Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-06-22
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

One pound of cork is amply s,fh.
:lent to support a man of ordinary size
In the water.
"A North Carolina woman only
learned to write after she had pa ssei
the age of eighty-two.
No chemical black Ink has vet been
made which will write black Imme-
diately on exposure.
The combined debts of all the
Nations in the world amount to more
than $50, coo, 900, 0C0.
Patsy Sears, of Howard County,
Ind, aged los years, has been church
member hundred years.
Except In cooking their scanty
meals the poor Italians seldom have
dIe In the sevelest winter weather.
Cornell University has opened a
| dairy school, where chees5 and butter
making breeds and feeding are the
subject for study.
The agricultural society of Paris Is
experimenting In the making Of artfli-
cial clouds to preserve plants from the
effects of frost.
Some of the African tribes pull
their fingers till the joints s'crack" as
form of salutation, ard one tribe has
the curiCSs fashion of showing friend
ship by standing back to back.
The bones of Jumto, Barnum's
big elephant, that was killed a few
years ago at st. Thomas, Canada,
weighed even 24OO pounds. The total
weight of the body, bones and all, was
ak tons.
The law of evolution works in Ian
guages as well as in other things.
Twenty thousand words have been
added to the English language in the
department of biology alone since Oar
WINS discoveries.
"A double bodied lamb has made its
appearance In Pilot Knob, Ind, and is
owned by Alexander Richtie. Its head
and neck are perfect; but attached to
the head are two perfect bodies, which
have two sets of legs.
The chemical inks of the present
are of too recent invention to determine
whether they will last. but it is quite
probable that most of them will be az
legible at the end of fifty or seventy.
five years as they are to-day.
u. DUuultIb l. EOlcSSOE OI DOIduy dL
the Paris Sorbonne, disputes the prevs-
lent notion that the mistletoe is injur.
lous to the apple or other tree on which
it grows. He maintains not only that
this is not the case, but that it is actually
beneficial to its host.
Not until the tenth day is the
Luni child put into the cradle. The
oaby's arms are placed by its sides, and
t is so strapped in its cradle that it
cannot move hand. These cradles
have hood-shaped tops, and over the
whole thick coverings are placed, and
1t is a wonder the child does not
smother.
In England in the reign of Edward
", 1881, riders on post-horses went
stages of the distance of twenty miles
from each other, in order TO procure the
king the earliest intelligence of the
events that passed in the course Of the
war that had arisen with the Scots, and
Richard III. improved the system OF
:ouTiers in 1883,
"A stenopgrapher in a circuit court
in Michigan the other day wrote from
iictation 32i words of unfamiliar
matter in one minute. This is at the
rate of five and half words in a sec
ond.
Auctions in Japan are conducted
much like American primary elections.
The bidders write their bids and names
on slips of paper, which are put into
box for the auctiOneer to open.
1t is not everybody who kno VS.
that, besidts the ordinary fruits that
are raised in Florida, the pineapple
grove very well there, while the fig, the
pawpaw, the guava and sapodilla grow
finely.
A vessel has been designed in Eng
and which contains some quite novel
| features. 1t is double ended craft to
stem either way and ram with either
end. 1t is also to be fitted with supple
mental rudders.
Last week a copy of Audubon's
! ''Birds of America ''was sold In London
for S1725 This is a work which is
steadily rising in value, for it rarely
comes into the market, and the last
copy which had changed hands realized
$500.
Every stag that falls in Scottish
! forest, it has been calculated, costs thg
lessee from s175 to $3.50; but, as what
is termed butchers meat these ami
mails, if placed ON the market, would
not yield TO those who kill them more
than II cents per pound.
The results of the great japanese
earthquake in Gifu-ken, where the
damage was greatest, are thus officially
summarized: 1889 deaths, 1874 per
sons wounded, Al, 203 dwelling houses
completely and q, ,37S partly demolish-
ed, %, 379 damaged, and 4159 burned
after collapse, in addition to 1744 other
buildings demolished or damaged.
The average weight of fat steers al
the age of five years in London and
Liverpool market in 1706 was 80
pounds. In 1855 it had increased TO
4S2 pounds, and in 1S3J to $50 pounds,
while to-day the average eight Is 1851
pounds, four times what it was Isl
years ago.
There is now playing in Paris
Russian horn band, each horn being
capable of producing a single n 'te only.
So perfect is the training that the band
produces the effect of one equipped with
ordinary instruments, and even running
scales with the rapidity and precision Of
violin.
Bees Will never thrive IN a quarrel,
some family. Many think that bees
only thrive when they are stolen, while
it is generally considered uniucky to
purchase bees, and that the onlyway to get
them-if they are to do wells to
have them given, catch wild swarm
or to steal them, leaving some goods ID
! exchange.
Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, the
celebrated dealer in wild animals, will
take to Chicago his entire collection OF
trained and wild animals, also his col
| lection In naturals history. A structure
| in the form of a Roman arena will be
erected in the Midway Plaisance on
space ITO feet square, where some