Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-01-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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-Somnambulism is said to be on the
increase among the women OF this
country.
Horseback riding as an exercise is
becoming more popular in the New
England States.
The public records in England
began TO be regularly preserved in 100,
by order Of Henry l.
-Amarath L. was the founder of the
power OF the Turks, and reigned from
1857 till killed in 1890.
Bees were introduced into Boston
in 1870, and have since spread over
the American continent.
In one of the French schools there
is Il natural magnet which is said 10 be
capable of lifting four times Its weight.
The invention of pumps is as
cribed TO Canans, at Linden, 1885, but
they were in use in England iif'y years
before.
Professor Turner, the Edinburgh
anatomIst, gets $40, 900 year, the
highest salary paid to any professor in
the world.
Hong Yen Chan, who Is said to be
the only Chinese lawyer in the country,
appeared as counsel in a case at Brook
lyn recently.
AT Mount Washington during
April, 80 inches Of snow fell-as much
as during any Of the winter months.
it is stated.
claims that lie invented the air brake
that has brought Mr.. Westinghouse
fame and wealth.
ice the present term in the Essex
county IN. J. courts have died since
the panel was formed.
The elections in France, Spain
and other European countries are held
on Sunday for convenience sake only,
as it is less difficult for all classes 10
take time for voting on that day,
Milton used twice as many Latin
as Saxon words, but he used the latter
so much more frequently that in Par
adise Lost" eighty per cent. are Saxon,
and IL "L'Allegro" ninety per cent.
"A stroke OF misfortune seems TO
have befallen Plttsburg family. The
12-year-old son was badly wounded by
a stray bullet, and the father, while
en- route to the doctor. was thrown
from his horse and sustained a broken
leg.
An old-time Montana freIghter,
and for many years In charge of one
of the largest bull trains in the North
west, says it Is a fact that during a
hard winter living cattle will eat the
dead ones. He has seen them fnany
times.
In Germany, till the reign OF
Charlemagne at the close OF the eighth
century, there were no towns except
few that had been erecte1 on the
Rhine and Danube by the Romans.
Lubec was the first on the Baltic, be-
ing founded a. ID. 1140.
The Chinese were the first people
TO make wall paper. They made it in
square blocks, stamped to initiate en-
bOssed leather. The Dutch imported
such papers about the last OF the six
teenth century, They began to copy
the Chinese papers about lO40,
Nearly 300 cases of opium were
brought to San Francisco recently By a
Single vessel. 1t is stated that the
opium weighed II ,6S5 pounds, which,
at $40 per pound duty, puts Into Uncle
Sans Golfers SIG, so. This is the
largest importation made this year. -
The largest fall of snow at one
time in the month Of April is said by
au old resident to have been on the
1lth of April, 1921, and was four feet
IN depth, The hot sun of the sue
ceeding days soon melted il away. The
heaviest fall OF snow IN May was in
the year lS43.
-Supernumerary toes and fingers are
said to be of quite frequent occur
renee among certain African tribes.
Dr. StOekly mentions the case OF
Cattre, eighteen years old, who had SIX
fingers on each hand. His parents.
four sisters and a brother, had the
same, and his mother had also Il double
series Of toes on both feet.
The making of glass is said 10 have
been taught the Egyptians by Hermes.
Pllny credits its discovery 10 Syria. Ii
was in use among the Romans IN the
time Of TibeTlus, and excavations at
POmpei show that windows were
formed OF it prior to 4. ID. 70. 1t Is
said to have been introduced into Eng
land by Benedict Biscop, Abbot Of
Weymouth, in y. d. 676.
The soda fountain is seasonably
beginning to assert itself One III a
drug store in Orange, y. j., exploded
while being charged a day or two ago.
q large piece Of the generator barrel
missed the head of the proprietor, J.
i. Hatman, aud tore a hole in the
wall. AS it was, he received painful
injuries by having a mixture of marble
dust and sulphunc acid blown In his
face.
Strauss had a daughter, whom he
had strangely, sent 10 pietistic
school, while he was separated from
her mother. She was educated A
pious girl, and subsequently married
a physician. She was called home
when her father was about TO die,
and was deeply affected. When he
saw her weeping, he took her hand in
his and said: "My daughter, your
father has finished his course. You
know his principles and views. He
cannot comfort you with the assurance
of seeing you again. What your
father has done Will live forever, but
his personality will forever cease to be.
He must bow to the Interchangeable
law of the universe, and to that law
he reverently says: Thy will be done. -
Some wonderful teeth, weighing )
pounds each, and measuring 10 inches
in circumference, were plowed up
lately by Mr.. William Fisher, Of
Clachan, In a low field on his farm.
Several years ago the field was drained
OF body of water by which It had
been covered, and later on a heavy
fire overspread it, lowering the surface
few feet. By investigation the teeth
and their fossil accomplishments huge
bones feet long) evidently belong to
a species now extinct, and classed by
s. G. Gooderich as ''dinOtherium,' ~
which he describes as an herbiverous
quadruped 20 feet In length, and hold
ing an intermediate position between
the mastOdon and the tapIr. The fine
enameled surface of these gigantic
teeth and their forked prongs, which
must have protruded fully inches
into the monsters jaw, is an object Of
great curiosity. Other discoveries of
a similar nature have of late years been
made in that vicinity, but this of Mr..