Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-31
NEWS IN BRlEF.

The arrivals at New York from
foreign ports, during 1885. NJ mbered
6476. including 1916 steamers.
The total product OF the Leldville
mines for 1882 Is reported at SIS, ,220, .
s03. which Is So, 5,O50,327 more than IN
1881.
The cane crop of Mississippi IS this
year largely in excess of any heretofore
produced, and is yielding a handsome
profit.
Thirty thousand dollars is the money
value of the cocoanuts shipped from
the island of Jamaica to the United
States.
The United States Government
owns 43, 900, 900 acres Of land in Cali
fornia, and half Oft is suitable for good
farms.
There are AS street railway COM
panies in the United States and Canada,
which run an aggregate of $1,000 cars
per day.
-TwOyesrs ago there were but seven
cotton mills IN the Dominion how
there are twenty-one, with an aggregate
caPltsA OI %, OJU,OJO.
The Great Dismal Swsmp in Vir.
ginia Is passing away. Much of the
area has been reclaimed end converted
into good tillage land.
Tomatoes to the amount of l .5Oj.-
GOO cases are annually ctnned in the
United States. or 65. 100000 pounds,
valued at S3, $500
-Pennsylvanla raiiks first among the
United States in the number OF post
offices, having 1896, more than an,
ether State III the Union.
The population Of Great Butaip en-
Joys an income of $500. .OOO. 900. q.
which elghty-three per cent. Is expea-
ded for the necessarles OF lie.
The receipts of the Patent Office
during tine year wereSI, ,CO9 IS6. against
1858, Cos during 1881. Thenet revenue
OF the Office during the year was S32j.-
900.
Competent judges estimate that tb.
FrancO-German war cost France t,yc
provinces, million of lives. and 81
OOO, 900 600. 1t added 3, 600, O0O, 900
to the debt.
The worship of Janus WIS 1ntr)-
duced into Rome by ROmulus. Mama
PompllIus named the first month OF the
year Tor him, and dedicated Il covered
passage near the forum 10 him.
The three-cent silver piece has
been abolished from the United State,
coinage, and they are now being Re.
deemed at the sub-treasurles. Nss
three-eent pieces Will be ma Of uickIs
Treasurer Gilflian, who has pur-
chased 900 acres of land III Florida.
Will have other persons associate with
him, and during the coming Year vIIl
plant no fewer than 1000 acres with
orange trees.
The late David Greensaields ss
Montreal, bequea,hed over SlUO. OOJ To
various charitable and public l.sri4u-
hons. Ine Montreal O. neral Ho,u1-,I
aud Qaeen's University, Kingston. re-
ceiyed S40,0 900 each.
Lyons was the centre OF the intel
lectual life Of Europe during the first
halt OF tue sixteenth century. Grv-
phe, the great printer, had ms Office
there, and III 1850 sent ont a Latin III
bic, remarkable tOr its freedom fr-r,
errors.
In the reign of Louis XVI. the
.andholders OF France were few and
their estates immense, n single person
often being lord OF hundred parishes
The Duke of NemOulile and his dauoh-
ter, the Princess of Tarente. owned am
parishes.
Two hundred and forty-four earth
luakes, 1t Is stated, are known to nave
occurred during 1881, OF which EIGHTY
SIX were In Winter, sixty-one III Au-
.umn, hfty-six in Spring and fortv-ope
N Summer.
A Nevada mine has Just produced
BAR OF gold seventeen inches long
seven inches wldesnd eight inches thick
Weighing 400 pounds, with a clsh ytIue
d slI5,UOO. 1t Is said to bs tine LARGEST
BAR ever cast IN the United States.
Madagascar Is father larger than
rance. A belt Of almost virgIn forest
runs around the island. The popuIa-
lon Is about four millions. and tbe soil
viii easily support thirty millions. In
lEl ruDDer Is principal export. The
mineral wealth Is enormous.
Inc detailed project for the sui
marine tunnel between Italy anG SIei!
nas been finished, and will soon b. sr,L
mltted ior Government appreciation
Inc length Oi the tunueI will be- eb,u
y miles. The expense is calculated
81, 80, 900.
The infant 10y of the ruIerof Bur.
man has cradle which cost s.. .OOO. .ODJ.
II Is made of gold and covered with
precious stones. But he has the snuff
les, collc and collywobbles lust tine same
As the baby that tills CRIB that diin'r
cost 81 30.
There are lis public scientific OBJ
seryatories in the world. The most
ancient Is that of Leyden, founded in
1867 then come Copenhagen, founded
IN 1851 Paris, In 1867. and Greenwich.
IN 1915. Prussia, now the richest
country IN the world in astronomical
oDservatorles, had none before 1906.
The u 900 Eaglish Puritaps. who
came oyer to New England before the
meeting of the Long Parliament have
now increased to nearly 1900, 600.
According TO the most careful estimates
at least onefourth of the whole popu.
lation of tie United States at the pres
ent moment Is descended from these
men.