Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-09
NO. 81,
NEWS IN BRIEF.
has over 1900 obelisk..

"A whale develops 145 horse powst
! when it fl)ps its tail.
The Jamaica obeah practice Is iden-
icai with the southern voo1oc.
-Vandyke b. ought polrtralture to
;he highest degree Cf perfection.
Sixty per cent. of the earthquakes
)ccur during the winter months.
The first railroad, three miles long,
@as opened in 1926 at Quincy, Mass.
Nj xico took over 6,OOO, 600 bushels
| ot corn from this country last year.
There ar two ways of telling goose;
oy It's gabble and It's walk.
In Kan sas City. Mo-, persons who
.ril to vote at an election are fined 81. 80
The best specimens of alabaster
.arvings have been exhumei at Nine
Veh.
Intense melancholy amounting to
mania is sometimes caused by intense
leat.
The bones or tombs of over 200
giants have been found ia various parts
Of Europe.
The average strength of horse is
| ieVeG and a half times greater than
hat of a man.
The number of rods in the retIua,
imposed TO be the ultimate of light, il
estimated at B, ,OOO,OO
The note OF highest value issued by
;he Bank of England in the ordinary
course Of business is for S25. OOJ
The condor, when rising from the
.arth, always describes circles in the
Ut and can rise in no other way.
More than 4Ol,O 900 tons of mess
poultry and general provi ions are eaten
! by the people OF London every year.
There is an average of l3I
suicides year among every hundred
.housand men in the Austrian army.
Some of the ComstOck mines are SO
ieep that 10 means have as Yet been
leylsed to overcome the excessive heat.
"A special commission has been or
iered by the French Parliament, TO
study ways and means for improving
;he breeds of sheep.
"A copy of the first dictionary, mae
| oy Chine Sc scholars in the year 1lO9
q. c. is still preserved among the ar
;hives of tie Celastials.
The very first pages of human his
.ory, the alnal of the Egyptians, record
ihat the progenitOrs of our race were
TorshlperS of the dog.
Mrs Margaret Sullivan, of the Chi
,ago Herald, who Is conceded to be the
iblest woman journalist In the country,
commands salary of $lU0 per week.
In the human body there is said
10 be- more than 1900, 900 peIspiration
glands, communicating with the sur
ace 10y ducts, having a total length of
some ten miles.
Electricity operates all the usual
mac 1inery on the farm of a Scotch lady
IN Wlg:onshlre, and lights the house
IS well. The current is generated by
water power.
England reports a ten ton cutter
about to be built of the new metal
The theory is that aluminium hull,
with the usual lead keel, ought to be
light and stable.
-Comfort for the fat and the lean
can be derived from soma recent medi-
al statistics which show that at the age
| Of thirty-six lean men become fatter
and fat men leaner.
i he Minister of Public instruction
in France has decided to establish 1000
more experiment fields In addition to
| ghe eco that now exist in connection
with the primary schools.
Alameda. Cal, has horseback rid
| ing club composed of forty women,
four of whom have discarded the old
fashioned riding habit and wear divided
! skirts.
The new central station for electric
| lighting will be opened IN Japan this
summer. The power in each case will
: Oe furnished by PeitOn water wheels.
All the equipment Will be constructed
! IN JaTsn.
Miss Charlotte NJ. Young is now
! three score and ten, and has written far
more than the same number of books.
She began novel writing when she was
twenty.
-Philllppa Fawcett, who won such
great distinction as sepiOr wrangler at
| oxford, England, has made her appea-
rance on the platform. She spoke at
Cambridge recently on"IIome Rule"
"A large piece of crystall'zed soda,
weighing 2,S4O pounds, from the soda
! AXE near Laramie, Neb, is on exh!bi-
lion at the Worlds Fair.
George Haywood has just been
elected Town Clerk of Concord Mass,
for the 41st time. For over century
his family has had charge of the town
records.
"A railroad built to run from Hot
! Springs, Tenn; to Lame el, 5. c., dis.
tance of twenty four miles, has gauge
Of only twenty inches, making it the
narrowest gauged road III the world.
In true kleptomania the victim
| 1Oes not always distinguish between
articles of value and those which have
none. Some will pick up chips of wood
,r bits of gravel rather than nothing.