Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-06-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Favorite winter resorts heated
apartments.
1t costs $1,000, 900 year to sup
port the churches in New York city.
M. De Lesseps predicts that the
Panama Canal will be opened before
1888.
"A Massachusetts, man S3 years old
married girl OF 19. She is his third
wife.
New Hampshire still has ninety
eight surviving veterans Of the war Of
1872.
Canadian inventors petition for the
adoption Of the American patent law
entire.
In January 1850 Canadians left
for the United States in search Of en-
ployment.
Efforts are to be made to stop
smuggling between the United States
and Canada
Ohio has coal in thirty different
counties, and put out nearly 100000
tons last year.
There were 10,C46 marriages, $50
divorce suits and $50 divorces In Chica-
go last year.
Over two thousand patents have
been issued on sewing machines and
attachments.
Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter
OF the novelist, is educating 100 orphans
at her home.
The first newspaper in the United
States was III 1704, and wasthe Boston
Ne'cs-Letter.
-Zoroaster, who reformed the Magi.
was Bactria king, and flourished
about $50 B. C.
More than 100000 trees wers .
planted in Great Britain during the
season of 1SSl-S2.
The capital required to build the
proposed ship canal to Manchester,
England is eS, 100000.
-Gould's annual income from diyi-
dends and interest on his holdings
amounts to S5.00O,O00.
The demand on the United States
treasury for one and two dollar notes is
on the increase.
The Boston Transcript is the only
daily paper in the world owned exclu-
siyely by ladies.
In Illinois the value of 10, sos, ,791
tons OF coal mined in that State last
year was Sl.46 per ton.
-CoOnskins are used as a substitute
for money In Calhoun, KY, their value
being fifty cents piece.
In the days of Ovid girls were
taught to smile gracefully. There was
no giggling or simpering then.
Insurance publications state that
the losses by fire in the United States
last year aggregate sl03, 900, 900.
Sixty millions pounds of copper
are said to have been produced by the
Lake Superior copper mines last year.
In the last four years $500, OoO. 600
has been spent building. new railroads
and improving old ones in the Southern
States.
Apples are being shipped to New
\ erk by philanthrOplc farmers in New
England to be distributed among the
poor gratuitously.
-Meissonier has painted 42Opictures.
His new painting Is three metres In
length, and shows the knighting of
Francis l. by Bayard.
If is estimated that the cattle and
stock interests of Tennessee amount to
$500, ,OO0O, 600, and the great interest OF
Tennessee is grasses.
"A Californian has perfected ar
rangements whereby 24O families from
Alsaee and Lorraine. Germany, are to
settle in the Golden state.
-Holyrood Palace is built on the
site of an abbey founded by David i,
In ll2o, and several of his successors
are inferred within its walls.
The controversy in the church in
regard to images began in 726, and was
finally extinguished in $40, when the
were accommodated.
Money seems to possess no attrae-
tiOns for Miss Vera Manning, a niece
of Cardinal Manning. She is heiress to
$4,000 annually, yet prefers convent
life.
There are 9,695 coke ovens in the
of ConnellsvilIe, Pa, OF
these 11S are idle. The remainder are
running from three to five days per
week.
AT the sale of the Murphy library
in New York recently, the "Jesuit Re-
latlOns," written between 1894 and
1919, comprising forty-two volumes,
brought $500.
Elijah Youngblood, aged 65, Of
Coffee county, Ga, has captured 99l
deer during his hunting career, and
hopes to make the number 1000 before
he retires-
-"American bars" are everywhere
taking the place OF the wine shop and
even of the ordinary cafe in Paris, Just
as clubs have taken the place of aristo-
cratic cafes.
In 1870 the Huguenot element
formed one-fOurth Of the entire popu-
latlon of New York, and this proper
tion was maintained during the
eighteenth century.
Capt. Rath, who was Provost Mar
shall at the time of Llncoln'S assassina-
tion and who executed Mrs. Surratt, is
employed in the Railway Mail Service
and is stationed at Detroit.
About the year 800, clocks which
had been too expensive to be used even
in many cities, are found In many
private houses, but still only the very
wealthy could purchase one.
In the year 1871 Queen Elizabeth
used thousand vessels of glass and
silver at one banquet. Wines, if made
in England, were boiled with spice and
sugar: the best wines were brought
from Spain and France.
"A death certificate was so filled in
by Chicago doctor as to have 1t ap-
pear he had killed his patient. He
wrote his own name inadvertently in
the space where the cause Of death Is
specified.
The Cape May On. j. members Of
the Grand Army of the Republic are to