Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-03
NEWS IN BRIEF


year by the gold and silver sweep" a,
the British mini.
The cotton gin owners Of north
Texas charge toll Of one-twelfrh Tor
ginning the staple
1t Is said that the receipts of the
Gloucester fishermen viii be 81 .O0O. COO
in excess of last year.
There are nearly seven hundred
Cinnamon in the New York and Brook
lyn Sabbath schools.
The New York Commission imul
grafton IS said to be penniless and lis
expenses average $500 DAY.
The wages of the grinders of the
Delaware Iron Works were cut down
from twelve to seven dollars per week.
Nine hundred claims have been
docked IN the Court OF Alabama Claims.
1t Is believed the tctal VIII reach 1. con.
Six thousand petitiors, bearing
I619, 900 signatures, IN favor OF Sunday
Closing bill for England, have already
been presented to Parliament.
Congressman Hazeltine. OF Mis-
sour. Is the owner of an enormous or
chard. from whIc he this wear has ship
ped $4,000 barrels of apples.
-Adyices from Adelaide, South Aus
tralia, state that the Legislative Coun-
Gil and the House of Assembly have re-
solved to hold an exhibition IN 1856.
Petroleum ranks fourth in value
among the exports of the United States.
grain, cotton, and provisions alone sur
passing 1t even tobacco is lar bennd.
The drinking of lager beer is IN
ereasing in popularity in England, and
German brewers are contesting hOtly
Tor supremacy In the London markets,
during the past twelve months
American newspapers have been received
/ by mail IN England at the rate OF more
than Is. 900 day. or 10000, coo year
There are at least hundred women
practising medicine in Chicago, regular
ly certIticated under the present statu-
tory enactments by the State Board of
Health.
The profits at the Imperial Theatre.
London, during the six nights Mrs.
Langtry played "As You Like 1t.
averaged $50 night, or 1000 for the
week.
Mr.. Hollis HunneweH. who has nj
ready given Wellesley, Mass, public
library building, costing S7j, 200. is
now erecting there town hail worth
about Sl00 900.
The German Empire has now about
-, ,OO0, 600 acres of forest, valued at
s4UO. 900, goo, and appropriates $500. 900
every year to increase and maintain she
growth Of trees.
Neither Sir Garnet Wolselev Ior
Sir BeaIchamp Seymour has a son to
keep alive the peerage each has won.
The admiral Is unmarried, and Sir Gar
net has only a daughter.
1t IS stated that before the end OF
the year India will lave I2,OCO miles
of railway. The mileage has increased
100 per cent In the last three years
The country Is becoming our competitor
IN supplying Europe with breadstufs.
The exports have increased about one
third since 1879, being S3sC. 900. OOO
last year. British capital is rapidly i'm
proving India agriculture.
1t Is estImat, d that the total num-
Der OF cigars manufactured IN New York
il year is $40 6j6, 900. aid OF cigar
cites 229, 500. 0JO 25,GO0 persons are
e5;pioyed in the business.
Daring the last ten years cattle in
New South Wales have increased very
little, but sheep have gone from sixteen
millions to Thirty three millions beet
consequently grows steadily dearer
During the Egyptian war column
of loaded telegraphic messages cost the
London newspapers from 81, 900 to 81
80. Seven shillings and two pence
(about Sl.SO)per word was the rate
charged.
"A genuine kangaroo rat was recent
ly caught in Tehsma county. Californis.
1t looks very much like the Norway
rat, but has shorter fore legs and
pouch TOR ITS young, as does the kan
garoo.
Tine managers OF the Royal Library
at Stockholm are about to sell 5000
duplicates Of Old and very rare books,
Principally German. Most of theu
were among the spoils Of the Thirty
Years war.
The exports Of the Dominion of
Canada during the last quarter, not ia
Guiding British Columbia, amounted to
about SIS, 900, 900. while the imports for
the same period amounted to $1,000
600. The amount of duty collected
was 100000.
-Au enormous bunch of grapes.
carefully enclosed IN a glass case, was
shown through Michigan by peddler.
who had for sale sprouts from what he
said was a vine of the same variety.
The exhibit was at length discovered
to be wax work.
The eldest sister OF q well-knowu
English Marquis is declared 10 have 10
Gently married baker. Her age Is 10.
and her husbands exactly half her own.
The lady, it seems, was patroness OF
a charity school in which tine young
man learned his trade.
The King of Greece speaks Eng
lish, French, German. Greek and Dan
ish. Their Grecian Maiesties, in con-
versirg together. use the German Ian
guage. III speaking with their children
they employ English, and they speak
Greek to the general household in the
various royal residences.
The Notwithstanding car of the
United States Fish Commission has
been distributing carp through Mime
sofa. Some 16, 900 young fish are car
mel at Que time. The loss of Gsb is
small, hardly worth counting, being
less than one fish 10 the thousand. H.
inois is to be fully stocked with Ger
man carp.
Rents in Scotland still continue to
fall. A large farm IN Berwickshire was
recently relet at $1,000, after having for
many years commanded 1850. This Is
q reduction of about 81 per cent. The
conditions of the new lease are said, in
addition. to be very liberal.
Mrs. Wilson, of Oregon, got a di-
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