Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-09-21
NO. 40.
NEWS IN BRIEr.

Ic Nulucsc cat TUG uCsu VI euo
dog.
Letter postage costs as S42,O]o,Ooo
year.
The largest pyramid ic EgyIt is AS
feet high.
Ia Rinlopen Strait snow NAV fail
even in the dog days.
Arkansas has wonderful onyx
cave In the Ozark Mountains.
1t is said that envelopes were hrst
used in France in the time of Louis
XIV.
"A vocabulary OF the Eskimo Ian
guage has been compiled By ID.
Ryberg
There are 800 mountains in IL
United States each exceeding 1000
feet in height.
"A man In Georgia has built NUM-
GER of houses which are occupied By
widows free of rent,
"A railway in the Argentine Repub-
lie has one stretch of 21l miles without
Il curve or bridge.
In China they tie RED cord around
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quiet and obedient
w. c. Scupham, a Philadelphia
drug 2ist, has two boys born on succeed
ing Fourths of July.
An ordinary day coIch weighs
about so, 900 pounds: Pullman sleepers
weigh about 70, 900 pounds.
In Silesia the thermometer registers
about Il irty degrees below zero for
considerable part of the year.
The Chinese, Japanese. Malays.
S,amese, New Zealanders and the
North American Indians are all beard
less.
-TerIspin frequently fetch - apiece
within ten miles of the waters IN which
they are most abundant.
A parrot is said to have lived In
the Geological Gardens, Regent Park,
London, for 81 years without drop
Of water.
A violent gesture made by an
Atlantic lawyer, to emphasize remark
during a speech, eau ed a dislocation
OF his arm.
Many persons will not allow the
rocking of an empty chair, because
they say it is the forerunner of death
in the family.
"A resident of Manchester, Eug-
land, has a Bible 200 years old, which il
two feet long and about the same iD
width.
The corn cob pipe which the manu-
factory at Washington, Missouri, sends
all over the world Is called the mis-
souri, meerschaum.
Jewellers are coming money out Of
a recent fad of the fashionabl5s By re
ducing photographs and copying them
on watch crystals.
1t is now proposed to rear insects
for ornamental purposes, just as plants
and flowers are acclimaJiZed in hot
houses and gardens.
The heart of the poet Shelley is pre-
served in the house of his sUn, Sir
Percy Shelley, at BOscombe, Manor.
Bournemouth. England
Miss Hannah FairchIld of West
| port, Conn, has been a church member
for tifty-fiye years, ana had not missed
a single service during that period.
a Ddlu EdElG lACu HIS ldiOIl5 Gu5
hair of a little girl III johnson County,
Mo-, recently and was trying to carry
her off when he was frightened away.
On a small twig recently broken
from an apple tree near Gainesville, Ga.
there were twenty-siI apples the size OF
a hickory nut.
| A Chinese father is allowed to kill
| child for disobedience, and he often
| does so, and no law ever cOnvicLs MIN,
while custom honors him.
The tortoise IS the longest lived of
all animals. Many have attained the
age OF 25O years, while one is known to
have reached the age of 45O years
"A dictionary of Chinese-Japanes
| words has just been Issued in thTes
| pats. 1t is by j. H. Gubbins, and
a very valuable contribution to philo-
logical literature,
There is a tree in Jamaica known
as the life tree on account of its leaves
growing even after being severed from
the plant; only by fire can it be entirely
destroyed.
There are many superstitiOns about
funerals Few people like to cross
them in the streets, and men and women
apparently sensible stand and wait to
let them pass.
"A camellia tree near Dresden, Ger
many, has an annual average of 40, 900
blossoms. 1t is about flfty feet tall and
J was brought from Japan about $50
years ago.
The largest bell In the world, the
famous "Giant of Giants" at Moscow,
Russia, has circumference of sixty
eight feet, is twenty-one feet high and
weighs 448,715 pounds.
The permanent gibbet erected In
the san Quentin, Cal, Prison has q
singular provision OF three cords to be
simultaneously cut by three prison
guards. These cores are so arranged
that none OF the guards VIII know
whose knife sprung the trap snd
Launched into eternity" the gentle
nan standing on it.
In Turkey, If man fall asleep ia
che neighbo1hood or poppy field, and
the wind blew from the fell toward
him, he becomes narcotlZed, and would
arc. II the country people, who are well
acquainted with the circumstances, die
not bring him to well or stream and
empty pitcher after pitcher OF water o1
bis face and body.
: Africa is pa times as large as the
Slate of New YORK. 1t is the most
remarkable of all the countries as re.
spects its animal distributions. Out Of
a total of 523 known species, 472 OF
\ them are to be found in no other
csuntry.
A lever for raising AMI lowering bug
~ tops, the arrangement being coIlap-
sible and situated at the riders side at
the edge of the seat
A method of preventing fraud In ths
sale of newspapers, whereby seal part
/ ly attached to the page covers the rea-