Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-12-07
NO. 81.
Ne " s IN BRIEF

Parrots are only ten cents apiece ia
Central America.
Three thousand marriages are per,
formed every day all over the world.
.-Opossums are the only animals
That make more elaborate toilet than
, Cats.
Strawberries four inches in diam.
eter have been grown In Oregon, near
Colville.
Free dra wing schools for girls were
drst organized in France by Rosa Bon
heur.
Thousands of illuminated Scrip,
tnre texts are circulated In Uganda,
Africa.
The temperature of the planet
Neptune is estimated to be 900 degrees
below zero.
Among the newer popular diver
sions In the line OF athletics is that Of
walking BACKWARD.
I'm China they belive that women
by clingI1g u vegetsrlanism will be-
eome men on Judgment day.
Among ihs wealthy classes Of JapaL
1t Is considered undignifled to ride
horse faster than a walk.
Among the curious things they dig
| ont of the ground in Jasper County,
Missouri, are petrif d butterflies.
"A foura en-y-ar-old boy at San
joe, Cal thrashed his father because
ne ordered him to bring in some hay.
! Don't go into the woods with dull
ak. Don't go into the markets OF the
world with a dull une1ucated mind.
I'm Germany married men wear
welding rings, custom which many
writer's have advocated In other coun-
tries.
In Corfu, sheets Of paper pass for
money; one sheet buys one quart Of
rice, or twenty sheets a piece Of hemp
cloth.
The largest whale ever captured
was the prize or a New London, Conn.
whaler in 1884. 1t yielded 16S barrels
| IF ol.
Among the Zulus the mother-in,
law Cannot face the son-in-law, but
must hide, or pretend to do so, when
ever she sees him.
The first oil well was discovered In
Wayne County, Kentucky, in 1929.
thirty years before tle discovery OF oil
N Pennsylvania.
The extreme western boundary OF
the United States, the island of Altoo,
Is As far west of San Francisco as that
city is west of Bangor.
Charles D. Poung of Denver, Col,
has built perfect miniature locomo-
tive, which is but five feet long aud
weighs but 235 pounds,
"A woman IN Paris recently com,
mitted suicide by applying leeches all
over her rody, dying from exhaustion
IF the capillary system,
"A shower of frogs came from the
clouds during rain storm IN Mexico,
Mo. a farmer says that over 10000
living frogs fell ~ his land.
There is a village on the Northern
Pacific railroad which has hfty-four
Inhabitants aud two churches, both
Presbyterian.
DIR. a. P, Peabody, chaplain o.
/ Harvard college, graduate from that
Institution i 1926, three years before
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Weeds are mathematicians Thes
multiply rapidly, they add to your
work, they subtract from your comfort
and they divide your profits.
Aerial navigation Is not yet AT
! acc nmpl shell fact, but aerial architect
nTe, or baildIng castles in the air, em-
OloSs the powers of many miads.
Mrs. Flora WOOD dward Tibbetts,
of Chicago, but form rly of Kentucky.
has been sworn in as a pracCIcing at
tori ey before the Cours OF Appeals at
| frankfort.
Louise Michel, the famous soclslist
| sgitatnr, see ms to have tired OF her
tumultuoGs career and has settled down
to teaching school in a quiet par OF
| london.
London has onlV 4H9 churches fol
its population OF 5,e4;,00o. Chicago
has ne4rly II not q Lite that many
chur ,hes for Population of 1,5Oo,-
! 900.
During the mast year, in the field
ed by the North 1 ldil conference
Of the Methodist EpiSco1al church,
baptisms of converted heaLuens have
Sggrt gated 1900
81 Fight Is the SPIDERS web that d
pound We ghl Il it will reach around
| The world, Il d th n leave enough to
reach from New York to San Francis
20.
The weeds on the monitor Mouad-
mock, which vessel has b55n lying for
some time past at the Maze Island
| Zeal. dockyard were found recently
| - be from thre- t. four inches long.
Miss Martha D. Brssey, who de
| sig ned the Com sioners' b dge fol
tie Worlds Far Board OF Lady Man.
agerl, is the only woman regularly
employed by Tiffany & Co., New YOrF
City,
-Colntess Brazza di SavoIgnan,
s:sIeI-in-law of the celebrated African
traveller, has founded three schools fol
teaching lacemaking to little girls out
of tn IT school and working hours.
DIR. George ). Burroughs, profes ,ol
| of blnllcaI literature aE Amherst, has
| accepte the presid =ncy OF WAOash Col
leg, Indiana. He is a graduate OF
Princeton, class of '73.
The wife of China's great states.
man, ii Hung Chang, died q few years
ago. Her p ysiciAu for a lOdg time
| Vas DR.. Howard, an American laly
connected with the Woman's Foreign
Missl JDary society in Ten rsia.
a new dish appeared lately on ths
menu of Swiss table d'hotes which
puzzled every one who read only its
ame-ArioStu Those who risked a
trial we're amused TO ind and old friend
Irish stew.
"A mother cat balouing to Jossph
Groves, who lives a. a. Be Yer Falls,
Penn lost her two kittens, but she
Immediately adopted IwO young rao.
bits which she is ten lerly rearing
Pussy and bdnnies are well contented.
"A Boston dentist advocated hypno-