Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-06-13
NEWS In BRIEF

IS employed in the office of the City En-
gineer of Buffalo.
Scarlet is still the fayorite color for
sunshades in London.
Louisiana is cheered by the pros
pect of big orange and sugar crops.
General Grant income is said to be
about $1,000 a year
Gridley, Cal, is to add frog farm
to its industries.
Representative HaZletOn, of Wis
consin, is SO i'll that his recovery is not
expected.
Bowie, Texas, has raised capital
of s35, 900 for the purpose of establishing
a national bank.
General HaZen has been visiting
Chicamauga battlefield where he COM
manded brigade.
p. T. Barnum has given So, 600
worth of land for park purposes to
Bridgeport, Conn.
Ex-Governor Long, of MasSachu-
sets, will be the commencement orator
at Colby University.
1t is said that the grandfather of
Archbishop Benson, of Canterbury, was
Wesleyan Methodist.
General E. z. Alexander is said to
have been offered the presidency of the
Mexican Central Road.
There are now 191 cotton factories
in the Southern States, and most of
them are making money.
Oyster culture was commenced in
NOrwayin 1877, and at last they are
having a good yield of spat.
j. Q. Ward. the sculptor, has been
given theeOntract for the Garfield statue
to be erected in Washington.
The first metal found in the ruins
of the Tuileries was coined into medal
and presented to Victor Hugo.
There are in Boston sixty-nine
women taxed over 100000, five over
500, 900 and two over 81, 900. 900.
The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin has
just given valuable collection of books
to the Mechanics Library of Bangor,
Me.
In Paris fashion among the young
men is the wearing of four studs on the
shirt front instead of the former single
stud.
Louis Blanc's will has Just been
proved in London. The value of the
personal estate in England exceeded
$4,000.
-Ex-Vice President Wheeler is rap
idly recovering from the illness with
which he has for some time past been
President Grevy's salary is S240. 900
a year. Louis Napoleon, when En-
peror, received yearly allowance of So
000, 200.
Prof. Abel, who has conducted the
Government dynamite investigation in
England, has been knighted. Its an
i'll wind" etc.
"A prominent young man named AL
len was on trial at Delphi, Indiana, a
few days ago upon the charge of having
married his cousin.
The Museum of Comparative 70
olOgy at Cambridge, Mass, is TO be open
to the public every Sunday afternoon
until November /.
"A silver mine;has been discovered
near Hartford, Ark. Old Instruments
used by the savages for smelling pur-
poses led to the discovery
The average of land devoted to the
of wheat in tie United States
has within the last ten years extended
from 1900, 900 tOmOre than 50, ,000,0U
The King of Bavaria has made a
niece of Wagner Royal Professor of
the School of Music, " the first appoint
ment of the kind conferred ON a woman.
1t Is estimated that the British
and women spend more than
a fifth of their wages, or .e75, 900. 900
out of $3.50, ,000, 600 for beer and other
strong drinks.
The Wesleyans of Great Britain
have sent a petition to Parliament for
the closing of public houses on Sunday,
on roll of paper two and three-quarter
miles long, containing 500, 332 names.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the
novelist, of Alabama, has a very fine
dairy, in which she takes much pride.
Her Jersey cows take prizes. She per-
sOnally attends to the making of Jams
and jellieS, and her guests at Mobile
praise her excellent homemade pies.
-Enterprising citizens of New Or
eans, La, have already taken measures
TO attract to that city next winter por-
ton of the Northern travel which has
recently been directed to Florida and
South Carolina, and some capitalists
nave contracted for the building of a
winter hotel at Pass Christian.
Nearly 100 applications are said TO
a. ha1r, unaHa f,f IN ..f
If the British Crown Jewels since the
leath, month ago, Of the late keeper.
The place is worth in salary only $500,
Dut the keeper has the use of apartments
N the Tower The appointment is not
made by the military authorities, but by
he Queen herself.
Rev. j. I. GOucher, of Baltimore,
1 month ago gave $1,000 to purchase
acresof ground for mission
III Japan. The property is
very near the official palace of the Mika-
10 or Emperor. Letters patent have
been secured from the Government of
Japan, guaranteeing forever the title to
the Missionary Society Of the Methodist
Church.
Nebraska has increased its popula-
ton l, 496 per cent IN twenty years, and
its taxable property l, ,l20 per cent. Its
per cent of illiteracy is less than any
other State or Territory.
-Flotow left number of important
works in Ms, which have just been dis
covered among his effects by his execu-
.ors. They comprise ''Saeountala," a
grand opera in fiveacts;' Les Musiciens !"
4 comic opera, and two operettas. lie
and ia Vengeance des
Fleurs." There are also some songs,
TWO concertos and a mass. They will be
published at once
In July next an Educational Con-
gress will meet in Rio Janeiro, under a
eall from the BRAZILIAN Government. The
Government of the United States has
been requested to furnish the best speci-
mems of work done in the public schools
of this country.
Horse railways are profitable to the
city of Berlin. 1t is deriving handsome
profit from the chief eompany's lines,
which pay it five per cent. of their gross
receipts. Over a total length of track
of 14O 35S meters last wear 81. 30J- 600