Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

lOIO4uuSu III Egypt.
The re ord for swimming under water
is 1l3 yards one foot. II is held by
j. Finley, an Englishman.
The issues of Bibles by the American
Bible Society during gseventy-three years
amount to 2,736, O75 copies.
AL the railroad bridges in the United
States together are 3,2l3 miles long
Trere are POS, 749 of them.
The baton used in concerts by CON
ductOrs Is said 10 have been introduced
into England by SpoT. in 1870.
1t Is said that the horse frs came from
North Africa, was used in the service
of man at lea 1000 years ago.
1t costs the British government g,
200, 900 Year to support Queen Vic
toria and her immediate family.
y Scotch physician has discovered
that p'ayiny on the bIgpipe wears away
the players front te th III four years.
Gambia is the same a Crete. 1t is an
island in the Mediterranean, $50 miles
long, and has p pu'ation Of 100000.
The stock of gold has declined dunng
the past year about SlG,OOJ,OUO. while
the stock of silver has increased S35,-
600, 90.
y Gilman an named Lee-Ili has taken
60 farming near Tuiare, Cal. ON sixty
acres of land he cleared $4,000 profit
last year
The new Jeanette factory near Pitts
Ourg viii cost $50 200, and will I've the
largest of any single glass furnace in the
world.
The Henderson Steel Company, who
have made such a success of their new
steel making process, are about doubling
their Alabama plant.
According to the Army Register foI
1890, the army Of the United : ates con
sists OF >, 192 officers an { men and 75S
retired officers and men.
He'ignland cousis of two islands in
me North Sea. p mi Is from the mouth
of the Elbe. Area, thTe quarters OF
square mile; pOpLlat on, 1900; religion,
Lutheran.
a wild sweet orange has been dis
covered growing III the rthe paTt of
Florida. The fruit hangs on the tree
all the year round, often for six months
afte. 1t IS fully rips.
On an average there are thIrty-6ve
more boys than girls born in New York
city every week. On the average fifty
more males thtn females die. so the
female population grows more rapidly
tn N the male.
Some relic hunter has cut out ana
carried away from the Union College
building, III Schenectady, y. Y,
sect on of window sill in winch eX-
President Arthur cut his name years
ago when a student there
The largest black damon ever found
las recently been brought TO this
country from the mines of Bahia,
Brazil. This diamond Is about two
inches inlength, weighs S67 IL carats,
and is valued at $, 900.
There are drifts of snow IN the Little
Smoky Mountains Of Idaho that are
fifty feet deep. These drifts are rem
nants of the heavy snowfall of last
winter, and it is co jectuTed that it Will
take two more hot summers to melt
them.
The heart that lies in Napoleon Bon.
aparte's body under tie dome Of Les
Iuval des. in Paris, is sa o. be that of
a young lamb, the Emperor's heart
having been eaten by IA afteI the pO 81
mOTtem eX ,mina ion Of his remains
male in 1S2l.
Nine. de Mendonca, wife Of the Bra
lillian member of the Pan Amer lean del
egatiOn, talks politics, as well As
weather, in the best of English. She is
pronounced by strangers "a perfect
type Of Spanish beauty Both her
beauty and her English are ind g-uOus,
however as she was born in Maine OF
generations of Yankee ancestors.
Lavender is a native of the south of
Europe boTd, TIng on the Mediterranean
1t Is cultivated qutCeNten-iyely IN Eng
land for distIllirg the oil, but We DO not
know of any lavender farm in this
country, although the plants are COM
mon III gardens.
Atramp whose intellectual ctlIber was
far above his profession was recently
found at Bangor, Me, Hisonly baggage
was small butte oice collection of bO ks,
including "IIe Confess lOus of Jean
Jacuu Rousseau, the works o. Balz c,
Dumas, a copy of SIakesp, are, anC
Honer's Had.
The IIludoOS nev.r eat m al, a the
sight Of blood Or yes them cay. All a
MOEammedan Las TO 10 ia order toS'arJ
Il war is to dip ms ha q In any kind of
hood and tap it On one of the HmdOO
temp es. 1t isayOudo charm th-tstirs
up the effen te nature Of { q II udCo
and & v-s them the courage of fanatics
The ex-Empress Eugene has entered
the ranks OF royal authors. one of her
eff0r 8 has, it is SAID, met with a cold
reception. II was entitled The Re-
tuIn OF the WaudeTer," and was a vel
come to Prince BatteMberg 70 BalmOral
after ms last escape from his family
and subsequent little jaunJ on the Con-
tinent.
TamagnO, the great tenor, was bag
gage porter before his remarkable
poaeTs of voice We're revealed. He
dos not favor his former craft, how
ever, when he is on his travels. II a
por ct demands what he regards as too
mnch for carrying hi, trunk he calmly
shoulders 1t himself with all his old-time
skill.
Recent discoveries among ancient
tOnbS In Eirurit, Italy, unmist kably
show hat dentistry was pr cticed as Z II
back As six centuries before ths Christian
era. Severa of theskI sls eX -miued n 81
f lse teeth, carved On those Of some
large animal; VIII le many o. the natural
teeth had III filling.
Mr.. Pyne, the noted Home-Ruler, "a
ways decl mes to say what discontinued
nauts, who come to him cOmp.aD NJ
Of their landlords, should DO, becaus8,
as he exp AIMS, "Mr. Ba four says that
Il would Il e Illegal, but l can tell You
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