Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-05-02
NEWS IN BRIEF

ON . Recent English Art
1t is expected that 600 miles of new
railroad will be built in Michigan this
year.
The estate of the late Nathaniel
Thayer, Of Boston, is estimated at Sl1,
100000.
AT the last Queens drawing-room
the Princess of Wales Wore two shades
of green.
1t is estimated that 20OO persons a
year, mostly prisoners, take their own
lives in Russia.
Seven Cinnamon have been killedm
Grant county, y. NJ, during the last
year by = 'rustlers." "
The British Misister, the Hon. Lio-
mel Sackville West, has engaged rooms
at Saratoga for the season.
The lighthouse at Sydney, New
South Wales, has an electric light of
over T., ,00O, 600 candle power.
New Zealand has introduced the
American common sche0l system, and
has S36 schools and "a, 100 scholars.
Some OF the European steamers last
year cleared from $4,000 to $4,000 oI
each round trip of four or five weeks.
"A member of the Pennsylvania
legislature has introduced . bill forbid
ding the running of sunday railroad
trains.
MIR. Gladstone would utilize wet
lands by growing water crosses and I'M
prove railway embankments 10y planting
fruit trees.
Columbia college, which WAS started
in 1859 on the proceeds of a lottery. now
has an endowment of Sj,000.0O and
lS57 students.
The Delaware LackaWanna and
Western company Is reported buying
large amounts of coal lands in the
Wyoming region.
The two court theatres al Vienna.
paid 81, 800 during lSS2 To authors and
composers, and the TWO court theatres Of
Berlin paid Sll, 900.
OF the old five cent pieces there are
nearly 5000, 100 in circulation. OF
three cent pieces 2N,uUO, 900, and of one
cent pieces 500 900, 900.
1t is estimated that 2,JOO-OOJ tons
of clear solid ice have been stored along
the Hudson between Troy and New
y ork during the winter
The new depot TO he built by the
Pennsylvania raiirudd company at Har-
risburg, and for which ground has been
broken, is to cost SjuU,OOJ.
Queen Victoria has signiiied her i'll
tentiOn of opening the International
Fisheries Exhibition at South Kensing-
ton on Saturday, May L.
A brilliant Anglo American ball
was given at Geneva ON the 18th OF
March, in which the hOnOTs were carried
oil by a young Scotch lady.
Secretary Teller has appointed Mrs.
Helen Hunt jackson special inspector
| the California Indians.
"A single book in the Earl OF Ash
bunham's library, known as the - Al
bani Missal," an illuminated ancient
Ms, has been valued at $4,000.
Fifty thousand pairs of shoes daily
are made III the prisons of New York.
The outside manufacturers claim TO be
unable to compete with tine contractors.
during the past wear there were
carried over the Pennsylvania railroad
and its branches, :, ,263, $50 tons Of coal.
and :, ,SSS, ,7S7 tons of coke, a total OIL.
lj7, ,l47 tons.
For brutally whipping one Of his
small pupils a school teacher in Ackley.
Hardin county, Iowa, was compelled IL
resign, and was fined - and costs in
the Police Court.
Colorado mined and shipped during
the year lSS2, :, ,OOO, 900 tons bituminOuS
local, 1000 tons of anthracite and 100.
900 tons of coke, producing a revenue Of
about 81, 100000.
The projected Scottish Temperance
Life Assurance Companyof Edinburgh,
which is To have capital of e1O0,UUU,
will insure the lives of total abStainers
at greatly reduced premiums"
There are now doing business in
this country and Canada 4iJ street rail-
ways, employing about 5000 men.
They run Il, 900 cars and more than 100,
900 horses are in daily use.
Senator Edmunds, who has been in
South Carolina, has gone to Florida,
where he will remain with his family
until very warm weather. His Journey
Will then be across the continent.
The death is announced, at the age
Of 80, of Nine. Ilummel, the widow of
the composer. Her maiden name was
Rocket, and, before her marriage, she
was a prima donna at the Vienna Opera.
The United States leads the world
! in its number of cattle, having 5000
900, to Russia's y 900, 900 and Indla's
100000. But Russia has 3O,UOO. 900
horses, and the United States comes see
Ond with lO,JO0,OOO.
According To "A recent speech I'm the
CorteS, the Spanish Army is surprisingly
"Over-generalled, - having l general 10
every 5sS men. I'm France the proper
ton Is l to ,566; in England, to i, ,75g,
and in Germany 10 l,Jli.
The Spaniarl drinks less wine than
his neighbors-ll gallons year only
a as compared with IL In Portugal and y
in France. He Sends abroad yearly
about 176, ,OO0, 900 gallons, which may be
8 valued at $500, 90 sterling.
= An Indian woman, said 20 he IL
years OF age, lives near Fitzpatrick, il
: Bullock county, Ala. Sine was on Gen
u eral Andrew JdcksOn's staff as a cool
Is when that worthy cut "A road through
s the country to Florida and has some pot
/ and kettles in which she used to cook thr
q hero's frugal food.
= New York annually imports from
. the Mediterranean about 10000. .OU
81 oranges and nearly an equal quantity o
= lemons, of an invoice value of over hal
> a million sterling, besides cOusiderabl
: quantity from the West Indies.
.e Austria supports 20 schools of agri
Iy culture with 200 students, and Il
le agricultural evening schools with ,, 80
re students. France has 43 farm school
v. with 80 to 40 pupils at each. The Gov
ne erment pays the board of each pupil, AN
l. allows him 40 francs year for clothing
pc Paris has 3 department schools OF agr
culture anda National Agricultural In
stitute.
OF the million and quarter of pc,
be pie living in New York City in Isl
ch about One-half had their hOWeS IN ten
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