Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-02-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

ST. Louis exports quail to London.
There are 500 shades of false
teeth.
A Laplandor can skate $50 miles in q
fay.
Over go varieties of cotton are
said to exist.
Mauna Loa, Hawaii's great volcano,
is again active.
The Assvrians had seventy-two
different kinds of wine.
Baltimore has an insurance com
pany which insures against theft.
"A stolen wad of $1,000 was lately
found hidden in roll OF butter ID
Minnesota.
Ancient battering rams wer.
manned 10y 100 to $50 men, generally
captives.
The naval vessels now being con.
s'Iucted by our Government will cost
s53 100000.
-Garum, the Roman sauce, wa.
made of the intestines, gills and blood
OF fish, left to purify.
In olden Tires deformed peopl.
we're frequently thrown into prison te
be kept out of sight.
The steel pen IS unknown in the
British Patent Office where the old
time quill pen is still made use of.
In year the food eaten by horse
Is nine times his weight; that of cow
nine times; that of an OK SIX times.
In hot climates Roman soldier
wore sandals; In cold regions they were
provided with excellent leather shoes.
ALI the gold in the world, 1t is $ lid,
could be stored In room twenty-fOuI
feet square and twenty-four feet deep.
"A wedding notice in Maine pa
pers recently ended with the words
"No cards, no cakes, nObody's bust
ness"
I'm sorting over the letters from
various parts of the world, 1877 fer
ent way of spelling Chicago have been
found
In Mexico a street car can be hir
ed for personal use for 50 80 per day,
with right to stop at one place fol
two hours.
1t is estimated that last year Ari-
Z ma produced $4,000, 600 in geld 81
2r0, 900 in silver and 81, 800, 900 IN
copper.
A famous Roman gIuttOn alwayA
wore gloves at a feast so he could
handle the hot meat sooner than the
other guests.
Dearborn Fox, of WOlfeborOugh,
n. H., harvested squash last season
that measured ninety-two inches In
| circumference
-Six Presidents have died in July
| Jefferson, Monroe, Taylor, Van Buren,,
| Johnson and Grant-and President
Garfield was shot in july
NJ. Bernoff, a Russian. has JUS,
completed pedestrian journey from
st. Petersburg, to Paris taking eleven
months for the journey.
james McVeigh, of Wascross, Ga
IS eight, seven years old, has twenty
three children living and has never
been sick day in his life.
"A red lr tree in ChehaIis County,
Washington, is 400 feet high, and
nea ly fifty-four feet in circumference
| Ola IccI luc SlOuuu.
"A piece of sycamore limb abou
eight inches squere and completely
petriled was recently found near Los
Alamos, Cal, by Samuel Shrine.
Colonel Reelland, OF Mexico, re,
Gently married Miss BOSNIAN, OF
Minnesota. The groom is seven feet
two inches in height and the bride six
feet eleven.
Charlotte, n. c., boasts of a double
faced patato. One side is claimed tC
be perfect representation of a besl
and the other, 1t is said, Is fair mold
of calf.
"A deaf and dumb book ranvasse.
,cld seventy-six books within foul
days recently in three small New
Hampshire towns, with commission
amounting to $3.50.
"A Moslem PENN farmer grew, I
is said, an Irish potato, the stalk OF
which was five feet seven inches IL
height, and bore at Its roots bushel o
potatoes.
The hsirspring is a strip of tn
dnest steel about 81 inches long, lilo
of an inch wide and 27 10,0p0 Of al
inch thick. 1t IS coiled up in splra
form and finely tempered,
"A Maryland woman entertained
three guests some time ago, naneC
Mrs. Sprinkle, Mrs. Shower and Mrs
Storm. 1t should have been quar-
tette aud balanced by Mrs. Sunshine.
Mount Ararat, the resting place O
che Scriptural ark, Is, in reality, tw,
mountains separated ny a valley. TIL
higher peak is 1920 feet, and til
lesser IL, 600 feet above sea level.
the German Socialists report tha
tbey control seventy newspaper or
Gans, of which twenty-five are pOlitica
dailies. The subsidies granted TO som
OF the m amount t. SIC. 00) year.
The annual report of the Societ
for the Protection of Birds Of Grea
Britain stats that the English gold
finch IS threatened with extinctio
because OF the present demand for II
feathers for ''murderous millinery
The Iagman's prolonged and some
what dolefuI cry, which used 10 b
heard more frequently than at preseI
in our streets, had its prototype
, Genoa. from which 1t came directly
3 this country.
E The coyotes in Cook County
D Oregon, are becoming tCo higb-tone
TO live exclusively on mu tor, aud ar
cultivating an alarming taste for yea
and consequently calves are disappea;
ing in laIge numbers.
katherine +. Conway, recently al
e pointed one of The Prison Commission
D ers of Massachusetts,, IL one of til
: editors of the Boston Pilot. She is
small W. man with dark complexion
eyes and hair, and is very animated
conversation.
| 1t frequently happens that ma \ A