Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
NO. Is.
NEWS IN BRIEF,

-Irel 'rd's exiies are 20, 900 year.
-LUudOn las more Irish than Dub
in.
"A locomotive "to run on ice" Is
lew.
-FJberts originally came from
Greece.
-Koch's lymHh. is clear, reddish
brown fluid.
1t is said that a Ch:naman never
goes cay.
Thomas Jefferson invented the hill.
,ide plow.
-Maryland's State Museum has .
petr fed oyster.
The United States has more miles
If railroad than all Europe.
Savannah, Ga, policemen weaf
their revolvers in their be IS.
An oyster eleven inches long has
been found of the CUnnectlcut shore.
Beavers and otters are still trapped
n Northern New York in large num-
bers.
"A lawyer of California has Just re-
ceived 500. 900 for five years. work on
one Case.
I'm 1744 the war between England
and France, known as king Georges
War;" began.
Cincinnati (Ohio) physicians pro-
pose the enlargement Of the head ss .
cure for idiocy. a
Queens College, Oxford. England,
has just celebrated the 550th anniver.
,ary Of its foundation.
-Farthings are legal tender In Eng
and up 10 one shilling, but are frequent
y refused if offered tor even penny.
AN Oregon man ploughed his Geld
with st"am engine, turning over ths
soil at the rate OF sixteen acres Q
day.
"A society for the prevention OF
cruelty and neglect OF pet birds and
animals has been started In London,
England, under royal patronage.
The class of buildings struck most
frequently by lightning are, first
dwell ings; second, barns and granar-
lesi third. oil tanks and oil works.
Two years ago forty sacks of seed
ling oysters were plante1 In an arm Of
the San Diego ,Cal. Bay; to-day the
beds extend over twelve hundred
acres,
"A series OF stalactite caverus, sur
passing any simi ar ones In Europe,
have been Discovers ed in German East
Africa. Millions of bats frequent
them.
The London Veger: ariau Society re-
ports membership of 541, but the
movement is sald to have spread
throug hout England, Europe and the
colonies.
"A collection of wild flowers is said
TO be In preparation from the State Of
California, for the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago, Ill, by the school children Of that
State.
"A pair of Texas cattle horns were
found in Scott Bluffs County, Nebras-
ka, the other day that measured
five feet nine inches from zip to
tip.
millionaire Crocker, of California.
Is said to have four diamonds In ths
crown of bis teeth. TIE stones ara
valued at $500.
The skeleton of Tonti. the famous
French explorer, has upen unearthed az
Starved r OK, on the Illinois kive.. Is
was identified by tie iron hand.
I'm Yorkshire the English peasant
II he happens TO see the new moon
without having a piece Of silver money
in his pocket Immediately turns heels
over head to change his luck.
"A curiosity in the home Of NicboI-
as Levisler, of Baltimore, Maryland, Il
wooden model of a country residences
which he made with penknife after
thirteen years or work
| "A goose at Tarry town, n. Y, has
Ieacbed the age OF twenty-five yeari
and IS still sound i'll mind and bOdy,
and apparently good for live years more
She has furnished enough feathers In
her l fe to make three featheI-beds.
Probably the most unIqne and ex-
pressiye annual pass tor 1891 is that
sent out by President John Hoey, Of
The Adams Express Company. On the
face, del cately engraved, is skull,
and aboue it in fine letters is the word
''deadhead.
For many years it was believed that
the atmosphere la great deal TO do
with thread-making, and that good
thread could Cnly be made in Scotland.
1t is now known that 1t Is all In the
twist aud nothing In the atmosphere.
One of the old sights in Chicago
recently was the moving Of stately
elm tree through the streets flom
Crosse Point TO Graceland Cemetery.
The tree wRs lifted as It grew and
Transported, upright, In a crate, CIV
ing the impression OF a travelling
tree.
The only foreigner in the service OF
the Emperor of China is Frederick A.
Bee, tall msn, With close-crooped,
mutton-ohop whiskers and shp ggy gray
eyel rows. Mr.. Bee Is Consul In HIS
NJ ongolian Majesty's service, and has
been honored with several titles. lie
has received 'hese honors as a result
of his services at the time Of the kear-
ney Sand Lot riots at San Francisco,
Cal.
ID. 9. PitneT, OF Uklsh, CAL, Ia
J preparing an j cubator on large scale.
| His hot house is 10 be converted into
one. The house contains two rooms,
each twenty-four feet square, with o
capacity oil 49, eggs, He will be-
gin by trying 1000 eggs in one of the
rooms.
In the palmy davs of Rome the
number Of lions brought from Africa
AVERAGED 400 per year for nine years,
and with these leopards, tigers, hyenas,
elephants, buffaloes, and serpents al
most without number. For several
years thsre were 5000 men employed in
Africa in trapping wi d animals 70
make sport for the people of Rome.
A Remarkable Canal.