Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-10-12
NO. 43.
NEWS In BRIEF.
rhe Ancient Greeks Holy Land was


The average man has 1904 900
pores in his skin.
1t cost the present Emperor of China
1000, coo 10 get married.
"A reunion of rrappist Monks will
ce held in Rome on October lst.
About eight species Of whale are
Gnown on the California coast.
The average age that women mar
cy Is twenty -one, men tTenty-S:S.
The sUul-entrancing clarinet waA
Ghe invention of Denne-, German, In
l690.
The best draft horses in the coun.
try are reared in Oaio and Pennsyl-
wanna.
The British Medical Association
low admits women doctors as mem
ers.
Thirteen millions sterling have
treaty been spent on the Manchester
ship canal.
An opal weighing one pound and
quarter has recently been taken out
or an Idaho mine.
A man in Krkintillack, Scotland,
vas n3ed ten shilhngs lately for play ing
the bagpipes on Sunday.
-Four salmon. weighing from eight
o thirteen pounds, were caught in the
Hudson River recently.
a pet rattlesnake at New Smyrna,
Fla, recently committed suicide by
biting itself IN the neck.
The English mint possesses an
electrical ma h!ne which counts coins
with precision and accuracy.
"A woman who recently died in tie
Norristown, Pa Insane Asylum 'hsd
not syoken IN the past II years.
The first folio 1923 edition of
Shakespeare IS under process of re-
production by mems Of photography.
The Krupp wor.s IN Essen, Ger
many; contain 25I2 furnaces. These
consume 1665 IONS Of coal and coke
daily.
"A horse will eat In year nine
;imes BIS own weight a cow nine times,
! and az OK six times and a sheep SIX
times.
-Durlng the last financial year II 8
G--man Government paid away 81, 8 0,
90 N pensions to naval and military
officers.
Father Gre, a French priest sta
iioned at Jerusalem, recently found
talent of the time of King David in bis
door yard.
DO not Judge from outside appear
I3ces, The otball looks plump and
fair proportioned, but there ls nothing
in it but wind.
Out OF ffty-two artists who have
oeen singing this season at Convent
Garden (Londoul Italian opera, only
tour are genuine Italians.
TIE great cantilever bridge at Nj
agara Falls is entirely composed OF
steel 1t is $40 feet il length, weighs
5000 tons and cost $500. 600.
"A japanese soldier has invented
gun which enables the posses>or TO send
"cIoud OF binding dust" into the
eyes Of a foe al distance of twelve
feet.
In England thew do not chew gun,
cooking at the habit as vulgar and
low, but the Australians have already
taken kindly to it. and are indulging
Freely.
The Military Weekly of Berlin says
that there uave Ueen lg4 ministers OF
war in Spain during the century, the
average time of service being six
months.
I'm speaking of the solidifcstion of
a body by cooling, ProfessJr Dewar
says that Mat-r Can be made to become
solid by the evaporation of a quarter Of
Is weight.
The Agricultural Department has
d letter rom NJ mister Lincoln announ-
cling that the pIohltiLion against Amer.
lean sheep has been Withdrawn by
England.
- ugh honey Is not so much an
article of diet Low as IL was With onr
for, fathers, there were 81, 900
pJunus of 1t produced ii the United
States last year.
"A Dexter woman became so infatu'
sted with the CHRISTIAN scientist theory
that she laid away her false teeth,
thinking that her natural ones would
grow again.
Out of total or 70 n34 paupers i'll
alm5houseS il the U1ILed States il the
Year coverrd by tAe eleventh census
| 81. .'eT cent. were white and S.85 per
cent. were colored.
San Francisco, Ca, has an EARTH
qaaKe-pToof hotel. 1t is CO. ..structed of
roa and II the form of two hollow
squares, one within the other, arranged
so as to brace each other.
1t is said that natural deposit OF
material capable of use as a polishing
powder for met lis has been discover d
near Walchs, New South Wales, and
that 1t is being introduced on the mar
ket.
-Sleeoing in the light Of the moon
when II is near the full is said to be In-
j rious especial near The tro les. II
has nn effect where the direct rays do
not fall on the head or eyes Of the
s.eeper.
Among birds that have the power OF
imitation the parrot is the best; but, as
4 matter OF fact, its voic- is decidedly
inferior to that Of the myuah, = species
OF starting. CTiously enough, the
male bird speaks in high, clear tone,
Ike that of a child; while the female
has gruff voice.
Not earthworms but ants are the
soIl-Jillers of parts of Southern Africa.
4 1T hills exist by mill .ons, each cover
I'd by soil SO fertile thai common say
in is hat an OK Can be pasIured on an
tnt hill.
4 FIJI missionary says that ninety
per cent. OF the FIji Island population,
which is 10. 0o0, is found in church on
Sunday. That is much better than
many civilized Nations can boast, COM
ments the New York Mail and Err
orees.
WANrED-The man who can address
Sunday school without beginning his
81 eech with, ''when i was little
boy"
A GOLD coin passes from one TO an