Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-06-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A dsh dealer in Bath, Me-, on cut.
ting open a yellow perch found eight
a twenty-penny nails in the stomach.
New Orleans, La, with an ara OF
227 square miles, covers more ground
ihan any other city In the United
States.
Alexander HOckaway, OF Blue R1y
| er Township. and blacksmith by trade,
recently celebrated his l12 h birthday.
-Horticulturists sly that apples
grown in grass ground will keep longer
than the same fruit grown on cultivated
land.
In almcs every school of the Mix
ado's EmpiIe it is the custom one day
In the autumn to take the pupils out
rabbit hunting.
The Oldest woman in Indiana is
Grandma Sears, of Plevna, Ind, She is
los years old, and has smoked her pips
daily for ninety years
The world converses in 5000 known
languages and dialects, and In ad Iition
to these there are some that scholars
have not yet learned and classified
AT the present day sacred pigs roam
inviolate about the Buddhist monas-
teries of Canton and elsewhere ip
! China.
Mrs. Susannah Abbott of Cam
bridge, Mass, has kept a deily jour
nal for half century. She is now "a
years old.
| A French Canadian at Montreal
and his daughter have recovered S125
each against each of three persons for
burning them in effigy.
1t cost over 5000 in legal fees, re-
Gently, in South Carolina, to settle a
claim of s..
"A size In coat is an inch; in un-
derwear the same; in socks, an inch; IN
a collar, half-iDch; in trousers, one
inch; and In hat one-eighth OF an
inch.
Policeman henry Hand, of New
York City, has fallen heir to S75, 900,
but he will complete his twenty years.
term on the force, so that lie may be
entitled to pension 90 5000 year.
One of the largest cameIlia plants
ever known is now growing in nurs -ry
near Birmingham, England. 1t quite
fills large greenhouse. Some 1000 buds
have been trimmed from the tree, and
1t still has 60G0.
, A Stockton (CaI.) well borer recen-
tly found the tooth OF an animal at the
depth of 1l24 feet. It resembles the
tooth of a monkey. Another tooth au-
parently that of herbace0us animal,
was found at depth of 900 feet.
The houses occpuied by threee Con-
necflcut Governors-RichardD ID. Hub
bard, Phineas Lounsbury and Morgan
G Bulkeley- stand in row in one
street ID Hartford.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
has over Is 900 ministers, 1000 local
preachers, 100, 900 official members, and
10000 Sunday-school officers and
teach: rs.
-rhe Chinese have many kinds of
ceremonial dishes and cakes. Thus,
oranges form al Introductory course
at ceremonial dinners, and preserves of
betel nuts are offered to guests at the
new year.
The tomb of Francis Marion on
the Belle Isle plantation near Pinevil e,
). c., Is ruin overgown with shrub
berry. Even the decayiug remains of
the big tree that was blown across the
tomb years ago, smashing as it fell,
still lies there untouched.
I'm both Scotland aud Ireland thI
entrance of a bee into cottage more
particularly If it is a bumble-beel is
looked upon as certain sign of death
of some one then residing there. In
other localities if Lees in swarming
settle upon dead wood it Is regarded as
equaliy ominous.
"A fox-terrier in New York city is
credited with ability to repeat the
words "please." II am glad" 81 am
solry," and "thank you" with suffi-
cient distinction TO be easily under
stood.
The average household lamp burns
! gallon OF oil q week in W nter. A
J kitchen stove of fair size burns a ton
of coal month. If kept burning all the
, time. For crate fire a ton of coal
month should do for two large
fres.
What are described as the finest
; stables In the world are those occupied
, by the magnificent horses of the Baro-
ness Won Zuyllan in Paris, France.
The stables cover three acres Of ground
and are fitted up In style that is little
less than sumptuous.
In 1889 man walking along Gre
| sent Beach, Block Island, discovered the
hip bones of some gigantic species of
, extinct animal. The comb ned weight
of the two bones (generally speaking the
, sacrum is called a single bone), was
nearly 800 pounds.
"A contributor to a New York pa
per says; 81 met hotel chambermaid
the other Gay whose lower teeth were
nearly all missing and from a singular
cause. She had been for great many
years In the habit of holding the pillows
In her teeth while she drew on slips
with both hands and it resulted in the
loosening and gradual loss Of those
! teeth upon which the strain was the
greatest.
The savages of the Amazon region,
of South America, fed Ihe common
green parrot for generations with the
fat of certain fishes, thus causing it to
become beautifully variegated with red
and yellow feathers. In like manner
the natives of the Malay Archipelago
b. a process of feeding changed the
ia kative lory Into the gors king
lory.
The Chinese make what Is called
"Cni-wa-hi," or grass cloth, from the
fibre Of the common nettle. 1t is said
to make splendid cloth for tents, avn
ings, etc. When made into betting for
7 machinery it is said to have twice the
d strength of leather.
Eben Blszo. of Porter, Me-, was ap-
pointed Postmaster of that town by
e President Jackson in 1929, He held
= the off e until Cleveland's adminstra-
tion, and row. at the age of NINETY, he
sits around and watches his son Amos
Q sort mail in the same office.
! The smell and hearing of the fish are
3 acnte. and It can be domesticated so as