Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-12-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.


ines.
The truly great are those who con-
Quer themselves.
-Nebraska's eight-hour law is con-
,titutiOnal.
-'Ohio" is the Japanese for good
nornIng.
The Thames at London Bridge has
width Of 290 yards.
The colony of Sierra Leone, Africa,
log years old.
You can tell whether a man is any
account by the way he steps.
Nobody pays any attention to apump
when they know the well is dry.
You can't tell who Is in the coffiu
,y the length of the funeral procession.
1t is estimated that there are 221
icres OF land for every living person.
Chicago has 2OIS miles of streets,
'our times as many as New York.
--One-tenth of the entire population
>f Paris is made up of foreigners.
-Squashes weighing 25O to 800
pounds are common in Southern Cali
fornia.
Cats are being trained effectively
IS retrieyers instead of settlers in In
LLAMA.
1t is the tree that stands the
'traightest that does most to resist the
wind.
When some men pay their preacher
hey feel as though they were paying a
gas bill.
The man who does his best in the
place he has now Is on his way TO a bet
ter place.
There is doctor of the name OF
Miller In nearly every town in Mis-
souri,.
Fifteen million acres of arabic
Iand, owned by large holders, is lying
Idle in Virginia.
The oil wells OF the United States
humber GAG, 600. and their daily out
put is l30,U barrels.
A Nuremburg Germany watch
IN the shape OF an acorn has a tiny pls-
tol which serves as an alarm.
In the Province of Silesia, Ger
many, there are at present twenty pedi-
gree herds of red cattle, consisting OF
1918 head.
Houston, Texas, had goat race
recently, III which sixty-thIee entered,
and some of them made 200 yards in
thirty two seconds.
"A Detroit manufacturer has Just
completed an order for 1000 feet OF
wire fence, six feet high, for 4 school
house in Mississippi.
There are now In Texas fifteen sug-
Ar manufactures, the production of
which for this year is estimated at 15,-
900 COO pounds.
San Francisco, Cal, is to have
miniature model of the Brooklyn
Bridge. 1t will span the main driveway
IN Golden Gate Park
After a brief and unaccount rble ILL
ness horse in Sherman. Mich, died.
The stomach was opened, and in it was
found a half bushel of sand.
1t cost Kern County, Cal, $500 TO
| prosecute a man who was accused of
taking sixty cents from another, and
then he was acquitted.
! Vidal, one of the most famous last
| decade scUlptOrs of France, was stone
blind at the time when he executed
some of his most famous works.
Among the recent inventions is
calendar tn It will register for the next
two hundred years beside telling any
date figure within that period.
"A foolish partridge flew into the
chop of Connecticut taxidermist re-
Gently. Five minutes later prepaIs.
lions were being made to stuff and
| mount it.
| The elderberry bush frequently grows
TO large p o ortiOns in the West In
Los Angeles, Cal, there was bush the
The stump OF which was thirty-four
inches in d;a meter.
| When "A Missouri cabbage was cut
| open it was found that the outer coat
ing contained twenty-eight perfectly
developed little heads IN a cluster,
about the size of walnut and nearly
| as hard.
| In the Public Gardens OF Milau,
Italy, is Gothic building containing
twelve mich cows, from which the
visitor can get milk at two cents q
glass,
Several hundred Pittsburg people
stood In line for hCaTs, ;;-s,ling ari
pushing, for the singular honor OF buy
ing the first stamp sJld inthe new post
office.
Doctor Churchill Julius, bishop
of Christ Church, New Zealand recent
Iy lard the top brick of his cathedral
spire at height of go feet from the
ground. he was hauled up in a CHAIR
attached to rope.
| In the manufacturing line paper
Oids fair to supplant wood in the manu-
facture of boxes, buckets, packing-cases
and many other articles. 1t is much
lighter than wood, and can be made fire.
proof, to say nothing of its cheapness.
| "A Massachusetts, thief found Oh,
| entering the bedroom of the man whose
house he was about to Tansack that the
inmate had a cork leg. He cruelty threw
it out of The winkow, and then, feeling
safe from attack, went through the
premises at his lei ure,
| -Dredgers working in the Tiber t.
| prepare for the construction OF a new
smbankment have brought up magni-
| fcent ancient bronze helmet. 1t is per-
fectly preserved and is decorated with
bas-reliefs. Signor Rossl, the Italian
archeologlst, assigns 1t to the second
century before the Christian era.
| The irony of fate is shown in tho
Ease of woman who died of consump-
tion in the city hospital, at Cincinnati,
recently. She Dad battled with power
ty all her life; and few days before
her death received intelligence that she
had come into large fortune from
the demise Of wealthy relatives In Eng
land