Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-29
NEWS III BRIEF.

TIE ii malayas are the jftiest mount
Il - ge on the globe.
Silver was first coined in what Is now
'he United States, IN 1862.
The King of Dahomey is recognizing
lis corps of AmrZons.
Cinnamon is said to be adulterated
With Old cigar boxes ground TO dust.
Tes,hers' salaries in the Unite States
annually amount to more than So, 600
JOU.
1t is estimated that there are 13, 900
iitf7rent kinds Of p stage stamps in the
word.
The Russian govement has just order
ID four new iroEclads put on the
stocks.
Kansas railroad commissioners have
d led ten per cent, reduction in
graIn rates.
Carrier swallows are now used in
France 10y the milltsUy authorities In
/ stead OF pigeons.
The Mexicans protest against Jay
Ioud's proposed purchase Of the castle
of Chapult pee.
y mountain of alabaster is supposed
20 have been discovered 100 miles north
of Denver, Col.
A Strsdiyarius violin was recently
sold in France f'r $4,000. 1t was
purchased by Scotch collector.
One Maryland orchard VIII ch pro-
1uced 300 bushels Of peaches last
year shows up one peach this year.
Od Battersea bridge. the solitary
surviving pile bridge on the lowe
Thames, is TO be pulled down.
There are j27 meJube Of the house
l Of lords aud go members OF the house
| Of commons.
Tie light seen through the eyepiece
of the Lick telescope VII be 1000
| times As bright as That seen by the naked
/ eye.
\ farm. containing 300 acres of land
In California, IS devoted 10 the raising
d the plant from which insect powder
! IS made.
While fishing at Ormond, Fla, a man
| caught a shrimp about five inches long
wi II avs RESENT. Ing both a lobster
3nt a Crawiish.
| a wenty-three-pound turbOt recent
Iy killed was found TO contain no less
thrn l4,3ll, 200 eggs. This is an egg
ease that has not cen pate IEted.
The patrons OF popular excursions in
/ Eng and are term i ''chea trippers. :"
] A very large number of tn m went
over to see the Paris hull fights.
! Old Mr.. Hoffman was found dead in
! spring near Moline. III. He had
/ fallen into shallow water and was
( drowned with the back Or his head out
If 1t.
y horse IN Waterbury, Conn, is
inOrlinaiely fond OF pie, and often,
walking To the XII chen door, re uses To
/ leave until his appetite for the dainty
( i ; sa istied.
at Wuhu, China, priest was burnt
| to death 10y order OF a higher priest,
! for misconduct toward a woman. He
was pace in large stack Of hay sat
urated with oil.
! The primitive Russians placed a Ger
LIiicate OF char tcter in the dei PERSONS
/ hand to be given 10 5. Peter at the
/ gates OF heaven.
By the agency OF the London chill
I drrn's country holidays fund 10000
children last year enjoyed a short no Ii
( day in the country.
! An owl shot near jackson, ia, meas
ured five and a half feet from zip to
/ tip of the wings and had a small steel
] trap on one of its feet.
There are two obelisks known as
Gle rpatra's needle. One stands on the
Thames embankment, London, and
the other in Centra Park. New York.
! Berlin las six great play fields for
children. All sorts of amusments In
nj
gymnastics direct the eXerCises.
! One ostrich farm at Po1t Augusta;
South Australia, contains 700 birds
worth 500 each. and the yield OF the
! feathers this year Is expected TO be-
] worth $1,000.
Clubs have increased rapidly in New
! York, and 1t is estimated that they
now have a membership OF 100, 900.
Every club has an ambition TO get a
/ bu ldinz on Fifth avenne.
The Csc or India rubber for erasing
pencil marks was first suggested in OF
just prior to 1752 by an academician
named Magellan, a descendant of the
/ great navigator.
The AusirO-HunCarian convict who Is
! condemned to die stands on the ground
with rope around his neck, and at a
| given signal he i pulled off his egs &c
remain struggling in the air until he j:
! strangled.
Trade ma Ks were known in ancient
/ Babylon; China had them as early as
! i o. Il. c.; they were authorized in
! England 1909; Gutenberg, the iuven'
/ tor # pIiutin-, IS said u have had a law.
/ suit over his trademark.
It is said that more soda water is sold
upon days of grea humidity allied with
heat than upon the hottest days OF the
year. There Is great variation In the
public desire for refreshing beverages,
In Germany the number Of drugstore,
! is registered 10y law a certain number
/ 20 - certain district according TO pop
ulation. \ druggist there isallowed u
sell only drugs, OF such articles as at,
used for medical purposes.
! Foolscap is "A corrupt on of the Italian
! folio capO, 70 10 sized sheet. TIE er
ror must have been very ancient, as tht
water-mark Of this sort of paper from
the thIrteenth to the seventeenth cen
tury was a fools lead with cap and
bells.
The mountain home OF stephen B.
! E'kIrs in Wet Virginia, Is built on ;
peak from which a view of thirty mile
/ II az be haI. The house Is more lise q
I baronia castle than a residence. The
surrounding mountains are full of trout
streams and game forests.
/ Considerable fun was caused in East
| porr, Me-, by The efforts of various indi
vIduals TO walk CREASED pole. Th,
pole was suspended over a lake, RnC
most of the walkers ''toOk a tumD Ole" il
a cold tath, to the great merriment o
the crowd, uefore reaching the end
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