Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-12-14
NO. 90.
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-Mohs Dm'd beEsn the Koran at
.hiItv.fve.
Tue petrary was u sd;eval ca,a
pult.
Plate aruor was used from l4iO t,
1890.
Rice is the least nlir ,genous of all
gains
Tho standard Roman sword was
twenty two inches loug.
"A penny was recently found im-
oedded IN the heart of peach.
Military hammers were first COM
monly used the Tenth Century.
A new folding baby carriage Is one
That can be folded up to go in trunk
The shark - worshipfd by some
OF the dwellers along tue African
coasts.
DALLAS, Texas, didn't have ary
mosquitoes until the railroad was built
through 1t.
1t is asserted that mosquitoes cal
te driven away by evspoIatlDg gum.
eamphor In the room.
AT the siege of Sancerre, 1872, the
Hugoenots, to economic their powsr.
''sed sings and blows.
An English company is being Or
ganized for the acclimatization OF
elephants In South America.
Homer says the Greek bow was
used by placing one end on the ground
| TO secure steadiness of aim.
The shield of Charles V. was In
laid with gold AMI contained over 800
figures engraved on its face.
The soil of Hayti is said to be very
fertile. Corn is easily grown and thIee
crops can be raised annually.
There is some curiosity to know
whence came the shower OF dead es
hat recently fell at Mount Joy, Penn.
The lasso Is an invention IF the
| south American Indians and was In
use wien the country was discovered
| by Spaniards.
A corn stalk bearing several ears
eSenteen feet high, Is the tallest pro-
duct from the Chino Runch, at Pomona.
Cal, last season.
~ Detroit lady, over 10 years of age
has head OF bar which turned from
| White TO d jet black-the color 1t was
! IN her girihood.
J -BOlh oranges and lemons are
packed nripe the latter when quite
'reen and the former when Just turning
from green TO yellow.
"A squash weighing 283 pounds
was recently displayed by farmer at
! Pomona, Cal. 1t is four feet Ia diame-
ter at the smallest tart
One mill IN LhIes hundred thous.
and pounds worth OF Iickies and
| SAUCES are exported from Eagland to
other countries yearly.
-POrphyIy boulder5, which great,
iesem1!e waJermelons in sZ-, shape aud
color, are 10 be found In the Cascade
Mountains east of RUseburg, Oregon.
The peach is of P-rsian origin and
| the apricot Is Syrian. The former
fruit s mel toned by classical writer's
IA early as 200 b. G., but the latter not
till 80 A. d.
The first canal on the line of the
present Suez Canal was projected by
Necho, au Egyptian King, about 600 B.
c. tt Two seas were actually united
ROB.
-lhe greatest number of deaths
| from eaTtl quak ke shock WAS at Yeddo,
Jap-n, IN 1903, when 100, 600 people, it
$ stimated, lest their lives in the tel
rible seismic upheaVsl.
The filth in Russia, outside OF th,
large cities, is simply barbarouL There
is hot one village IN thousand which
pays the 81 ghtest attention TO ordinary
sanitary precautions.
DR.. c. P. Carver, of st Augustine,
Fla WIS the Oldest house In AmerIca,
and ives in 1t too, According to deeds
in his possession his Florida house was
u 1t in 1860 by a Frenchman.
The Beautiful Blue Danube. >.
especially where 1t flows through
Vienna, is not at all romantic looking
An American traveller states that its
hue is rather yellow.
"A C riOus grewsome sight can be
seen in the window of shop on Wal
nut street, Philadelphia. 1t Is the
skeleton OF a rul!-growu man seated IN
an arm chair, his pose being one of
luxurious ea,e.
|
eign birth numbered twenty-five PER
cent. ana the native born sevenLy-e'ght
per cent, of every one hundred who
vent forth TO the ield OF battle.
The soil of Hayti is so fertile thai
thre crops are often raised in q year.
Tie natives. however, are too indC len}
: 10 avail themselves OF these advantages
ana they only work Tor enough to enable
hem to live.
-COckscNmbs are considered a great
! delcacy by the French, who use them
in their famous sauce Ia f1nanciere,
for entrees, ana especially FOR gal finishes.
They are considered a dainty tidbit
1iPped in butter and fried.
-There was exhibited at Berlin,
, Germany, recently set of false teeth
: made out of pay er which dentist had
cOutrived for a patient thirteen years
, before ard which after constant use
during that tine were III excellent oJn-
; luton.
r "A clergyman in Oxford, England,
has InvIts1 the men who frequent the
: river on sundays % come IL church 10
their boating fannels. Hitherto such
, costumes had been fTowned upon and
he bostmeu had not gone TO church.
There is In China a secret socIet,
called the "Triad." Jt is capital
crime to belong to 1t, yet 1t has NOR.
5 than Il iIty millions of members. Ia
= object is to overthrow tie present dyn-
! s,y.
, The term "tabby cat" is derived
-rom Atab, famous street in Bagdad
l -habited by the manufacturers oil
silken stuff called ati0i or tiffety. This
/ stuff Is woven with waved markings oi
watered silk resembling a "tabby" cats
coat.
-Gutta percha was first introduced
mo Europe from Malaga In 1912.
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