Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-12-02
NO. 90.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

aAaua hdS oofo grant Trees lelt.
Shoe buckles are made of OK horns.
The watches In use number 1885,,
973, ,s7S
A pound Of phosphorus heads l.
700 90 matches.
"A st. Paul (Mlnn. company keeps
chimneys clean.
AT Vancouver, British Columbia
seal skins sell for $40.
Every seventh man in England is
Londoner.
There are twice as many large
game animals in Maine now a, there
were ten years ago.
Damascus is to be lighted by eisc-
tricity, while Smyrna is to have an cleo
tric railway.
There are no known owners for
5000 acres of land in st Clair county,
Ala.
The Minnesota supreme court has
decided that contracts for grain futures
are not valid.
Dainty invalid sets are provided with
china trays, decorated with flowers or
baby faces.
"A mischievous Camden IN. J,) boy
is II jail for painting whiskers on the
figure Of an angel on a gravestone.
1t took los newspaper columns of
nonpariel type to contain the last list of
delinquent taxpayers of Denver, Col.
The gauge of the Roman chariots
200O years ago was four feet eight and
half inches-same as astandsrd railroad
gauge OF fto-day.
The temple Of Hom-mom-ji, at In
kegami, begun in 1882 and finished In
1907, is one of the most famous relig-
tous structures u Japan.
Several hundred eagles swooped
down on Bjelgord, Russia, and de-
voured ten horses, several sheep, and q
vast number OF smaller animals.
The father of one OF the
largest property holders In London
is buried In glass case on top or
one OF the finest buildings in the
city.
"A cat In Texas has developed such
an affection for dog that she is learn
Ing to bark so that she can converse
with him with greater freedom.
"A woman in Hancock County,
Maine, who was afraid to drive her
horse across a railroad track, was Bit
terly disappointed in attempting to 20
around it.
Damp weather in a town in Kansss
caused package of 5000 postage stamps
to be glued together in a solid block,
making It necessary to return them all
to Washington.
The screw III the fourth Jewel wheel
of watch IS so small that a lady1
thimble would hold l,tOO,O 600 of them.
"A city in India which was taken by
General Goddart in 1850, was found to
contain 10000 inhabitants and as many
monkeys.
"A cabbage stalk on which fourteen
heads of cabbage are growing is exhibit
ed In the Office of New Bedford Mass.
newspaper
There are spiders no bigger than Q
grain ofsand, which spin thread go fne
that 1t takes 1000 OF them to equal In
magnitude single hair.
There are two bearing apple trees
in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, that
were planted in 1892. One of them 10
ten feet in circumference
"A Texas Judge has decided that it
Is no crime for an official to embezzle
bonds or coupons, that only gold and sill
yer coin or legal tender can be embez-
zled.
-Caterplllars from ten to twelve
inches long are said to be not un-
common in Australia, while species
which vary in length from six to
eight inches are stated to be numer-
GUS.
I'm India, so it is told, the COM
mon custom is for the barber TO 90
to the homes of his customers. He
starts out early in the morning, and,
should he find customer In bed,
he shaves him without arousing
him.
DR.. Clement; who was treating q
horse at Better, Hinsdale County,
Penn, supposed to be IN bad shape,
discovered tooth growing out Of the
animals ear. The strange ivory was
ierked out and the suffering animal
promptly recovered.
There are said to be about four
hundred gypsies In the Northern States.
The men are nearly sll tinkers and pro-
fess to make living mending pots and
kettles, but fortune telling by the wo-
men is the great source of the family
revenue.
The new compound ten-wheelsd
engine built for the Mexican Central
Railroad by Rhode Island concern,
we're found too large to pass the Ration
tunnel of the Santa Fe road and they
had to be shoTn of every projecting
part Even then they just managed to
pass through.
One of the largest species of puffbaH
mushroom was found growing on q
recent night in Carl Castelliun's garden
on High street, Newport, Mass.
1t measured twenty-eight inches
around and twenty-four inches high,
and weighed three pounds and thirteen
ounces.
-Lepers in India were treated with
shocking inhumsnIty before Christianity
entered that country, Many of them
were buried alive. The English rulers
have put stop to this custom. and for
fourteen years there has been a special
Christian mission to the l35, 900 lepers
in India.
There are said to be sixteen species
of American trees the wood of which,
when well seasoned, will sink into water
The heavieet of these js black ironwood,
which is thirty per cent. heavier than
water. A species of oak grows in Tex
as and New Mexico which, when green,
will sink almost as quickly as iron.
One of the new professors at the Kan
sas University astonished his class re-
Gently by the following question:
"Who dragged whom about the walis