Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-09
GLEAN1NGS AT home AND
ABROAD.

ABROAD.
Peeresses of Great Britain, Scot,
land or Ireland by birth, marriage or
creation, are free from arrest or i'm
prisonment on civil process; and In the
event of a peeress being charged with
a criminal offense, she would be tried
by the House of Lords.
The Guadaloupe bees lay their honey
in bladders of wax about as large as q
pigeons egg, and not in combs. The
honey never hardens and is of an oily
COZ sistency.
The National Library in Washington
contains 700,0 bound volumes and
100000 pamphlets. The yearly Increase
Is from $4,000 to 10000 volumes, and
| the new building, which will be CON-
| pletei In four years, is to be capable
of holding 1000, 900 books.
Probably the smallest painting ever
made was the work of the wife of a
Flemish artist. 1t depicted a mill with
the sails bent, the KILLER mounting the
STAIRS with a sack of grain on his back.
| Upon the terrace where the mill stood
was a cart ana horse, and on the read
leading to 1t several peasants were
shown. The picture WAS beautifully
| finished, every object was very distinct,
yet 1t was SO amazingly small that its
surface, SO the story goes, could be
covered with grain of corn.
The German Government is about to
erect a "Home" for the benefit of art
lists and art students residing IN or
| visiting Rome. Herr Genick's design
provides suitable accommodations, in
Guiding twenty-fOur large studios for
painters and seulptors and a common
reception and exhibition hall.
The central Sahara registers mean
of go in July. Central Australia
boasts of 94o in January mean
which is attained N South Carolina and
inner Arabia in midsummer.
There are two observable places be.
longing to Asia, both lying under the
same meridian and of a small distance
from each other, and yet the respective
inhabitants of them in reckoning their
time, differ an entire day every week.
The Roanoke, which was launched
at Bath, is the largest ship ever built
of wood, being 311 feet in length and
40 feet IN breadth. Her gross tonnage
is 3539. 03, net 3400. 43 tons. Her spars
are massive sticks of Oregon pine. She
has forG masts, each of which Is 3S
inches III diameter and over 80 feet in
length. The other spars are of like
giant proportions.
Ihe great bell of Moscow, moulded
in miniature form in Russian china, is
a new ornament for the buffet, which
gives fashionable Russian cast to the
room.
A factory near Paris makes annually
30, 900, 900 quill toothpicks, and is the
largest establis hment of its kind IN the
world. 1t was started many years ago
to make quill pens, but when they
went out of general use it was con-
verted into toothpick mill.
Eagles measuring from seven to
twelve feet from tip to tip are common
in the neIghborhood of Albany, Ore
gon.
1t has been discovered that silver
exist in the ashes of two volcanoes in
the Andes of Ecuador, in South
America
There is tree IN Jamaica known as
the life tree, on account of its leaves
growing even after being severed from
the plant. Only by fire can it be entirely
destroyed.
The Jacksonville 1ll] Institute for
Deaf Mutes has the only deaf mute
military company in the world.
Minneapolis has the largest grain
elevator in the world. Its storing ca
pacity is 1000, 900 bushels of grain.
The costIIest crown IN Europe, ex-
perts says, is that worn by the czar OF
Russia on state occasions. 1t Is sur
mounted by cross formed of five
magnificent diamonds, resting upon an
immense uncut but polished ruby.
The ruby rests upon eleven large
diamonds, which in turn are supported
by mat OF pearls.
Miss UNE TsUDA, now a special stu
dent at Bryn Mawr, PENN, College,
is anxious to raise $4,000 to found q
scholarship to give japanese women a
four years training in America, and fit
them to return home as teachers for
Japanes ese girls
HULDA ERJEDRICHs, young Ger
man woman, has been engaged by the
Pail Mall Gazette TO paake tour OF the
United States for the purpose OF writ
ing up the social institutions of the
country, especially in their effect on
womsn's conditions.