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

-WhalebOne, cut into fine strips. is
now woven into hats.
The Hindoos are said to have 800
900, 900 gods.
The semi-dnnual dividends PAYABLE
in Boston in May aggregate S2.O9l.5 $50.
-Ninety-three thousand acres of land
We're planted with timber in Kansas last
year.
"A Flcrida alligator cuIturist has
LOCO little reptiles in stock TO I'm orders
from the North.
Il dark lantern wornon the shoulder
is considerably used in Germany for
night shooting.
= 1t has been estimated that there are
SIX hundred thousand miles of barbed
wire fence in use
The eSeer7i0H steamers IN Boston
I harbOr have already begun their summer
, trips to NantaSket Beach.
-Governor Sheldon, of New Mexico.
lives in a house which is 300 years old.
1t Is a mansion Of one story.
Nearly S14.00O.O00 worth of cattle
are now grazing in what SIX years ago
was Indian country in Texas.
Maine trdpperS have beenpaid near
" $4,000 during the past winter by Il
single dealer in furS IN Boston.
-EX-Goyernor Leland Stanford has
been confined to his house for nearly two
months by muscular rheumatism.
The Assessors valuation Of Buffalo.
y. Y, shows an increase of =. 800. .2OJ
over last year, being now SlO2-O5l %.
A man brcatheS about eighteen
times minute and Uses 3J0D cubic feet.
or about 80 hog5hcJls of air per hour.
On the Western end of the Cana
dian Pacific road 5000 Cinnamon and
1900 whites and Indians are employed.
There are said 90 be 100 practicing
young lawyers in New Haven. Conn.
whose income does not average Sl5 per
week.
Mr. Joseph Medin. eIitorofthe Chi
.cago Tribune. has been travelling in the
South gil winter and has just arrived at
home.
Three thousand depositors in Con-
necticut savings banks have not made
inquiries about their money for twenty
years past
Senator Palmer. of Michigan. has
given in advance his first years salarvto
the city of Detroit, to found q public
museum of art.
The ground upon which Cinciunlti
stands was purchased by :. G.. Sgmmrs
about ninety Years ago for siNty-,evrn
cents peracrr.
Great Britain has thirteen thousand
registered chemists and druggists. and
twenty-three thousand registered meII-
cal practitioners.
The Canadian Parliament remains
IN session an average Of 20 working DAYS.
and costs S2S a minute. or about SjS2.-
900 per session.
The largest coffee plantation i'm
Brazil, and probably in the world con
tainS ,'OD,GJO bearing trees. and it takes
900 slaves TO work il.
The total estimated population of
children of school age i'm scotland is l.
l69,9f;, of whom 80, ,t'iJ are in TIE ele-
incntary day schools.
The Earl of Jersey has given to
tab0rmG men IN one of his ONforlshire
villages fifteen acres of ground. i'm plots
of from half IN acre to three acres each.
The Jewish Times notes that He
brewS in Russia who keep Christians a.
domestic servants. even without irving
tn proSelytiZr them are fined five r1ubles
daily.
The aggregate value of property
of colored people throughout Tennessee
is set down at s.. .l7S. 9jl. being an In
crease of S571-l79 over the Preceding
year.
Mr.. George Bancroft. thehistorian.
is in his eighty-thlrl wear. lie loves
roses lie loves also to risle horseback.
He sits erect, AMI enjoy, the motion OF
the thoroughbred.
Massachusetts fisheries employ D.
III persons, and at least lUO. 900 are sup
ported by this industry, which has Just
passed through an unusually prosperous
year in lSS2.
In England i'm the year 1852 there
were 2O3, ,JUj marriages. SSS. $40 births.
and 5l6, 7S3 deaths. Ia London there
were J,4ll, marriages, lj3.2JO births.
and 3, ,905 deaths.
There were on the farms I'm the Uni
tel States on June 1, 1oS2, lO.3jT. .gS1
horses, l,Sl2,9;i2 mules. 9J3,y7O oxen.
Il, ,tl3, 293 milk cows. -. Is. 80 other
cattle, -. l9l, ljj sheep, AMI 47,6Sj,g5l
swine.
The past season IN jacksonville.
Fla, though rather short. has been the
most prosperous in the city 5 history. y
careful investigation shows that 4l.1GI
tourists have visited the city duriug the
past winter.
The Hon. Oliver II. Horton. Of Chi
rago, possesses the only bust of John
Wesley known to De- taken directly from
life. lie purchased it from Mr.. George
John Stevenson, of London, during the
Ecmencal Conference in ISL.
"A treStle work being for
u railroad ACROSS Lake Poutchartaiu,
Louisiana, l. to DE u miles IN length.
This distance comprises L.! miles from
Peoples Avenue Canal to the Point, -
miles across the Lakeland 2llO miles
from the north shore.
A company has been formed in
Vienna to undertake the general busi-
ness of washing windows. Its likewise
prepared to execute orders for the scrub
the cleansing of mirrors and show eases.
and doubtless for all neutrality-suspicious.
An IriShman named Foley. in Brad
ford, England recently in a spirit of
brayado drank thirty-siN glasses of whis-
key in rapid succession, OF course he
died just after his thirty-siXth drink.
-Delaunay, the famous Theatre
Il D o
sake the stage because the authorities
refused last january to grant him the
Cross of tine Legion of Honor Ii is in
timated, however, that, should the Gov
eted jewel now be offered him he would
accept it, and consent 10 remain on the
stage feT years longer.
-Newstead Abbey has thrice changed
hands since it became the property of
Lord Byron. 1t was sold, with the es-
tate, by the poet to Mr.. Clawt0n for $780,