Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-01-20
NO. 5
NEWS IN BRIEE.

Pacific coast.
"A New York society collects gar
ments for the poor.
The Shah of Persia mas a tobacco
pipe worth 100000.
The British Parliament has met at
eleven places besides Westminster.
-SoundIngs to the depth OF 6,7c0
feet have been made on the coast Of
Africa.
-Prospectors in Oregon have recent
ly discovered the only mine OF pure
platinum IN existence.
During the pas. year the water Of
the great lakes has cen lower than at
any time III twenty Years.
Apples were worth from u I-2to
25 cents each in the region Of Henry
VII. of England.
In the Solomon Islands the market
quotation on good quality" wife Is
10, 900 cocoaautS.
The Persian carpets which adorned
the halls of the Shah's palace at Tehe-
ran have been In use for 200 years.
"A young man serving on Jury In
Iowa received leave of absence kn.
enough to get married.
The longest and heavies, trs n ever
carried over any road in this country
consisted of 225 loaded four-wheel
coal cars on the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road.
The telephone line recently COM
pleted between Manitou and Pixies
Peak In Colorado is probably the high
est In the world.
-Flre-proof aud time-procf books,
with leaves and covers of sheets OF as
bestos, and printing in gold and silver
letters, have been suggested.
There is tradition that ErIchtho-
MUS of Athens built the first war chariot
about 1856 b. G. At the time OF the
Exodus (B. c. l49l) Pharaoh had 600
war chariots.
Surveyors at work on the GIla
River in Mexica claim that they have
discovered a mountain of pure alum
mile square at the base and 5000 feet
high.
Colonel VIII Watts has Just put
up hamo-string factory and is making
fine two-Story building situated at the
town OF Igo, Ga., known as the Igo
hame string factory.
Miss Connor OBrien, a Melbourne
(Australia) Journalist, read a paper be-
fore the Austral Salon, which is Ia
dies club, to prove that woman is the
equal OF man in almost every sphere Of
life."
The Empress of Austria has order
ed hat so 000 rose trees should bs
planted round the statue of Heine, to
be erected on her property at Corfu, on
rock over two thousand feet above
the level of the sea.
Prof. Blake of the Kansas state
University processes 10 have discovered
that rainfalls are aTtiticlally produced.
not by the noise Of explosions, but by
the dust they KICK up.
"A remarkably ingenious and simpls
orange and lemon peeler is now beng
introduced by which it is claimed 1901
oranges may be peeled without soIliug
finger or glove or losing drop Of
juice.
Recent reports from the SaltoR Sea,
IN the Colorado Desert, California, ars
10 the effect that there is no marked
dininuitiOn of the water, notwithstand.
ing the enormous evaporation, and II
seems to have come to stay,
A great obstacle TO the manufacture
of lead pencils Will soon arise In the
scarcity of soft cedar wood. AT present
the wood used in all the lead pencils In
the world comes from Florida, and that
supply is expected to be eXhaus.ed with.
in five years.
Fer choice mahogany, which Is one
of the chief articles of export from
Honduras. London pays Sl75 per thou
sand superficial feet. Rosewood brings
about $40 per tn Ousand.
The creature having the greatest
number of distinct eyes Is the clifton
species of mollusc, in the shell of which
has been found as many rs / l 600 sepa-
rate and distinct eyes.
"A few minutes after the death OF
Michael Med lnlld, a convict IN the
Valparaiso, Ind, jail, telegram AT.
rived announcing that he WAS the only
heir of fortune of S9j 900.
BY an act of the British Parlia.
ment, which was passed March 20, 1861,
and came into force June ! of that
year, the Canadian provinces, Ontario
and Quebec and New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia, were federally united Ia.
to one Dominion OF Canada.
AT a recent meeting Ofthe Academy
of Natural Sciences of PhiladelphIa.
Professor George A kOenig exhIbItels
specimen of an RerOlite that had fallen
in Arizona in which diamonds were de-
tected. They were too small 10 be OF
commercial value.
-Twenty-one specimens of fossil
she!ls have been found IN the vicinity Of
Boston, Mass Some of these FOSSILS
were found in the Muddy River, on the
border of Brookline; some have been
found IN the dredging of the Charlie,
River near the Back Bay. Some of the
oyster shells are 10 inches long.
"A farmer Mt Mission Bottom, Ore.
gon, dug up a tuInip III his patch that
weighed fifteen pounds.
The following are examples of nine.
syllable words in the English Ian
guHge:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, aDtisuper-
naturalisn, anticOnstitutiOnalist, an
hydrohepsiterion, iatromathem atician,
incomprehensbllity, indivlduaiization,
syncategoramatIcal, unconstitutional
ty, unintelliglbility, valetudinarian-
ism, and viCissitudinality.
The Treasury Department Is in re.
ceipt of two s1O)-bIlls. one S5O-bill and
one s 0-blll, all counterfeit with pen
by John Bradley, AT inmate of the Cen
ira! Insane Asylum CT Indianapolis, Ind.
They are all poor coun erfeits, but the
$50 note has been passed and the $40.
note has been III circulation 30 long that
1t Is almost worn out.
Mrs. lIetty Green, of New York City.
is said to be the wealt lie t woman la
tie United States, with a fortune of