Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-09
NO. AZ.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Alaska has yielded s3S, 900, 900 in
seal skins.
There are 1000 "haunted" houses
In London.
Among 200, 900, ,OO1 OF the worlds
population slavery still exists.
dentists use eighteen hundred
pounps of pure gold every year.
-rhreshing machines were invented
by MenZies, ScotchmaD, in 1882
The snare drum was brought
Into Europe by the Saracens, about
7O3.
The Davy safety lamp for miners
was invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
IN 1915.
-Seven-eighths OF the forest growth
Of the State of Washington consists Of
tie Douglass fir.
Idaho is said to be the only State
whose name has never been sstIsfsc-
torily accounted for.
In midsummer the coasts of SpitZ-
bergen are icebOund and practically
inaccessible to vessels.
1t IS reported to have rained alIi-
gators during recent severe rain
storm at OGtuma, Iowa.
The exact physical centre of the
United States is a grayestone In a
cemetery, Fort Riley, Kan.
The color of the sharks egg is
black, of leathery texture, thin, tough
and in from similar to hand barrow.
The linen manufactured yearly In
| England could be wrapped round the
earth seven times.
The street surface roads of New
York City carried 226 $50. 613 passen-
gers during the year 1891, a daily
average of 629, 157.
doos' life extends also to their intellec-
tual state. In grammar, as in faith,
kismet rules supreme.
A ''camel" and "beauty'' ars
Synonymous in Arabic. An Arab
widow generally mourns her husband
/ with a cry of 90, my camel u
The Chinese, japanese, Malays,
| Slamese, New Zealanders and North
American Indians are all but beard
less.
There are only two congregations
of Armenians in this country-oUe at
Worcester, Mass, and the other at
Hoboken, n. J.
Probably the largest artificial stone
in the world forms the basis Of the
BartholdI Statue of Liberty, on Bed
lows Island, New York Harbor.
Six hours day is said to be obliga.
tory upon the German Kaiser'5 children
for study under the direction OF tutors.
Altogether the streets of London
are traversed to-day by something like
! 2300 omnibuses aud 100 tramway
| cars.
"A New Hampshire cure for sore
threat is to wear about the neck
STOCKING, in the toe of which a potato
has been tied.
As result of the widespread use
of macaroni in IIaly, the peasants of
that country consume more -four than
the peasants of any other land.
"A fume rorty-five miles long is to
| be constructed from the beadwsters OF
the San Juan river to Poliasky, a
station on the Mountain Railroad, near
Fresno. Cal.
Brass pins have been IN use fol
nearly eleven hundred years. They
were Srst i'm ported into England by
Catherine Of Aragon, the wife OF
Henry VII.
In one of the Canary Islands there
is tree of the laurel family that rains
down occasionally in the early morn
ing quite copiOus shower Of tears OF
water from its tufted foliage.
The year 1883 is famous in history
for three events of national Importance
The Government was organized under
the Federal Cons tuition, Washington
nas elected President and the order OF
Cincinnati Was founded.
The longest pontoon bridge eve.
built was constructed by Company Z,
Fifteenth New York Volunteers, across
the Chickahominy, when Mcclellan
withdTeH from Harrison Landing.
Even to this day cert lin communi-
ties of Buddhists and Mohamme Ians
pray by The hour before their fsvorite
plant OF flower. In India this species
of worship seems 10 be most prey4-
lent.
Salmon City, Oregon, has curl
osity in the shape of Chinese COWBOY,
who ri rs with the best of them. He
|
by riding bUcking cayuse through the
streets of the town.
The Indian measures dlstsnccs
while Canoeing by "plpes." One piPe
is tie interval between haltings he is al
lowed 10 make Tor smoke.
The bees of Guadeloupe, Vest
Indies, are stingless. and 10 not store
their honey in combs, but In bladders
of wax about the size Of pigeons
egg.
An Indian sold Shoshone, Idaho,
business man some finely po:ishe. buff
falO horns recently, and positively re-
fused TO take silver in payment, de-
handing gold
The Chinese have a kitchen god
which is supposed to go TO The Chinese
heaven at TIE beginning Of each yea T
to report Up1n the private life of the
fam lies under his care
Hannah Dale, known throughout
England as the gin giantess. died
recently at her na I've llace, Now
Cop, near Tunstal in tis Potter
les. She weighed 45l3 poands at
her death. She was eleven years OF
age.
The French ''human ostrich, Cigno
has a new trick. He swa lows watch.
The spectators watch him swallow and
'hsl. lltsen to what they are sure is the
licking OF the time-pi ce IN his iu-
wards.
Woodstown, \. J comes to the front
with report OF a terrible battle De-
tween a pet car and an eight-fcot pine
5 a e, the cat, though half kiIe +,
10 uag'ng to keep the sn Ike 'nga ell
u Til help came. The cat was defend
lug its mistress, little girl.
The "fsts" Of the kings of England
who coull write have been pres .rved. .
The aUtOCraT n Of nearly AL n q EngIfsh