Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-08-31
NEWS IL BRIEF.


The New Testament was 6rst
printed in Irish in 16 2.
Jewellers report that gold dollars
are extremely scarce.
There are certain anteIopes which
never visit drinking places.
BABIES should be given dIink OF
water two or three times day.
Rabbits signal with their forepaWs,
and have regular 81 gnals and calls.
The only kind of fruit which ap-
pears TO flourish In California IS the
apple,
"A New York man committed
suicide, recently because his wife re-
fused to support him.
In South America there is a race
of cats to which melwing' is an un-
learned accomplishment
"A Russian can plead infancy for d
long time as he does not come of age
till he is twenty-siS years old.
One of the fine jewels in the pos
session OF the Shah of Persia IS a pearl
for which one OF his ancestors paid
S675, 900.
The first wheat raised in the new
world was sown on the island of Isa-
bella in January, 1894, and on March
30 the crop was gathered.
"A complete buggy In sections was
not long ago shipped from this country
to Mexico by the parcel post.
1t requires upward of las, 900 acres
of rich land 10 produce the sugar yearly
consumed In the British islands.
The loco weed, which is abundant
in Western Kansas, has a peculiar fas-
cination for cattle, upon which 1t
exerts an Intoxicating effect.
-Sewell County, Kansas, has an OK
which measures fourteen feet in length,
six feet aud a half high, and, when fat,
weighs 4500.
"A camel of the largest size has
heen known to drink from thirty to
| fifty gallons of water and then travel
without any more for twenty days.
-Craues, storks and wild geese fiy
| fast enough to make the trip from
Northern Europe to Africa in a week,
but most of them rest north Of the
! Mediterranean.
-COrot, the French landscape artist,
| painted only seven hundred sketches.
But twelve thousand "Corots" have
been sold in Hotel Drouot auctions.
The largest schooner in the last
! published Government list is the Col
den Age, 1853 tons, built at Abbott's
Bridge, Ohio, in 1882, and balllng from
Sdndusky.
The Laplander sleeps In a big
reindeer skin to keep him warm. The
East Indian also sleeps in a bag; but 1t
is not air tight, and is only intended to
protect him from mosquitoes.
Frau ProbstI, who enjoyed the
distinction of being the heaviest woman
in Eorope, has just died at Traubrlng,
in Bavaria, at the age of foTty-One.
At her death she weighed over $50
pounds.
! Swedish women often WORK as
| farm labOrers. Those that have babies
carry them on their backs In a leather
bag, as squaws carry their young.
This plan permits the mother to use
/ both hands at her farm work.
The longest speech ever made was
by ROumanian deputy in support of
the Impeachment of an ex-minister,
John Bratiano, when be spoke for
thiIty-seven hours.
| The Servians have a curious GUS
tom of giving a parting kiss to their
deceased friends before final burial, and
the observance of 1t has caused seri-
Gus epidemic of diphtEeria. The
custom has now been forbidden.
Pope Leo XIII. owns pearl left
TO him by his predecessor on the throne
of st. Peter which Is worth Sl0O, 900,
and the chain of thirty-two pearls
owned by the Empress Frederick is
estimated at Sl75, 600,
On a recent visit to the Gobelin
| TaperstIy Works President Carnot, of
| France, discovered a magnificent piece
of tapestry that had been bought for
the palace at Fontainebleau thirty years
ago, but had not yet been delivered.
-Berlo, European bicyclist, owns
the lightest bicycle in the world. The
tires weigh two pounds eight ounces.
The rear wheel is twenty-eight inches.
The machine is geared to siXty-eight
incnes The rat trap pedals weigh
exactly twelve ounces
-Citrons grow well in the West In
dies, and bear large crOIs in good soil
at rinidad. The fruit is prepared for
export ty simply cutting it In pieces,
removing the pulp, placi' g the rind in
barrels, and covering with strong salt
and water.
"A small station en- the Old Colony
Railroad in Massachusetts bears the
queer name of Kenberma. 1t appears
that three children of summer residents
born in the place are named respective
" Kenilwo1th, Bertha and Mary, and
first syllable of each n tme was taken to
form the name of the station.
! God was probably the first metal
discovered and used. 1t was mined in
Egypt and well known in the Eastern
Empires 1900 years B. @. 1t was
doubtless known and used in India
manv hundred years before that period
Few relics of antiquity are so curl
Ously interesting as the charts employed
by ancient mariners, which have por-
trayed upon them ever so many extra
ordinary monsters, horrible dragons
and terrific giants scattered here and
there.
Princeton, n. j., has two trees
which were planted previous to the
Declarat on of Independence. The
sycamores in the Deans yards were
planted in 1857, by order OF the col
lege trustees, to commemorate the re-
sistance of the Stamp act.
You must measure the strength of a
man by the power OF the feelings which
he subdues, not by the power Of those
which suodue him. And hence COM
posure is often the highest result of
strength.
Owing to the great power possessed
by the oyster a force equal to 1919
times the weight Of its shelless body is
required to open 1t.
1t is stated that among every 1000
bachelors there are thirty-eight crimin