Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-05-16
NEWS IN BRIEF

The yearly product of gold in Cali
fonia is from Sl5,OOO,OOO to $4,000
600.
The lands in Texas, capable of pro-
ducing sugar, are placed AT l,O00.0OO
acres
"A little Atlanta boy denounced his
snoring brother for sleeping through
his nose
During the last ten years we have
sold 81, l,205, ,S04, ,16l more than we have
brought from foreign nations.
Paris viii gain $50. 600. 600 worth of
land by the removal of her city walls
which are to come down.
The reply post cards are regarded
as failure in England because they
have not come INTO general use
During the past six months Texas
has sold >, ,lS5.O 600 acres of school land.
Some Of the farmers in san Bernar-
dino county, Cal, are killing birds by
placing poisoned apples on trees.
An Ashland. Ohio. wife recently
became the mother of perfectly healthy
babe weighing less than one pound.
-EX-Secretary Columbus Delano is
spending his old age in luxury on his
large sheep farm in Knox county, %.
internal revenue collections for the
san Francisco district for the yearend-
ing February 2Sth, aggregate 81, ,S62,-
| lightweight husbands are wonder
ing how David Davis will get to his room
at \. NJ. without making the stairs
| creak.
| n granite monument is To be erect
ed at AnderSonville. Ga. i'll memory of
the Federal soldiers who are buried
there.
There were twenty-five contested
seats IN the FOrty-Seventh Congress and
1t cost the country 100000 to settle
them.
France in 1873 produced Il. 500. eco
pounds of cOcOOnS; in 1873 only II 900
900 pounds, and in 1880 14,O0O,O 900
pounds.
Alexander II. Stephens was worth
about SO. .OOO-S -S30. 600 of which he made
out of his book, The War among the
States.
In the United States there is about
Sb,WO,OOO of capital invested in paper
mills, the annual product being 10000
O0O pounds.
| -EX-SecTetary kirkwOOd has recov-
cred fully from the effects of his recent
accident, and is lecturing in Iowa on
Education"
Texas now leads the southern states
in the production Of cotton. The crop
of last year viii aggregate / 800. 900
bales, worth S75,O00,O0O.
Gen. Francis \. Walker will deliver
the oration at the opening of the Manu-
factmerS and Mechanics Institute Fair,
in Boston, next September.
"A recent letter from Honolulu.
Hawaii, says that King Kalakaua :
: Arm" consists of - soldiers. eXchI-
5 Sive of bandS and attendants
= The proprietorsof the marbleOuarr
in Hawkins, Tenn, have for the last
year been realizing S3OOperfO0t fortheir
marble delivered ON the ears.
The number of hogs packed in Chi
cago for the year ending March l. 1SS3,
was 1, b., 600, a decrease of SIS. 900 COM
! pared with the preceding year.
Z One hundred and sixty active sin
I gers and two hundred associate members
r belong To the Mozart Society and Con-
Il Servatory of Music of Memphis, Tenn
+ The state Of Nevada has for the past
sixteen wears been collecting a cabinet
J. 0f minerals, and now has a magnificent
collection over two thousand specimens
i in all
. The total amount Of 81 per cent
: bonds exchanged into ) per cents. to
date is S299, 800. 400. Of this amount.
4 s., lj6,O5O have been exchanged since
: February |.
r 1t is asserted that Minnesota con
{. tainS no less than 10000 lakes. with am
;, layerage extent of 300 acres each. These
= lakes, it is said, cover one-twentieth of
d the surface of the state.
e The cUrfew is still rmg at MANY
r towns in England, and at Ripou horn
II is blown at 9 p. m. in memory of the
e presentation to the city of a horn. still
P eXtant, by King Alfred
The sand business in Albany. y. Y.
amounts toquite an industry. Molding
% sand is shipped in large quantities from
> that city to California. One man ship,
:. labOUt 2J.0OO tons yearly.
Ie 1t is said that the finest sleeping ear
/ i'm the country are those which run int
P. New Orleans. and that fully fOur-iifth,
t. of them are equipped wallpaper wheels
ii costing $50 each, OF Sl0S0 a car.
y 1t is found by X. Schneider that dis
'l tinrt traces of silver are Obtainable il
u many of the commercial preparations o
p biSmuth. Pure oxide of bismuth, whel
free from silver, is not affected by light
20 A Young man died in Rome, Ga, f;
M few DAYS ago, after an illness of forty
* leight hours, and his physician said hi
n death was due Ia congestion of tn,
I. lungs, caused 10y smoking cigarettes.
t. A dying thief was compaSsionatel
released from the Rhode Island Stat
Prison and sent to pass his Temainin:
davs at home in Providence; but befOr
= his deaih he crawled out and robbie,
n. seven houses.
a The quaint old town of Boseawen
he y. H., is to celebrate the one hundre,
ms land fftieth anniversary of its eXistene
IN Iduring the coming summer. This tow
is HAS given to the world Daniel and Eze
ld kiel Webster, Gen. John \. Dix, viii
DO lam Pitt Fessenden, Nathaniel am
st Charles G.. Green, and other distinguish
Is ed men.
a OF 362 houses inspected by the Lor
T. don Sanitary Protection Society laS
m wear, six per cent. were found to hav
II drains completely choked up, preventin
IN all communication with a sewer. In IL
We houses the soil pipes leaked, allowin
ie. sewer gas to enter the house. PerhaI
We it is no better here.
~ The Treasury department has de
~ cided that only S42 900 of 'the S12, ,OC
' appropriated by congress to reimburS
~ Oregon for expenses incurred by it in Il
~ Mod6c war shall he paid over, beeaus
= Oregon still owes taxes to the Unite