Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-02-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Who 'esale.
England has thirty cooperative
dairies.
| Every town in Mexico has pabiic
! bath house.
-Thev refoot stockings in England
at d smI all expense.
"A borsely will live for hours after
It's head has beer pulled off.
"A man In Los GIlos, Cal, for teD
years his not taste cooked food.
The man WHO borrows trouble
always has to pay big interest.
-WIle is frequently used instead OF
water In Spain in mixing shoe black
ing.
( baking bread, cakes and pies be,
came profession in Greece, B. c.
1913.
1t is estimated that no fewer than
10000, 900 Europeans wear wooden
shoes
More mushrooms are raised in the
vicinity OF Paris than in any other place
IN tue orl1.
/ An Alaska Indian declares that
| within year he has seen live mastod-
on running will.
Brussels, Belgium, boasts of q
clock which is never wound by human
hands. Wind power does 1t.
In Sweden and in Denmark the
Pdrlisments have voted that the office
of stenographer shall be filed by vo.
men.
-Thorghatten, the famous Norweg.
ian mountain, has a hole extending
entirely through 1t from one side to the
other.
Many of the most appetizfng soups
that delight the palate of man are SAID
to have been Invented in the middle
ages.
AT recent marriage in England
the bridegroom was SIX feet two inches
in height and the bride only three feet
two aud a half inches.
"A farmer at Millersburg, Tnd,, was
OoIiDg for water and struck four-foNt
vein or good coal at a depth of only
seyenty-fiye feet.
Golden shoes are worn by a Shet-
land pony belonging to the Shah of
Persia. This extensively shod animal
Is Cnly twelve and half inches high.
The Duchess of Portland is the only
woman VINO ever had a dress made and
sewed on her person while she stood uP
right
Miss Corale Quay, daughter of the
PENNSYLVANIA Senator, is one of the
bright young women of Washington
society.
Miss Parker, of New Mexico, runs
telegraph office, two express cOmpan-
les, railroad Office, ranch, and keeps
her hair combed neatly.
r i've of Vassar's alumne re taking
postgraduate courses At Yale, two at
the University of Chicago, one at Ann
Arbor aud one at Leipsic.
Mrs, Tel Sono. the Japaness re-
70 mtr, who is now lecturing in this
colntIy, had the honor of being the
frjt woman lawyer IN Japan.
Reduced to currency. the postage
of Mrs. Clever and's N orning mail wou
amply pay for her gloves, shoes and
slippers for year at least.
Mrs Abby Hutchinson, who set to
music kind Words Can Never Die"
and "Ring Out, Wild Bells" has just
Gied in New ork City.
Mrs. Oracle King, President of the
Colonial Dimes Club, has some plate
which figured at the stateliest banquets
of the days of Washington.
According to a late census $50
white men have alre ady settled down
to live in the Congo region of Africa.
Tourists IN Japan find the native
guides as svaricIous rs they are IN the
more Travelled parts of Europe
Cardinal RicheIIeu hated children
and loved cats. When he died his
favorite Angors pet refused to eat and
soon persisted.
There are more than so, 900 persons
IN Paris who earn living by picking
up and making use of what other peO-
pie throw away-rags, bones, metal
and such refuse.
-Jnly 1869 ses-otter skins wers
imported to England by the ALASKA
Commercial Company and other traders
in 1891. They were sold at an average
nrlce of S2s5 apiece.
I Whenever Whittier had an inspira-
tion he would go to corner of his
room and kneel down while he reduced
his thoughts to words.
: Mrs. Whitelaw Reid will soon be
the possessor of one Of the largest dla-
monds in the world. 1t is now being
cut for her by famous Dutch lap.d-
ary.
Miss Sadie Boyd, of Cheyenne,
| Wyoming, aud a student at the Denver
(Col) University, Travelled ITO miles at
the recent election TO cast her first bal
lot.
( Mrs. Cleveland has q won lerfnl old
! Puritan rag carpet of white and blue,
which is over 100 years old. She
always has it with her; It is used in her
Ooudoir.
1t has been discovered that man.
ufactory of ''relics" has been Ia opera
ton In Edinburgh, Scotland, for some
time. Relics of Burns were the staple
: products.
A new marine light which viii soon
be in place near Havre will be the most
! powerful In the world. 1t VIII be Wis
ible at sea distance Of from twenty
two to ffty-two miles, according TO the
I condition OF the weather.
Great Britain, with $1,000, 900
people spends az much for intoxicating
beverages "a the UDited States, with
q $4,000, coo. But her bequests for Te'ig-
| ious. educational and charitable pur-
poses, exclusive OF Baron Hirsch's
benefactions, reached SIS, COO, 600, az
aga.nst 81. 1000, 00O in the the United
States.
FRu NANCY ANpREsEN, of Stockholm,
the first lady teacher in swimming in
Sweden, who many years ago instructed
the daughters of Queen Victoria in
swimming, died the other day at the
age of go.
Mrs. HARRIET Prescott SPoFFoRD,
who stands easily in the front rank of
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