Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-02
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Canned rabbit is New Zealand
export.
Germany raises $50, 600 canaries a
wear.
Perfectly white cats, If they have
blue eyes, are nearly all deaf.
The mocking bird hates the color
! red as much as the bull.
There ere 1909 Johnsons In Chicago
and only 1900 Smiths.
-Ceur d'Alene are three French
word, meaning ''heait of an awl."
A company which insures clothing,
fabrics, and furs against moths has
been Organized.
The rifle was invented by Whit
worth in l 90; the repeating rifle by
Sharp. 1S4S.
The leaves OF the life tree, which is
! found only in Jamaica, grow after
they have been severed from the
plant.
Horace wrote the first Of his
"Odes," on which his fame was to rest
through ali time, at the early age Of
| twenty three.
In Germany married men wear
| wedding rings, custCm which many
writers have advocated in other coun-
tries.
In Corfu, sheets of paper pass for
money; one sheet buys one quart Of
rice, or twenty sheets a piece OF hemp
| cloth.
! The largest whale ever captured
was the prize of a New London (Conn.)
wha'er in 1884. 1t yielded les barrels
| Of oil.
Eight Dationalities are said TO be
rep esented IN choir of sixteen little
! girls at st. James's Mission, New Y orS
City.
Neatly worked darns and patches
have been discovered in the cloth used
In swathing some of the Egyptian
mummfes.
Among the Zulus the mother-in-
law cannot face the son-in-lSw, but
must hide, or pretend to do so, when-
: ever she sees him.
The first oil well was discovered in
Wayne County, Kentucky, in 1929,
thirty years before the discovery of oil
n Pennsylvania.
The extreme Western boundary OF
/
is as far west or San Francisco as that
city is west of Bangor.
Charles d. Poung of Denver, Col,
has built a perfect miniature locomo-
tive, which is but five feet long and
Weighs but 235 pounds.
| "A woman in Paris recently commit
ted suicide by applying leeches all
over her body, dying from exhaustion
Of the capillary system.
"A shower OF frogs came from the
clouds during a rain storm in Mexico,
Mo. A farmer says that over 10 900
living frogs fell on his land.
So light is the spiders web that
pound weight of 1t will reach around
the world, and then leave enough to
reach from New York to San Francis
| %.
The weeds on the monitor Monad-
mock, which vessel has been lying for
some time past at the Mare Island
| CCal,) dockyard, were found recent Iy
o be from three to four inches long.
1t was at Freyburg Academy In
Maine, which recently celebrated its
centennial, that Daniel Webster tegan
he study OF law.
An Industrious and economical wo-
| man in AtchisoD, Kan, collects bugs
| from the machinery at the electric light
station and feeds her chickens with
them.
The Indian name Michigan means
'great lake''-the same name that the
latter-day inhabitants apply to those
large inland bodies of water, OF which
Michigan IS one.
The Germans believe in doing
things decently and in order. In the
large cities before they can start for
the scene Of a fire the fremen must
salute their commander.
An alligator at the Crystal Palace,
London, lived IN perfect health upon
nothing for eighteen months. IL
lately took piece of very high mutton
with relish.
Out of 80, 900 guesses on a big cake
of soap on exhibition in Berlin only two
were correct. The cake was soap
makers advertisement, and it weighed
7l22 pounds.
japanese jugglers are deft smokers.
Several of them will SIT before a cur
tain and from the tobacco smoke,
which issues from their mouths, will
form succession Of readable letters.
The natives of Vera Cruz, Mexico,
do large trade in tireflies, which thsy
catch by waving burning coal al the
end Of a stick. The insects hy toward
the light and are captured in nets.
If the dead of London were each
allowed a grave two by SIX feet, with a
very thin wall of earth between, each
year her $4,000 corpses would NIL
a cemetery of about twenty-three
| acres.
| In the Oriental Department OF the
| British Museum, tablet has been de-
ciphered as containing an offer of mar
riage made by Pharoah to a daughter
of the King of Babylon, about 1880 B.
g.
-Tornadoes originate in the tropics,
and are chiefly found in five localities
the West Indies, Bengal Bay and the
| Chinese coast, north Of the equator, and
in the South Iudian Ocean, off NADIA
gascar, and, in the South Pacific, near
Samoa.
When Jumbo, the mammoth ele-
phant, was dissected, pint and half
of gold, silver, copper and bronze coirs
were found in his stomach. In the lot
there was coins of three kingdoms,
two republics, five dukedoms, two
principalities and one dependency.
1t is calculated that 1000 thrifty
coffee trees will yield fair average of
2200 pounds of coffee per annum.
THE example set by the very pro
gressive japanese government might
well be copied by many of the effete
! monarchies of the old world. Two
thousand japanese subjects, selected
| from the niddle class are To he sent