Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-08-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.


About 100, OCO, 600 lead pencils are
manufactured in the United States
annually, one-fOurth of which are sK-
ported.
"A comparison Of the work Of Eng
lish. French and American detectives
show the latter TO be y per cent.
ahead all around.
The coins struck at the Berlin
mint duriug the reign of ths late En-
peror Frederick are already scarce and
at big premium.
One hundred and six million feet
of lumber, valued at 81. $50, 600, has
been shipped from Fernandina, Fla,
in the current year.
Thirty bushels per acre the county
through Is she measure of wheat Just
harvested and threshed in Carroll
county, Maryland.
More than 1000, ,OCO working peo-
pie in the United States are now Idle.
In New York city alone 81, 600 meu
and $4,000 women are out OF work.
Sir Isaac Newton's autograph, IA
TIE shape of a letter, brought 1918 at
recent sale in England. 1t WAS
bought for Trinity college, Cambridge.
"A Cincinnati druggist has killed
patient 10y making mistake III putting
up prescription, the first mistake IN
eight years and in 200 600 prescriptions.
"A turtle weighing 500 pounds,
containing 500 eggs and measuring
nearly five feet by three feet, was
caught on the beach at New Smyrna,
Fla, recently.
The prize of Il. 600 francs offered
by the city of Paris for the best musi-
cal composition was kept back for the
reason that none of the compositions
was considered worthy of it.
The richest peer In England is the
Duke OF Westminster, who owns vast
estates in Cheshire and In wales. His
income is said TO equal thirty shilling
a minute.
The cord and tassel is a favorite
mode for trimming the spring COS
tunes OF wool. and draped gracefully
like girdie they make simple yet
graceful trimming.
Dumas, the French author. fire.
quently has a hOuse-cleaning mania
lie is very orderly, and is often seen,
feather duster IN hand. dustIng his
study and changing pieces of furnl-
ture.
Josef Hofmann. the prodigy pi-
anist, Is under treatment at Eisenach
by celebrated specialist in nervous
diseases, and his nervousness has been
greatly subdued. lie practices an hour
each day.
Telephone rates are comparatively
low III Sweden. AT OrebO, for instance,
the subscriber pays an annual rental OF
but four dollars and gets the use or
telephone system extending 100 miles
into the country.
OF the ten thousand pianO-makers
in this country, about five thousand
live IN New \ OTk. Each one makes
about Sis a week and belongs TO an
organization which takes care of It's
members when sick or out OF work.
"A petufed pignut has been found
in coal mine near WellstOn, q. II
was taken from the slate which covered
coal seam. y mass of rock sixty
feet in thickness rested upon the slate.
The nut was in the hull, and the l,et-
iifactiOn was complete.
The first volume ofth correspond
ence Of Peter the Great, edited by
Count TOlstoi, has been published.
There Will be ten very large volumes,
containing upward OF 10000 letters,
which have been gathered from ar
ch,yes AL over Europe.
There are three American ladies'
who are not obliged 10 skip over 10
the pOstOhice for stamps every time
they write letter Mrs. Polk, Mrs.
Garfield and Mis-. Grant are the fortu-
nate three, the government having
given them the ranking privilege.
The largest iT0u casting ever at
tempted in America WIS recently made
at Bethlehem, Penua IL Was the base
for the steel compressor to be used in
the gun steel works. and l24 tons Of
molten metal were used. 1t will be
some weeks before the huge casting
Will be cool enough TO examine.
In Austria schoOl-teachers who
have taught twenty years have their
salaries raised every year until they
have taught as long as they are able,
or reach thirty years of school work,
wien they are retired upon the salary
of their last year of teaching, this being
paid by the state.
-SpOnges are marine animals, not
fishes, however. The breeding time Is
IN spring; the young spouges swim
about for some time, but finally be-
come fixed To rocks and grow. The
sponges we use are obtained priuci-
pally in the Mediterranean Sea and
The most valuable manuscript In
this country, judging from the price
paid, Is in the possession of John Jacob
Astor. 1t IS the SfOTza Missal. for
Sl5, 500 was paid. 1t is dated in the
Fifteenth century and comprises asa
pages of yellum bound in red morocco.
Among the policy holders OF a
German Life Insurance Company, the
death rate of medical men IN 1887 was
1l.53 per cent. above the total average.
This was due to diseases of the respira-
tory organs, consumption, and infec-
tious diseases There was only one
case of post mortem poisoning out OF
1852 deaths.
Native converts in japan. with
average wages of less than twenty-five
cents a day, contributed last year S27,-
900 TO mission work. During the year,
3.640 adults were baptized, making a
total membership OF IA, Sl5. There are
now 1913 organized churches, 64 OF
them self-sUppOrting, 90 native minis
ters and l69 theological students.
-Catharine wheels are so named
from Saint Catharine of Alexandria.
who suffered excruciating tortures on a
wheel before she was finally put to
bers of sizes, the smallest being called
pin wheels because they can be fastened
up with a pin. Some are made ia
parts, each part being of a different
color, SO that 1t changes as it turns.
Curious markings in walnut wood
are not uncommon. A specimen re-
markable for the close resemblance Of
the marking to figure of a bird was
vi a. in laNW.
Penna, The section had been sawed
from a black walnut log, and measured
about six by tea inches. For several
inches about the figure the wood was
unusually light in color. In the centre
of the slab, in the usual dark color of
the walnut, was nearly perfect sill
houette of a bird. The grain OF the
wood was considerably curled in the
vicinity of the picture.