Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-01-27
NO. 6
NEWS IN BRIEF.


There are over 5000 brass bands In
.he 5 salvation Army.
CIR, at Britain used 500, 900 barrels o
our apples the past year.
Singapore. India; is at last getting
rid of the plague OF dogS.
In Southern Europa IS, 900 oranges
have been picked from one tree.
CASTLE is the only country In the
world where Castillo soap is not used.
"A syndicata OF Chicagoians Is
about to embark in tig-culture ON q
large scale.
About 10 per cent. OF the flowers
that grow In Europe are odorifer-
Gus.
Fine ground bone used as a fertilizer
is worth twice as much as is the coarse
ground bone.
1t is feared that lawlessness IN the
famine stricken districts of Russia,
will get beyond control.
The consumption OF coffee is sdeclin-
ing in Great Britain, owing, 1t Is said,
to the excess OF chicory used.
The curious custom OF placing dolls
on graves obtains among lot-holders In
the Baltimore (Md.) Cemetery.
"A huge potato, weighing twenty
seven pounds, has been raised by
farmer at Bayou Sara, La.
"A mountain of coal In Wild Horse
Valley. Wyoming, has been burning
for more than thirty years.
The number of locomotives in the
United States is about 80, 900 one to
every five miles OF railroad
Russian peasants besieged the
Gar on his railroad journey with pet!-
tions for relief from starvation.
1t is still possible to purchase land
In New Zealand at 81 so the acre, or to
rent an acre at twelve cents per an
lum.
The annual pay roll of the officers.
professors and employees Of the Uni
verslty of Michigan amounts to nearly
100000.
In lifetime OF eighty years the
human heart beats 800, 900 times,
an average of seventy beats min
ute.
-Henny Cook, Norwich, Conn.
tailor, has leard seven feet two
inches long, though he is only five feet
six inches.
The temple of Hom-mon-jl, a,
Ikegami, begun In 1882 and nnished In
1907, is one of the most famous re-
hglous structures in Japan.
1t is said that four. fifths Of the
steam engines of the world have been
constructed within the last twenty five
years.
According to an estimate credited
to Sir j. b. I.awes the yield per acre OF
wheat of the United kingdom for 1891
was 80 bushels.
In 1890 the total area OF olive plant
ing in Spain amounted to 1854 542
ncres. yielding &C, 96S, $40 gallons of OH,
worth over S39, 100000.
Reliable authorities say that the
death penalty Is always i:Ifllcted In Siam
on every one who Is heard to mention
the Kings name.
In the pockets of clothing discaid.
ed by a burglar In Indiana we're found
u TRANSLATE of Ce ar's Commentaries
pnd problem In algebra.
-AItraveler said the other day that
Philadelphia had more people with
llaIk hair and blue and gray eyes than
any place c had ever visited.
Petroleum, which actually hows
nnaiied through the rocks, has been
discovered at Crows Nest in the Ca
padian Rocky Mountains.
Carrier pigeons are being trained si
Portsmouth, England, for carrying
messages from ships at sea TO the shore.
During some trials they successfully
crossed the channel during a fog.
The artificial incubator of eggs origs-
mated in Egypt, where it is still car
RED on. According To n consular re-
port no fewer than 70, 900, ,0000 eggs are
matched in this way every year on tbs
banks Nile.
Robert T. Barker, of New Bed
ford, Mass. read the Bible through for
the first time In 1S0s. Since that date
he has read it ninety. nine times. II
usually takes him two months to read
it from beginning to end.
"A man fishing at JERSEY, England,
was caught by the rising tide, and
boat had to be put out to reScde him.
The next day the magistrate sentenced
him to eight days hard labor "for the
trouble he had caused"
There seems to be good prospect
for the establishment of line OF
steamships Eet~een Philadelphia, Pa,
and certain port; on the Gulf Of Mex
leo.
The tower bridge over the Thames,
London, England, built on the Bisculs
principle, has caused the underwriters
of Lloyds to refuse to insure vessels
that have 10 pass it.
The first yard of cloth ever made
In the Rocky Mountain country was
turned out on loom 1863 in the new cot
ton mill in Denver, Col, on Thus
day, Nov. u, 1871. 1t was made from
cotton grown In Texas.
There are now living in one house
in village near Norwich, England,
five generations, the ages of the indivii,
uals being nine ty-tWo, siXty-one, thirty
six, nineteen and six months respect
lively.
So great has been the destruction
In Rome, Italy, OF the many palaces
and public monuments that it is very
difficult even to trace the plans of some
of the more important which were
known to have existed.
"A treasure composed of pieces Oh
gold as large as twenty marks piece
has been found at BeuJhen, in silesia
The pieces of which there are said to he
about million. are stamped with
portrait of King Ocho of Bohemia, aud
bear date 1903.