Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-07-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.


hospital IN America in lI5l.
More than 5000 wolves and $50 bears
have Teen killed III Bosnia since 1880.
"A farmer in Georgia claims that he
has subsisted wholly on buttermilk for
the last fifteen years.
Boys of Germany begin the study of
Latin when but nine years of age, and
continue the course for nine years.
One million dollars OF gold coin
weighs 36S6 pounds avoirdupois; OF sill
yer coin, 5S. .020.9 pounds.
The only three words containing
the vowels in their regular order are
abstemious, arseniOus and facetious.
"A Missouri girl has attended school
for ten consecutive years without miss
ing school day or being tardy once.
There are over a million miles of
telegraph wire in the United states,
enough to encircle the globe forty
times.
"A boy was arrested In Philadelphia
recently for stealing hls sisters diamond
wedding ring the day before the cere-
mony.
-Tramways in England are said to
be so called from Benjamin Outram,
who made many improvements in
them
Large quantities of seed oysters
have lately been seut to England to be
planted there in hopes OF the best BIZ
valve results.
A perfect pearl Weighing twenty
seven grains was found recently by a
Pottstown, penn. boy IN a musse! along
the French creek.
"A queer fish has been caught off
the South Carolina coast. 1t has
large horn on the top Of its head, and
weighs over 500 pounds.
"A spinster who died in Westmins-
ter, England, short time ago, aged
sixty years, had been in the habit for
some years of using half a pound of tea
day.
The Governments money is still
printed on hand presses-rather clumsy
p eces of machinery with long levers
that move to and fIo with every i'm
preston.
More than 10 600 regular army swords
are made III Cincinnati every year.
They are supplied to the United States
Army as well as TO the militia of the
United States.
Among the extinct crabs one has
been found, known as the pterygotus,
that measured nine feet in length, and
was undoubtedly the devastator of its
kind in the ancient seas.
! The cells of the human lungs are
| 70 OO0, coo in number, covering surface
from two and half TO three and a hale
,I.1
face of ten full grown men.
In its native habitatiOn the shell of
the oyster Is always little open, and
microscopic, waving hairs set up cur
rents which carry the food plants to its
mouth, where they are engulfed and af-
terwaTd digested.
"A farmer near Saticoy, Ventura
County, Cal, has ten acres set out to
eucalyptus trees, which he intends to
raise for firewOoJ. He will cut them
down when they are six years old.
"A Wichita kan farmer within a
year has sold corn from one crib at thir-
teen cents, twenty-siX cents, fifty cents
and seventy-fve cents, and has some
left for which he expects to get eighty
five cents.
| 1t is said that large bananas, such
as are shipped to us, are seldom seen in
Cuba, being considered % coarse. A
very small banana, which is favorite
fruit there, never reaches us, being too
tender for shipment.
The japanese murderer of res
taurant keeper in Seattle, Washington,
recently, threw his sword into the pay.
a vigorous search resulted in finding the
weapon, which had marks showing it to
be go years old.
The remains of common toad were
discovered In the solid rock by workmen
in a quarry at Ansonia, Conn, recently.
The skin, which is the only portion of
the toad remaining, is perfect in form,
transparent, and Of the consistency of
leather.
An Italian statistician has calculat-
ed thal during the last hundred years
5000 persons perished in seventeen prin-
cipal maritime disasters, without reck-
oning the lives lost in smaller shipwrecks
and accidents.
1T is stated that among the records
in the tower of London, a document was
found according to which a man was
/ l..
other crime than having been caught
burning coal.
"A vast ''banyan'' tree has been dis
covered OF the tiny Lord Howe Island,
800 miles from Port Macquarie, in Aus
tTalia. 1t covers between six and seven
acres, and is thus inferior only to the
greatest of those in India.
In a lecture in New York city, Mr..
George Frederick KuBZ, the expert in
gems. mentioned instances where gems
have been found ID America. He spoke
of the discovery OF a rough mass of sap
phire in Franklin, y. c., weighing 300
pounds, and of diamond in Virginia
weighing 114 carats. Each of these was
shown on the screen.
-Tabasco sauce IS made on an island
in the Gulf of Mexico OF herbs indigen-
Gus to the place Of its manufacture. Its
formula is a secret. 1t is shipped from
said island in large quantities to
New Orleans and Galveston, which are
the principal distributing points for the
world over.
john Wesley attributed his sound
health at eighty-three to his ability TO
go to sleep at any moment; to the habit
of rising at four o'clock and generally
preaching az five, one of the most healthy
exercises in the world; and to his never
travelling less by sea or land than $500
miles a year.
A Halifax CVt.) woman secured from
thirty-two hens IN four months 51l2
eggs.
The Chinese are credited with being
the most diligent gardeners and tillers
of the land.
Two acres of land adjoining the En-
glish Houses Of Parliament care offered
for sale at s., OO0,00J.
A colored girl has been sentenced at
Rome, Ga. toninetY nine years service