Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-29
NO. 10
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The price of parrots in South Am
erica is only ten centS.
The valuation of the state of Maine
Is placed at S265, 000,000,
President Diaz nf Mexico Is reputed
to be worth $500 900.
The statistics of electric railways
are expanding at a great rate.
Paper was made from rags as early
as the FourteentN Century.
The cost of the Capitol at Wash.
ington has excee ed $50, ,0O0, 600.
Three of The first four presidents OF
the United States married widows
The turtle lives for nearly ceh-
tury, and the pike for about US years.
1T Is said that pigeons have been
used as mail carriers for about zoe
years.
-Turned-in toes are often found
with preoccupied, absent-minded per-
sons.
! An Indian girl student at Haskell,
Kan. Institute Is named Jenny One
Feather.
-One-fonrth OF the land surface of
the globe is occupied by Engllsh-speak-
ing people.
One OF the comm onest salutatIons
In Hawaii is "Alo ha," which means
4 love you"
The wide skirt, under the nsms OF
fardingale. first appeared IN 1890 at the
court of Francis l.
Over 600 varieties of cotton are
said to exist 0 In Asia and Africa
aud 200 in America
! -Ruskin has the finest collection of
Illuminated miss Is in thu world, num-
bering about l 300.
, The youngest amateur editor Is
Miss Ethel Stout Of the Florida Mid
get. She is 10 years old.
Men attending the pans in salt
works are never known to have cholera,
smallpox, scarlet fever or influenza.
The Prussian Cabinet has uuanI-
mously approved bill to reform the
present system of voting N PruSsa
/ Governor Cleaves of Maine selected
thr, of the handso nest msn in his
own town to be members of his staff.
"A recent estimate places the
amount of standing timber in the STATE
CT Washington at 300, ,0O0, 100000 feet.
I -One Of the stones in Mrs. Haggin's
casket is the most valuable ruby in the
world. 1t formerly belonged to Lola
Montez.
MIR. Charles Villiers, father Of the
British house Of Commons, has just
completed hi' goth year, having been
born on Jan. 2, 1892.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is said to have
struck ,00O, 600 notes on piano in
eight hours. The performance was the
result of a challenge.
1t has teen discovered that Smiles,
th female rhinoceros in the Central
Park menagerIe, New York, has two
perfectly developed tongues.
A dog at New Haven, Conn, being
the object of much abuse, committed
suicide recently by jumping out of the
tbird-story window OF factory.
-Hawail's flag bears stripes Of red,
white aud blue-a sort of outward and
visible sign that the little isle has a
kind of ffinity for the great Republic.
Charles Emory Smith, who was
minister to Russia, says the car Is "a
sedate, sensible, sober minded, fearless
man-irm and resOlute In action"
"A deaf and dumb book canvssser
sold seventy-0ix books within four days
recently 10 three small New Hamp-
shire towns, with commissions am
mounting to $3.50.
r.. Henry Taylor who IS said to
have invented baby carriages, was
found by the Waltham (Mass.) police
recently in starving and mentally
unbalanced condition.
The word preface used in the
beginning of books was originally a
word of welcome to a meal, and was
equivalent to much good may 1t do
YOU"
Lady Ingram Watkins has allowei
her South Lincolnshire tenants return
of two-thirds Of their half years rents
in consequence of the agricultural de
preston.
There are 300 depositoTs in the
Boston Five-cent Savings bank with
sums ranging from SIS $4,000 who
haven't been heard from for over
twenty years.
Ethel Mackenzie McKenna, the
,, eldest daughter Cf the late Sir Moreil
Mack enzie, the great medical specialist,
Is clever newspaper woman, well
known as London correspondent.
AT Minorca the fisherman simply
dives TO depth OF 20 feet, with Il
) weight in one hand to CITY him down.
With the other band he picks up as
. many pearl oysters as he can carry and
I brings them up to the boat.
1t Is asserted that the so men v no
work in the Paris sewers are as healthy
rs any other SEQ Partsians, and that
; they are esI ecially free from infectious
diseases.
Irrigation Ia doing wonders In that
broad region which some aliases even
now denominate the Great American
desert. In Douglas county, Colo,
$1,000 fruit trees are irrigated by one
company.
There is reptile common to the
: Sacramento Valley, California, known
! as The bIowsnake. A fullgrOwn blow
snake thinks nothing o. swallowing a
half dozen eggs at time.
There is a carrot In Visalia, Cal. i,
Of the Belgian variety, that measur, 8
eighteen and quarter iuches around
the largest part and twenty-three inch
es in length from the leaves downward.
The late General Robert E. Lees
, daughter, Miss Mary Curtis Lee,
l spends little of her time in Americi
She has twice made the journey around
the world.
With meekness, humility and dill
gence spply yourself TO the duties oil
YOUR condition. They are the seeming
ly little things which make no noise,
that do the business.
knowledge of books in man OF busi.
n 8, is torch in the hands Of one who
u is willing and able to show those who
l. are bewildered tie way which leads tC
q prosperity.
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