Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-07-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nearly $1,000 women are engaged
in glove-making in England alone.
The annual mortality in Great
Britain from intemperance is 49, 500.
There are less people in San
Antonio to day than there were year
ago.
A man in North Tisbary, Mass,
says he has recently drawn upS9 snakes
from his well.
The Emperor or China recently
ordered the destruction of 81 900, 600
worth of opium.
The value of an unskilled labOrer
at % years of age to his country is eSti-
mated at 81 200.
Some practical jOkers cut mans
beard off, and he now sues them for
$1,000 damages.
The Cape Cod canal dredger is the
| largest in the world, and takes out 600
cubic yards an hour.
The railway system of Prussia
covers about 1900 miles-a little more
than that of Canada.
Foreigners own 20 ,647 900 acres of
| land in this country, almost wholly in
the West and Southwest.
1t is estimated that over 40,0O0
visitors will attend the Conference re-
form at Dallas IN August.
Newfoundland, which is One-sixth
| larger than Ireland, has a scanty popu-
lation of only 200, 900 souls.
The crop of wheat of 1854 bids
fair to reach go, 600, 900 bushels, 1G0,-
600, 900 IN excess of last year.
The plains of Texas cover an
area of 1900, 900 acres, on which
feed 3,S0O,0O0 head of cattle.
| Louisiana has school accOmmOda-
tons for only 5000 children, though
there are 80. 900 in that State.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
railway has been granted right Of
way through the Indian territory.
Mrs. Pyrke, the granddaughter of
Robert Burns, is still in receipt of aid
/ from the London Scottish Corporation.
Miss Anna Jacques of OldtOwn.
Massachusetts,, has given $4,000 for
building an invalIds' home in Newbury-
port.
"A gun weighing 212,OOO pounds
has been successfully cast at South
Boston, Mass, for the United States
Government.
The Niagara suspension bridge is
. .260 feet long, that of Kief, Russia,
2.562 feet, and that between New Y oTk
and Brooklyn $3.50 feet
New Mexico embraces Il, $50, $40
acres of land. on which about 100000
head of stock, over 1900 600 head of
which are sheep, are kept.
Admirable wax casts of the face
and bust of the late Are hbishop
Purcell, of Cincinnati, were made
Immediately after bis death.
Nine defaulters, formerly bank OF
Government officials, now in the Tren-
ton, n. j., penitentiary, are said to
have stolen total of S3,000,000
Gas is made in London, it is said,
! at a cost of 20 cents per 1000 cubic
feet, and in some of the works the sale
of the reslduals pays the entire cost of
gas-making.
-FOrty-four deaths occurred from
starvation, or were accelerated by pri-
vatiOn, in London during 1884, as set
forth by figures in a return recently
made to Parliament.
-Tkere were, in round numbers, at
the time of the recent enumeration,
q, 800, 900 of inhabitants in Spain and
the Spanish territories. OF these 16,-
GOO, 600 were in Spain itself.
The total exports from the United
States to South America during the
last fiscal year were S23, sos, 600, as
against SAG, $40, 900 from France and
$50, ,9J6, 900 from England.
The sparrow appears to be quite
cosmopolitan in his pestiferOusnes, so
to speak. The inhabitants of Per-
gamOs, in Asia Minor, are urging the
Turkish Government to abate him.
The average area OF the 4.00S, ,9O7
farms in the United States in 1880 was
133 acres each; the proper division"
of what remains of the public domain
would add about 5000, 900 to the total
number of farms.
AT the close of 1882 there were in
New South Wales q, ,220,744 comb
ing and S. $50, 800 clothing MerinO sheep.
, There were also III ,S94 Lincolns, 622,-
Si4 LeiceSters, u, ,143 SOuthdOwnS, A.
| O-t IlOullcS hdlSu tllu GU tOO CAOoS-
breeds.
! The shop where Benedict Arnold
: sold drugs before the Revolution and
3 his stone house are still shown to the
3 curious at New Haven, Ct, and his
. wife lies buried in the cemetery there.
About 300 Chinese COINS, some of
D which represent mintage of thirteen or
fourteen centuries ago, are to be added
to the coin department of the British
Museum. They are from the Tamba
collection.
The value of the poultry consumed
in the United States annually is eStI-
|, mated at $500, 600, 900 or Sc to each in
= habitant. The value of the eggs con-
!. sumed is set at S240, 900 600, or $40,
!. coo, 900, for poultry and eggs together,
|, or about $40 per year to each inhabit'
8 ant.
: When Peter the Great became
i Emperor of Russia, the country could
v hardly be said to have an army, but at
!. the end of his reign she had 2l0, ,0OC
v soldiers, besides 5000 men in the navy
+ forty-eight ships of the line and S0t
. smaller vessels.
l. The backward condition Of India
IS with respect to female education i:
d shown by the fact that out of tota
!, female population of 99,476, All only
:. 126, $40 are at school, giving percent.
n age of 81 on the female population OF
|. school going age, while in the case oi
= males it is 1928.
10 Out of a total area of nearly q COO,
600 acres the woods and eOpSes of Ire
/" land are not less than $50, ,00U acres
In Great Britain out of nearly 81, ,00Oi
i , 600 of acres, $4,000 acres are now
thus returned. The forests of Europ,
- are estimated to cover 100000, ,OOC
- :, acres, or nearly 20 per cent. of the sur
y face OF the Continent.
$; The lowest dividend per annun
IS among the JOINT stock banks of Englan'