Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-06-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Foreigners own q, 100000 acres in
the United States.
France exports one r.illiOn dollars
worth of eggs annually.
Nearly 40, 600 600 pounds of maple
sugar were made in 1883.
The new City Hall in Philadelphia
las already cost $, ,246, 900.
p. Lorillsrd & Co. have donated
s.. .0C0 to the Bartholdi Fund
The beet root sugar manufacture
is being Overdone in Germany.
The number of volumes in the
British Museum is l 100000.
The Episcopalians will build a
$500, 900 Cathedral at Albany, NY
The available cash in the treasury
of the U. s., is upwards of $50, 900, 600.
English colleges have suffered
greatly by the Agricultural depression.
There are 10000 persons in New
York dependent upon gambling for a
living.
Tobacco of all kinds contributed
in 1888 nearly S45, ,0O0, 900 to England's
revenue.
"A wild cat weighing twenty pounds
was recently killed in Sumter county,
Georgia.
The Bank of England has just
opened reading and eating room for
It's clerks.
Rome celebrated recently the q
637th anniversary of its foundation by
Romulus.
Italy has 800, 900 lemon trees,
which produce 1.260,OOO, 600 lemons
per annum.
There are over 5000 French Cana
dian operatives working in the mills at
Lowell Mass.
Boxing as part of the drill has
now been introduced into the French
and English armies.
-YanktOn, Oak, is to have pork
packing establishment with capacity
of l, 600 hogs par day.
"A piece of property has just been
sold in New York city at the rate of
500 per square foot.
-"Tom Thumbs" property in
Bridgeport, Conn, was sold few days
ago. 1t brought S13, 420.
Ostrich eggs boiled were recently
among the attractions of bill of fare
at a San Diego, Cal, hotel.
The production of sorghum syrup
increased from 10000 gallons in
1860 to %, 600, 900 in 1880.
The city of st. Petersburg has a
population of 92S, ,0l6. only quarter of
whom were born in the city.
The woods of the United States are
estimated to cover $50, 900, 900 acres, or
sixteen per cent. of the total area.
The insurance business in New
Hampshire was larger last year than
ever before, and the losses were less.
-"Bagasse' the refuse of the sugar
mill, is to be used by a firm in New
Orleans for the manufacture of paper.
1t is proposed to make the river
Seine ninety-elght feet wide, to have
Paris seaport, at cost of 81, 600, 600.
On the South Park Railroad, Col
orado, is line of tree stumps of an un-
known kind in all stages of petrlfcatiOn-
1t is estimated that 81, 900, ,000, 900
of securities are kept in safe deposit
vaults in the vicinity of Wall street,
n. Y.
1t is estimated that about 40, 900
people are deyOting more or less atten~
tiOn to silk culture in the United
States.
In Montana the law prohibits a
woman from marrying until she Is Is
years old. and man cannot marry un-
til he is 21.
| A Springfield, ILL.,, watch factory
employs 200 hands and sends ont 500
watches day, making total of about
150, 900 year.
"A single grower is reported to have
between eight and nine thousand acres
west Arkansas.
Under the law throwing the State
printing open to Ocompetetion, it is calcu-
lated that New Jersey will save about
$40, 900 this year.
| In order to obtain in marriage the
daughter of Hlllsdale, n. Y, farmer,
a young man has contracted to work
seven years for the farmer.
According to statistics, novels con-
stitute nine-tenths of the books read in
England, and nineteen twentieths Of
the books read in the world.
There are now 126, 34S pupils in at
tendance on the schools for girls in
India, while only few years ago no
woman was allowed to learn to read.
An orange tree is reported from
Newnansville, Fla, which, although
. nnlv farx- h. oil II Il, -
iuches high, contains small orange.
Wyoming, n. Y, has Presbyter-
ian church that already owns two Or
gans and now it has received bequest
of S2l 900 for the purchase of another.
In France there are now 4,575
miles of navigable rivers and 2,9O0
of canals, while in 1852 there were only
a, 100 miles of river nayigable aRd 2, ,440
miles of canal
-London's pauper population, ex-
elusive of lunatics in asylums and yag-
rants, numbered, on April 10, of this
year, S9,223, against 90, 03G at the same
time in 1888.
"A Mormon elder was treated to a
bucket of tar recently at Water Valley,
Miss. 1t is said that Mcrmonisn is
making headway in some of the counties
of that State.
The average duration of life in
Russia is said to be but % years. The
high death rate is ascribed by a corre-
spondent to the paucity Of medical men
IN that country, and to the habits of
the rural population.
of the q, ,284 students enrolled in
1882 In the German University, 6,172
studied medicine, 9,117 philosophy,
1926 law, 3,55S evangelical theology,
and 6l1 Catholic theology.
The manufacture Of perfumes from
Florida flowers is becoming an import
ant industry. 1t is said that a process
has recently been devised for extracting
the sweet flavor of the cassaya plant.
Vessels Of the Austrian Lloyds.
although engaged in commerce, are
closely connected with the imperial
, marine, figuring in its reserve as trans
ports, despatch vessels, and light-armed
, cruisers. The officers all wear uniform.
{ The desertions in the British army