Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-11-22
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MEMS IN BRIEF

! z36 languages and dialects.
During tine pest fifty yea,s Britain
has been involved in sixteen wars.
Matthew Arnold is said to have
given up his proposed American visit.
A mountain sheep. weighing 2CC
pounds, was recently killed in Arizona.
The Methodist churches in Eng
land gained nearly %, 900 N smbers last
year.
A glri IN kennebunkport, Ne. 3
year old, has haad 33inches IL diam
eter.
The English order of Knights of
tine Bath originated at the time Of the
Crusades.
-SiI CO 1850 eishty-two people have
thrown themselves from the Vend1me
column i'll Paris.
The hrst war steamer was built IN
1913 by Robert Fulton, and was named
Fulton the First.
An Englishman has invented stir
rup which will not hold the riier's foot
when he Is thrown.
-Melssonier has lately been in Ven
Ice. painting large picture in one of
the chapels in ST. Marks.
Mrs. Crittenden. wife of Governor
Crittenden, was robbed of 800 ia
sleeping car in Colorado recently.
The exports OF rails from G .rma1y
amounted in 1881 To 30, 700 tons, the
heaviest export of any one year.
II fT,rA
slaves in ancient Greece WIS three CT
four times the number of ireemen.
Seventeen thousand five hupdred
and forty-tiye stray dogs We're taken
into custody IN London during 1881.
The highest range of mountains Is
the Himqlays, the mean elevation being
estimated from LII, 900 to Is. 600 feet.
The Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company has paid in dividends since
the war the immense sum of 1926, SO.
Next year several acres in the
Thames valley are to be planted with
suntiowers for The use of the :a5thetes.
Edward Aulran. the COMPOSER. is
building an elegant new house in Paris,
which will be called the villa Mascotte.
There was a marriage in Giles
county, Va, recently, IN which the
groom was So and tine BRIDE SO years Of
age.
--Ohlo last year made about 4j0. 900
gallons of maple syrup aud 1900. 900
pounds of sugar, ana will have rs much
more this year.
-Vlscounte Stringford established
a hospital for the Egyptian wounded,
and tie Kneiive gave her 50 beds from
ArabIs house.
congressman Russell Errett had his
right shoulder dislocated by being
thrown out OF a buggy in Pittsburg,
Pa, the other day.
The late green peas OF this season
have been more plentiful and OF better
flavor than gourmets nave known them
to be in many years.
AT the beginning of the year 1861
the United States army consisted OF H.
900 regular troops, garrisoned chiefly IN
the Southern States.
Two hundred youths belonging to
the best families III Paris and the north
OF France have left Calais for the Jesuit
College at Canterbury.
"A large part of the Bahama Islands
Is DEVOTED 10 pineapple culture. A mil
hon and halj of fruit have been col
lected from single acre.
England has thirty electric light
companies, with a capital of over $50
900, 900. Nearly as much money is
similarly sunk in Francs.
the ancient Pueblos were the only
aboriginal people within the limits OF
the United States who possessed the
art OF glazing their pottery.
By means of a chemical refrigerator
corpses are now frozen as hard as blocks
of marble before they are laid out for
in the PARIS Morgue.
A simpler instrument than the Jews
harp it wonld be hard to conceive, but
the process OF manufacture comprises
no iewerthan thirty separate operations,
The factory of Mr.. Smyth, at Balb
riggan, in Ireland. famous for a century
past as producing the finest hosiery IL
the world, has been destroyed by fire.
In landscape gardening, says an
English writer, the English have more
to learn than to teach, but in cOttag.
and villa gardening they are especially
strong.
In order to encourage the manu-
facture Of wall papers of foreign type.
the Japan Government Office have im-
ported eight sets of the necessary ma
chinery from Germany.
M. Chevreul, the French scientist.
is now in his 96th year, and yet spends
eight hours daily III his laboratory, be-
sides doing much literary work.
In their general bearing toward So
ciety aud in the nature and minuteness
of their scruples, the early Christians
bore greater resemblance TO Quakers
than to any other existing sect.
For nearly 200 years after its estab-
hshment in Europe, the Christian COM
munIty exhibited a moral purity, which,
If it has been equalled. mas never, for
any long period. been surpassed.
The meteoroiOgical report from the
Toronto Observatory for the mouth of
September says that the storm in which
inc ulIOEtuudIt stctlAltE ASH Went
down Travelled 800 miles in s hours.
There was question amolg the
early Christians as to the prOpriety of
wearing, in military festivals, laurel
wreaths, because laurel was called after
Daphne, the lover of Apollo, heather
god.
Prince Henry. second son of the
Crown Prince of Prussia. has embarked
IN the Imperial frigate Olga for long
voyage, during winch he Will cali at the
principal ports Of the American coast,
The English Channel tunnel IS to
be % miles long. Is by 20 feet in diam
eter with two railroad tracks, and the
income is expected to be 100000 an
nually, from which, if the eggs all
hatch, there will be S3,660,O00 in divi-
dends.
The Co,ored men OF Columbia,
Ga, have organized Il literary associa-
ton, and by one days canvassing among
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