Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-09-24
NO. 40.
NEWS IN BRIEF

I :
Until 1176 cotton spinning was
/ performed 10y the hanG spinning wheel.
/ To salute with the left hand is a
deadly insult TO Mohammedans IN the
! East.
Germany manufactures over S10,-
000,0O worth of children's toys every
year.
1t is estimated that The sun raises
$1,000, 900, OOO tons of water from the
earth TO the minute.
1t is proposed to apply electricity
to the irrigat- on of some of the dry and
sterile districts of California.
Lewis Ledger, of New York city,
or wager recently ate thirty hard
boiled eggs in fifteen minutes.
! "A New York broker has just paid
! 3d. for a half interest in a salmon
stream that flows into the RestigoucRe,
! in Canada.
In the maw of COW killed near
Darien, Ga, few days ago, was found
a pound of SIX penny nails and a five
cent piece.
The presence of a well developed
apple growing on the grapevine at
! Portsmouth, Ohio, is ascribed 10 skill
full grating.
! M Lavasseur finds that the
chances of a person in the nineteenth
century reaching 1OO years of age are
one In Is, 100.
Joseph Smith, the President and
| prophet of the raOrganIzed MOrmons,
and the son of the fOunderof Mormon
ism, is i'll Boston.
"A sparrow ut Colestown, Penn,
built nest in the running gear of
farmers wagon, and makes "A trip TO
market every week.
"A room Is ventilated best by open
! ing the upper sash of window, be-
| cause the hottest and worst air Is al
ways near the ceiling.
With the present rate of increase
as basis, it Is estimated that a cen
tnry hence this country viii have a
! population of 9U4, 92l, $50.
If the salt held in solution IN the
| ocean were spread over the earth, it
| would form layer of more than Thirty
feet deep covering the whole globe
The ratio of suicides is large in
! Northern and small in Southern ma
tions of Europe. Tie same holds good
| of the safes of the United States.
"A marine on duty at the Brooklyn
! IN. Y. J navy yard, Is unable 10 speak
above a whisper, in consequence of
having habtually eaten gunpowder for
/ years.
| Napoleon, III, got his title, the
third, for the second never reigned, by
a composItor mistaking the eXclama-
tiom points, ~ for the Roman
| numerals III.
The reason why fire crackers are
always covered with red paper is that
| red Is the festive color III China, and
that firecrackers are used chiefly on
festive occasions.
The boundary line between the
! United States and Canada is distinctly
marked from Lake Michigan TO the
| Pacific 10y cairns, pillars of IRON. earth
mounds and timber clearings.
The fact, as reported. that the Ger
man Army as the lowest death rate
of any in EuI ope is attributed to the
practice of frequent bathing in warm
water being made compulsory.
The Oldest man IL Great Britain
is Hugh Macleod, a Scotch crofteT,
who was born on the 24th of Novem-
Ter, 1888. lie lives in County Ross,
and Is still healthy and vigorous.
Prince Herbert BIsmark cherishes
carefully the wreck of a watch which
he carried during the Franco-PTussIan
war and which stopped a bullet that
otherwise might have end d his life.
The great exhibition held in Lon
don, England, u. lS5l, WIS attended
| by G,O39, l9J persons and left profit OF
| 81, ,OO6, j25. L. remained open from the
first Of Mag TO the llth of October.
The bones OF some prehistoric
giants have been unearthed near Annis-
ton, Ala. One o; the thIch bones was
siNty-two inches long and the skulls
aver2ed thirty-iour inches in circum-
ference.
An electric hair curler is a new
and convenient instrument. 1t is said
to bc equal TO the most exacting de-
mands of the feminine coiffure, ard
the beard or mustachc car he curled in
any style in two minutes.
A Nine. Cie-muut q dead at ST.
I Martin, near Montreal, at the age OF
%. She was married at the age Of l3
and had II children, l45 grandchil-
dren and 2SG great grandchildren. Of
her descendants 3Oj are living.
The Pacific coast has not com
plete monopoly of big trees. There
| is cypress Tree AT Enterprise,
! Fla, that is over ten feet IN diameter
and las trunk reaching up forty feet
TO the first branch.
Few people know Of the origin Of
the name Bismarck. The castle Of the
| ChanCellor's ancestors received i.s
name from the "marca," or boundary
line, form ed by the River Biese, B .ese-
Marca became b smarrk.
"A queer white ana red robin aston
ishes the fishermen at QuunOChOutaug,
r.. l. II has buIlt its nest IN shaggy
reach of pasture near the laundering
! ocean break water. The BIRDS body is
! OF a snowy white, even 10 tie tip Of It's
tail, except It's breast, which is Of a
rosy red.
The food Of 4 600" hippopo-
tamus Is estimated 10 he about two
hundred pounds dag IN weight, aud
| consists chiefly of hav, gTass and
roots. Tie daily pr.veuder OF a giraffe
weighs abUyt fifty pJuuas. The lions
and tigers obtain about eight or nine
| pounds Of neat 4 day.
For fifteen years d Port. nd Mel
/ business man has received from the
| florists every other morn Hg a fresh
| bunch Of flowers. roses, D. iutrope, for
get-me-nots aad the like, aud placed
IL directly IN front OF D N upon his
desk. BY thus looking upon the bright
side Of life he has uLdOUJJgdiy added
TO his happiness.
-Vasili, the famous russian cook
! of Alexander Dumas the elder died
last week It l. Iuv, near D.eppe, OF
the French coast. HIS place during
I his masters lifetime was 10y no neam1
/ a sinecure, for II IS recorded that when
the open-handed author Of The Thrre