Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-07-27
NO. 80
NEWS IN BRIEF.

SILK worms are sold by the pound
In China.
The Australian dog and the Egy2-
! tian shepherd dog never bark.
Zimmerman, the American bicyc-
list, has made quarter of a mile in
thirty seconds.
The University of Ferrara, in Italy,
I recently celebrated the 500th anniyeT-
sary of its founding
Green vegetables will retain their
color, it Is said, If cooked in an uncov-
cred vessel.
"A curious Industry in Paris is that
of selling toads to gardeners, to be used
as insect destroyers.
: -Paupers who die In Berlin while
being taken care of at public expense
are hereafter to be cremated.
| Forks we're not introduced into
| England until the reign OF James l., In
the Seventeenth Century.
Audiences in Russian theatres are
forbidden by law to manifest their dis
pleasuse at actors by kissing.
The most beautifully lighted street
in Paris, ana probably in the world, is
the Rue de la Paix. 1t is lighted With
gas.
The Pennsylvania Railroad fol
nineteen miles west of Philadelphia is
now almost entirely free from grade
crossings.
Edward Mcdonald, of Allentown.
! Penn, OWLS or did own a dog which
weighed but four ounces when 1t was
/ five months old.
"A man who enlists in the United
States army now may wear cravat If
he chooses; a privilege which has been
denied Lin heretofore.
-Lpcusts are used as food by the
natives of South Africa, being prepared
I by pounding them into fine meal and
then cooking.
The Spaniards found mirrors O.
polished black stone. both convex and
concave, among the natives of South
America.
Ducks fly at an average rate of
ninety miles per hour. With a fair
wind it is believed that they can make
$50 miles in the same time.
The wild potato vine sometimes
mas root that attains the size and
occasionally the form of boys boly,
and weighs thirty-iive pounds.
ALI the chickens In the western
part of French Guinea are perfectly
! white. 1t is impossible to find one
with colored feather.
In olden times, when every part Of
the body had its price, the beard was
valued at S5-a large sum for the time
while the loss of leg was only esti~
mated at SO.
The Massachusetts State Board OF
Health has found that OF 101S samples
of wall paper collected in twenty cities
and towns, 3S9 contained arsenic in ap-
preciable quantities.
The house Of Jacques Flandreau,
built in New Rochelle, N. Y, in the
! year 100, is standing and is supposed
! TO be one of the Oldest Huguenot houses
= in this country.
Within few years past over 1OO,-
4 OOO, COO of those little wire corkscrews,
! used in ink and medicine bottles, have
been sold. Machines turn them out at
WIG ldtS VI OO,UOO per uaJ.
Mark Remission, of Phillips, Me,
had the smallest bear probably ever seen
by man, and he has been mounted art
! isucally. 1t Is six inches from tip TO
/ tip and is three inches in height.
"A citizen of Newcastle, Penn,
has six trained toads. The reptiles
have been taught to march or hop In
/ do 70 f,h l..
trained to climb ladder while another
turns the crank of a small churn.
| The cornerstone of the White
House in Washington, d. c., was laid
in 1892. The building was first occu-
pied by President Adams in 1909. The
White House was burned by the British
in 1914, and its restora ion was COM
pleted in 1918.
/ The famous Orloff diamond OF
Russia was once the right eye of the
great idol Serringham in the Temple of
Brahma. This precious gem was stolen
somewhere about the beginning of the
Eighteenth Century by a French sci
der.
The streets of London are cleaned
between eight in the evening and nine
in the morning. Many of the carriage
ways are washed daily by means of a
hose aud the courts and alleys inhabited
by the poorer classes are cleaLel once q
day.
The Chinese make what is called
"chi-wa-hi,' or grass cloth, from the
fiber of the common nettle. 1t Is said
to make splendid cloth for tents, avn
ings, etc. When made into betting for
machinery 1t is said to lave twice the
strength of leather.
Blind Ten, the musician, has
sister who loses self-cOntrol when she
hears music. 1t is said that she has
tried TO ruin several pianos, and that
she smashes every violin and flute that
she can lay hands on.
Tho Guadaloupe, West Indies, bees
lay their honey In bladders of wax
about as large as a pigeons egg, and
not in combs. The bees have no stIngs,
are small and of a black color. The
honey is of the oily consistency, and
never hardens.
1t is related that a gentleman In
Ireland recently, on cutting open po-
tato at dinner, found in the center a
haf sovereign, around which the vege-
table had grown. Though discolOred,
it was in good state of preservation,
and is now pretty ornament to .
watch chain.
A Belgian paper declares that the
Government of the Congo Free State,
Africa, in violation of the Anti-Slavery
Conference decision. has ordered 20 0C0
repeating rifles which will be bartered
with the natives for ivory.
THE Harvard "Annex" for the ac-
commodation of women students now
has 241 nam es on its books. Thirteen