Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-25
NO. IA.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Coffee is brewed by electricity.

II ne GSrman army Is using uofno-
shoes made out of paper.
Siam is to have s4O0, 600 electric
railway thirty miles long.
"A Missouri man, aged nInty-thres,
Is cutting new set Of teeth.
A London Journal proposes tn.
rabbit as a wool-producing animal.
ID. A. Slaqht, of Buffalo, n. Y.
has cat which weighs twenty-eighs
pounds.
Within sixty-two yers Mexico has
had dtty-fcur Presidents, one regency
and one empire.
1t Is a curious fact that all of the
girls in Wellesley College who lead their
clnsses are blonde.
FIRTH and firth mean the same, Q
narrow arm OF the STA INTO which .
river emptles. The former form is the
batter.
"A savant estimates that the number
OF persons drowned in the various
waters OF the world since the creation
is l56. 100000.
Sir Samuel Baker, the great hunter
and explorer, says is the most foolish
thing In the worll to look q savage ami
NAL in the eye.
Thu London libraries all have 9
small stat!oner's shop connected with
them, where various conveniences for
writing are supplied.
-Oalmi0 persimmons weighing eigh-
teen ounces have been grown on the
place Of Colonel Church, Just ca st Of
Orlando, Fla.
In Englsnd's Australian properties
the sale of opium 70 the aborIgines and
kanakas is very 'srgs, and the drug Is
even given in wages.
"A Hoosier inventive genius has re-
Gently patented Il voting booth that can
b. folded up into the smallest possibls
space for transportation.
One of the students at the Kansas
State University is larber, and Il
making his way through school By
working on Saturdays,
"A Gotham bride stood IN the vesti-
bu'e or church recently before she
en- cred to be married and had her
picture taken" by friend.
Sidney Ann White of Sedalla,
No, is one hundred and six years old,
weighs $50, and was a slave TO George
! Boone, a brother OF Ddnlal Boone.
Reading Tars, fitted out with the
most popular periodicals and books,
will be attached to the passenger trains
of the st Petersburg & Warsaw, Rail
road, IL Russia.
Limited" as arplieI to partnerships
and placed after the name OF a firm
means that the members composing the
firm are not responsible for more than
the amount of shares or stock they
hold.
According TO the Chinese legend,
the virtues of tea were discovered 10y the
mythical emperor Chiuung 2737 B. e.,
10 whom all agricultural and mechSn-
lcal knowledge IS traced.
"A Maine debtor has been lying In
iaIl several years, the creditor teing
resolved, as alleged, to pay his board
and extend his term TO Imprisonment
for fe il necessary, the man being
unaEls to pay
The isolated Galapagos Archipel-
ago is q rich repository OF animal and
vegetable forms. Its fora d ffers By
one-hdlf If Its species from that OF tbs
rest OF the globe.
On the authority OF DR.. Heylin, \
is stated that certain Tartars often kill
a 90 d-lookIng stranger, mot out OF
deslre for spoil or to tat his body, but
that tue soul OF such comely person
might remain among them."
Charles GrfitIs, OF Athens, Ga,
has curiosity in Ihe shape Of pipe-
The bowl of the pipe Is fashioned out Of
baiarwood, Willie the SEN was taken
from the leg cf scme lordly gobbler OF
the days of long ago.
According to an official return
which has just heen Issued, there are
400, 90 MI Ch cows in the colony Of
Victoria, and tile annual value OF their
milk, but er and cheese is about three
/ million sterling.
The fastest English trains are those
running between Euston and Edin-
burgh, which average fOury- seven miles
an hour, while the speed Of the fust
trains between Berlin and Hamburg
averages forty-hye miles.
After the young ladies' of Wellesley
| College had given Mrs. HenTy N Stan
| ley reception she returned the compli-
ment by Inviting them TO her husbands
lectur-, paying S75J for them with her
| personal check.
In the 10 years after he passes 80
mans foot grows in length nearly su
inch. In the case OF woman, however,
her foot is generally sma Ter at Is than
it was when SHE was IS. IL No, 1
will ct her at Is she can easily wear
at 25.
An interesting heathsn'sh usage
exists among tie rolie.h oks IL II ,tb-
enian tibel in Vo'hynia A bride
being led to the church TO be married
must pass III ough the dre. A small
Gre is hui for the purpose on the road,
and the Tela ives of the groom dispose
themselves in fi,es on both sidrs 20 ses
the bride pass over it, They believe
that II the girl is not virtuous the fire
must harm her.
Mile. Louise Gautier, youne
woman who was born d ar and dumb,
but taught ty the Grossein system,
was able 10 go through successfully all
| e1aminatious-both written and orsl
of the National School Of Fine Arts.
at Paris, France, has been appointed
teacher Of desi9n in that institution.
"A short time ago a colorsd man
at Americus, Ga, was mAngled by a
circular saw which cut two inches into
h brain, and two ounces OF the brain
were removed. Particles Of the skull
bone wel e taken out deep in the brain.
lis nose was cut OF, and 1t was expect