Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-02-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.


enty-fve years ago.
The col bank of Newfoundland Ii
six hundred miles long.
Fresno, Cal, boast of As pound
sweet potato.
The better class of tine Philippine
islanders smoAe cigars foot long.
-The British Parliament has met q;
eleven places besides Westminster.
An average acre of grass newly
moved weighs nearly two and one-hah
tons.
Harry W. Wood, of Lansing, Mich,
dislocated his shoulder while stretching
himself.
-CtlIgula, the Roman Emperor,
caused a poet to be thrown to the wild
beasts of the arena.
Apples were worth from I2I to %
cents each in the reign OF Henry VII,
Of England.
In the Solomon Islands the market
quo alton on u good quality wife is
10, 900 cocoanuts.
The Russian Government will lend
the Central Famine Committee S25,-
600, ,0C0 ithout i2terest.
Immense focks of crows have eK.
terminated the grass-hopper pest In
some parts of California.
The Persian carpets which adorned
the halls of the Shah's Palace at Tehe-
ran have been in use for 200 years.
Queen V.ctoria's crown kept with,
other royal regalia under strong guard
a. the old tower, is worth about $780,
900.
"A deer was shot in a Bohemian
forest, on whose head was a huge ball
Of bone or horns IN the place Of ths
usual antlers.
-Kennebunk, Me-, claims the young
est grandfather in the State, in the per-
son of David Parent, whe is only thirty
six years of age.
Humboldt County, California, has
a population OF SO. 900 and S17, 900, 900
taxable wealth. but 1t is unconnected
with the world by railroads
Bank notes in Austria II ungary are
printed on one side in German, and the
other in Magyar, for the benefit OF the
Hungarians.
The first vessel launched by the
early American colonists was the Bless
ing Of the Bay, Launched in Massachu-
setts Bay, July 4, 1851.
-Four skeletons of giants have been
unearthed near Florence, Mo. Th re Is
tradition that four mule loads of gold
are buried in the same vicinity.
-Fire-proof and time-proof books,
" tn leaves and covers of sheets OF as
beslos, and printing in gold and silver
letters, have been sugg eSted.
-Venezuels has Gfty-slx holidays
every year. On these occasions the
p ople close their stores and enjoy them
selves in chick-n fights and other tropi-
Cal amusemeLts.
MONEY! losneh 10 Luke Hayden, OF
Torrington, III 1901, was recently paid
into the Connecticut School Fund. six
times the amount of the original loan
has been paid in interest.
The total area of bog land in Ire
land Is $3.50, QUO acres, of which l..
254, ,OOO is mountain bog, and the other
is available for fuel The aV-
erage thickness of the peat Is twelve
feet.
"A house in Dedham, Mass, built
in 1885, is occupied by family. the de-
scendants of the orig nal builders.
They appreciate the antiquity, and will
show visitors all through it for %
cents.
The Persian Government has abol-
ished the tobacco monopoly, inedmni-
flying the company and permitting 1t Q
If Of
tn.s by fUrbidding the people to
smoke.
"A mulatto servant named Robsr {
Smith, who died In st. Louis Mo-, re.
Gently, had been employed for many
Years as that man. in hotel, where
his surprising memory en- tbled him tc
| furnish every guest who left the din.
ing room with his proper headgear. g.
The report from the new artesisD
well In Huron, South Dakota, show
| that it ia the most wonderful well
known TO exist. The water spouts VI
! distance of 1C0 feet, a the amount
flowing from the well is estimated ri
5000 to 40,OC0 gallons per minute.
In Boktan they talk of a band oi
English crusaders who strayed awRJ
from their lea lers about 1l50, A. D.,
and settled In kurdistan, and minglinG
their bl Jod with the native stock, 50
that it is dangerous for the Britons 70
be too severe about the faults OF thS
kurd5.
"A curiosity has been found in AZ
AIpena county, Mich, wood. Two
hemIock trees, the trunks of which arr
fifteen inches il diameter, are growing
six feet apart. At the height OF ter
| feet from the ground the trunks unite,
forming an arch and then form singls
setm eighty feet high.
The creature having the grestesl
number of distinct eyes is the chiffon, s
| species of mClluse, in the shell of which
has been found as many as II, 900 sep
arate and distinct eyes.
BY an act of the British Parliament.
which was passed March 90 1867, ans
came into force June l of that \ ear, tbs
| 9 lnadian provinces, Ontario and Que
lee and New Brunswick and Nova SEQ
tia, were federslly united into one Do
mInion of Canada.
| In Nicaragua, Central America
the statues of the gods were generally
p aced at the foot of the pyramids
while the native fathers north placed
theirs at the summit or in temples
While hieroglyphics are common OF
dolls, walls and pottery, yet tie patient
researches of our aTch@lOglsts havI
recovered but little OF the man
ners and habits of these abort
gInes.
Jumbo, a horse owned by q SavlI
Rock shipbuIid.r, is said to be the lar
gest horse III Connecticut. He l. nearly
seven feet high and weighs 100 pounds
He Is powerful animal, and has drag
ged with apparent ease two ton load
With the children he is great favorits
1t costs a good deal 10 feed him, as b,
has eight pecks OF oats At each meal snc
makes away with two hundred pound;
If hay every week. His shoes are O
unusual size and weigh four pounds