Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-09-30
NEWS Cs BRIEF.

" NA'S ~ NANt1AASANf lhSiCaoCs-
A concave paddle wheel is a new
invention.
Africa has nearly seven hundred
languages.
The French watch product for 1890
amounted to 4Oi, ,436 watches.
Among the seventy proprietors of
The Lonnon Times are many women.
"A novelty in mems hats is fac
simile of the ''stoye-pipe" made of
straw.
The dogs of one county in Penn
sylv@nia last year killed $500 worth Of
sheep.
An aged travelling scissors grind
has died IN I"diana, leaving an estate
valued at S21 200.
"A harness that is luminous in the
dark has been invented. IL is intended
to prevent collisions at night.
In California there is spring from
which rises such nOXious gas that one
whin of it will extinguish life.
A Philadelphia woman has Just dis
charged debt of three cents, which
she has owed for forty-three years.
The Rush street bridge in Chicago,
one of the largest drawbrid res in the
world, is now turned by electricity.
The Forest and Stream makes a
strong plea that girls should be allowed
TO go with men on hunting expeditions.
A piece of crown land on Pail Mall.
London, has just been leased at a rate
based on selling price of S2,5c0, 900
per acre.
1t is against the law of Florida for
any person to sell to, buy for or give
cigarettes to any other person under
eighteen years of age.
The hailstones which recently fell
at Arkan-as City, Ark, were about the
shape of a common soda biscuit and
nearly as big
1t is stated that in TangIer, Al
geris, lOcusts fall IN the streets like
rain, and the sound OF their falling Ie-
sembles heavy shower.
Near Parkersburg. W. Va, re-
Gently, young woman jumped into the
river and brought to shore two men
who were drowning.
1t Is SAID that the five leading
hotels at Saratoga, n. Y, take in an
aggregate of $4,000, 600 month dur
ing the busy season.
-Homing pigeons are to be used on
United States men-Of-war to communi-
cate with the shore. The initial steps
for such experiments have already been
taken.
"A citizen of Greeneastle, Md, has
trained his rat-terrier to hatch out
spring chickens, and the little fellow
does 1t thoroughly. He is now setting
on goose eggs.
When a Kansas farmer has been
sold out by sheriff to satisfy
mortgage, he Is then known as a
''whereas. because the writ of
attachment begins with whereas"
With the idea of preserving the
Gaelic language the Duke of Athol's
daughter is preparing for the lnstruc-
tions of the Gaels OF Perthshire in read
ing, writing and speaking their native
tongue.
The Trans Atlantic Steamship,
FueIst Bismarck, carries the penant
for speed, with a record of 1878 knots
per hour, her second being the City Of
Paris, with record OF 1919 knots per
hour.
"A ffteen-year-old Virginia school
girl recently wrote poem which con-
taincd $50 lines, each line commenc-
ing alternately with NJ and r, and
from which the letter was entirely
omitted.
"A "berdash" was a name anciently
given III England to a sort of neck
dress, and the person who made or sold
such neck dresses was called a "ber-
dashe," hence the present term 'hsb-
ardasher.''
Professor Bastian related in a
had lately made the trip from BOMBAY,
Inoia, to Madras, and Benares in forty
eight hours by rail, while IN 1872 the
same trip, with OK teams, took two
months.
Joseph Patton, who lives near Cllf-
ton Hill, in Randolph county, Mo-, still
has the pony he rode in the Confed-
crate army. 1t is now thirty-six years
old and as fat as a mole, not having
been used any, or very little. for some
years.
Chicago and Milwaukee are to be
connected by an elevated electric rail-
way, the trains on which will run over
a mile a minute. The projectors hope
to have the road in running order by
January l, 1898.
The finest display of gold or silver
plate the German Kaiser saw on his
recent trip was in Amsterdam, where he
was dined by the Queen Regent of Hol
LAND. The service. which is worth $780,
600, was originally made IN London for
William and Mary, but was carried to
Holland after the kings death over a
century ago.
"A sequoia tree has been found In
Kings River canyon, In the Nevada
mountain range, whose original diam
eter exceeded forty feet, but has been
reduced by fire to thirty-nine feet.
This is larger than any of the gigantic
trees discovered IN California by seven
feet.
1t is a fact not generally known
that there are more high peaks in the
Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Ne
vada range by proportion of twenty
to one than there are in the Alps.
There are at least fifty. peaks in this
country that are within 900 feet of an
altitude of IA 900 feet.
TURKISH PORTERS.
The serviceable dress worn by the
sslopaIcf or ,,ortars of (,onstaptipopla