Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-09-07
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The largest pyramid in Egypt Is
437 feet high.
Philadelphia is now to have COL
lege of uEdertake-s.
Japanese children are taught 20
write with both hands.
Male and female. teachers In st.
Paul get the same salaries.
"A hospital patient in New York
City slept himself to death.
To find the area OF circle, square
the diameter aud multiply by 0.7S54.
1t is said that envelopes were first
used In France in the time of Louis
XIV.
"A vocabulary of the Eskimo lam
guage has been compiled by NJ. Ry-
berg.
There are 800 mountains in the
United States each exceeding 10000
teet in height.
The llrst railway to Jerusalem win
probably be opened IN the spring of
aext year.
For every dollar spent in England
ON drink only one cent is expended on
education.
"A Philadelphia burglar let a vest
button In the house lie had broken into,
and it led TO his arrest.
The members of the Yale Corpora
hon have voted to wear the academic
hat and gown at Commencement.
-Terrapin frequently fetch 81 apiece
within ten miles of the waters IN which
they are most abundant.
In all EDgland there are only seven
school boards which do not provide for
religious instruction by the teacher.
"A parrot is sail to have lived In
the Geological Gardens, Regent Park,
London, foc % years without drop or
water.
"A violent gesture made by an
Atlantic lawyer, to emphasize aremark
during 81 eech, caused a dislocatIon
Of his arm.
Many persons will not allow the
rocking of an empty chair, because
they say it is the fUrerunner of death
In the family.
1t Is now proposed to rear insects
for ornamental purposes, just as plants
and flowers are accIlmatlZed In hot
houses and gardens,
The heart of the poet Shelley is
preserved in the house of his son, Sir
Percy Shelley, at Boscombe Manor,
BournemOuth, England.
A blind black eel was found in a
pond In Maine recently and sent to the
United States fish commission as a
curiosity,
In California, peach trees are sue
cessfully grated with rose buds, thus
producing groves of red, white and
pink roses.
-BOdIe, Mono county, Cal, is stu
ited at the highest elevation OF any
Town In the United States, being 5000
feet above the sea level.
Rome, In the time of Augustus,
was surrounded by a wall twenty miles
in circumference, pierced by thirty
gates, and hal "a population of 2,00O,-
900.
One of the Ameer's latest acts is to
order that funeral expenses be cut down,
because of a verse of the Koran which
condemns prodigals to the lower
world.
Miss Hannah Fairchild of West
port, Conn, has been a church men,
Der for hfrY-ive years, and has not
missed single service during that
period.
"A bald eagle fixed his talOns i'll
the hair of a little girl in Johnson
County, No., recently, and was trying
10 carry her off when he was frightened
away.
The Presbyterians are about to es
tablish college in salt Lake city, and
have purchased a cite OF one hundred
acres.
The Trinitarian Bible society at its
annual meeting held recently in Lon
don, reported total circulation of
3S2 1862 Bibles, Testaments and por-
ions.
A German paper says that Berlin
has lately been suffering from a plague
Of rats. They come in drOv5s INTO the
several wholesale warehouses of the
city, and were of extraordinary size.
In the United States every 2OOth
man takes collegiate course; in Eng
land, every 590th man; IN Scotland,
every 610th, and in Germany, every
213th.
Thomas Sumter was the last sur
viving general of the American Revo-
luton. He WAS a native of Virginia,
and became one of the ablest partisan
leaders of the South. He represented
South Carolina In both houses of Con-
gress.
"A Marion County, Iowa, physician
IS the owner of remarkable human
monstrOsity, a male child, sixteen IN
ches long, weighing nine AMI one-half
pounCs, its head the perfect counter
part of that of some gigantic ser
pent.
The biggest tree IL Northern YER
mont stands on the main street OF
Derby Line. Its height by careful
| measurement Is l02 feet. Three feet
from the ground its circumference is
exactly 20 feet, while at 8 feet it is Is
feet and 2 inches.
A resident of Plumstead, Penna.,
has turkey hen which is very aquatic
in her habits. She recently hatched
and Is now caring for, fourteen duck
lings. When they take to the water
she wades in after them, and keeps as
! near them as possible
Dolls heads of thin iron are now
sold In the fancy shops 10 London. The
! heads are said to be well cast, and
Z when enameIled ard finished by a
! handsome head of hair, a very good
looking, if rather heavy-headed doll is
the result. Tue bodies are made of kid
as heretofore.
considerable astonishmsnt was re-
Gently excited in zone of Sweden and
Russia, comprising the towns of Stock
holm, L isavtgrod, PInsk, KoynO and
st. Petersburg, by the appearance In
the air and the eventful deposit on the
ground of large clouds of powder OF
peculiar appearance.
Tt Ia NOT ouita true 40 has hppn stat.