Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-10-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

bicycle.
Don't carry our umbrella with ut
ter di regard of the people behind you
or on either side.
To be we'll shod and better gIoved
are peculiarities of the French and
American women.
"A piano should never be allowed to
remain unopened for a period of sever
al months or longer.
"A huge potato, weighing twenty
| seven pounds, has been raised by far
mer at Bayou Sara, La.
"A mountain of coal In Wild Horse
Valley, Wyoming, has been burning
for more than thirty years.
The man who makes loud claims
to & Cod character ought to be careful
and have it always with him,
Don't fret. Fretting and fault-find-
ing make more women thin and wrink-
led than anything else in the world.
When merely eating an ice or other
slight refreshment between dances 1t il
not necessary to take off your gloves.
The first London directory was
printed in 1861, and contained but "a
pages, with names of ]. 100 persons and
| firms.
The Arabian year is lunar one,
and in the course of thirty-two years
each month runs through all Of tho
seasons.
| There are plenty of good fish always
in the sea, but thousands of worthy In
land people can never get to the sea-
shore.
The emperor of Germany, while en-
tertainIng much more freely than his
| grandfather did, has a keen eye to
economy.
-Cowper was over fifty when he pub
lished John GIlpin" and The Task"
and DefOe 5S when he published "Ro-
binsOn Crusoe."
Bills are now posted in Paris by
machinery, which is said to be an im-
proyemenJ on the hand and pastepot
system.
Lady Randolph Churchill is the on
ly American woman who has been hon.
ored by the queen with the Order of the
Crown of India.
-Maxlms which seem truisms In
their application to the conduct of 9TH
! us dHb W tSCdHt US dllOBclucI III
their bearing on our own.
| --Ihe Empress of Austria is as busy as
a schoolgIrl with her linguistic studies.
and as interested as land reformer In
agricultural projects.
Henry Cook, a Norwich Comm
tailor, has beard seven feet two inches
long though he is only five feet six
| inches tall.
The temple of Hom-mon-ji, 81
IkegamI, begun in 1882 and finished IN
l.07, Is one of the most famous religious
structures in Japan.
"A traveller said recently that
Philadelphia has more people with dark
hair and blue and gray eyes than any
place he ever visited.
Petroleum, which actually dows
unalded through the rocks, has been
discovered at Crows Nest in the Cana
dian Rocky Mountain.
The way to tell a well-bred dog 40
cOrding to a canine fancier, is to grasp
him by the back or the neck and hold
him up. If a cur, he yelps; If well-bred,
he never utters whimper.
The actual expenditure OF the
British government in 1889 was eSS.-
6S3, $50, or, if we consider So to be
equivalent to 81, S443, 4l9, ,150.
To take rust out of steel rub It
over with salad oil and in forty-eight
hours rub with uDslaked lime, finely
powdered. until the rust disappears.
If pant has been scattered on win
dow panes wet the spots with water
and rub thoroughly with a new silver
dollar, or they may be washed with
sharp vinegar.
Carrier pigeons are being trained at
Portsmouth, England, for carrying mes
sageS from ships at sea 10 the shore.
During some trials they successfully
crossed the channel during fog.
The artificial incubation of eggs
originated in Egypt. where 1t Is still
carried on. According to consular
report no fewer than rs, ,00O, 600 eggs
are Matched in this way every year OF
the banks of the Nile.
Robert t. Barker, of New Bedford,
Mass, read the Bible through for the
first time in 1908. Since that date hs
has read it ninety-nine times. 1t usually
takes him two months to read Il from
beginning to end.
"A man fishing at Jersey, England,
was caught by the rising tide, and q
boat had TO be put out to rescue him.
the next day the magistrate sentenced
him to eight days. hard labor "for the
trouble he had caused"
The census reports show an aver
age value of cows in the United States
of S2l 62, or lifty-two cents each less
than ten years ago. There must be
some some cheap cows somewhere.
Horses average Sl.S4 less In value than
in 1880.
Nine hundred tons of green peas
were delivered in London by the
Great Eastern Railway Company on
a recent Saturday. This large guam
tity so depressed the prices In the
market that most of them are said to
have been sold at a loss.
"A curious fact in tie early history of
pins is that when they were first sold in
"open shop" there was such gaeat de-
mand for them that code was passed
permitting their sale only on two days
in the year-the 1st and I'd of Janu-
airy.
An army of locusts ten miles
wide recently swept over the PuDjab In
India. II occupied five days IL pass
ing. Not much harm was done to
crops, however, since they were so
far advanced that they could be
harvested before the locusts reached
them.
! The lion is eaten by some African
races and the hippopotamus by others.
The Zulus find csrrion so much to their
liking that they apply to it the word
"uborni," signfiying great happiness.
The aboriginal Australians and Hotten-
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