt, So, OO1,-
600, because her creditors ask Sl4J Tor
the bonds, and she Is unwilling to pay
that premium.
The assertion is made that from an
annual cotton crop of G.6JO000 bales
seed can be obtained to vi Id 5l00, ,OO0,-
200 worth of oil. 1t Is assumed that
every 400-pouud bale gives 1.2J0
pounds of seed.
Gray squirrels are so troublesome
in Connecticut that the farmers have in
vited sport men to exterminate them,
and they are being killed in great num-
bers. A party of three recently bagged
los squirrels In day.
The Judge in one Of the courts of Vic
tOria, British Columbia, when a Chinese
witness was being sworn, said that he
had not yet met a Chinaman who could
nOt write, and complimented the witness
on the neatness OF his characters.
The total exports of petroleum and
petroleum products from the United
states during the eleven months which
ended on November 30ln last were S41, =
67O, 100, against Sl4, 415, 673 during the
corresponding period Of the preceding
Year.
The report OF the Census Bureau
shows that men in the United States
spend more money IN dress than women.
The figures are S49S, 200, 900 for men
and S3I7, 900, 900 tor women. The aver
age Is S45 year for men and S27 Tor
women.
There were Q tons Of postage stamps,
80 tons OF envelopes, 113! tons OF pos
tai cards and II tons of newspaper
wrappers sold at the New York Post
Office in 1882. The sam altogether de-
rived from postage at that olice wss 81
23S, 575, 20.
-Tgenty-four thousand eggs Of the
silk worm weigh ]! ounces. For 739
pounds of mulberry leaves, seventy
pOnnds Of cocOOns are obtained Ore
hundred cocoons give s. pounds OF spun
six. One pound Of cocOOns produces
single thread 3S. O00 fathOms long.
1.-The foundation stone of the mag
niicent Church of the Saviour at Wen
na, which has been under construction