Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-23
NO. 49
SEWS In BRIEF.

The helmet of Richard l. weighed
a5 pounds.
-Th" pulley-drawn cross-bow had d
range of forty rods.
-Trnj citing engines were first In
vented by the Greeks.
Mixed chain AMI Mate armor wa.
used from 1900 to l4U0.
Dana Gus bla les we're famous all
over the world B. @ 500.
The Chinese Holy Land is India,
the native land of Bud -ha.
An Indi ,n,p, lis man has invented
process for aging" vlOlins.
Tie first oliver coin was made by
Phdon. King Of Argos, s69 B. G.
Gold mines about Nevada City
are the deepest and richest In the
world,
Daniel Wiser, of Pottstowu, Penn,
to win a wager, ate a dozen angle
worms.
-Cross-bowmen were always attend.
sd by shield bearer, who pcotec5sd
them IN action.
Married couples in Norway are
privileged to tide on raj roads at far3
and half.
The Greek and Roman ships of
largest size had two towers filled with
arcners and catapaults.
; The linen manufactured yearly ia
England could be wrapped round the
saith seven times.
( Gas was first made from coal by
Clayton ip 1879 and 6rst used for IL
'umlnation in 1892.
An old man in st. Louis, who had
been hiccoughing at half-minute inter
yals for two days, wes stopped by
hypnOtism.
AT public entertaSnment In Paris
a young man was hypnOtiZed. Two
days elapsed before be was restored to
consciousness,
In Endicott's day In Salem, Mass,
an of ender was sentenced to have his
long hair sliced from his head.
! The Chinese, japanese, Malsys.
Siamese, New ZeAlanders and North
American Indians are all but beard
less.
There are only two congregation,
of Armeuians n this cOuntry-one at
Worcester, Mass, and the other at
b oboken, y. j.
"A 3O0-pound sea bass was caught
the other day in San Diego, Cal, Bay.
1t took four men TO get the fish into
hoat.
Death by the sword is inflicted IL
China, Turkey and Russia. Decapita-
tiUn by block and axe, is the death
penalty in Brunswick, Germany.
Among 20, 900 600 of the worlds
population slavery sJih exists.
John F. S ne of De iham Centre,
Mass, has a horse that Chews tobacco.
When Its driver takes cnew the AMI
rual wants one also.
No bird can fly backward without
turning. The dragon tiy, however, can
10 this, and Can OuJstrlp the swallow
in speed.
Allen Milton Browning, OF Hunt,
inGdon, W. Va has been married six
times, has been the father of sixty
seven children and is now only 60 years
old.
There is a surface of 5000 acres IL
Silesia, Prussia, which is usually dry,
but which every thirty years dis with
water in some unknown way and be-
comes a lake.
The prefix go" before so many
names of Irish leaders is an aDbrevia-
ton of the word ogha. meaning grand
chlld. O'Connor, therefore, means
grandchild Of Connor.
Bees are said to have such an an
tipathy to dark colored objects that
black chickens have been stung TO
death, while white ones of the same
brood were untouched.
| As a result OF the widespread use
OF macaroIi in Italy, the peasants OF
that county consume more -four than
than the peasants of any other land.
"A hume forty-fve miles long is to
be constructed from the head Eaters of
the San Juan river TO PoliaSky, a
station on the Mountain Railroad, near
Fresno, Cal.
Brass pins have been in use for
nearly eleven hundred years. They
were first imported into England by
atherIne Of AragOn, the wife OF
Henry VII.
In one of the Canary islands thert
Is tree OF the laurel family that rains
down Occasionally In the early morn
ing quite a copious shower of tears of
water from lis tuttel foliege.
The longest pOn'oo1 bridge ever
built was constructed by Company F.
Fifteenth New York Volunteers. across
the Chickahr mlny, when Mcclellan
withdrew from Harris N Landing.
Even TO This day certain coGmuni-
ties OF BLddhisls and Nohammedans
pray 10y The hour before their favorite
plant or flower. Il Inlia this species
of worship seems to be most prevs-
lert.
The First Maine heavy artillery reg,
iment lost more men Killed and died
of wounds than any other Federal regi-
ment during the war, the percentage
being 1871. The Second Wisconsin
came mex with u per cent. ard the
One hundred and fOrtieth Pennsylvania
uext with 16 4 per ceat.
Mrs. JOIN A. LOGAN has undertaken
to raise one mil ion dollars from the
women of the United States for the
American University, the National in
stituulon founded by the Methodists Of
! Washington. Mrs. LOgan's plan is to
organize the Vomen into State, con-
! presslonaI, district and local leagues,
these leagues 10 cooperate with her IN
raising the money to aid IN this great
enterprise. Women students will be
admitted to all the privileges of the
UniverI;y on equal terms with men.
A BOILING tea-kettle does its best to
whistle ike a steam engine.