Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Mexicans eat salt with theh
ranges.
in Turkey, at the present day the
hue is violet.
England acquired Ireland and Wales
~ conquest; Scotland by union
One of the highest students at Cam
bridge (England) University is blind
"A good horse-meat dinner can now
De had in Berlin, Germany, for i've
,ents.
Wash Stone, 1O3 years old has been
arrested for vagrancy at Hendersonyille.
Ky.
Mrs. Eunice J. Jose, a nfnety-one
gear Old Saco(Me.) woman, is cutting
her third set of teeth.
Miss Mary Libby is the only woman
in London, and she halls
from America.
Little girls dresses are made muck
shorter at the waist than they have been
for many years.
The Princess of Wales is consider
ed to be one of the finest amateur piano
players in England.
Black satin, divided into inch
checks by hardness of white, Is neat
for elderly ladies' house dress
The people of Munich consume tins
enormous quantity of ASS quarts OF besC
per head per annum.
The cultivation of tobacco has been
forbidden in Egypt and the duty upon
the imported article raised
The first Jewish synagogue ever
built III London, England, was built 10y
Portuguese Jews in 1866.
An American actress has sung The
Star Spangled Banner" at the top Of the
EiffeI Tower in Paris.
The music kept up at Irish wakes
used to be for the purpose Of driving
away evil sp rits.
Birch bark book covers are some
thing new. Thep have slip on the side
(which the name of the book, written
na bit of card, can be inserted.
For the first time in seventeen yeBrs
The island of st. Helena has Governor,
the British crown having been repre-
sented there since 1873 by acting Cover
uOTs.
Mrs. Mary f. Bease'y, OF Phliadel-
phia. has an income of $4,000 a year
| from her invention of a barrel hopping
| machine.
When the juice Of acid fruits has
/ touched colored cot, ons a perfect restor-
alton will be accomplished by the use Of
ammonia.
Wigs used to be confined to old
! women who had lost the hair, but are
now worn by young ones who have
plenty of their own
"A reduction of postal rates in Japan
was expected to cause a deficit In the
revenues, but instead they showed an
Increase.
--Plovers are strong enough to run
the moment hey are Matched, but do
not develop any power Of flight for many
lays.
"A Brooklyn On. Y } druggist boasts
Of a cat who delights TO feast on rubber
. bands, and has been known TO eat forty
= three at meal.
"A boy at Nevada CITY, Cal, catch
J. IS lizards with hook baited with dies.
! He throws his line on the rocks and the
) reptiles spring eagerly for the fly.
A vicious stallion at Rochester
] Ind, bit It's owner in the shoulder, then
attacked a passing dairvman, then fin
: lei ; horse.
The crack whips of Vienna, Austria
c nave had a race OF forty nllss with four
l. n-hands. Seven coaches started, and
L she winner covered the dis ance in two
i lOurs and three-quarters.
1t is stated that a recent ha'lstornl
' 1t Alusa, Cal, exposed the fact that
'e bats live in the green foliage Of tree
. iuring the summer, The hailstOnes
-e <rocked MANY to the ground.
b., The poet Browning had maryelou:
- memory. He could ALWAYS tell the eyac
= place of any quotation or fragment o
=. quotation referred to him, and wa
1t greatly veXed whenever he heard his Owl
~ ines nisquOted.
~ A rug valued at $1,000 was bough
" IN London lately. IL was about thirteel
y feet square and had al out 2j6 5, itches L
v The inch. The material was WOO
ni combed, not cut, from the animal, an,
ie worth more than its weight in silk.
l When a child dies in Greenland tn
a natives bury living dog with it'll
es log tD be used by the child as guide t
III he other world. When questioned abou
CT their strange custom they say: "a do
ee ,au find his way anywhere"
;. Japan shows on nearly all its prett
stamps the sacred chrysanthemum,
d lower of which the little Japs have be
- come especially proud since It's cultivs
Ion has been taken up by the Europ;
ans and Americans.
lightning split large oak tree
MS he cemetery at Salem, Va, and thel
a was disclosed a silver teapot In whic
er was child's skull, The date, 1895
was on the tea pot, but nothing ell:
could be learned of its history.
The mobiles Of AMMAN permit the
o lales to grow to such length that Il
lands are absolutely useless for any pra
iCal purpose. The nails on the secon,
RS. bird and fourth fingers attain lengt
a # from four to nearly FIVE inche
lly they are straight. with slight inwsl
is :urve and present the appearance of IL
nense claws or talOns.
ltI Tile body of the Queen of Core
ty- Who died June 4, is still kept in brin
lcr| he process of embalmIng being unknov
lccI O the people of that far off land. T.
nd lody will be kept four or five month
the .ccording to the custom of the countr
-T,o md then inferred with much ponp al
nor ceremony.
oct There isa coal mine at st. Andre
2oirier. France, worked with two shat
# a depth OF 1852 feet and 1888 fet
The latter is to be increased to A.
eet. Contrary to theory, little increa
aU' # temperature has been met with as
haTts went farther into the earth.
A Boston cat has just died at the We
lratle age of twenty-four years and fi
Of months.
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