Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-09-09
NO. 3s.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Africans rarely become bald.

Africans rarely become bald.
White tar is something new.
1t is said that apes have q Ian.
guage
The King of Ashantee has 35S3
wIveu
Birmingham, Ala, is shipping iron
pipe North.
In the japanese language there is
DO word for kiss.
The New York Excelsior cent OF
1888 is worth So
A new race has been discovered at
the Philipins Islands.
There aye twenty-three acres of land
to every inhabitant of the globe.
An attempt to climb the Himalayas
will be made by Explorer Conway.
-Constantinople is having her first
wooden pavement put down.
The sheriff of Camden, n. j., has
seized cemetery lot on aH esecution.
in British India twenty eight mill
Ion acres are cultivated by irrigation.
In the yard of Lynn Mass. resi-
dent Is bed of peonies go years old.
An old lady who had danced with
Lafayette died in New Haven recently.
--'E'' is the most frequently used let
ter in the alphabet; then comes "T''
"A New Orleans man keeps lizard
on his table to guard valuable papers.
-OnIy twenty per cent. of the muir
ders committed yearly are ever found
out.
One acre Of land will comfortably
support four persons on a vegetable
diet
Twenty million acres of the land OF
the United States are held by English
men.
in England the average weight of q
tram is AZ tons, of an omnibus only two
.ons.
A Pittsburg widow has had three hus.
bands, each of whom was over six feet
tail.
California counties are growing poor
through paying a bounty on coyote
scalp.
The very finest brand of Havana
cigars fetches $500 a thousand In
Paris.
The month of May, 1891, was the
wettest May IN Europe for nearly sew
enty years.
The vegetable food is regarded by
japanese as Sho-Jinmouo, or the food
of spiritual progress.
The new United States sixteen-Inch
gun Will be forty-nine and a half feet
long and weigh 125 tons,
The largest bay In the world is
Hudson Bay, measuring $50 miles
north and south by 600 miles wide.
The manufacture of false teeth for
horses is new industry just opened In
Paris with capital of S40O,000
AT Griffin, Ga, king snake was
seen TO swallow green snake several
inches longer than his own body.
-1here IS a man In Kansas who
wears sunbonnet summer and winter,
and will give no reason for his freak.
1t is in Boston that man has been
at last arrested and fined for failing to
obey the sign, Keep off the grass"
Numerous men are making a living
in Berlin by being subjects for prac-
tice for those who are learning mas
sige.
The ponies of Manipur, India, are
celebrated, and 1t is claimed that It WAS
In Manipur that hockey or polo was In
vented,
One of the peculiar customs Of the
East Inuian coolies, called lascars, is
the putting of a ring on their great toe
when they marry.
German medical papers report the
death of a young woman from heart
ia lure following immersion in cold wa
terfor baptism.
Professor R. L. Perkins, of Boston,
is the owner of copy of Horace that
was printed in 1916. 1t has an index to
every word.
The most expensive street car in the
world is owned by the Troy Electric
Ra lway Car Company of Cleveland,
Ohio. 1t cost SO 600.
Two men in Clyde, Mich., have
paid taxes on the same piece OF land for
seven years, and one of them Is now try
Ing to get his money back.
"A new car of the Michigan Central
Railroad does the work of 200 men IN
scraplng the dirt dumped on the sides
of the track to the edge Of the fill.
The Coreans are the largest eaters
known. Their stomachs are generally
abnormal IN size, and the one possessing
the largest Is generally considered the
richest.
"A Spanish milled dollar of 1913 was
found In the dirt under house In West
Paris, Me. The coin Is in excellent
condition, the design and lettering be-
ing very clear.
The Church of England Is turning
out curates three times as fast as it is
forming new cures, and there has been
a society formed to promote the use OF
additional curates.
The first Union flag was unfurled
on January ], l776, over the camp at
Mass. 1t bad thirteen
stripes Of white and red, and retained
the British cross in one corner.
Fish are much better preserved when
kept hanging in a cold dry atmosphere.
Lying upon the ice they lose their flavor
and spoil more rapidly.
The low grades ofmolasses made on
the Louisiana plantations are now
spriDkled over the dry crushed care,
and materially increases its usefulness
as fuel for the furnaces.
An automatic life-saving belt that
can be shaped INTO ball, fred from a
gun or thrown by hand, has recently
been tried on the Thames 1t nights
Itself upon contact with the water.
The extreme danger to life attend
ant upon break NJ a jam of logs has
been overcome by using dynamite car
tridges on the end of long poles. These
are pushed under the jam and ex-
plcded.