Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-08-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Italy has raised the duty on Pc
troleum.
The hy-spider lays an egg as large
as itself.
The latest invention IS a bill-post-
ing machine.
Beaver houses are not as plentiful as
they used to be.
OHIO has the greatest number OF
pensioners, 7.0>7.
The tongue of giraffe is nearly a
foot and half loug.
"A Milwaukee (Wisl grocer cal
sleep ten days at stretch.
There are IS 900 different kinds of
postage stamps in the world.
-Russis's national printing office
publishes In every known language.
1t is estimated that 10CO trains ira
verse Ohio every twenty-four hours.
There are some IL, 745 soldiers
graves at Jefferson Barracks. st. Louis,
Mo.
The agate SYN boiizes health and
long life; the garnet cJnstancy and tidel-
ity.
in Amsterdam now it is the fashion
TO announce broken engagement Of
marriage.
"A sheriff in Southern California
hunts escaped prisoners with blood
hounds.
1t is now stated that the typewriter
was discovered i'll Marsellles, France, in
1888.
The Bible has now been translated
into 66 of the languages and dialects Of
Africa.
Dense smoke from the far-off Mich
igan fires spread over part of Georgia
recently.
There are $50 authorized guides In
the Alps. Six of them are over 20
years of age.
"A 9S00-Coot tunnel drains a SUBJ
terranean lake in the Centralia (Penn.)
coal Fasin.
London WIS slow to accept the eIec-
trio light, but is now making up for
lost time.
production of iron by the Krupp
works at Essen, Germany, is given at
700 tons day.
New Y Ork doctors recently treated
"a three-legged man for rheumatism in
all three legs.
The largest forest fires in Michigan
have occurred decade apart-in 1871,
1881 and 1891.
-Emigrants leaving Sweden must
have letter Of recommendation from
the pastor of the PARISH.
"A cow belonging to a fIrmer near
Marsha llfnNEn IntYn l. Tho nfnlh
mother Of triplet calves.
The great Kansas salt bed is $50
feet below the surface, 300 miles long,
% feet wide and 40) feet thick.
Invitations to open air entertain
ments in England always contain the
provlse: weather permitting"
Photo olTaphs of the sun are said to
show that the great lumIDary makes a
complete revolution in eleven years.
Santa Barbara, Cal, boasts of
hotel waiter who can take an order for
dinner IN seven different languages.
Silk furnishes the largAs contin u
Gus fibre known. One cocoon has been
known to yield nearly three-fourth5 OF
a mile.
-Paulding County, Ga, has farm
horse that drinks two gallons of butter.
milk per day, and seems to relish and
thrive on it.
"A discharged chOrister in an Ohio
town took revenge on the congregation
by sitting in a pew and purposely
singing out OF tune.
America has Sc, 600 miles of bound.
ary, or more than the coast lines OF
Asia, Africa, Europe, Mexico and
South America combined.
The deleterious influence of eYces-
sive heat is most manifest In the fevers,
dysentery, diarrhel s1d exhaustion in
CURED on the tented field.
"A New Englander bet that he could
eat over hundred eggs In one hour;
and then basely won the wager by
taking a mouthful of shad roe.
The first German newspaper was
Das Frankfurter journal, published
at the beginning of the seventeenth
century at Frankfort on the Main.
In the great animal market at Ham.
burg, in Germany, giraffe sell at S7tOe
n pair, chipanZees go at $500 apiece
and select lots of Sumatra monkeys al
$1,000
"A Michigan grocer has mouse
that catches flies. He Peeps it in his
show window, where it d0ei better
work than square yard of ordinary fJ
paper,
"A Fort Worth (Texas) man says
that ne has the largest maidstone in the
world. 1t is nearly as large as a hea's
egg, and was taken, he says, by biz
fa her from the stomach of white
desc found dead in the Ozark noun
tains.
The deepest silver mine in the
U iited States is said to be the Yellow
Jacket in the ComstOct LoIe, neal
Virginia City, New. Its lower levels
are 210O feet below the folsting works
PuitsYiile, Penn, has the deepest Goa
shaft some 1850 feet, producing 160t
Tons of coal daily.
"A commercial traveller who make,
trips to South America says the native.
are very fond of roasted mo key, and
that IN his opinion it Is more tooth.
some than turkey or chIcs en- OF even
canvas back.
A seal in the Paris Jardln d'Ac.
climtatiOn has given birth to a cub.
Pptu dhAhIaiS arc uotlS Ntlt. j MS - lfl6
first time such an event is known to
lave t.ken place among seals in captiv-
ltv. Ire cub is ten inches long.
The quickest bridge building on rec.
ora vas done by an engineer named
Dredge, who, in eight days, put an irou
-pau across the Blackwater IN Tyrone
County, ireland. 1t was seventy-foui
feet in length.
The custom prevailing In the German
army of attaching to the clothing OF
each man IN active service a card giving
hi rank, name and regiment ia to be
adopted in the British army. DEAD and
wounded men are by this means readily
identified.
The Prophecy Investigation Society
was recently received by the Lord May