Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-10
NEWS IN BRIEF
Ohio claims to have 1000 knights

J add Glove OF garlic.
There are s.lI to be in Greece no
less than 100 kinds OF grapes.
Italian wine, will 6e g1oI, abund.
ant and cheap the coming season.
Large numbers of Egvptian troops
are ordered to the S,uIIu desert.
The Duke of Argyll h,.s nov stock
ed al his wo lis with Wild turkeys.
Nearly 5000 immigrants cane to
The United States il the month 0i Oc-
tober.
-Feng Ymg Wang was the name of
the person who introduced printing
intO China.
The subscriptions to the PEDESTAL
for the Bartholdi statue IL New York
uOw amount to So .2I0.
The baby born to the Ling and
queen of Spain last week was baptized
sunday at Madrid.
Mr.. Kenny, thenew H,ms Rule ?
member for Ennis. IS the baby Of ta
House Of CJmmoBs-2l.
The three daughters Of Justice
Stanley Mathews Will entertain largely
II Washington during the season.
Only calf lymph Is a perfect pre-
ventatiye agaIn,t small ppx. H1nln-
lzed lymph shoul / not be u,sI.
Plans for new steel steam cruising
vessels are wanted by tine Secretary OF
,he Navy.
The time for payment Of Gniguts
OF Honor assessment No. los expire,
November %.
The mool OF the English people Is
said to he changeable enough To ave a
new administration every SIX years.
"A recent mobilization Of the usury
law Of South Carolina allows ID per
cent. Interest under special contacts.
OF 40. 900 known species Of pllats
man eats only 300, aud leaves I39,-
700 to the doctors to make no medicine.
1t is proposed by an English society
that a congress Of shOcthtuI wrlttefs
Of all natiOnslities be convened II Lon
don.
Wendell Phillips has recently nude
TO the Boston Public Library gift Of
1873 bound volumes and 4652 pam
phlets.
-Oa Weighing the Life @ larjs it was
found that the heIvy-wei ;n;s Lad lost
and the hght-welghIs had gained bit
in Egypt.
Capt. ''Jim" Brtto1, OF Texas.
has seut a chair made OF Il polished
-teers' horns to GJveruor-elecl Bate.
Of Tennessee.
The tunnel under the E 5e, between
Hamburg aud the island Oi Ste.uw4rlsr.
! nov open, Is SOJ metres ii leugsn AMI
cost aOout 1000. 900.
Hawaiian coins to tine amount Of
100000 and corresponding in value
ami denomination with our silver cIil-
age are TO be struck at the 5 IL Francisco
Mint.
In Malabar a tree called the ta!low
tree grows from the seeds OF it. when
boiled, Is procured firm tallOw which
-naI,es excellent can les.
The last triumph ever held in Rome
was that gwen to SJIichO III 40l, when
ue drove AlarIe out vi IIsly. alter de-
ieatlhg him at Posentia and Verona.
A law Of Pennsy lyanra imposes a
ine of 81, 900 sud one years mpuson-
nent on ANY person who shall. play
uiiy or wautonly, point or discharge
gun or pistol, or other firearms, at any
other person"
Fortress Monroe Is the lrgest single
toflhcIuOn lu tue world. IL hts already
cost the Gogernm5ut over S3,0JO.OOJ.
The water battery Is considered one of
the finest military works III the world.
The Mint Offices note an almost
unprecedented ant pre,isJelt demand
tor silver dimes. Dimes aT5 now made
only from 3, ) and - cent eJias and
nutlAted quarters AMI hI.vss.
The New Yale catalogue shows
total of 1906 students coming from oil
parts Of the country. All he depart
nehts are now equipped IN au excellent
manner and are II the best working
order.
Tine entries into Hospital from the
time OF tue landing Of tue British troops
It ISmaIlIA to October 2j were 462
Wounded and 1888 sick, out OF total
Of %, O92 officers and men. On No
vemOer there were $50 patients Ia the
CdlIo hospitals, post OF them suffering
IRON enteri; fever.
In the most Trustworthy quarters
the crops of Iexas Tor tIis season arc
estimated at !. 4JO,OJO bales OF cotton
and l5j, 900 bushels OF corn. Texas
t,Avx or t,.ts Grlf ~, 4Ea Isk
States in the prOdUcuoa OF cotton and
corn.
The British possessions ia Australia
cover 500, ,OJ0s Iuare miles, The rOpu-
latiOn, white and colored, numbers q
S35, 954 by far the greater part being
concentrated il few cities. The debt
OF the colonies is already nearly $780,
000, 900.
The total exports Of breadstufTs
from the United States during the
eleven moths which ended November
Both. 1882, amounted IN value to $780,
600, 693 against S210, 1913, 432 tor ths
corresponding period OF 1881.
Mrs. Winnie Ream -Hoxie's iavorite
pets are six ringdoyes. which are al
lowed the freedom OF her NashIL gtOn
house. They are the great sreat-grand-
children of pair of doves given her by
General Albert Pike, many years ago.
The 100 ton Armstrong bresohl)ad
or fired It's proof rounds with perfect
success at the recent trials at L. SpszIa,
the Italian naval pOrt. Tue highest
charge hred was 40 pouuds. Win a
prcI-etiie weighing 2.UOJ pouads. The
uluzzle velocity OF tine shot was l, So
leet TO the second, or total energy OF
A, ,6Je tons.
The princes ami princssses OF the
early Egyptian dynasties were buried
in small pyramids wlich olusters ABOUT
the larger ones devoted 70 tue klIgs-
Su1jsct were only allowed to have
truucated pyramids.
There are in Sla Fransiseo four