Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-01-18

"A two pound pOmegranate Is an
agricultural curiosity of Starke, Fla.
Artificial grass for the grounds OF
seaside cottages Is one of the industries
at Manchester, Eng.
There is a colored prisoner work.
.ng in the Alabama mines who can
speak in twelve languages.
The population of many South Sea
Islands manufacture their entire suits
from the products of palm leaves.
There are 5000 deaconesses in Ger
many who nurse the sick poor, work in
the public nurseries AM do more OF less
teaching.
"A bird in the London Zoo"
shelldrake, has apparently committed
suicide on account of the death of it
mate.
Bears have been almost extermIn-
ated IN the Australian TyrOl. The
Government pays $3.50 for every one
killed.
"A five minute chat over the teIe.
phone between New York and Chi
cIgo, costs nine dollars-three cents
second.
"A young man in Indiana rescued
q young woman from droS ming and
was rewarded with four quarts of
outternutS.
-Four members of one family IL
New York named Cochran hold posi-
tons as majors in the volunteer militia
Of that State.
Miss ESchard, of Ohio, real estate
agent and landholder, is sad 10 pay the
largest taxes of any woman in the
United States.
The agricultural depression in Eng
land appears TO be admitted on all
hands. The remedies proposed are
more numerous than practicable.
In Sitka, Alaska, when an Indian
wife has lost her husband by death she
goes into mourning by painting the up
uer half of her face deep black.
An English clergyman and his wifi
have just celebrated their iron we'd
ding, 20 years of welded life. The
husband is 81 years old and the wife
90.
Every women wears her watch
pinned fast to her breast, and some of
the new. ones hanging from exquisite
brooches are works of the jewellers
| art.
In the year 1891 there we're %, ,72O
| evictions In New York City, throwing
/ into the street about las, 600 human be-
( ings. Eighty families camped in the
/ streets one week each.
There is a chestnut tree IN Mans
/ field, Conn, whose circumference at
J he roots is fifty-fOur feet and the dia-
meter of the spread of its branches in
one direction is hundred feet. Its
height is eighty feet,
: The largest volcano In the world i
at Mauna Loa in the Sandwich Islands
( The crater IS twenty miles in'diameter,
and the stream of lava flowing from IL
is fifty miles long and in places four
niles wide.
/ OF Esop, the ''fabulist," 1t Il
written that he WAS a person of ex-
tremely luxurious tastes, and that he
once had served at a banquet dish of
singing birds at an expense of $4,000.
"A magnificent specimen of the I'm
periil GanIia is in bloom in the grounds
of August Dreher residence at Santa
: Cruz, Cal. 1t IS fifteen feet high, and
I the foliage and inSarescence are thirty
six feet IN circumference. Hundreds
of pale mauve blossoms hang from its
branches.
In connection with the Egyptian
Nations the gnoStics, as well as some
of the early Christian fathers, speak OF
Christ as the scaraoocus and symbolic
| Him as a man with a beetles head.
The Egyptians always embalmed this
sacred insect.
Mrs. f. B. Grannis, editor of the
New York Church Uuion, is probably
the only woman who has sue :essfully
carried for nearly twenty years the
whole burden, financial and editorial,
Of a large religious journal
Agnes Repplier, whose AddisoniaL
essays in the Atlantic show vIrIlIty of
! thought and style, lives in Philadelphia
She is a quiet and demure little wO-
I man, who talks in the same smooth
aud well-balanced sentences that char
acter.Ze her essays. Her favorite pets
are cats.
A GREEN old age is ali right. 1t IL
the green young age that is danger
1us.
Mrs. Whitney, W fe of the ex-Sec e.
tary Of the Navy, understands to per-
fection the art of making a table look
attractive. She has a great deal of
Sevres and Dresden china, and, of
course, crystal and silver worth a kings
-ansom.
, AT Buchtel College, Ohio, two
women and two men competed on the
law essay, for which two prizes were
offered. The subject was Equitable
Remedies: Their Development and
Place IN Our Jurisprudence" The
women won the prizes
Mss Gertrude l. Barrett, daughter
of Rev. B. f. Barrett, OF Philadelphia,
has been made general manager of the
SwedenboIg Publishing Association
since the decease Of her father, who was
for many wears President of th> essocis-
tion,