Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-04-18
NEWS IN BRIEF

N; UreNy, Ike Mr.. Gladstone. Is in
his 74th year. - III
| There are 642 prisoners in the West
eTn penitentiarv.
-Green Is to he a favorite color i,
London fashions. '''
"A new volcano has broken out with
IN % miles of Yokohama.
Herr Wagner had an income of 50
OoO from his musical copyrights,
A manm Smbury, Penna.. recently
married his sons wife's daughter.
The pail factory at Niles. Mich
manufactures 30O, 600 butter-,Iisbes dai-
Ily. ''''''' O''i-
-senator-elect G.. ". DoIph. Of Ore
son, Is Grand Master of Masons of tbat
State.
The one railroad in an Greece is five
miles long, and each mile of ii TOOK ;,
year to build.
-EN-Cadet Whitaker has quit noIi-
ties and gone to school teaching in south
Carolina
-Nirginia has 172 tobacco.factori,.s
whose annual production is Is O00 000
pounds of tobacco.
There are LOO men employed in
various capacities about the iron works
at PheniNville. ~
-CaSSluS NJ. Clay attributes sun
stroke, as well as the floods. To the de-
struction of the forests.
--RemenyI has found a twrlve-va,,
old girl in Texas whom he pronounces
the greatest violiniSt America has e,.'.,.
produced.
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| "A Fort WAYNE SIl0un-kerperor,leT
eel The electric light removed from hise,-
taOllshment because he couldn't light il
with match.
Crime has of hate been alarmipgIy
ON the increase IN Germany. Desperlt.
murders and rohheries are of almost
daily occurrence.
Harvard, Amherst, Williams. and
\ ale Colleges will receive from so. 900
to SJ9, 600 piece from the estate of the
late Henry T. Morgan.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes. of London. is
expected at Rugby, Tenn. in Septem-
her. His brother, Mr.. ". HASTINGS
Hughes is now there.
The proper tartan of the rovaI fam
lily, says NJ. Labouchere, is the rovaI
Stuart, although several new tartans
have been designed for it.
| Recent tests Of warn made from diff
erent hempS gives the following relative
strengths: Manila. 10; Italian. u
New Zealand, l43; Russian. Us.
Nine. Wilson, President Crews
only child, has recently become the
mother of ii little girl-the first child. it
Is said, ever born in the Elysee Palace.
! English SportSmen who ocontemnlate
a trip to a savage country where there
are, of course, 10 gunmakers' shops.
usually take with them the muzzle-load-
ing guns.
The new lighthouse at Tampico Is
pronounced success, and Mexican en-
glneerS are at work making estimates of
the costs of constructing a shelter for
ships at MatamoraS.
The statistics of British pensions
show that 10, openSiOnerS draw g. 1876.
1jl per annum from India, and ljO. 30
pensioners receive from the taxpayers OF
the United Kingdom more than g.
0Oo, coo per annum.
There are sud 10 be rs many IA
twenty or twenty-five deaf muteS i'm the
Grow Natiun-quite a large proportion
IN less than 5000. They are all well
versed i'll the sign language.
-EX-GOveTnur Stanford Is Thought tn
possess the largest vineyard owned bv
an Individual anywhere in the world.
The vineyard at Viua. Cal. embraces
300 acres all i'm thriving vines.
Declining an invitation To attend a
meeting IN Boston recently Mr.. Wendell
Phillips wrote that Mrs Phillips Illness
Is such that he IS obliged To fOrego all
such pleasures, all visits and meetings.
The average birth rate per annum
IN France for the period between 1872
and lSS0 has been calculated To be one
birth for thirty-seven inhabitants. which
is by FAR the lowest birth rate m Europe.
The coffee blight has spread from
iCeylon and the FIJI Islands to Brazil.
where the loss is already So serious that
the Minister Of Agriculture is making
every effort todlSccyera means Of stopp-
ing it.
Mr.. John j. King, who was born
during the administration of the second
President OF the United States, and who
sat in the Senate earlier than CLAY or
Webster, still lives, in feeble health. AT
Augusta, Georgia.
Nathaniel IIawthome's desk-tIe
one which he used during his custom
house service at Salem-iS preserved in
the venerable First Church of that town.
Ii is a tall desk and was evidently used
| by the novelist in standing position.
Announcement is made of the retire
ment from the ROYAL Academy of Mr..
Charles West Cope, the painter. lie is
now Seventy-tlTee years of age, and has
been an \. II. \. nearly forty years.
The early portion of his career was prin-
Icipally occupied in painting frescOes for
Westminster Palace.
Since the close OF the war the Amer
lean people have paid out $40, 100000
in pensions. At the end of the present
fiscal year there were 1851 names on
the roll, representing an annual outgo of
Sj4 ,296, 80, and in the last year 27,64f
new pensions and III, ,231 increased pen
SiOns have been gr;lpted, and there ar
Yet 269,67S applications.
The number of hogs packed in Chi
cago during the year which ended March
LIST, 1883, was 1 4,223, 600, decrease of
So, 900 on the number of the preceding
year. The average weight of the hogs
packed was 2lS pounds against 23l in
1881, and 2;4 in 1850. The number of
cattle slaughtered in Chicago during the
: last year was 114,j1S.
The mercantile failures in Great
, Britain have been growing steadily few
IT in number since 1913. Statistics show
diminutiOn in the number of insolyen-
cies for 1SS2, especially in the retail
trade. The figures for 1SS2 are: Mum
ber of failures, wholesale trade, ,3lI;
retail trade, 9,705; total IL ,O1J
The garrison of Berlin numbers l.,
S13 men; Metz, II, All; ;StraSburg, s, ,96j;
Mayence, 7,7l2; Cologne, 1,6JJ; Pots
dam, g $40. Seventy other towns have
; garrisons over 2.0OO-3 OF these being
over 5000 aud ) over 5,O00-and there
!. are 366 garrisoned with less than 1000.
And this is peace establishments