Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-01-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Limitation gold" puzzles even
jewellers.
-Rattlesnake oil is worth SIC an
ounce.
An orange tree will bear fruit till
$50 years old.
English isspoken by about 100 OoO,-
OoO people.
There is said to be not a single
Baptist church in Western Australia.
In the province of Silesia, Germany,
there are at present twenty pedigree
heads of red cattle, consisting OF 80
eead.
The Australian color les have ex-
pended about 81, 900 900 in patronizlng
tmmig ration.
The Imperial" diamond which
was recently purchased by the Nlzam
of Hyderabid from a London dealer, is
valued at 81, 500, 900.
To save the finger nails an ingen-
ious fellow has invented a ocket knife,
the blades of which are made to open
by touching spring.
The dev, lopment OF the cotton seed
oil industry has been so great that it
has supplanted the famous Give tree
product in a majority of cases.
New Jersey and New York elect
their governors for three years, and of
! the other forty-two states nineteen
choose their governors for four years.
Telephones are put IN the houses
Of Stockholm, Sweden, at rent of
g. 70 a year each. For each call. how
ever, there IS a charge of p cents ex-
ira.
1T is believed that there are 1,SOO
professional women painters, sculptors
and engravers IN Paris, besides those
who live by painting menus, fans.
etc.
"A landslide at Roseburg, Oregon,
has exposed the jawbone OF prehistor-
ic monster, and the surrounding cOun-
try is said to be rich in such re-
mains.
Out in Melbourne, Australia,
beauty show was completely wrecked by
an enraged mob, because the style of
beauty was not up to their eIpecta-
tions.
recently from a Jail in Sante Fe, New
Mexico, by intimidating the guards with
wooden revOlvers wrapped in thu
foil
In Georgia settlement is ''schcol
with 2l scholars, all carrying the same
suIname-DreggorS. Aunt Tabitha
DreggOrs is the grandmother of the
lot."
Apples weighing three pounds each
have been grown I'm Southern California
and apples that weigh two pounds and
half are SO common as to excite no
comment.
The dividends paid by the various
mining companies this year are greatly
in excess of last year, and indicate, de-
clares the New York Times, Increased
labor in this industry.
"A fine weeping willow tree in the
Hollywood Cemetery, at Richmond, Va,
has grown from a twig t.. at was cut
from willow at NapOleOn's grave and
brought TO Virginia by a french
man.
Two Of the proud possessions of an
Atlanta man are "A saber and a cross OF
the Legion of Honor that one OF his an
cestors received from the hand of the
great Napoleon
Liverpool is the largest shipping
point in the world; then comes London
and then New York. New York
stands second to London, howeve as
general commercial city.
An oil painting owned in Philadel-
phia shows, it is cialmod, that the
first man TO wear russell shoes in
America was Christopher Culum-
bus; that in fact, he landed in
them.
The first German Court of JUS
tice has held session at Heliogoland.
The calendar was a blank. Tie
c'erk registered the fact that the
court met and adjourned and all was
over.
How much trouble he avoids who
does not look to see what his neighbOr
says OF does or thinks, but only to what
: he does himself, that it may be justand
dure!
The web of our life is of mingled
yarn, good and i'll togethef. Oar virtues
W ould be proud If cur faults whipped
them not, and our crimes would despair
, if they we're not cherished by our viz
tues.
1t is said of moe than half the men
? that they resemble Napoleon; it is said
of more han half the women that they
, have Madonna-lke faces. Sill, there
, was only one Napoleon and only one
Madonna.
, The word knot, signifying a certain
distance over the water, is one-sIxtieth
: | of a mean degr of the earih'S meTi-
|. dian, which In figures is 6.C76,SlS feet.
2025.6 yards, or one mile and 26.56
a yards.
! Historic Valley Forge's original site
Q of fifty-one acres has just been trans
K ferred by peremptory sale 10 john Dunn
/ for $40 per acre. twas General George
, Washin ston's headquarters in 1I77-7S,
, and here the iron was forged for implc-
t ments of war by Washington and the
8 Co. .tinental army.
!. The medical adviser of a friendly
! society in Bath, Me-, advertises that he
J will undertake the medical treatment
: Of all and sundry at the economic rate
J of two cents weekly for adults and h,lf
Q price for children.
: Mime. MIlot, cf AnGers, France, a
= school teacl II, h IS invented a system
v enabling The Lind TO read ordinary
n type. Several pul lis who have been
v trained by this system are found TO read
!. with greater ease and rapidity thar
d those taught by the BraIlle system oi
raised points.