Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-04-13
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Arabs never eat catfish.

-SawduSt Dullnlngs are announced.
Arsenic Is extensively used in max.
ing ice cream.
st. Petersburg, Russia, is the cold
est capital IN Europe.
India has a priest who is drawing
pension and is in his 152d year.
There are 10000 women studying
N he various colleges IL America.
Ammonia as motive power IS COM
ing into use on various street car lines.
The Chinese Emperor is called
"The Son of Heaven by the Celes-
tials.
The product of the Chilean nitrate
beds last Year was valued at $50, 000,-
900.
The ''heaviest" woman in Europe
has just died In Bavaria, She weighed
$50 rounds.
The number of Governm ent en-
plnyes In all departments is said to be
about $50, QUO.
The colossal statue at tbs Worlds
Fair, Chicago. will be female figure
seventy-flve feet high.
Three times as much spirits are
consumed in Scotland, according to
population, as in England.
In the Chicago Gil. } militia privstes
are not allowed TO dance on the same
floor with their colOnels.
The first idea of electricity was
given by the friction of two globes Of
quicksilver in the year of 1867
five inches in length was found in
small lake in Lonoke County, Ar
kansas.
The paper tree of the South Seas is
kind of mulberry, with an inner bark
OF peculiar delicacy and sOrtness.
A man in Sydney, New South
Wales, has S25O,0O0 invested In city
property, all of which was made out OF
pigs.
There are 400 widows of confeder-
ate soldiers OIL the Georgia Pension
List, which compels an annual tax o.
S400, 900.
Hundreds of fish are still alive IL
the royal aquarium in st. Petersburg,
Russia, that were placed there more
'hah lOO years dSO'
Carriages were first introduced ID
England in 1880, and were for a long
time used only for the conveyance OF the
| sick and of ladies.
-Dmetri Minde'eff, Russian and
the inventor of terroUite, an explosive
more powerful than dynamite, L
dead.
Cream of-taTtar is often miIeo
with sand, phosphate of lime, quartz,
starch, -four, tartratss and sulphate o.
| lime.
! The first book containing musical
characters was Issued III l495 from the
press of tie celebrated "Wynken de
Worde."
Seals when basking place one OF
their number on guard to give alarm In
case of danger. The signal is quicF
clap of the fiippers on a rock.
"A fall caused the heart of Mrs
Ann Barr, of Vicennes, Ind. to shift
from the left to ths right side. Thb
IS the opinion OF her physicians.
"A copper rod projecting from the
face of a cliff in Saline County, Mo-,
indicates tha' at some date in the Far
! West, bevond tue ken of man, copper
mining was carried on IN that vIcini.
ty.
"A curious fad for obtaining Indian
relics has taken possession of the people
about Reading Penn, who 90 out in
numbers, armed with spades and pick
aves to dig for arrow heads and other
remains of the red man.
Should a man In China be unfor-
tunate enough 10 save the life OF
another from drowning, he is at once
saddled with the expense of supporting
the survivor for the remainder of that
PERSONS life.
John W. Wise, grandson of John
Wise, miser who lived in Kansas and
died without revealing his hoard, found
S35, 900 while digging a foundation foI
a house, also will leaving him all th'
property.
-Spectacles were first used in the
latter part of the thirteenth century.
There is no certainty as to who was the
inventor of them, but the distinction is
generally claimed for Alessandro di
Spina, who is said to have made some
about 1885.
There used to be giant species of
tortoise In MauTitlus. Van Neck, the
discoverer Of the dOdo. found some
there which were so large that six men
could be seated in a single she'll
Another authority states that 1000 or
1900 of them were sometimes seen in ON
drove.
1t is reported that lamb was born
It HorritOs, Merced County, CAL, re-
Gently, that had eight legs, three eyes
three ears, with two perfect bodies at
tached to one head. Ore Of the ears
and also one of the eyes were on top of
the head. 1t lived several hours.
Pens were first used early in tn:
seventh century. They we're, of course,
quills, and steel pens did not come into
use until 1920, when the first gross of
them was sold wholesale for S3G. The
quality of these pens was greatly infer
ior to that of those for which the Eng
lIsh now pay twelve cents gross.
Footprints on Ancient Sands.
There was recently received at Den
yer a piece of a rock which was once