Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-02-25
NEW IN BRIEF

Lunch baskets are coming in styIs
gain.
There are over loo women's clubs
n Kansas.
The Queen of England is ageins
erceptibly.
cold and silver braid plplngs ar,
fashionable.
-Torcho1 lace is very well liked for
thinning underwear.
-ChickaIees are tho fsvorite Dir
sorn TO adorn the head-dresses.
-Petticoats Of Medici lsces are dns
inough to be worn for dresses
-Ouida. the novelist. uses perfume
IN her hair that costs $50 al ounce.
The marriage code in India IL TO be
Imended so that brides must be at least
'welve years old.
The best friend Of the Empress OF
Russia is the Countess Oyama, who is a
Vassar graduate.
There are nearly one thousand wom-
IN clerks In the Central Telegraph or
Ice at London, England.
The bodice for the slender woman
s the most fashionable which shows the
.ewest seams and darts.
1t seems not unlikely that electric
ty will be applied TO smelling furnaces
N the near future.
Even a hideous little gold lizard
With ruby eyes finds admirers among
hose searching for brooches.
1t takes about three seconds for
message to go from one end of the At
antic cable to the other.
Pittsburgh claims 70 have more IN fl
.ionaires in proportion TO her population,
Than any other city in the world,
Alaska cos! oily $1,000, 900, ana
The revenue 10 the national treasury is
expected to amount tO $1,000, 900 year
for the next twenty years.
Uranium is now being classed
smong the rare metals on account OF
It's electrical resistance it is likely to be
used in electrical insulation.
One hundred and five Americans
visited Burns birthplace in Scotland In
one day last summer.
The first monument to fernando
Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, has
been unveiled in h s native city of Med
elm, in Estramadura, Spain.
-GIanuracturers are beginning to IN
troduce electricity into their factories
rs motive power 10y suhdlyidIng it
into units.
"A very extensive domestic industry
In Russia consists of the manufacture
Of wooden spoons, which are made to
the extent of 30,COO,0O0 annually,
mostly of birch.
The average pulse IN infancy is one
hundred and twenty minute; in man.
hood, eighty; at sixty years, sixty. The
pulse of females is more frequent than
that of males.
The national debt of Germany,
which is much smaller than that of any
other great country in the world, Is, IN
round figures, S192. 100000.
"A Georgia postmaster is in trouble.
Through hole In the roof of his Office
the rain poured in one night and stuck
together two hundred dollars worth o.
postage stamps.
The mineral called tuTfa, or brazo-
lima, recently discovered in Bahia, fur.
nishes an oil akin to petroleum, paraf.
fin suitable for the manufacture OF can
dies, and u good lubricating oil.
The largest sheep ranch in the world
is in the counties of Webb and Dinnet
in Texas; it contains upward of 400, ,0W
acres, and yearly pastures SO0,ON
sheep.
The cuttlefsh, which amongst other
strange things always walks with it
head downward, does not chew its food
at all, bnt masticates with It's giZzard.
The Po-tugese nation IS one of the
least instructed In Europe, the illitersts
inhabitants beng officially stated as 81
per cent. of the total population.
Columbia is the wealthiest of Amer.
ican universities, and Harvard comes
next, with property valued at SS,000,.
600, and yearly income amounting tc
1868, 121.
The Gar according to a recent sta
tistician's calculation, is the largest pri-
vate owner of land in the world; the
total is about 5O,00O,0 900 acres, about
the size of the whole of France.
The most densely populated square
mile in the world is in the city of New
York; 1t is inhabited by 270, 900 people
the larger part of whom are Italians
who speak only their native language.
In southern California there are
said to be Indians aged from one hun.
dred and fifteen to one hundred ano
forty years. They live on acorns, -four,
and water.
Baron Leibig, the great German
chemist. says that so much -four as car
lie on the point Of table knife con
tains as much nutrltiye constituents
as eight pints of the best and most nu.
tritious beer made.
"A flowering-plant has never beer
found within the Anartcite circle: but
in the Arctic region there are 762 kindi
of flowers; their colors, however, are
not so bright or varied as those of
warmer regions,
Perhaps the Oldest living Indian IL
the United State is Muddy Water,
Seminole, residing in Indain Territory,
who has just entered his one hundred
and ninth year.