Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-01-18
NEWS IN BRIEF

tuted in 1853.
Mime. Pompadour was the origina-
tor OF high heels.
The weight of an average male
adult is no pounds.
Ohio was admitted mt the United
States Union in 1902.
Arabian scale armor was sometimes
made of thin plates of horn.
The human skeleton consists of
more than 200 distinct bones.
Don Carlos, the pretender to the
Spanish throne. is i'll in London.
The average man measures about
five feet three and one-half inches.
Thirty eight kinds of wild fowl were
served at game dinner in Chicago.
-Phny says that four-wbeeled carri-
ages We're invented by the Phrygians.
The Egyptian physicians of old
were paid bv the State.
Baron Steuben has named his in
FAINT son, born recently ''Blaine Steu-
he'll"
The fossil remains of prehistoric
man have been found at Calabacel, near
Nice.
The tunnel between Dover and
Calais advances at the rate OF a foot an
hour.
The Lycians considered mourning
effeminate, and SO put on women's
clothes.
John Anderson. the man who first
wrapped tobacco in tin-foil. made $780,
900 by it.
Bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, has is
sued a circular againt round dancing in
mis- Diocese.
Prom the port of Santa barbara,
CAL, hundreds of tons of lima beans are
being shipped.
The inventor of the submarine tele-
scope, woman, has received $40, 900
for her invention.
The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
from the -'Mayfiower" occurred Decem-
Der 30, 1920.
-''Paradise Lost" the finest work of
Millions genius. was sold in 1867 for
the sum of f5.
On Hospital Saturday nearly 1000
ladies satin the LoAdon streets in charge
of the collecting boxes.
Prince Leopold and the Princess
Helena, of Waldeck, will be married ut
Windsor Castle in Mach.
Among Swedish Laplanders a drum
is kept in every family for the purpose
of exercising the evil spirits.
Louis Napoleon usually styled
Napoleon I'LL, was chosen President of
the French Republic in1S4S.
MN. Faure, the singer, and Coque-
lin, the actor are to receive 1t is stated,
the order of the Legion of Honor.
The work of reclaimmg the Ever
glades of Florida is being carried on
with energy. aud with hattering pros
pect.
The form of hailstone is that of an
inverted umbrella, being cone shaped
and having ribbed sides and rounded
base.
The late census of Japan shows a
total population of very nearly 36,000,-
900.
The seventh and last crusade was
ended in 1850 by the surrender of King
Louis X. of France. with 80, 900 men at
Damietta.
Up to the of Henry Ill. only silver
and brass were used for coinage, gold
being first used in this country in that
kings reign.
Beaufort County, S. c., this year,
in addition to State Taxes, paid into
ths State Treasury as phosphate royalty
Sl0S, o49. so.
The Empress of Austria has set
fashion, already largely followed in
Europe, of wearing the hair flowing
over the shoulders.
Professor Schlager, of Vienna, is
responsible for the statement that blue
hight has quieting and soothing influ-
ence on the insane.
--Pliny tells us that Dedalus invent
ed the saw. The earliest saw-mill of
which We have mention was built at
Madeira in 1920.
AT the first sale this season in
Natal, Africa, of native-grown ostrich
feathers, three pounds and nine ounces
of long white feathers brought 800.
The annual revenue to the United
States from applejack alone is in the
neighborhood of $4,000, and about
two-thirls of that is from Sussex Coun-
ty, n. j.
| Edward Gibbon, who wrote the
decline and Fall of the Roman En-
pire," srid by some critics to be the
finest history ever written, was born in
1877.
The total area of Tennessee is 26,-
800, 900 acres of which OH 1896 are
still covered with its original forests
The population is little over a million
and half.
The Gospel of st. Luke has been
translated into Patagonian by the Rev.
Theodore Bridges, vino labored among
the natives of that country for twenty
five years.
After the war a colOred man went
from North Carolina to Boston aud
started in trade As tailor. He now
gives employment to 100 person and is
/ worth SOOsOUU.
| A Christian church has been built
with stones from the ruins of heathen
temple by the converts connected with
the Madura mission of the American
Presbyterian Board
The proprietors of cotton factory
i'll Darwen, England, were recently fined
S157.37 for keeping their hands at
work II minutes after the hour fixed for
closing by the Factories Act.
AT the recent rite OF conOnization
IN Rome the silver trumpsts which
used TO sound from the dome of St
Peters as the Pope elevated the Host
were used for the first time since 1870.
-Cheng Tsao Ju., the new Chimes,
Minister, Is reported to have been fol
ten wears superintendent of the arsena
at Shanghai, lie knows arms and ma
chinery thoroughly.
In IL letter to the Lancet DR.. A. Page
records the following observation: Ill
states that in Paris he saw case IN which
under the inhalation Of chloroform, tn
/, ! hear. naaoal 10 n.af ard