Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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lsed for the manufacture of paper.
"A Chinese newspaper published In
San Francisco has been sued for libel
by an Indian.
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
Tor more than thirty years.
The Columbian River is so clear at
ow water that salmon fishing can only
be successfully conducted at night.
"A new mineral has been discovered
In Texas which is said to be seven times
stronger than any other when made In
to wire.
Henry Cook, a Norwich (Conn.)
tailor has beard seven feet two inches
long, though he is only five feet six
inches tall.
The largest watermelon reported
this season weighed sixty.two pounds,
and was grown Lear London, Rusk
County, Texas.
The temple of Hom-mon-ji, At
lkegami, begun IN 1882 and finished in
1897, is one of the most famous re-
ligious structures IN Japan.
"A traveller said recently that Phiia-
delph1a had more people with dark hair
and blue and gray eyes than any place
he ever visited.
Petroleum, which actually flows
unaided through the rocks, has been
discovered a Crows Nest IN the Cana
dian Rocky Mountains.
The way to tell well-bred dog &C
cording to a canine fancier, Is to grasp
him by the back of the neck and hold
hln up. If cur, he yelps; If well-bred,
he never utters whimper.
In the Philippine Islands canary
seed is ground and made into a most
palatable bread which IS in common use
among the people there,
People in Japan are called by the
| family name first, the individual, or
what we should call Christian, name
next, and then the honOrihc-thus.
"Smith Peter Mr."
Probably the rarest stamp In exis-
tence has been sold in London for 250
pounds sterling. 1t is an American i've
cent stamp, issued at Brattleboro, VT,
in 1910.
Lizzie Arnold, of Fenton, Mich,
weighs only eighteen pounds. and Is
twenty-seven years of age. She has ie-
ceived overtures from circus managers,
but her parents prefer to keep her at
home.
Wheat is brought from Chicago to
Buffalo, 500 miles, by water, or 500
miles in the air line, for one per cent
per bushel, and the lighter grains at
prOportionally low rates.
In the regiD of William III. all
child stealers apprehended were branded
with a red-hot X for rogue on the
shoulders; NJ for manslaughter on the
right hand, and I for thief on the left
one.
| "A statIstician has computed that q
man might add $500 to his income by
saving the clippings OF his hair every
time it is cut and having it manufact-
ured into soft pillows, mattresses. etc.
No hair Is so soft as that Of human
beings.
DIR. George II. Cramer, in his de-
scription of the Tabasco coal forests,
in Southern Mexico, speaks of district
where an intoxicating liquor can be
manufactured from palm juice In few
hours at an average cost of ten cents
gallon.
| The artificial incubation OF eggs
originated In Egypt, where 1t is still car
ried on. According TO consular re-
port no fewer than rs 0O0,0J0 eggs are
Matched in this way every year on 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 he
has read it nineCy-nine times. 1t usual
| ly takes him two months 10 read it
! from beginning to end.
"A man fishing at Jersey, England,
was caught by the rising Tide, and
boat had TO be put out 10 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 sversg.
value of cows in the United States Of
S21 62, OF fifty two cents each less than
ten years ago. There must be some
cheap COWS somewhere. Horses average
81. "a less in value than IN 1880.
| Probably the finest and costliest
college library building Will be the one
which has been built for the Universi-
ty of Leipsic. Nearly S1,O0l,O0O were
expended on it. The library of the Uni
yersity consists of $40, 900 volumes.
J "A curious feet in the early history
or pins is that when they were first sold
In ''open shop there was such great
demand for them that code was pass
Ell permitting their sale only on two
days in the year-the 1st and I'd OF
January.
1t was during the three hundred
years between the Norman Conquest and
the death of Edward tle III. that some
twelve hundred monasteTies were found
ed in England. In the twelfth century
it was as much the fashion TO found a
religious house and endow it with pa
ro o:hial tithes as in the sixteenth it was
20 found a grammar school
AN army of locusts ten miles wide
recently swept over the PuDjab in In
dia. 1t occupied five days in passing.
Not much harm was done to crops,
however, since they were so far advan-
ced 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 carriOn so much TO their
liking that they apply to 1t the word
"uborni," signifying great happiness.
The aboriginal Australians and HOtten-
OTIS prefer the intestines of animals.
One of those rare freaks of nature, a
pure white deer, was seen recently by q
party of sportsmen i'll Maine.
| The Dolcoath mine in Cornwall.
England, one of the most famous and
most important TIN mines in the world,
has been opened to the depth of 2472
feet, and the main shaft is now being
sunk deeper. At the bottom the tenn
perature is nearly ninety degrees Fab
ten cit.