Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-10-25
NO. 40.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


great n lurance.
Photography on marble has been
accomplished by London artist.
Among the curious animals in Siam
are tailless cats with purple eyes.
-Neb-aska has not quite two persons
o each COW. Spain has twenty-five.
In 1927 the New York price OF a
,Ow was $3.50; of a yoke OF oxen 500.
In 173O whole provinces of china
we're given up to the cultivation of the
ooppy.
The wool clip of SAINT Clair county,
Michigan, will amount to 40o, 0O0
oounds.
-Hailstorms very rarely occur in
)f timber.
Canada supplies nearly all the plum.
Jago used by American manufacturers
If lead pencils.
An attempt is made every three
minutes on an average by some one to
axe his own life.
The excavation at He'll Gate, New
York, was attended by 21,000 sound
ngs and 5000 borings.
1t is estimated that the government
lost last year by fraudulent importa-
ions of Havana tobacco over 81, OOO,-
100.
Over twenty-six per cent of the
'eading men in every country are
hort sighted or otherwise of detective
5ision.
Scientists say that horses will eat
Eighty varieties of plants, COWS fifty
Iix and sheep 500 out of 600 pants in
ihe test.
-PantaIoons were originally long
stockings worn in Italy as sort If
religious habit of the devotees of st.
Pantaleone.
Caesar did not say "Et tn, Brute
Eye witnesses to the assassination de-
posed that he died fighting, but silent,
ike wolf"
The first building erected in the
United States for the Federal govern
ment was the United States mint in
Philadelphia.
While a baby was being photo.
yraphed in Leominster, Mass. seven
minutes after birth, it spoiled the pic
nre by sneezing.
In boring the Mount Gents st.
! Iothard tunnels ordinary mes were
irst used, then steam power and Ii
| aally compressed air.
Large, long pearly teeth belong to
'ertlmental, imaginative people small,
short yellow teeth to those of an un-
poetical turn of mind.
The circumference of Jupiter at the
equator is about 275, 600 miles, which
would make his volume about !, ,234
lines that of our earth.
The prediction is made that within
ten years artificial ice will be in such
general use that people will not care
% buy the natural product.
French prison diet consists of five
ounces of bread and thirteen ounces
)f vegetables daily, with.a meat ration
If four ounces twice week.
William Gardenio was the first per
son entitled doctor of medicine: he re-
,eived the degree from the college of
Asti In the Fourteenth Century.
"A new decree OF the Russian Minis
Ter of Justice ordai,s that in future
| duellist who kills his antagonist is
liable to six years imprisonment.
The work performed by the human
heart each twenty-four hours is equal
% the lifting of l29 tons to a height
If one foot in the same length OF
lime.
The smallest crack, rent, or fissure
n mass of metal. such as a bell or a
locomotive axle, can be detected by n
little instrument called "schis-
phone"
In one of the Mexican provinces Il
sprightly o,d man of ninety-nine wears
recently married n girl of sixteen.
5ingularly enough, the bride was an
leiress.
A young woman of DriftOn, Penn,
cot only mends her own shoes, but also
hose of her own family, 1t Is SAID that
she is proud of her ability as shoe
maker.
The fea's manner of breathing is
still. an enigma to the entomologists
but 1t is believed to perform that all.
important function through two min
nte holes in the palpi.
Window glass was first used in mo-
1ern times in 1867. Now the consum
lion of plate glass alone exceeds OOO,-
O00, square feet in England and 9, OOO.-
300 in the United States.
Miss Lorene Allen Is deputy in the
office of the North Dakota Insurance
Commissioner. She as held a re.
sponsible place in the State Insur nee
Department for several years.
The first gymnasium for girls in
dermany will be opened this autumn
at Carlsruhe. 1t has been founded by
The 'Women's Instruction Reform So
eiety," formed in the year 1888.