Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-08-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
lrhsrs are no "hxed,. stars.

It IS said that the slot machine Il
over 15J years Old.
he ordinary watch gives 1l6, 144, 600
ticks during the year
West Pointers say they never learn
how TO use pockets again.
The graduates from Ann Arbor,
Mich, this year number $40.
The banjo is a favorite instrument
with the members of the English royal
family.
At Eddy, New Mexico, stratum of
salt has been struck which is forty feet
thick.
The name Nebraska was first applied
60 The river. In the Indian language
it means shallow water.
Fifteen locomotives of the narrow
gauge pattern with tender were shipped
from Baltimore to Brazil recently.
y Reading (Pean.) man has Just re-
ceiyed letter mailed to him by his SOL
dier brother twenty-seyen years ago.
Jupiter is the largest planet IN the So
lar system, teing 50, 800 miles In diam
eter, while the earth Is but 5000 miles
An Atchison (Kan.) pirl who Is about
10 he married has announced that she
will pay the expenses Of the wedding
tour.
Brooklyn has another female house
breaker. This one is fifty years old
and is now safely Gagged IN the peniten-
tiary.
Berlin's suicide epidemic shows no
signs of abatement. No less than $50
persons died there by their own hand In
July.
The hailstones which recently fell at
Arkansas City, Ark, were about the
shape OF a common soda biscuit and
nearly as big.
The British admiralty has resolved
TO give So, 900 to Admiral Colomb
for his Invention OF flashing light sig-
mails.
The greatest steam power using coun-
try in the world Is the United states.
Great Britain comes next, then Ger
many and then France.
There is in Denver, COL, Chinese
| highlander and general terror named
Wun Man, and according 10 accounts
one like him is enough.
Manitoba and the Northwest Terri
tory are expected to harvest 5000, ,O0o
bushels OF wheat while other crops will
surpass previous years.
There are spiders no bigger than =
grain of sand which spin thread so fine
that 1t takes 400 of them to equal in
magnitude single hair.
Buddhs IS wOrshiped in Paris in van.
ou5 private temples, the devotees being
chiefly japanese, but many of them are
Frenchmen and d few Englishmen.
A boy Of ten and girl of twelve In
one OF the public schools at Portland.
Ne. are subjects of great deal of curl
! osity, as byth are bald as billiard
balls
From The summit of Mt. Rose In Ne
vada, 500 feet above the sea level,
| tie waters of Il likes may be seen glis-
tening among the forests OF the Sier-
/ ras,
| The neurology list of Harvard Col,
| lege records the d athso 1873 grad yates.
Of this number 1I9 occurred since last
, commencement, against Ill deaths in
| lSS9-90.
According to a German authority IL
has been found that Zinc will rapidly
/
| To prevent this rooling-felt Is placed be-
tween the zinc and the brickwork.
During recent thunder storm il
| Maine the skin of a boy who was
struck by lightning turned purple aud
has remained 50 ever sIDce,
One wheat field IN Coluss county,
Cal, covers 5I2 square miles. This
year 1t yielded N average of 10 bushels
per acre, or to,dl Of nearly 5000, 000
bushels,
at North Adams, Mass, the other
day couple who were united in mar
ridge In church before the regular ser
wee vent a. once into the choir and as
sisted il the singing.
The number os lives lost by accident
anl dis, ase In the construction of the
Panama Canal Is conf Ctural. Many
writers agree that it is something like
20 OOJ.
l. jeweleT has invented devise for
use in sl-eIIng cars that promises TO be-
come popular, 1t is ladder composed
of tubes of leather, that provide easy
access TO UPPER berths.
Alaska was discovered by Vitus Bebr,
ing as late as 114l, and became and re
mdlned Russian territory by right of
discovery unit It passed o the United
States by purchase in 1857.
It IS reported that an English sypdi-
cate will construct line Of freight
steamships to carry grain between
Chicago and England. aud ultimately
to continental ports.
TIE quarantine officer or the Cali
foruia Horticultural Board seized 375,-
90 orange trees from Tahiti, which
, we're infested with five different
varieties Of scale bugs. They we're all
mtenaed for San Bzrnardino county.
A Dane arrested IN Merlden, Conn,
for THEFT is said 70 be heir to over q
i quarter Of a million dollars. He was
laDished from denmark in 1869, the
story goes, and i prevented from aim
ing the property by the fact of his ban
i5h Y eDt.
! The Maine bounty Of s. on bears na.
/ thinned them out remarkably. A few
. Yeas ago, Greenviile, which IS the
, very centre OF the bear region, Offere1
for sale every year % or more skins.
g This year ouly seven have been Offered.
: Montreal people have been furnished
food for gossip b the marriage there
Of q rich widow to her oOachmsn.
, Her nTst husband was couslO,
! whom "shs mar ed 1t her folks in-
q stance, ia order that the family
gold should not ge5 out Of the fam-
Ily."
, A POUND OF sulphur burnt IL q tight
! iy closed room will destroy every iiv-
, Ing thing IL II, from moths and bed
bugs TO possible disease germs Re-
move first all gilded or brass orns-
: ments or lamps, and any delicate dres,
fabrics, but the ordinary furniture and
clothing may be lett without fear of 10
| iury, aud should he as much exposed