Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-30
NO. 80
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fans were first used in China.


Highland was married to Anna Fllng.
Several Cinnamon have proved
themselves su "oessful farmers in Mon
tana.
Two tons of eels we're caught at
Will amsport, Md e, In one night recent
y.
A Chicago man has sued his doctor
for $40, 600 for breaking the drum OF
his tar.
A vast snow-feld in Ireland spreads
over a space of about 5000 square
miles.
The average daily amount OF sun
shine the world over is a little more
than three hours.
The national debt of the United
States on Jan. 1, 1871, amounted to
SO, 468. 476 81.
"A farTer living lear FurloDg,
Penn, dug up 10 stone Knives In his
garden recently.
-Herod the great was the first He
| brew king who imported into his realm
ROman modes OF ''society life"
I'm or iinary English writing "z''
only occurs enty-two times wAIle''e
occurs one thOus md.
w. j. NJ Barry, the Irish athlete,
threw the six.eeD-pCund hammer 1877
feet in Manchester, England, the other
uay.
Since football became popular in
this country there has been a marked
increase IN the sale of aruicI and stick
| ,lg-plaster.
The Chinese houses are generally
ornamen ed with so many quaint tur-
re Is ind gables that they resemble toy
houses.
The Emperor of China chooses his
own successor, whether the person
chosen is a member of the royal family
or not.
The mace OF the House of Repre-
sentative consists of bundle of thirteen
ebony rods entwiIed and bound togeth-
er with silver bands.
The silky little King Charles SPAN
lei is an expensive luxury, because
puppies a month old easily fetch $50
apiece, and, when b tlf grown, 500.
The rUundsmen in Orange, n. j.,
ride on bicycles, and are thus enabled
To pounce unneald upon policemen who
wander from their posts.
More than a fourth OF the gold
ana more than tIiri of tie silver
pTouuCed throughout the world in the
year 1891 was mined in the United
States.
"A family IN Wala WALL County,
Of
the avera g weight being 244 pounds
and the average height six feet six
inches.
There IS saltpetre cave in Burton
county, Georgia, that is overrun by
millions of bats, and has been so ever
since the first settlement of the cOun-
try.
-Defoe was ffty-eight when he began
his "RObinsOn CrusOe." HIS literary
career L, gan a. twenty, and his best
political works were written before the
"Lrus> e."
GIbbon began the "Decline and
Fall OF the Roman Empire" at thirty
nine, and finished It IN twelve years.
The work of preparation was really the
labor of a lifetime.
A dOuUle-yOlked egg was hatched BY
hen near GeItysburg, Penn, recent
". The farmer was greatly amazed
10 find two little chicks grown to
getIIer after the fashion OF the Siamess
wins,
A glass factory at Liverpool, Eng
land, now has glass journal b xes tor
al OF its machinery, a glass floor, gla
ia uglrs on the roof and a smob e-stack
1C5 feet high built wholly of glass bricks,
eacn fOJL square.
M. Neshayeff- -MaltZeff, wealthy
Russian, has purchased plano from a
Partisan firm for $4,000 The insJru-
ment is twice the usual size, stands on
SIX legs and is three times as sonorous
vs. an ordinary pianO.
No death has occurred in the family
of the Rev. Samuel Wakefield, OF La
trJbe, Penu., In sixty-One years. He
is in n.s nfnety-fOuItl year; his wife a
few years his junior; Jhey were married
in 1921, and lave ten children.
Bass, the ossified mar, had morbid
fear OF the anRtoniist, and dues ed icing
Carved OF chiseled 10y them after death.
To avoid this he OF dered that his re-
maius be II ced in an ironclad, thief
proof vault, go hat they cJuId not get
at aim.
A remedy for liver complaint was
tried by weaver in Acc-iDgJon. Eng
land. II Was a JIrpsnllne plaster, ap-
piled over the stomach. Having worn
it some time, he lighted a match to
examine the plaster. The plaster took
fire and the man WAS burned to death
After the Saline County (Kan.) cy-
clone Saline grocer missed a washing
machine which WIS stsnding on the
! lavement just before the storm. 1t was
picked up recently on the open prairie
several miles from saline in a perfect
state of preservat on.
In West Brighton (Coney Island
band of twenty pieces that fOurished,
during the season just passed, there
were seven dun mies-men who pre-
tended TO be playing instruments, but
merely held them TO their mouths. Not
one of them knew a note of music from
Greek characle er.
"A quarryman at RothJury, Eng
land, came 10 the conclusion that life
was not worth living, 80 he placed dy-
Mantle cartridge in fold on the top of
his soft elt hat, and, having set FIRE
TO the fuse. awaited the result with
eguanimity. He was greatly regretted by
all his friends.
"A strange sinecure in Paris, th.
place of dentist of the Paris Opera
House. has 81 10 Ia I'D :" the Siec-
tion Of the lucky man from a lit of
$50 applicants. Tie salary at acued to
the position is nominal, but the num-
Der of applicants shows how eagerly tie
place is sought.
ALUMINIUM is proposed as a substi'
tute for small bank notes, the sugges-
ton being to make it into coin of little
intrinsic value, which shall pass as a
promise to pay, Just as bank notes do.
They will have tie advantage of clean
illness and will be so light that they