Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-02-03
NO. 7.
NEWS IN BRIEF,

"A snail has 10000 teeth.
Spiders usually live two or thres
years.
All trees are evergreen in the trop-
Ics.
kissing is unknown in the Fan
East.
Glass has been made in the United
States since 1920.
"A coal black deer was recently
'een by party of hunters in the woods
Of Maine.
White deer, which was once ex-
sremely rare, are now said to be plenti-
ful in eastern Maine.
-Ca'ifornia's 5 wine crop will eqnal a
quart for every man, woman and child
In the United states.
The adhesive postage stamp was
invented 10y man named Chalmers, in
( Dundee, Scotland, In 1884.
A Merced (Cal. jury has decided
shat 1t is not crime for a man to
steal meal when he is hungry.
"A prominent Indianapolis Tnd.l
ouSress man has two cats that are bet
Ter fetrievers than most dogs.
The first temperance society in this
country was organized in Saratoga
county; New York, in March, 1908.
AN insane barber in indianapolis,
md, larhered a customer with coal
oil and tried to shave him with scis-
yorS.
The annual production Of sawed
! umber in the United st ttes would
Dad a train of cars $500 miles
Ong.
A company Of women Is running
jwo canning and preserving factories
n Michigan; Not a man is allowed TO
work in either place.
"A valuable find OF skeletons be,
| onging 10 the fourth dynasty was re-
Gently made in Egypt. This Is the
earliest known date of Egyptian re-
! mains.
Chess was played by the Chinese 10
! years before the Christian era, and
: probably long before that, for the an-
cient Persiaus are supposed to have
! known it.
The HindOos hav1 a cocoanut festi-
! val every year at the end of the mon
/ soon. During the festival athletic con-
/ tests take place and wandering minstrels
reclte their tales and poems.
f 'op's fables were not written by
their author. They were related and
handed down until the fourteenth cen
tury, when thy were collected and pub
lished by a monk.
A cribo snake is one OF the interest
ing pets at the Central Park New
Y Yorkl melagerle. 1t has a taste for
devouring other snakes and it Is feared
by them all, even the poisonous.
The Braganza diamond, the largest
In the world, weighs 1880 carats. 1t
was found in Brazil in 1741, and is now
)ne of the Portuguese crown jewels.
Needles, even in the days of Henry
VIII, were SO rare that an old PLAY
records the fact that a whole village
turned out to hunt for lost one ''by
the light of a cats eye"
-Acorns are priced as An article of
iiet among soma tribes of Indians
Tney are pounded into meal, which is
mixed with water and kneaded into
dough for baking in the syle of hoe
cake.
An enormous crab OF the Malay
Islands lives upon the fruit of the CO.
coanut which 1t secures by climbing the
tree. 1t breaks the nuts either by haul
ing them down or by beating against
the rocks.
On the old Boston and New Haven
turnpike, in the southern part of New
London County, Conn, is an old mile
stone, notched and mosSgrOwD, that
was set there by Benjamin Franklin.
Two of the proud possessions of an
Atlanta (Ga.l man are sabre and q
cross Of the Legion of Honor that one
of his ancestors received from the
hand of the great Napoleon.
With the de ire of giving her hus-
band a true picture of herself, a wo-
man in Atchison, Kan, had her pho
tograph taken as she appeared at daily
homework In her dress with baby on
one arm and broom and dust pan on
the other.
Each year about $50, is e1pend-
ed in sprinkling the asphalt-paved
streets of London, England, with sand
teprevent the horses from slipping.
In some of the small villages of Scot
land laborers formerly carried nails In
their pockets with which to pay for the
days supply of bread, etc, just as the
native Australian divestS himself of q
string Of beads for the purchase of some
coveted luxury.
so dear has forage become in the
Sandwich Islands, learns the Louisville
COUrier-JOurndl, that the owners of the
horse raj road IN Honolulu, have decid-
ed to run the cars by electricity. 1t Is
expected that considerable saving will
be effected.
The largest establishments for breed
ing dogs in the world are in Manchuria,
Chinese Empire. The dogs sre raised
for their skins and killed when about
eight months old. The town of New
shwang alone exported 100000 worth
of skins in 1888.
The resources of a shoe factory In
Leicester, England, have been immen-
sely increased by the adoption of
be further enlarged, aud when com
plete it will include two engines of
150-hor' power for the driving Of the
dyDamos for light AMI power. Fifteen
hundred people will BE- employed and
the factory will produce $1,000 pairs OF
shoes week.
a number of the mining companies
operating in the Black Hills, South Da-
kota, have adopted system of aggre-
eating their shipment of ore, and send
ing TO the smelling works in Illinois q
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