Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-07-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Padlocks are said to have been in
vented by Beecher of Nuremburg, in
$40.
! Mrs. General Rosecrans, who was
seriously i'll two weeks ago, is now out
of danger.
, 1t is estimated that Nebraska's S crop
of corn for this year will reach 100. 900, :
900 bushels.
Gold coinage has just been resumed
in the English mint, after two wears
without any,
The jewelry presented to the Ouch
ess of Genoa on her recent marriage is
valued at $50, 200.
| With a bonded debt of over 81. 900. =
600, Louisville has voted to expend 81. :
500, 900 on its streets,
The late John Richard Green. the
English historian, only left personal
estate of about $4,000.
| Among Atlanta's latest industries
are two large knitting factories, both of
which are doing well.
The range of all estimations of the
PenObscot River lumber cut is 40. 900. =
600 to 100, 200, 600 feet.
1t is estimated that 100. .OOO. 900
pounds of wire fence We're made in the
United States last year.
| The first obelisk mentioned in his
tory Is that of Rameses. which was
erected about 1855 b. G..
| In Berlin the street ears do not stop
at the beck of would-be passengers. but
only at certain places along the line.
| -tltz-Stephen, a chronic er of the
time of Henry H., mentions the delight
which the English took in horse races.
Captain James B. Eads and his
daughter, Mrs. HazZan, will be among
this years cottage residents of Long
Branch.
The Egyptians of to-day commence
the building of house by tracing an
outline plan on the ground with the aid
of sack of plaster
The first work favoring the use of
Saturday as the Christian Sabbath was
published in 162S by Theophilus Bra
bourne, clergyman.
The studio occupied in Boston dur
ing the winter by Mr.. Hubert Herkomer
has been taken for the summer by Mr..
Thomas Ball, the sculptor.
The fashion of CARRYING fans was
brought from Italy in the time of Henry
WILL, and the young men used them in
the 10th and 17tb century.
The tabernacle was constructed
l49l, b. c. That set up at Shiloh by
Joshua, 144i, b. c., was replaced by
Solomon's Temple, 1904, b. c.
The power ofthe town of Halifax to
put TO death all criminals who stOleanv
| thing worth more than thirteen pence
halfpenny was used as late as 1850.
The amount of paid notes of the
bank of England reaches the enormous
sum of !t94, 900, 900, or 470, ,000, 900. III
placed in "a pile it would be eight miles
high.
-Abdalla, the father of Nlahomet
was poor camel driver, but so hand
some that when he married, two hun
dred despairing maidens died broken
hearted.
The leaves of the SunhOwer are en-
plOyed by the Chinese as a substitute
for, or for mixing with, tobacco. Its
fibre they use to adulterate and dye their
silken fabrics.
The Common Council of Hartford
has passed an ordinance fOrbidding the
sale of any cartridge, pistol, gun or other
explosive contrivance to any child under
Ii years of age.
1t was said of the Prince of Wales
recently, by an Australian, that he never
makes any one remember his high rank.
although somehow he cOntriveS not To
let any one forget it.
The battle of NaSeby was fought
June II, 1915. King Charles, who COM
manded the reserve, fled at the close of
the fight; losing his cannon, baggage and
nearly 5000 prisoners.
-Runrig is term applied to a kind
of cultivation once common throughout
Scotland, in which the alternate patches
or ridges of a field belonged to different
proprietors or tenants.
Rams of choice breed fetch from
81 900 to s., 200 in Australia, while first
class mutton sells in Adelaide and Sgd
ney for thirty-seven cents the stone
fourteen pounds.
MIR. G.. z. A. Healy, the American
artist, sends fine portrait of NJ. de-
LeSsepS to the Paris Salon, where il
hangs close by portrait of Professor
Huxley by John Collier.
Europe is beginning to recognize
the excellent quality of Indian wheat.
In 1SS1-S2 the Punjab sent to Franca
six million cwt., and to Antwerp about
two-thirds of that quantity.
The sword presented to General
Andrew jackson by the General Assem-
bly, of Tennessee, in honor of his victory
at New Ooleans, is to be placed m.trJIst
with the Tennessee Historical Society.
The production of books and maps
in Germany, including new editions,
during 1882 reached II, ,794, as against
10, ,19l in 1881. Natural science, law,
and theology are all more weakly rep
resented. Mathematics, philosophy, and
modern languages increase.
The ladies of Amite City, La, who
have gone into the silk-worm business,
instead of selling the cOcoOns, propose to
spin and sell their own silk, aud will
have woven fabrics on exhibition at the
New Orleans Exposition next year.
MIR. Thomas Beaver, of Danville,
Penn, has given to Dickinson College,
through its president, $50, 900 for the
increase of its permanent endowment.
The fuad will bear the name of his
father, in whose memory it is given.
Stone mortars, throwing a missile
weighing twelve pounds, are mentioned
as being employed in 757 A. D., and in
1872 A. D., it is incontestable that the
Chinese beseiged in Caifongfu used
cannon against their Mongol enemies.
I "A pair of reins, bought at auction
| for fifty cents gave rise to replevin suit
in Massachusetts, iii which over one
] hundred witnesses were examined, and
the unsuccessful litigant, one Martin,
had heavy bill of coSts-abOut $500
saddled upon him.
Rapid as has been the increase of
the population of the United States, the
| increase of the deaf, dumb, blind, and
insane has been more rapid still The
number of ali these thus afflicted Is said
to have risen from .6S, l5l in 1860 70 9S, :
4S4 in 1870, and from that at bound to
25t sos. in 1880.
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