Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-12-09
NEW IN BRIEF.


China.
San Francisco has a So, 500, 900
residence.
There are 527 members of the Brit
lsh House of Lords.
"A twenty-eight pound turbot con-
tanned 100000 eggs.
The Vatican contains 20S staircases
and 100 different rooms.
Every second clock ticks some
one OF earth's inhabitants gives up
the ghost.
One Pennsylvania mans memory
teen years.
The words In common use by the
ordinary individual are estimated at
from 1000 TO SOOO
In Africa, when the weather prog
nostigator fails to bring rain. they cut
him up and eat him,
"A doll that writes letters on slate
is g recent invention of a mschinist in
Nuremburg. Germany.
In Bali, an island in the Ind an
Archipelago east of Java, the burning
of widows still goes on.
Extensive smuggling of horses and
cattle from Mexico is reported on tie
upper Rio Grande.
There is well near Crab Orchard,
KY, the water In which will burn when
match is applied to it.
-England's Naval Exhibition in
London closed after having cleared
$3.50, 900 for naval charities.
1t is proposed to raise $50, 900. 900
by loan for public works in the col
ony of Victoria, Australia.
"A mau who died recently in Lehigh
County, Penn, at the age of ninety
two, had never ridden on railroad.
A clo,k at Port Huron, Mich.
recently made its first stop in thirty
four years, lreaking the handspring.
Indians who live along the Pacific
Railroad in Western Canada make .
living by Sc ling polished buffalo horn'.
Out Of the letters in the sentence
"Let charity arouse your zeal" St.
LCuisiau has formed 20, 059 words.
There is a cat In Belfast. Me.
which, during the green corn season
eats each day ERlf dozen cooked ears
One of the latest novelties adysr-
tised is masticatOr, which cuts up
children's food, preparing 1t for ths
mouth.
When a FTenchman maTrles, under
the law he become responsible for the
support of his wife's father and
mother.
In COrea, sheets of paper pass for
money. One sheet brings one quart OF
rice, or twenty sheets piece of hemp
cloth.
The doors in house of d wealthy
widow in Philadelphia all open and
close In obedience TO touch-button
apparatus.
A wild goose In California when
killed had a grain or wheat in its crop
which, when planted, produced vari-
ETY. hitherto unknown.
The Kickaploo Indians own over
200, 600 acres of and, and as there are
only about 250 Of them, their possessions
represent considerable wealth.
The British Parliament allows TO
each Of the daughters of the Queen an
income of $50 600 year. The younger
sons of the Queen receive SIPS, 900 each
a year,
Out Of a population OF 25O, 900, 900
In India less than IL 100000 can read
and write. The total number OF
scholars of all sorts is but l l-2 per
cent. of all the Inhabitants.
The cranberry crop of New Jersey
! this year Is valued at 100000 The cost
+ of getting the berries to market averages
81 4 bushel and the market prices range
from 81. 80 to S8,2 bushel.
From eleven squash seeds which
weighed not half an ounce John +.
| Staples, OF North Berwick, Me, raised
! 1900 pounds OF squash.
The marble Capitol Building at
Hartford, Conn, is 300 feet long and
the engineers declare that 1t Is three
inches longer In summer than In win
ter.
! Last year there was potato famine.
This year, IN one California district near
Sacramento, so, 600 bushels of potatoes
were not dug up because it would not
pay to market them.
-"Bear, the old dog that was taken
to the Arctic regions by the Greely eK-
pedition and survived all its horrors, is
still alive, and is owned by Commodole lie
GrIdley, of Erie, Penn.
The Imperial University at Iokis,
japan is probably the largest in the
world, having an enrolment of 2OOO
scholars, and faculty of forty MEN,
bers. 1t is under government con-
troll.
Not hat OF bonnet was seen in any
part of the audience that attended the
Worcester Mass. music festival. The
managers of the festival made it rule
that no hats or bonnets should h'
worn.
"A Bridgeport Conn boy was re-
Gently treated for cut in his foot at
the Emergency Hospital. After
probing to the depth of an inch the
surgeon felt an object that was re-
moved with difficulty. 1t proved to
be live snail about the size of halle
nut.
The Saco River in Maine is at the
lowest point since 1882. One of the de-
partments in the LacoDia Mill was
obliged to temporarily suspend work re-
Gently on account of low water, and sew
eral saw mills up the river have shut
down,