Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-07-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

In Japan la grippe is known as
Kose.
Americans are the greatest meat
eaters.
Blonde hair is the finest and red the
coarsest.
Pennsylvania established the first
hospital in America il 1I51.
p. I. Barnum's family motto was
''Love God and be Merry"
1T takes a solling ssel 125 days to
sail from Philadelphia to San Francis
co.
A Kansas sqrmer has a corpfield the
rows of which are three-ffths OF mile
long.
"A big ocean steamer consumes
about 800 tons of coal in twenty-four
hours.
Cows will give one-third again as
much milk if they are allowed to drink
hot water.
The majority of scientists say that
the top of wheel moves faster than
the bottom.
Chicago has the biggest lime kiln.
Six thousand barrels of stone and lime
are crushed in day.
The force required to open an oys-
ter appears no be lS19t times the waight
Of the shelleSs creature.
1t has been calculated that there
are about 200, 600 fam lies living In
London on about s. week.
There are more suicides in New
York in a week than In Pekin, China,
a much larger city, in year.
The thickness of the human hair
varies from the northumberland -fiftieth
to the six-hundredth part of an inch.
"A fine pussy cat in a Chester
Penn. family jumped fer a rat caught
its NECK ribbon on nail and strangled
to death.
The smallest known insect, the
Pteratomus Putnamli. parasite of the
lchneumon, is but one-ninetieth OF an
inch In length.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has
a long article about au ordinance in
Tacoma, Wash, directed against the
''female newsboys."
"A man in Kansas glories In the DOS
session of a calf that weighs only six
fONhNo anu bekp W uC pldlCh Ou q Dt4
In order TO reach the maternal foun-
tain.'
An Ef1jngham (Kan. woman avoids
the expense OF keeping nurse girl by
lariating her children out, after the
manner OF cattle.
One of the curiosities of Nashua, N.
H., is a twin tree made up of a maple
and an elm, which have grown together
at point about ten feet from the
ground.
The Prince of Wales is direct de-
scendant of King Alfred, being the
thlrty-thfrd great-grandson thus the
English throne has remained in the same
family for over one Thousand years
-ManIpur is supposed to contain q
most valuable literature, and large II
brary has been found already In a tenn
pie within the palace walls, which G.
capped the fire on the rebels depar-
ture.
I'm each respiration an adult inhales
one pint OF air: u healthy man respirsy
sixty to twenty times a minute; while
standing the adult respiration is twenty
two times per minute; while lying down
thirteen.
Die moLds have been found in
British Guinea, where . gold mine
owner recently collected 63S stones,
An expert in LondoG declared 633 OF
the specimens to be diamond of the
purest water.
BESIDES keeping dogs to watch over
CAMPS the German army is training
them to hunt for soldiers hidden in the
woods and fields, 80 that after battle
the wounded might all be found and
brought in.
"A farmer near Bloomfield, Conn,
awoke one morning the other week to
find that hill II feet high on his land
had sunken during the night several
inches. Since then the mound has en-
tnely disappeared.
cleveland was the only President to
deliver his Inauguration address extern
pore. Fillmore made no inaugural.
Garfield was the first President 10 make
any political speech i'll aforeign tongue.
German was used.
When the postal officials sent to
Adrian, Mich. the pay due Young
man who vas killed In the recent Lake
shore accident near Cleveland, they de-
duct-d twenty five cents for unfinished
part of the run.
An English army officer says that it
has rained only twice In twenty-nins
years in Alden, Syria, and then only
enough TO lay the dust. 1.-The last time
It rained, that was three years ago,
after twenty-six years Of drouth."
1t is estimated that a horse can pull
twice as much on macadam road as on
a drift road; three times as much ON a
road paved with granite blocks rs on a
macadam road, and two and one fifth
times as much over asphalt as over gran
lite.
The Malay kites are very curious.
The Malays are famous kite flyers,
scarcely second to the psnese In the
art. Their kite is a triangle bent into a
cOncave form. 1t is tailless and flies fat.
Two stout threads from the under side
meet the kite string.
"A Mussulman having served his
term In prison is regarded almost as a
saint, no matter as to the crime for
which he has been condemned. For a
Moslem to say that he has been confined
In prison is to make claim upon there
spect and admiration of his fellow be-
levers.
Something of curlosity is on eX-
hibition at Casper, Wyoming. 1t is an
imprint of a monster palm leaf, caused
by the leaf falling into clay, afterward
petrifying. The rock was found on
Salt Creek and indicates that ages ago,
when the big coal beds were being
formed, Wyoming possessed tropical
climate.
"A woman appeared at College
Point, Long Island, recently, with a
beautiful collection OF birds, which
she called Australian warblers. She
sold them rapidly at 81 each. The
birds turned out to be common English
sparrows with their feathers artstically