Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-24
NEWS IN BRIEF


New Orleans people do not like the
= Northern fish.
Turnips and carrots are used ia
the adulteratlon of Jams.
In 34S there were 1000 hermits IN
the Egyptian Thebaid alone.
: Elizabeth Cady Stanton advises
billiards for girls of the period.
The population of Rome under the
emperors greatly exceeded million.
john Walford, age IO3 years. voted
at the recent election in Pike county.
: Ky.
The Chinese minister at WASHING
ton has wardrobe said to be worth
5000
Twenty thousand messages are
transmitted daily by telephone in Gin
cinnati.
Since 1850 eighty-two people have
thrown themselves from the Vendoma
column in Paris.
"A valuation OF 500. .OOl OOo IN
round numbers is reported on property
IN Texas this year.
! The sum of $3.50, 900 is now IN
vested in the manufacture of iron in TN.
Birmingham, Ala, district.
"A contract for removing the ruios
OF the Tuilenes Palace In Paris has
Just been awarded by the French Govern
ment.
.-tIotow, the we'll known composer
OF the opera Martha" bas become
Dllnd from the disease known "a gray
cataract.
1t is estimated that tie total wool
clip OF tine United States this year viii
aggregate 3U0,0O0,OGO pounis, worth
SlO0, 600, 900.
During the fiscal year. the Fe.ler.I
Government received from inspection
OF steam vessels and officers licenses
S27S, $50
A ticket twenty years old was ten
dered and accepted recently on the
Consolidated Road for a ride between
Hartford and Boston.
= A Halifax Merchant insists that
many mistakes are made IN fiourin,
through using short pencils. w1i.,
eramp the fingers.
For several weeks the banks at
Galveston have been receiving aud ex.
pressing to the Interior an average of
$500, OOO per week.
A union depot, go feet lorr with
covered tracks extending LOCO feet
ami costing about 100000, is to he
erected at Minneapolis.
The Cinnamon OF Evanston. Wv
omlng, have built large Masonic Tenn
pie and dedicated it according To the
customs OF their country.
The Nebraska State Superintendent
OF Public Instruction repOrs that there
are IOOO more boys than girls Of school
gong age in that State.
About seven centuries before the
CHRISTIAN era, southern Italy was SO
thlckiy set with Grecian cities as 10 be
known as Magma Grsssia.
The Faculty of Amherst ColIe,,
Massachusetts, has forbidden Its sfp-
dents to take part hereafter In inter
collegiate athletic contests.
In Texas there are so many apples
that two or three hundred distiIlerfes
have been licensed to make app.eiack
Much peach brandy also will be made.
Queen Victoria is fond Of Welsh
wooliens in plain and natural tlnts. and
IN tiny checks eff rich dark red and
oroWn-. Her faYorite is black aud dark
green.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes viii be
requested by his former pupils to sis
for his portrait, a request which has
oeen repeatedly made, but hitherto not
granted.
Queen Olga of Greece carries with
her on her travels a lap-dog Of that rare
breed SO often represented by Sir Peter
Lely IN his pictures of the ladies OF the
Court of Charles IL.
The record OF suicides in New York
elty Tor the past twelve years shows
that nearly 100 persons have committed
self murder. More than three fourths
OF these were men.
The annual report OF the Puniic
fnnter shows that during the fiscal
year which ended on tine 3Oth of June
iast the expense of his office was 81
635, l59. which Is Si19, ,2l9 larger thap
IN any previous year.
Trade was carried on between Ire
land and the countries lying around the
Mediterranean basin from the earliest
times. The Irish export was ores. but
there Was some traffic in slaves.
Tine Maine bank examiner reports
prosperous year for the fifty-6ye say
ings banks OF the State. In 1873 and
1879 the deposits decreased, but in 1880
there was reaction. The increase in
ihat year was nearly two million dollars.
during the twelve months winch
ended on NOYember 80, 1882, the e-x
ports from the United States exceeded
Ike imports in value by 81, ,434, S35.
Daring the twelve months winch ended
ON November 80. 1881, the excess Of ex-
ports was sl95, 13O,16S.
The Princess Louise and the Mr-
quis of Lcrne will take home with them
p ar of wool blankets, the finest ever
manufactured at the Golden Gate Wool
len Mills, San Francisco, and the sift
Of ex Governor Leland Stanford.
A Wisconsin millionaire divided his
| estate among his three children, with
the provision that half Of each portion
Is TO be kept by the trustees until the
child to whom 1t is left Is 30 years old,
and then 1t is not to be delivered until
proof is given that at least one-haf of
the portion previously paid has not
been squandsred.
The favorable mortality reports
made by the Regisuar-GeEeral Of Vic
toria, Australia, are largely due t. 50
many persons arriving in the colony be-
tween 20 and 80 years of age. anu leav-
ing it before so. As matter OF fact,
the infant mortality III Australia Is very
heavy, although the climate IS, for the
most part, excellent for adults, especially
for those with any tendency to pulmO-
nary trouble.
The farms il the United States are
worth $40. .l96, 799, 6i5 thefences, S7O,-
765, 723 iiye stock, 500. 9j2, 1S7 farm
implements and machinery. SI0S.5l
902; manures and special fertilizers
cost, S23. .5S7. .S65 the total value IL