Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-16
NO. 4S
NJ > ) IN ERIEF.

The Greek pike was twenty-rour
feet long.
America has tifty-three telephone
companies.
Southern California produces 150,-
JOG, ,OO) oranges year.
Up to June 1900 mics of railroad
mad been built this year.
-United States farm mortgages
amount TO SIS, $50, 575 900.
The cost or one-lnan sea-diving
apparatus for depth of 200 feet is
1915.
Banner County, NIB, boasts Of a
new bJrn baby Which weighs 204
pounds.
The Queensland government is ex-
perImenting 9Th the cultivation of
hops and olives.
The best cOrks come from Algeria.
There are 2, 500, 900 acres of cork forests
in that country.
The streets of London, If put to an
end, would reach from that city to st.
Petersburg, Russia.
The world consumes 5000, 900 600
pounds of paper year and is supplied
by $500 paper mills.
1t is reported from the state of
Puebla, Mexico, that rich gold discov-
cries have been made.
A lion in a country circus showing
In Norristown, Penn, bit off the tail of
his neighbor, the tiger.
The cultivation of the grape IN
France gives employment to no fewer
than 2, 800, 900 persons.
a col red woman in Jacksonville,
Fla, un a farm, a woodward, a mar
ket an number of drays.
Total membership of all religious
denominations in the United States in
1890 is given as 90, 347 1854
The peach yellows has seriously af-
fected orchards in portions of Michigan
Maryland and New Jersey.
1t is estimated that ten per cent of
all vessels passing through the Sault
Ste. Marie Canal are Canadian.
In England one person in every
! Chirty-nine is pauper, in America the
rate is one person in every $50.
The total value of unclaimed letters
and parcels In the London postoffice Is
some meth1ng over $50, 900 year.
Russia has herself contributed
tl15, ,U00, 900 to alleviate the sufferings
of her famine stricken peasantry.
Near Astoria, Oregon, there is an
ancient deposit of clam shells which
covers an area of over four acres.
The census says that we have IA.
600, zoo horses in this country, aud that
| they are worth upon an average S67
each.
The Dismal Swamp of Virginia en-
| braces an area of l 500 square miles,
very little of which is of any use at all
TO man.
Only citizens who are able to read
and write have the power 10 vote in
Bolivia and several other South Ameri.
can Republics.
"A statue of Doctor Guillotin, the
inventor of the gulllotine, is To be
placed in the Museum of Arts at Yer
sailles, France.
A Riverside (CaL), man has sue
ceeded In extracting from ten pounds
of orange peel oil in the proportion of
ffty pounds to one ton of peel.
"A Duluth (Minn.) switchman has
a memory which enables him to walk
past lcng train OF cars and Ioen
write down their numbers exactly.
"A Paris builder has bought thu
ruins of Sc. Cloud for 5000. He will
ha 1c In hn pfa
of paper weights and other souvenirs.
A corn-husking contest of 500 ears,
FOR $50 side, took place recently in
Australia, the winners time being
twenty-eight minutes, forty-eIght Sec
onds, and the losers time twenty-nine
minutes, ten seconds.
The largest number of sheep held
ov one ewner in New South Wales is
SO 200 head, and there are 800, 600
owned ry the MOmba pastoral COM
pany. There are nine owners who
each hold more than 200, sheep.
The island of Mauritius contains
an area of nearly 435, 900 acres, of
which 10000 are PLANTED to sugar cane,
2O00 to aIOes, 400 to beans, 1000 to
peas, 500 to richards, and smaller
areas to coffee, vanilla, maize and other
crops.
The Japanese method OF cultivat-
ing The cucumber is unique. They
drop the seed in double rows on bed,
and when the plants begin to form vines
they are brushed as we brush peas with
the brush of two adjoining rows leaning
against each other.
William Patrick, of Reeve town
ship, Ind, baitei a hook with worms
while fishing In the White river. The
bait was swallowed by atwO-pOund cat
fish, who in turn was swallowed by
sixty-pOunder. Mr.. Patrick succeeded
In landing both fish.
"A woman Of Lyons, Neb., bas a
nose four and three-quarter incl es
long.
Mr.. Townsend of ADacortes,
Wash, made peculiar catch the other
day while fishing. IL appears that
dog fish had swallowed the bait and
hook and a shark In turn swallowed
the dogfish. The shark measured 1-2
feet long and weighed about loo
pounds.
The phylloxera exists IN fifteen pro-
ginces of spain over an area Of $4,000
acres.
The tall hat worn by men first ap
oeared in France nearly five hundred
wears ago.
How 1t Worked.
1t would be an abrSe of IanUuaoe