Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-08-01

| -lnert are 23.UOU acres of water
melons in Burke county, Ga.
San Antonia, Texas, is to hIve Il
Sl6, 900 home for fallen women.
Mime. Gerster and her husband,
Dr. Gardlni, have sailed for Europe,
j The Palace hotel in San Francisco
cost -, ,2oO,O 900, including the ground.
The California wheat crop for this
year is estimated at 56.950,000 bushels.
Florida has $50 factories. employ
ing 2149 hands and about 81, $50, 900 in
capital.
4 -Ninety-three thousand acres of
land were planted with timber in Kan-
sas last year.
The area Of Russia in Europe is
nearly % times that of the state of
Pennsylvania.
-Ninety-nne thousand shad were
caught in the Delaware during the sea-
son just closed.
The silk product In the United
States in 1SS0 amounted to more than
S41 100000.
The Indians of Alaska are sup.
posed to be an OtfshOOt from the Japl-
nese or Coreans.
On-Mr. Froude has Written an article
Martin Luther for one of the Eng
lish monthly reviews.
OF the total fires in Michigan last
year, more than one fourth were caused
by defective chimneys.
-YincenneS, Indiana, has a butter
dish factory which turns ont SO.oOt,
10000 dishes per day.
The graduating expenses of tn,
last class at the Vassar College were
about SiOJ for each girl.
Priests and religious teachers have
been expelled from l36 schools at Paris
during the last three years.
Nearly one-thrd of the population
OF the United States is foreign born. or
foreign In the second degree.
With a bonded debt of over
sS,OoO, 900 Louisville has voted to ex-
pend 81 100000 on its streets.
North Carolina has m1ny tuIip
trees more than loo feet high. and mea.
Surlng 80 feet around the base.
HN OAth5c DuSlltSS Is IN danger
OF being overdone. Trees are being
planted all along the Mississippi coast.
-George Washington's grand
nephew, DIR. Lawrence Washington is
running farm and orchard In Texas
Oscar Wilde's agent saws that o.
car is at least S30.OOJ richer than ha
Was when he first landed in New York.
The German army is at the present
time distributed over 3J4 garris0ns. 30
OF which have an effective ofoyer 2 OO1
men.
The Suez Canal is to be enlarged
ana improved ut an expense of Si.O5g-
eUO. The work will occupy several
years.
-Ex-Vice President Wheeler IN,
offered to give $4,000 toward a new
Congregational Church in Mltone.
n. Y.
-Gouno1, the com loier, live; i'm a
monastic-lOoking structure. in Ptri, IS
Dut the interior of his hOms is beIuti-
lui In appointments, decorations, etc.
To her natural productions of or.
anges and aligators Florida is adIing
the cocanut, $1,000 trees of this species
having been planted during the present
season.
since its commencement the New
ork society for the prevention of cru
city to children has entertained over
ii 900 cases. involving over 100000
children.
The largest city in the world is
London. Its population numbers B.
O2O,on souls. New York, with popu-
latiOn of about l 1,2j0,OOO, comes fifth i'm
the list of great cities.
The express trains between Paris
and Censtantinople, inaugurated ON
the 9TH INST, consume about four DAYS
and four nights in the trip between the
two points. The fare is $40.
The largest suspension bridge would
appear to be the one between New
York and Brooklyn. The length Of the
main span is | ,595 it. q in, the entire
length of the bridge $3.50 feet.
The largest island in the world.
which Is also regarded as a continent.
Is Australia. 1t is 2 800 miles in length
from east to west, and measures $50
miles from north to south. Its area is
:, ,9oi, ,2o7 square miles.
During last year the number of
persons killed by being run over or
Knocked down by vehicles in the streets
of Paris was 103, besides whom there
were 1854 who in their injuries required
the aid of the Police.
The British and Foreign Bible So
eiety continues to be remarkably pros
porous. Since its organization if has
circulated 100000 copies of the
Scriptures in ZIG languages and dia-
lects. The Earl OF ShafteSbury, who
Is In great demand as Chairman in Nav
anniversaries, is President of the So
ciety.
-Ex-GOvernor Leland Stanford has
placed Ill his san Francisco home the
art collections purchased by him in
Europe last year, comprising 30 pieces
OF statuary and Isl oil paintings and
water cOlorS.
"A marked increase in the sale OF
etchings and corresponding falling off
i'll that of engravings is reported by
dealers in prints. The visit of Seymour
Haden to this country last winter, and
the effect of his lectures and exhibit
tions, brought this about, it is said.
"A mechanic of Paterson, n. J., is
building an experimental I6-foot long
propeller boat, with new ale-cask for
her boiler, the fire being placed on top
instead of in the usual place. As the
builder is employed in a Paterson loco
motive works, and is not crank -
the result will be watched with inter-
est.