Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-10-05


Archimedes, b. c., 900.
Silk manufacturers were established
IN Europe i'll y. d. $50.
Arkansas has a wonderful onyx cave
In the Ozark Mountains.
The men of Japan outnumber the
women by about three per cent.
The mariners compass was q
Chinese invention, 1900 B. G.
The Argand lamp was the Inven-
lion of -hmie Argand in 1889.
TIE royal standard of Persia is a
blacksmith's apron.
The parchment used on the best
oanios is made from wolf skins.
-Bovusboro, Nd, has a pink cup
cactus containg 1913 flowers In full
bloom.
The "monkey- wrench" 80 called
was named after its inventor, Mr..
Muncky.
AT the age of forty man usually
attains his highest weight; woman at
fifty.
Men with gray or blue eyes are
usually better maTksmen than those with
dark eyes.
The game OF backgammon was
invented by Palameda, a Greek, about
1924.
in the year 1885 a tulip bulb was
sold for 5000 III Holland. 1t weighed
200 graius.
S. B. Victor, of Columbia, Mo-,
has worn the same duster aud straw hat
for forty years.
An ordi airy day coach weighs
about 90, 600 pounds; Pullman sleepers
weigh about 5000 pouads.
"A field of wheat is reported to hav,
aCated down the Missouri river past
Atchison, Kan. recently.
Paper from rags was made in iO-1
A. d., the first linen paper in 1891 and
paper from straw in 1900.
The Chinese, Japanese. Malays,
Siamese, New Zealanders and the
North American Indians are all beard
less.
"A six-year-old Salem, Ore. girr
became so excited about fire that her
heart stopped beating and she dropped
dead.
The shortest street In the world is
Mansion House street, In the city OF
London. 1t Is not more than few
yards in length.
When the Falkland Islands were
first visited by man the Wild dogs found
there, approached himwithout fear or
aversion.
The Chinese razor has the shape OF
an isosce1es triangle. 1t is made OF
rude steel and many of them are
pounded out from worn.out horse
shoes.
"A dwarf residing at Shigaken, In
Japan, is SO yeaus cid and but II Inches
high. He is well educated, and earns
a livelihood by teaching penmaD-
ship.
The tortoise is the longest lived Of
all animals. Many have attained the
age of go years, while one is known 20
have reached the age of $50 years.
"A farmer near Martinsburg, No,
plOwed up perch in his field some
time ago, and when he placed 1t in
trb of water it revived and swan about
as lively as any fish.
"A resident of Stamford, n. Z, Is
the proud possessor of rare relic of
the Revolutionary War-nothing less
than the watch which Major Andre
offered as ransom to his captors.
"A dictionary of Chipese- Japanes.
words has just been issued in three
parts. 1t is by J. FL. Gubbins, aod is
a very valuable contribution to philo-
logical literature.
"A rooster In Columbus, Ind, got
into light with bull, and plucked
out the bulls eye. About a year ago,
on one day, the same fowl killed eleven
seven geese and three roosters.
The largest pyramid in Egypt Is
l4O yards high, that is, about 80 times
the average height of a man; whereas
the nests of the termite are 1000 times
the height Of the insects which con-
struct them.
w hile workmen were excavating
trench for new gas pipes at Norwich,
Conn.,, recently, hummingb:rd in ltS
swift tligct from the trees overhead,
came IN contact with the upraised pick
Of one of the workmen and fell dead al
bis feet.
The permanent glbbet erected IL
the San Quentin (CaL) Prison has a
singular provision o. three cords TO be
cut by three prison
guards. These cords are so arranged
that none of the guards will know
whose knife sprung the trap and
Launched into eternity" the gentleman
standing on it.
In Turkey, # man fall to ASLEEP
10 the neighborhood of a poppy field.
and the wind blow from the teld toward
him, he becomes Darcotized, and would
die, if the country people. who are we'll
with the circumstances, did
not bring him to a well or stream and
empty pitcher after pitcher of water op
his face and body.
She that judgeth another and leavett
herself unjudged, setting against him a
list of misdeeds and leaving unnum-
beTed her own, will find that for every
traced against his name 10y
an accusing hand will there grow the
GoubIe sin # commission and an
OMISSION against hers. And the second
may be greater than the first.
Watches were first made IN Nurem.
burg in 1477, and were popularity called
"Nuremburg Animated Eggs"
A bill-posting machine, which sticKs
bills on walls even ss high as ffty feet
without the aid of a ladIer or paste