Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-08-22
NO. "a.
NEWS IN BRIEF

| Aiuic. hiStoil u 10 mike farewell
tour OF this country next year.
OF the 40S students in the Munich
Academy of Art 81 are Americans.
-Baroness Burdett- -Couts has twenty
million dollars invested in u. ). bonds.
Utah, which contained not a rail
sixteen years ago, now has l0Si mile,
of railway.
The recent Masonic fair in Dublin
realized SiO, 900, and American lod res
contributed thereto.
English papers commend the intro-
ductlon of the American lock-blx into
the British postal system.
Twelve ofthe Bishops of the Church
OF England are over 10 years of age
and of the.'e three are over 50.
1t is asserted that British capitaI
10 the extent of Sd, 900. 900 went into
wyoming and Texas last year.
Mozart, F.otOw and Gounod man
ayers find, are the most popular com
poSers for Russian audiences.
DIR. G. G. Bristol is still living in
Buffalo, New York. He was the first
white male born in that place.
The Japanese are teaching about
2,OOO,OOO in their public schools on
American and English systems.
"A calculation IN Ide at the postof-
nee department shows only one reyi,f-
cred letter in every 1900 is lost.
o,-1The -The British government gives
EJOO. 493 to the Scottish universities
and allows elOS, ,757 for new works.
There are ten eOlored teachers in
topeka, Kansas, eight of whom arr.
graduates of educational institutions
1t is estimated in Washington that
about 500, 900, 900 of our national deLt
or less than 20 per CENTS held in
Europe. '' III
Inc price of hops has decreased
oiie-lalI within three months. There
Is no three-cent-beer wave in sight vel
however. '9''
compressed carbonIc acid is us,.J
at the great gun mlnufactory AT Essen
III making Ice and seltzer water for tbs
wOrkmen. 'oi 'iio
-Ihe prices of carpets of all grades
are lower than they have basn for
twenty years, excepting for a brief
period in 1879. 'i''i
An intelligent London fish msreh
ant has made calculation sbowin,,
tnat '2,0OO,OJO oysters are annnaIIS
consumed in London.
1t Is estimated that of all tba ,ni
mas that are attacked by the catti.
plague, now raging in Egypt. not mr..
thin III IN 100 recover.
1t Is estimated that the miners AMI
merchants of Butte, Montana Terri.
tory have on deposit at the three b1nts
OF that city about 5000, 900. ''''A'
OF 4, ,392, ,92O Prussian cbil5r,,
-, ,9Il go to Evangelical. and / io5
9S1 to Catholic schools. MAXIM &, 49, ~,
oi 4 'lZ9,9Jo III Christian schools.
- III Is stated that one ruby founJ i,
hooiilsOn county, Georgia. i, vynrth
over S3,0OO. and is the Iargest s'.a,.
found on the American continent
The 1900 saloons of Missouri last
ear paid licenses to the amonnt Of
sIo' ,OoO: The same number of sIIo,ns
under udon rot the new law will have to nav
Statistics show that whila tban
.a.ioll .h mas increased but 10 per cent in
the last 80 years in the seven cbiap
counties of England, suicides have In
ing the same period increased fs ma.
cent. 10 per
-ine reduction in the interest-be,r-
ing ueOt Oh the government for TN. ia
c1i year Just closed is Sl25. .5SI 210
Whleh secures permanent annu,i a.
ductlon In the interest charge of -
923, ,431. 80 vi 9',-
Angela Cordella, a Nevada mipar
claims TO be the strongest man in -.
"oIhl- Ills bones are all extr,orTIi-
narily massive, though he weighs bnt
l2o pounds. He can lift 200 pounds
with one finger. P"''''
Nine. Minnie Hauk, Nine. Durand
and Mile. Alice Urban. three celehr,ta't
prlhia donne now in Europe. ar, aII
Creoie girls from New Orleans. and gnr
Their musical beginning at the French
cathedral in that city. 0'''"
IL i: 'icaiCle " Brian, who
;,aiinS iineai relationship with Brian
boru, the last king of Ireland. lives in
costello county. He Is one of the ear
lieSt settlers who came to Colorado dnr-
ing the gold excitement of 80
About 10000, 900 feet of Iogs b,va
been turned out of the boom near SriI,
water, Mlnn., thus far this saason
They are going out at the rate of S1a
~ per uay' Dut 1t will take two or
-hree weeks yet to open the river for
navigation. '' ioi
In boring an artesian well i'm tba
santa Clara Valley, California III
stump OF redwood tree was me} ~
distance OF 2Sl feet from the surface
Ihe point where the tree was strncI
Is 81 feet above and 5 milesdistant from
Lide water. ''''"' ioin
Two dwarfs were married in ITr-
ldiia, ONO, last week. CaarIes Wno-
ey, the groom, Is feet 3 inches in
lei2ht and weighs lis pounds. The
bride, Miss Florence Bitman. is 4 foot
llgh and weighs los pounds Roth
IRE over 81 years of age.
PoiIiditS on the new pOStaOe
stamps that come in use October / are..
i-cent, Franklin; 2-cent, jackson: r
cent, Washington; scent, Garfield' e.
;ellt' Lincoln; 1-cent, Stanton: IO-cent
Jefferson; l2-cent, Clay; 15-cent Scott
'O-cent, Hamilton; 9O-cent Perry
Two books formed with sbeet-iron
caves have been sent to the Amster-
lam exhibition by an English firm a.
IN Illustration of the perfection To which
he process Of rolling sheets of iron has
been brought. The leaves are said to
DC no thicker than ''good-toned paper
Some plasters that came AWAY
rom one of the walls of the Protesf,n,
church OF st. James, at Augsburg. re-
Gently, during the removal of an ola
or an, disclosed some coloring that led
70 an examination of the whole wall
and several large and beautiful frescoes
Inscribed In the year 1880 and 14g;
were thus revealed.
-Tne.Chief of the. Bureau of Statis.
tics reports that the total values OF tb,.
exports OF domestic breadstuffs from
the United States during the month of
June was sll, ,545, 1886. For the six