Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are 215O generals in the Brit
ish army.
"A $3.50, 900 tunnelis is to he construct
ed at Leadville.
The Labor party polls 6s, 900 votes in
New South Wales.
Iron is to be made at Chattanooga by
an electrical process.
Over 1000 cOmposltors are out of
employment in London.
Nebraska is to send an exhibition
car through the country.
Buffalo has forty-eight public
schools and 155 churches.
Kansas City is to be entirely light
ed by 500. coo plant
"A new railroad is to built between
Chicago and Omaha.
Over 1900 men at work on the
Chicago Worlds Fair Park.
Log cutters on the west branch OF
the Susquehanna are organizing.
-Wnliamsporte, Pa, will saw 270,-
OOO,0O feet of logs this year.
American Car Company, capital
100000, Is to start at st, Louis.
Mansion House street, London, Is
traversed by % 600 vehicles daily.
The Chinese reckon this to be yea.
1910, 34l.
"A doctor says that one person In
nine is left-hauded.
The Thames Uondonl police force
consists of 200 men.
On the average a boy costs APPARENT
about $500 year until twenty years Of
age.
Apple trees set out eighty years ago
in New Haven, Conn, bore excellent
fruit last fall
The President of the Swiss Repdb-
lie receives but $1,000 per year.
The necktie of the new Penn statue
in Philadelphia is to weigh 300 pounds
"A new hotel is building at Mscki-
nav Mich, for the use of fhay-fever suf-
ferers alone.
About 5000, ,OO0, 900 pieces of mai
matter are distributed by postal clerks
in the country yearly.
1t would require 1000 horses to cart
away the amount of SCOT which falls In
London each month.
"A colt with horns foot long Is
owned by farmer named Kayanaugh,
| In ScrIven County, GA,
In the city of Berlin, with popu.
Iation of 3l5, ,60J there are but 20, 800
| dwelling houses.
From the American aloe tree IS
made thread, ropes, cables, paper,
clothing, soap, sugar and brandy.
In Fiji, the Friendly Islands, Samoa
and New Britain, 1910 0 natives wor-
ship in Methodist churches.
Trains loaded with geese arrIys
| daily at Berlin from Russia. Ten thou
sand came recently on singls train.
"A spoon for measuring medicine.
| by which dose can be administered
without spilling, has been invented.
Three women, now over eighty
years of age, are living within a stones
throw of each other near Norwich,
Conu., who have each been struck by
| lightning at various times.
Among the delIcacies to be obtain
| ed at Japanese railroad station are
sliced lotus roots, roots of large burdock,
lily bulbs, shoots of ginger, picked
green plums aud the like
In Australia, where deadly snakes
abound, it has been discovered that
strychnia is almost an infallible cure
for their bites. The antidote acts
| quickly, snake poison slowly. All ply
sicians use 1t.
| 1t is estimated that the treasure
| lying idle in India IL the shape Of
boards of ornaments amounts TO ST.
250, 900, 900. A competent authority
calculates that in Amrista city alone
| tn To are jewels to the value of $40, 000,-
600.
| "A Concord On. Ii. mule, fidirng
its neck swollen by some affection that
it couldn't reach the ground b feed
standing, laid down, and after eating
all the grass within reach on one side
rolled over and finished lis meal on the
other.
| "A careful investigator has ascer-
tanned, after a long series OF interesting
experiments, that the mosquitoes
taste for human blood is an acquired
one.
From ArCola to Waterloo Napoleon
had 70 horses killed under him. They
were for the most part white or gray
horses, for which the Emperor had an
especial fondness.
The s aviation Army in England is
insuring the lives Of its members, upon
the theory that the profits therefrom
will assist the campaign both in this
country and elsewhere.
The apple crop of New Jersey this
season is the largest on record, and the
quality of the fruit is excellent. Tie
pear crop of the State Is also very large
and its quality unusually good.
In computing mans age Cinnamon
always reckon two years back from the
day when ne celebrated his first birth
day; OF, In other words, as though he
were a year old at the time or his
birth.
There are now in this country ten
Episcopal clergymen who can minister
to the deaf and dumb, and four OF these
are themselves deaf mntes- In this
country about 40, 900 persons are totally
deaf, and there are about oue-hslf a.
many in Great Britain
"A floating island In Sindanga
, Pond, which is about a mile in length,
hear jacksonville, VT, covers about one
, third OF the surface and Is about two
feet in thickness. 1t bears cran0erries,
and it drifts from one part Of tie pond
, tn another, according to the direction
of the wind.