Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-06-15
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two years ago. He recovered the ami
mai finally in Georgia.
| Professor a. c. Reese, or Carroll
on, Ga, has been teaching school for
| dlty-sIx years. He says he has taught
neatly 5000 pupils and never has had
but two to die in school time.
| A turtle farm flourishes at Lisbon,
LII. One of the turtles is quite Intelli-
| gent, and is known as Dick. 1t is
amusing to see him, when summoned
to his food, crawl towards his owner on
hearing his name called.
In Sweden special gymnasiums are
constructed for the treatment Of the
sick. In these passive motion is first
| given by attendants with the use of
medical appliances. Later, the patient
begins 10 exercise himself with assist
| arce.
Chicago skaters are to have skat-
ing rink with real ice to glide over, all
the year round. The ice is to be made
artiticially, and the surface renewed
every night. The temperature of tie
room will be about forty degrees, WIN
ter and summer.
| David Linsly, the explorer, while
| IN an Australian desert awhile ago
| found that the Inhabitants got their
water supply by draining the roots of
the malice tree, which yield quantities
| Of water, supposed to be absorbed from
the air by the leaves and twigs OF that
| Tree.
| The Netherlands, or low countries
IN the west OF Europe, formerly COM
4 Ig.atr ri
Kingdom OF Holland. In 1889 the
severance of the Belgian province es
| from Holland occurred, and since that
time the name Netherlands has been
| politically restricted to Holland.
Police matrons in New York ana
! Brooklyn get $500. School teachers
begin on half that pay and work four
teen years to secure the maximum sa-
larry, which is $3.50 year.
"A distinguished Methodist peacher
Jnce slid: ''But for the interest and de-
votIon of the women of our churches
one-half of them would die the first
year, aad the other half tile second"
Antelope skin, which has been ex.
tensively used for pocketbooks, photo
graphs, frames, et3., is now being en-
ployed for gloves. 1t is very soft and
pliable, resembling the finest SUE de, and
comes III all the tans and light shad-
es.
| "A new wrinkle is the wearing OF
| colOred ribbons as collar trimmings.
some are merely folded AMI set over or
on the edge OF the dress collar, and
| fastened at the back with a rosette,
Ribbons are worn in every imaginable
| manner.
| There a whirlpool in the Santa Fe
river, three miles northwest of High
| Springs, Fla, into which 1000 feet of
line has been lowered without tinGing
bottom.
! Mrs. Priscilla ScrOggins of Hare
county, Ga, who IS said to be I15
years old, has now living twelve child
ren, lC3 graz dchiIdren, CSC greatgrand-
children, and $50 great-great-grand
children; in all a family OF 1874 souls
The number of islands, large and
small, in al the oceans of the world
amounts to one hundred thousand.
the smallest inhabited island is that on
which EddystOne (England) Lighthouse
stand. At low water 1t Is thirty feet
In diameter.
| during the recent cyclone in Kan
sas COW was lifted from the ground
carried to the top of house and de
posted on the angle Of the roof, where
she could neither fall nor be taken
down. So they had to go up on the
roof ard kill her.
Before the invention of bottle-jacks
the turnsTit dog was used in England
to turn the spit on which on the Joint
was roasted, for which purpose they
were attached to sort of wheel. 1t IS
a queer-lookIng dOg-vsry long bodied
and very sholt-legged, and is possessed
of great degree of int lligenCe.
Hicks pond, in Palmyra. Me-, is
strange body OF wa er. 1t is only
twelve acres In area, but is more than
100 feet in depth. 1t has no visible in-
| let, although fair-siZsd stream flows
from it into lake SebasticOok. The
volume OF its waters is not materially
affected by either drOughts or freshets,
and the water IS always cod.
Lady O'BTieE, the wife ofthe Gov.
ernor of Newfoundland, is much abso.-
bed in the wives and children of the
men engaged along the coast in the fish
ing industry, and has organized small
society 10 work up material into suitable
clothing for her proteges.
There are many women registered
at the Patent Office in Washington as
inventors. Their inventions range
from pillow lace to locomotive applIap-
ces, though they have been especially
successful in devising ice-cream freezers
and sewing machine attachments.
The Duke of Westminster has
Oeen recommending young women OF
the middle classes to train for teachers
of cookery. He saws that he is convin-
ced, by careful examination of the sub
| iect. that there is good living for any
woman who will fit herself to teach
| cookery.
AT one time the number of swans
IN England must have been enormous.
'aulus Jovius, writing three and half
| centuries ago, declared that he never
saw river so thickly covered with
swans as the Thames; and in 1925.
when John Taylor, the water poet,
rowed from London to Christchurch.
and then went up the Avon to Sails
bury, he was amazed at the swarm of
birds on that stream.
Senator Peffer's wife is PennsyI-
sanian, and ste has been married Just
forty years. She Is woman of busI-
ness ability, and while her husband was
IN the war she so husbanded the savings
he sara home that when the war was
over she had the nucleus of a small
fortune awaiting him.