Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-09-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
There are no "axei" stars.

~ cubic inch Of cast aluminium
weighs 0.U02.
1t is an interesting fact that there
are no Oald-headed tramps.
Only six horses have ever trottsd
tWenty-miles within one hour.
There are go women ordained or
licensed to preach In this country.
A dog at Deposit, n. Y, found q
uocket-bOok recently containing S400.
"A miner dressed in armor went in
to burning mines at Republic, Mich,
TO fight the fire.
There VS. recently received In
New London, Conn, a banana weighing
two aud half pounds.
The Egyptians had very remark
able ordinance To prevent persons from
borrowing imprudently.
The Chinese paper currency is red,
| white ard yellow paper. with gilt letter
ing ard gorgeous devices.
"A harness that looks luminous in
the dark has been invented. 1t Is in
tended to prevent collisions at night.
The British admiralty has resolved
to give $4,000 to admiral CoIomb for
us invention flashing Ii. bit signals.
jupiter is the largest planet in the
solar system, being IS $50 miles in dia-
meter, while the earth is but 5000
miles.
The only woman, with the except
ion OF Mrs. Grimwood, who has received
the Royal Red Cross, is Florence Night
ingale.
Miss Olive Buchanan, United State
Deput, Marshall at st. Louis. Is the
only person or her sex now holding q
position Of thai kind.
AT Cambridge, England, butter is
sold by the yard, pound of the article
be pg rolled INTO yard long and sold In
sections 10 suit buyers.
Mrs. Harrison is having the green
room of the White House decorated Ia
5 xteenth 9 injury style. The leading
tint is abSinthe green.
Secretary Tracy witnessed the feet
mauRuvres of the Moth Atlantic
and the squadron of Evolution off Bar
uarbOr, Me.
- he greatest steam power using
country ia the world is the United
ties. Great Britain comes next then
Germany and then France.
There are spiders no bigger than
grain OF sand which spin thread 80
tine that It t, kes 1000 of them to equal
III magnitude single hair.
The wages of shop girls in London
range from $35 to $40 year in the
10 rest k nd OF shops. to $3.50 to to S4O0
IN the HrIstocratlc establishments.
The search for bodies In the ruined
building in Park Place, New York
City, was ended, siXtyone cOrpses hav-
ing been recovered. OF these, fifteen
are unidentified.
Miss Hattie Porter, OF Hartford, be-
comes one of The richest women in
Ccnnecticut through bequest Of $780,
o. just received under the will of Solo
mon A Porter.
The English Royal Princesses have
set the fashion for their sisters not only
to dress alike when they are unmar-
ried, but to continue to do SO after hay
ing become wives.
One who has worn them says that net
dresses were invented by the enemy of
woman-kInd TO try her temper and to
keep her forever darning tue rents In
the net,
- he longest hair in the world Is said
TO belong to young woman In Gains.
VILE, Texas. 1t trails on the ground
over four feet, and is OF beautiful red
gold color.
The Empress of Germany is loys
TO the tatherIand TO the extent of
having ali her d: esses made in Ber-
In and Vienna. She buys her hats In
Berlin and only her gloves comes
from Paris.
The New York girl who lost her
engagement ring in wash basin only to
fud II two years later in the gutter,
where II had been washed from an open
sewer, had meantime been married and
widowed.
According to German authority
II has BET found that zinc Will rapidly
coIroje when in contact with BRICK
work. t. prevent this roofing-felt Is
placed be ween the zinc and the brick
work.
- 1t is stated that there are 27,C00,.
600 pores on the surface of our bodies
which, if placed in a line. would ex-
tend twenty-eigut miles in length, and
that we lose wo pound of water in the
tweLty-fJur hours by per ptration.
The stance of the horizon Is gov
erned by the he ght of the eye above
th earth or sea. On the sea, with tho
eye at height of five feet, the distance
woul be three miles; at sixty feet in
height, ten miles.
Mrs. Mckay has fallen a victim to
the craze for hyphenatet names She is
no longer plain Mrs. Mackay, known
all the world ever without initial or
prefix; she is now Mr.. "Hungerford-
Naoksy," at which English people
smile.
Mrs. Ida May Davis, who has been
elected memt er OF the city school board
of Trrre Haute, is the first woman in
Indiana to hold such a position.
Thou-h sti II young woman, she has
been a teacher for ten years, and is ths
suit or of considerable literary work.
The following is luiicrous Gus
tom affected among the nobility of Bas
yarIa. pom any nouleman's engaging
in trade, mechaDi"s, manual labor or
like occupation, he must needs drop his
title while so employed but which can
he resum d upon giving up the occupa-
ton.
Miss Fisher, Of North Carolina,
the lady who once wrote many novels
under the name of Christian Reid,' is
now Mrs. Giernan and publishes no
more. She is the daughter OF the Col
Onel Fisher who gave its name to Fort
Fisher.
"A Connecticut merchant advertises
iron bedStea1s ali bs ling"
The wife of well-known naval Of
fcer in Washin.toR wears a very hand
8 me gold n cklace that once adorned
the neck of a Peruvian Princess. The
lady s husband took 1t from the Princess,
whose mummi6,d body he found in a
Peruvian grave.
When a Frenchwoman wears q
sailor hat, which IS very seldom, she has