Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-05-11
NO. 2I.
NE VS. IN BRIEF.

In London q rate of SlOO year is
charged for ground circuit telephone
service.
The average price of sheep in the
Unite Safes is higher than any time
since 1876
On an average, three papers are
born aAd us many die in the British
! metropolis every we, k.
TIE barl,y crop of California Is
twice that of any o her tate and one
quarter Of al hat is produced
Flax W 5 ir,t planted in England,
where it was directed 10 be sown for
fshlng nets 10 2-3,
q Patsy Sears OF Howard county, In
/ diana, aged los years, has been d
d church member 100 years.
L le largest LII masonry dam in
California is the Sweetwater dam, San
Diego county, inely feet high.
Artificial tee are so much In use
nowadays that it took 10000, 600 of
them to ipriy the demand last year.
1t is a gross breach of etiquette for
= Chinamau to wear eyeglasses or spec.
tacles in company.
-Blackening the nose, the cheeks
AMI the TUrenead has been found an
effectual preventive of snow lini-
ness.
The deepest mine in the Unite
States is one of vertical depth of lT9J
f. e. at the Idaho Nine, Grass Valley,
Cal.
-Remenvi, the violinist, has a col
lection of 1900 ethpo ogical specimens,
which lie proposes to exhibit at the
WoIll's Far.
Professor R ,ffa.la Brescino Is writ
irg an Italian version OF Bret Harte's
pDetry, with an essay on American
pO is ana novelists.
George Eliot once wrote that she
knew no such medicine for tired nerv
"a watchiIg the movements of a flock
of ducks
William DeHamoTe. aged l03 years,
died recently at East Liverpool, OHIO.
He served iu the var OF 1912 and the
war with Mexico
-Oil has been tuck at the depth of
20 > feet at Mar-=fown, Penn. The
sand indicat n large quantity of oil
of SUI To-. quality.
The mamuoth diamond now being
cut in Antw, rp, Belgium. is tw auI
a half inches in length and nearly two
Inches in diameter.
"A rug thirteen feet square ana
containing 256 81 tches TO the inch has
cen sold ii London, England, for
nearly $500.
The pressure of travel on the
blyn Bridge has become so great
that new tracks are to be laid over the
present Toadbed-
Tie artistic work of the spider in
spinni' G hs web Is shown by the fact
Chat il takeS 80 90 of ths fine strands
to cover an in h of space.
\ irgIe bee, th all its industry,
, gy aud innumerable journeys 1t has
to errorm, viii not collect more than
a trasI Dnful of honey in single sea-
. son.
Neai Tampa, Fla, D., wealthy Cuban
hrm Is making CHARS at $500 per thous-
1i'i. T ese cigars are smoked by
Europedn prince
-Th+ Chinese OF Los Angeles, Cal
The carvings an altar of which are
valued "a, ov 81 200.
The German X user ever insists
uDon due observance of dress on Jh+
par of the little princes. The little
| fellows must change their clothes at
| least three times day.
-Jeffrr-on, town near Fort Do gc,
taI ~
made It's IA I eararce at sunrise, Just
above the horizon.
y petrifed human body was tak-n
from Phiilipsburg. \. Y, GEM ter,
one dny recently. The body was buried
! sixteen years ago.
An English court has lately i'm
posed fine OF $3.50 upon a LAND.
lord for needless stowIng guests away
in damp teds, thereby causing Ill
/ ne 8.
Fifteen Presidents wore smoo'h
faces, four wore beard and mustache
two wore SIDE VII skers, one wore beard
and side growth. and one Wore mus
t ,che alone.
Hitherto the British bushel has
been IeckOned as sixty-one pOun of
or IN, but change having been made
In the standard weight the bushel in
future is 10 be defined by six y
iounds.
Grass seed is a nuisance in parts of
Ne> South Wales. 1t is injurious TO
the mouths of horses and cattle, and
h .s teslroyed the first crop of lUcern.
4 The orst seed is that of the barley
grass.
"A movement is on foot to restore
and preserve Andrew Jackson's old
home in Tennessee, "The Hermitage"
1t is intended 10 beautify the old man
sion and turn 1t into a National mu-
scum.
AT the Centennial Exposition,
Philadelphia, the adm ssiOns from Nav
10 to November 10, 1915, numbered
9,9lO. 966; but the total cash receipts
from this source we're only SO, ,S13, 724-
The largest output of iron from
blast furnace in a single month was
made at Bradford, Penn, last Janu-
airy. The total output was u, 7O6
gross tons, or al av,rage of nearly 4lC
tons daily.
"A Dexter (Me.) man received So
from lrlenu Icce.iGi' " "nom Le Hdi
loaned that amount twenty-five years
ago. Accompanying the payment was
a diamond ring of large value as inter-
est.
A muscular colored man IN Arm.
del connty, Mary land, killed AL infurla-
ted bull VIII ich attao Ike him by seiz ng
tt animal by the hCrns and throwing
HIM with violence sufficient to break
his neck.
Bert Eaton of Napa, Cal, owns IA
four-legged chicken. The two extra
legs grow out of tie bOly at the place
usually occupied by the tail and are of
the same shape and size of the oth'r
legs. The chicken Is now two months