Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-04-27
NO. 10.
NEWS In BRIEF.


Norway has a waterproof paper
church.
Anchors were invented by the Tus,
,ans.
The Persians shave themselves asa
! sign Uf mOurning.
Australia had 233 free libraries in
1855.
AT Kinegan, Alaska, they receive
only one mail year.
A hive of 5000 lees will produce
about so pounds of honey annually.
Lower California is part of the Be-
public of Mex co.
-Giraffes command in the market
| from S2500 t. $4,000 piece.
OF the 30 ducal and princely fami-
lies established by Napoleon L. IA are
| extinct.
-Danville, Ind, has a cat which
rings the bell whenever she wants to be
admitted to the house.
Weaving was practIced in China
more than 1000 years before it was
known elsewhere.
"A Biddeford Ne. fsherm an
caught a lobster That weighed %
pounds. He sent it 10 New York.
Our "humbug" comes from the
italian "vomo bugiardo," meaning
much the same thing.
The word plantagenet means
''brooN plant;" yet Mr.. Broome OF
Berlin, Germany was named Plantage-
net Broome.
The cost of lighting the Columbia
Exhibition will exceed by ten times
the cost for the same service at the
Paris Exposition.
The transvaal Government In
Africa intends TO utilize convict labor
by hiring the long sentence whits men
for WORK in the gold mines.
"A wild grape vine was cut down
| IN Iowa that had trunk fifteen inches
! In circumference Ole foot above
| ground.
| Utah was the early home of the
powerful tribe OF Ute Indians, AMI 1t ia
from them that the Territory takes its
name.
There is a cat in Biddeford, Me-,
{ hat drinks coffee every morning with
the family, perferring tnat beverage to
milk.
1t is claimed that the pheasant OF
! the English preserves can trace its ped
| igree directly TO the brilliant bird OF the
! same species in Japan.
"A hundred and twenty-seven years
ago England seized the first eight
bales of cotton raised in the South
and declared its production should
| cease.
The speaker of the British House
of Commons receives a salary OF S25, 600
year, and when he retireS he Is
raised to the peerage with an annual
pension of $4,000.
In California the coyote has foun0
a friend. The horticulturist there
wishes them protected because they
catch the hares and squirrels which
| depredate on their crops.
"A little girl in Parkersburg, W.
Va, recently kept a four and-a-half-
foot catamount IN tree for over an
hour by vigorously beating the bushes
beneath, while her two big brother:
ran home for help.
in Birmino ham England, there re-
Gently died detective named Black,
who had In his | fe discovered over
S009 criminals, and at race near
Rugby he once arrested eight pick
pockets IN 80 minutes.
The PaIk Commissioners of Buffalo.
n. Y, have been compelled to kill eight
peacocks whose harsh cries kept babies
and nervous people awake.
The French soldiers have lately
been engaged in an extensive series of
experiments with bicycles. That ma
chine has now taken its place as an ap-
pliance OF war.
Jack Twin is a Kentuckian OF
Glover's Mill, who in thiTty-six years
has not swallowed a drop of water. He
drinks only tea, coffee and milk, and
has passed his eightieth year.
Fifteen thousand larks hive bee u
netted and slaughtered IN England In
two days, between New Haven and
Brighton, for the London game shops.
1t is said that the biggest organ in
the world, at Sydney, New South
| Wales, has such great vibratory power
that it cannot be used to its uttermost
for fear of injurIng the building.
"A man who died in Cincinnati
OHIO, recently, It is said, had not u
single hard substance in his body which
would indicate that he posse Ssed sucha
thing as a bone. Even his skull was Of
about the same consistency as Indis
rubber.
The ruling sensation in London,
England, at present, is the extraOrdin-
airy leap made by a man named Miriam
| Nigg, who jumps 2O5 feet from the top
| Of the Aquarium and lands on h.s feet
on the bare floor. He wears the Coz
tune of an American Indian, and hl|
rapid descent is broken by some patent
arrangement invisible to the audi
ence.
The British army mainly arose il.
the reign of Charles III. i'll 1861, in
consequence of the extinction of feudal
tenures. The first five regiments q.
British infantry were established be
tween 1888 and 1880. James III. estab
lished several regiments of dragoJn
guards Q6S5-S).
The ceiling of the entrance hail OF
che Imperial Museum of Art at Vienna,
Austria is covered with one immense
painting by Munkacsy. The canvas on
which this was painted Was single
immense sheet, woven expressly for the
purpose, and go large that a special
building had to be constructed for tho
studio in which It was painted.
"A whale which was captured in the
Arctic Ocean recently was found to
have a harpoon in his body which be-
longed to a whaling v-ssel which hal
been out of service more than fifty
years.
DIR. CAROLINE BERT LION has re-
.eived the first appointment of the
kind made in France in being given
the position of visiting physician to
The most important college for girls In
Paris-the Lycee Racine.