Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-01-21
NO. 5.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


India want home rule.
Twenty two hundred railway trains
leave London daily.
Age for age, girls are taller In
Sweden and heavier as well.
-Alaska's ice-bound territory has
been shaken by an earthquake.
The orange crop in Spain and south
ern Europe generally Is a failure.
Excessive ugliness is a disqualified
ton for service in the French army.
The bicycle craze prevails in Dem
mark, and the ladies there ride them
astride.
1t is said that there are IL, 900 brass
bands In this country, with l5O, cooper
formers.
An elm tree in Lee, Mass, has just
been cut down which is kno Sn to he los
years old.
-"True milky and fire opals' it is re-
ported, are being turned up at Moscow,
Idaho.
Nearly $3.50, 900 a year is paid by
the British Government for the carriage
of mails.
There are now more public holidays
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the world.
Slam keeps up with the procession,
She is to have anelectric railroad thirty
miles long.
In Victoria, Australia, bricklayers
and masons work but seven and one
half hours per day.
Nearly twenty thousand pounds of
bread is daily eaten in the Sultan Of
Turkeys household
The distance between the rows Of
gold lace on German admiral's sleeves
must be .27529 of an inch-neither more
nor less.
Mexican contractors are importing
thousands of Chinese laborers to work
on railroads in course of construction
there.
Silk from paper-pulp is made smooth
and brilliant, has about the same elast-
icity as ordinary silk, and is about two
thirds as strong.
-Foot-and-mouth disease is still pre-
valent in Germany, and seems TO have
gained foothOld In the western prov
inces.
The Oldest soldier in Europe, Vic
tor ZambellI, died recently at Venice
after eighty-two years of service. He
began in the Austrian army.
1t is expected that the India rice
crop this season will be larger than the
| average, and that 10000, 600 hundred
weight will be available for export.
Pure gold is so soft that it would
soon be worn away by use, aud it is al
ways allowed with varying proportion
| of copper or silver, usually about one
tenth,
The Illinois State Board of Agri.
culture reports that the Hessian fly
| plague prevails to an alarming extent
in every winter wheat county of the
| State.
The exports from the Ottawa dis
trict to the United States for the last
three months amount TO $3.50, 900 more
than 100000 in excess of the experts
for the similar period in 1889.
Practical New York dairymen claim
It has taken at least ten and a half
pounds of milk on the average this sea-
son to make pound of cheese, THIS Is
in excess of ordinary years.
The Minister of Agriculture for
Hungary is taking steps to have vast
tracts in that country planted with
American vines, which have thus far
resisted the ravages of Phyloxera.
Zoe Gayton, a San Francisco wom-
an, is walking across the continent for
a purse of 81 a mile, providing she
walks more than fifteen miles a day.
She is in Nevada about one hundred
miles ahead of time.
The Benicia Agricultural Works
at San Francisco have turned out the
largest roller-chaln traction engine in
the world, weighing about twenty tons.
1t burns straw and will pull forty plOws,
doing the work OF seventy horses, over
and above the power for propulsion.
The cattle men of Southern Arizona
are making an endeavOr toraise $4,000
in order 10 sink wells along the old EN-
igrant trail to California, The burden
some railroad rates, which eat up tue
profits of the cattle producers, are the
cause of this movement.
Out of the average half a million
letters that arrive daily in Berlin 10000
are insuficiently addressed or are not
addressed at all, some only bearing the
names of the addressed.
In 1929 Italy was a land of beggars.
The PEOPLE were so poor that In q city
of 10000 Inhabitants traveller was
unable to purchase pair of gloves, or
in one of the 1l,0O0 cake Of soap.
"A little 4-year-old girl in England
writes with her left hand andwrites her
words backward, as they are reflected in
a mirror from ordinary writing. Her
friends have to read them by the aid or
looking-glass.
Eleven battle ships, with an aggre-
gate displacement of 20, 900 tons, are
now being built for the German Gov
eminent. AT Elberg no fewer than
seventy torpedo boats are being built
for the Government.
"A marine curiosity is on exhibition
at Astoria, Oregon. 1t consists of an
ordinary seaweed some twenty feet 10
length, and at the lower end the cluster
of roots have a firm hold of an aggrega-
tion of marine shells several pounds in
weight. These shells are occupied by a
curious inhabitant that has beak that
resembles a chickens, only it is divided
lerpendIcularly Instead of horizontally.
Cairo, ILL.,, boys are doing whole
sale business in sparroNs. The birds
make a roost in an old chimney in an
abanoned house. The boys have secured
a net, and after the birds 60 TO roost at
night they spread the net over the chim-
ney's top, Every morning they have
from 80 to 2C0sparrows, for which they
get u cents per head bounty.
Russia has agreed to bear the expense
of increasing the efficiency of the Mon
tenegrin army, and that principality is
virtually Russian province.
The municipal government of London,
which has a population OF 500,0c0,
costs the taxpayers S25,000,000. The
population of New York City Is l, ,500,-
600 and its municipal government costs
the taxpayers S37, 100000.
A Russian guard on the Prussian from
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