Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-20
VARIETIES.
A nod iellow-Morpheus.
High time-a church clock.

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Australian widows use the skulls of
! ! their deceasedohusbands for drinking
vessels.
|, What is water in Latin Why, q
. liquid, the same as in any other Ian
guage.
When boy is bent on going to sea
the best way to strsighten him ont is
to put him before the mast.
At recent sale of rare coins, an
American dollar of the wear 1904 is said
to have been sold for 500.
A certain legislator was very much
put out on account of the recent riot.
He was put ont of window.
When you hear man say the world
owes him a living. don't leave any NOV
able articles particularly any bank bills,
lying around loose.
An Intelligent" Gloucester compos-
itor has caused a well-known aphorism
to read, Zone touch of nature makes
the whole world KISS.
France has now but one doctor to
every twenty y-four hundred inhabitants
America has one to every eight hundred
and is none the healthier.
| Germany has adopted law by which
the holder of a railroad ticket may stop
at any point on his journey for any pc
Rod, the ticket remaining good until
used.
I The great seal of England requires
400 pounds of sealing wax in a month
to run it, when business is good. This
is tough story, but it is what the por-
ter of the aforesaid seal recently said.
! Westminster Abbey has been pro-
tected against fire, at a cost of about
| so, 900. by the placing of tank in one
of the towers which will contain 5000
gallons of water, and is to be kept al
ways good.
The output of minerals in Great
I Britain last year amounted - the value
of $50, 479. 4S6, exceeding that of the
previous year by half a million. The
coal product composed Gl6, ,31l, 143 Of
/ the total.
/ The Polar Sea has been remarkably
free from ice this year The Pacific
whaling fleet sailed farther east past
Point Breeze than ever before, and it
is said that a steamer might have gone
clear through McClure's Northwest
/ Passage.
The library of the British Museum
purchased no less than 3.415 manu-
scripts last year. Among them was q
curious treatise in French on the Holy
Sacrament, composed by King Edward
VI, of England, in 1919, and written
in his own hand.
The Khedive of Egypt is searching
the mosques and monasteries of his do
miniOns Tor manuscripts to form a Ii
brary at Cairo. He is said to have OBJ
tanned thirty different manuscripts Of
the koran, and among them one COM
puted to be ], $50 years old.
| There are eight metals-indium va
nadium, ruthenium, rhodium, palla-
dium, uranium, Osmium and iridium
more valuable than gold. Judging from
the names and price they are held at,
one would think we were dealing with
the solid extracts of rainbow or moon
shine.
| In 1910 the population of the United
States was Il, ,069, ,453 in 1870 3S, $50,
/ 81. In 1850 our wheat crop was 100.
. III lCtO 10 NhS -Dt ffDt
| 655 bushels. The value of the animals
slaughtered. or sold for slaughter, in
1850, was $ll1. 1903, li2 in 1870 the
valne was s39s. 9j6. .376.
A Hymn and tune book in Arabia,
prepared for the use OF mission church
es by DIR. Lewis, of the Syrian Protest
ant College. is the first case in which
hymns in the Arabic and tunes have
been printed together. 1t is also the
/ first case in which music has been writ
ten to be read backward, or from right
to left.
I Never was a wife more faithful to the
memory of husband than Lady Frank
lin. Though thirty years have passed
since he bade her goodbye, she comes
forward in her old age with an offer of
e., 600 for the recovery of official records
of his expedition. Even more than the
spouse of Caesar. she has proved her
self a ''true and honorable wife,"
The adultertion of butter by the ad-
dition of water is one of the sable ways
adopted by dairymen in England. A
recent analyzer discovered 42I per cent
in some specimens sent to the London
market. This is spoken of as "sn as
tonishing quantity" only l3 per cent
of water being usual, Other samples
had but 4 per cent of water, but this
excess of virtue was offset. we are sorry
so say, by the presence of 80 per cent
of foreign fat.
In England there is one lawyer for
every l, 2i0 of the population in France
I far I 0-0 ~ al
for every 2, 700 and in Prussia, and for
every 1900 only. Another curious
fact is that in England the number Of
persons belonging to each of the diff
ferent professions is nearly the same.
Thus there are 81 $40 lawyers, 80, 4S3
clergymen, and 1896 physicians. In
Prussia, on the other hand, there are
1909 physicians to only ,S62 lawyers.
A correspondent of the Scientific Amer
lean says: 1.-The seed of the common
locust tree will not only stand the tenn
perature of boiling water, but will al
ways fail to grow unless boiled for
eight to ten minutes. My father
planted about Is, 900 seeds of the COM
mon locust on four acres of land, and
only about fly seeds germinsted. We
now Doll tnetn lOr ten minutes, or place
them in cold water and allow it to come
to boil, and remove them three
minutes afterward. These seeds will
grow finely after large brush pile has
been burned over them. These are
facts occurring every year, to my per-
sonal knowledge.
Prof. Baird asserts that the supply of
fish along the New England coast is
sensibly diminishing. Shoal fish
though produced in enormous quanti-
ties, have so many enemies that great
havoc is caused among them, entirely
apart from that effected by men. The
dog fish kills them in myriads, while
the blue fish seems created only to de-
= stroy. 1t kills and mains ten times
more than it can use for food. Then
the destruction by sea birds is almost
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