Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-08-24
NO. 36
NEWS IN BRIFF,

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The value OF the art treasures of
the Museum of Art of New York City
is 81. 900 600.
The people of Russia use up 6,O00,-
O0O PACKS of playing cards every
year.
1t has been stated that every 800
bullets ire1 during the civil war a man
vas killed.
Some of the African tribes pun
their fingers till the joints ''crack" as q
form of salutstion.
From an old account book it ap-
pears that in 1897 tobacco was sold by
the yard In Eastport, Me.
The area OF the Car Of Russia's
possessions is far greater than that of
the entire Republic of France.
Every southern state except Ken
lucky has passed pension laws for its
ex-Confederate soldiers.
"A large block of asphaltum was
rece ntly taken from a mine in Cslifor-
mia which weighed two tons and a
half.
The tallest chimney in the world is
7 Nv l. OiJ 1uuutS, SCOllhHus Ii Is tOt
feet to its copestone from the ground.
Photographers say that the facial
! resemblance of husbands and wives is
closer than that of brothers and sis
/ ters.
-Galileo's first telescope was male
from part of lead water ~,ne In each
end of which he cemented common
spectacle glasses.
The Worlds Fair managers re-
Gently offered $50 for the programme
held by Lincoln when he was shot. Mrs.
McClintock of Philadelphia now has
the paper.
The author of the "Watch on the
Rhine," Max Scheckenburger, Is to be
commemorated with monument in
the German town of Tuttlingen.
The Sampson" we'll at Waco,
Texas, is the largest one in the United
States, 1t throws up one and one
half million gallons of pure hot water
daily.
-Picsrdy, France, claims the honor
of being the place where the first plate
| glass was made. The process was dis
CONcIcu III 1000,
The last execution for forgery In
England took place at the Old Bailey
on December 81, 1892. The name of
the convict was Thou as Maynard.
The first monument ever erected to
the memory of the Union soldiers who
! fell in the Civil War is that in the
cemetery on Someryille avenue, In
Somerville, Mass.
"A very convenient mucilage can be
! made OF onion juice. On being boiled
short time it will yield. en- being
pressed, quite large quantity of ad-
hesive fluid.
The former record for fast type
writing has been broken by Miss Caht-
arine V. Curry, of Syracuse, n. Y,
/ who can write lS2 perfect words In one
minute. She has been operating near
/ lY five years.
"A man living in New England,
who is five feet seven inches In height,
! has beard six feet two inches in
length, or eight inches longer than
himself. The beard began to grow
twelve years ago.
of the sixty-four candidates for
admission to the Imperial Academy at
! Berlin, Miss Bella Newport, an Ameri-
can, stood at the head. She excels or
, the piano.
| The tray or drawer in which Cali
fornia ships so much of her small fruit
is Isl Inches long, 81 inches wide and
! II inches deep. They are packed ten,
! fifteen or twenty in crate, being
/ placed five deep.
BY a recent edict issued by the st.
Petersburg (RussIal police has been
! decreed that every theatrical manager
shall place in the hands of a specified
official, either in cash or current bonds,
| q sum sufficien to cover his expe2se+
! during an entire fortnight.
Ounce culture is not generally over
done, because many fruit growers
think 1t a difficult fruit to produce,
/ and so avoid it. Under a deep, strong.
sandy loan, with good culture. there
J should be no more reason for failing
with ounces than with anything else.
"A joint committee OF the two
houses of The English parliament has
reported electricity suitable and eff
cient source of motive power, and
recommended that electric railway
construction be encouraged throughout
England.
The natives OF Gibraltar, and also the
Moors across the strait, have tradition
that somewhere on the rock there
exists a cavern whence subterran-
can passage leads under the strait to
the mountains on the other side. The
existence of the passage, they say, is
known to the monkeys, who regularly
! use 1t in passing from one continent to
The other.
! There is nothing so fatal to craw-
fish as thunder Storm said Wash
Ington fishdeaIer. "When l make a
shipment of them to any place at dis
tance L always make sure that the
weather promises well. On more than
! one occasion have had entire consign-
ments killed on journey by small
Electrical disturbance"
The newest great city of Europe is
Buda- Pesth, the Capitol and metropolis
Of Hungary. In Kossu h's day, less than
half century ago, the combined popu-
Iation of Buda and Pesth, lying on op-
poslte sides OF the Danube, was about
one hundred thousand. The consOli-
dated municipality now has a popula-
: ton of fully ba,f million.
The pains and expense which Gun
maker Krupp will take to bring his best
work to Chicago shows the value that
he puts upon an exhibit at the Worlds
Fair. He will probably spend a quarter
of million on his display, hut he wilt
secure an advertisement that viii he
worth far more than the outlay.
An old restaurant bill of fare,
printed In Richmond, Va, in January,
1854, givs the following wartime
prices in Confederate monev:
.sSoup, 81 so; chicken, s.. 50; roast
beef. $500; han and eggs. $500; raw
O, sters, $500; coffee, 81 90; bread and
I butter, 81. so; bottle of ale, $12 90;