Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-22
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A pious old lady Of Toi onto devotes
he profits accruing from the sale of
all the eggs laid by her hens on Sun
day to the missionary cause.
Statistics just published show that
the total number of paupers in Eng
land and Wales is 762 ,s5S, which al
lows 26.6 for every 900 of the pop
ulstion.
The people of the United States
dse annually about seven postal cards
for every man, woman and child; that
Is 10 say, their total consumption for
. year reaches 400 .0OO, 900.
There has lately been such a glut of
herrings that the Scotch fishing smacks
are leaving Ardglass for home, herring
being 80 cheap and plentiful that it
does not pay TO catch them.
Several OF the large land owners of
Scotland have imported q number of
reindeer from Norway and turned them
out in the hope that they may become
acclimsted and increase.
| A young man at Titusville. Pa, who
could not afford to take his bride on a
wedding tour, bought IS worth Of
tickets for the merry-go-round, and
they proceeded to ride TO their hearts
content.
Three months ago the postmaster of
Chico, Cal, gave a pet dog 10 a friend
who was leaving for Oregon to settle
Two weeks ago the dog resppeared at
the house OF his old master, nearly
rtsrved, but delighted to see him
The weight of the great smoke-cloud
ally hanging over the City of London
has been computed by Prof Roberts
at SO tons of solid carbon and $50 tons
hydrocarbon and carbonic oxide gases
for each day of the year, and its value
at f2 900 900 per snnum.
Perhaps the greatest single industry
Of any city in the world is the carpet
manufacture carried on in Philadel-
phis. The establishments engaged in
this industry employ 1850 looms and
1880 workmen- Last year they
manufactured II 500, 900 yards of car
pet, the value of which was $50, ,OOO,-
900.
When Mrs Anna c. Parks, one of the
.nspectresses at the New York Gus
tom House, caused the arrest of an
Italian woman in whose hustle was
found a pound Of dutiable Jewels, was
asked why she suspected the culprit,
she answered that she marked Der out
for search because she knew that Ital-
ian women don't wear bustles.
| There have not been so many
Americans in Strstford-on-Avon for
years As there are this year. The
"Shskespesre Country" has been over
run with them, and as usual the town,
Improvement associations thereabouts
have reaped q harvest. They have
well learned by this time how to make
tourists pay roundly for everything
that they see.
The "nickel-in-the-slot" idea has been
applied in England to electric lamps
intended for use in omnibuses, street
cars and railway cars. You put a pen.
ny in the slot of such lamp, press q
knob and out streams the light By
clock-work machinery at the end OF
half An hour the light is eKtinguished
and can be ignited again only with s
penny taper
1t is asserted on the authority of a
clergyman at Chattanooga that on the
top of White Mountain, in North Car
olina, are three trees of the cachoir
species, about fifteen feet high, grow.
ing close together, whose tops are
interviewer so completely and so
fat that 3 number of persons can walk
on them with ease. The tops ars
about twenty feet in diameter.
There is n stone elephant in Inyc
Co, Cal. The rock that has taken tn,
form of an elephant is a dark gray
granite that is almost the color of tbs
skin of an elephant. The first travel
ers in California, il is said, on catching
sight of it, thought that they haC
found petrified mastodon- a Put,
} Indian, on being asked if he had evel
seen the s.stone elephant" replied
s.Yash, me see him many year go
Long time Injun no sabe him; now
see him all same in big show up Vir
ginny City"
The generally accepted theory that
warm summer follows a cold winter
and vice versa, has been examined bl
Science with the aid of Temperature
! records made in the same place, unde
the same conditions, twice a day TO
forty years Science cannot ind an!
rule on the subject, and comes TO tn
conclusion that no estimate can b
formed in regard to the character of {
coming season merely by knowing tn
character of the past season OF an.
greater value than could be gained b.
mere guessing
Pa Takes Proper PrecautiOn.
Ten minutes after q beautiful tab
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