Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-12-13
NO.52
NEWS IN BRIEF.

ed at 4Os, 100000.
The leaf of the pineapple plant cap
be wrought into serviceable cloth.
The greatest naval action in Greek
history was that at Salamis, B. @. 4SO.
In India there is about one Protes-
iant missionary to every 100000 peo-
pie.
Geography, rs a science, was intro
iuced into Europe by the Moors about
1910.
The city of Benares, on the Ganges,
is to the Hindoos the holiest place or
earth.
There are in England, according to
Lodge, only seven peers of the blood
royal.
About ., ,SSS, ,OO0, OOO pounds of wool
are produced every year in the United
States.
Schools of commerce business col
leges have existed in Europe for over
lOO years.
| The Israelites learned surveying
from the Egyptians who had practiced
t fsr ages.
Roman school boys used wax tab
let and pointed stylus instead of slate
md pencil.
The most numerous body of relIg-
ionists is that devoted to Buddhism
400, 100000
! The shortest names mentioned in
the Bible are Al, Ar, Ed, Og, On, So.
Ur, and Uz.
The first medical school in the
United States was founded in Philadel.
phia in 1854
Diamonds to the amount Of Is, OOU-
BOO carats have been found in the
mines of Brazil.
A farmer at Mason, Mich, has a
dwarf pear tree that put out two sets o
leaves this season.
The first, sea fight mentioned in
history was between the Corinthian'
and COrcyreans, BIC. 664.
Vermont was the first state to ISSUE
a coinage on its own authority. Cop
per coins were issued in 178j.
Tho first woman's face represented
on coin was that of Pu'cheria, thu
Empress OF the Eastern Empire.
There were no italics used in the
biblical translations until the time o
the King James version, 1911.
-Camphor is cultivated ut Hioga,
Japan. About one-fourth of the pro
duct comes to the United States.
The wild strawberry is found ovel
almost all the Northern HemispzSrf
above the thirty eight parallel of Iati
tude.
"A Maine man used the profits of
his pumpkin field 10 pay the expenses o.
himself and his wife to the Worlds
Fair.
Some insurance companies will al
low the use of none but the old-fashion
ed sulphur matches in the houses they
insure.
bicycles for military couriers and
dig dogs for sentries and ambulance
service are curious features of the tent.
ed field.
Velvet is rarely used nowadays foI
binding books, but it was favorite ma
terial for that purpose in the early day
of printing.
Queen Victoria's household con
tains titled and salaried officials, from
the Lord Steward down. to the mum
Der of nearly LOCO
An apple tree, which is claimed t.
have borne fruit for the last century
and quarter, is still in bearing in AZ
orchard near Lenoir, \ G.
T The Navajo Indians are great shep
e herds, unlike most redmen, and are
q said to have herds of a million sheey
| EIooStaT
' The family with the longest known
n pedigree is that of ConfucIus, which
0 forms the aristocracy of China, Con
i fucius lived $50 years B. G.
e A pumpkin eight feet in circumfer
a ence and four feet in height is an i'm
i pressive object in the field in which j
|. grew in Saline County, Missouri.
BY the force of wave at Bishop''
n Rock lighthouse, the bell was tori
0 from its fastenings, although situate'
100 feet above high water mark.
: In the fifteenth century the bishopr
and monasteries of France, England
a and Germany did an extensive busines.
q N coming money under royal sanction
The superiority of the soldiers o
, the French Revolution was partly due
J to the introduction of a lighter muske
i with stock shaped like that now il
i use.
K The Grass Valley CCal,) Telegraph
, says: ga mining location notice WA
recently recorded which reads: 81
= hereby claim 1870 feet of this ground
up big Squaw Ravine in a wobbly dj
= -ection."
q The ianitor of the Presbyterian
. Church at New Richmond, Ohio, il
= Thomas Perry, seventy-six years old
: He Is a descendant on his mother,
side of Joseph Brandt, the famous Iro
guois chief.
An interesting find is library o.
500 volumes, including seventy manu-
scripts of the tenth and eleventh, and
some with wonderful miniatures of the
fourteenth centuries, which were recent
ly discovered in Franciscan cloiste
uear Rieti, Italy.
/ No kissing ever occurs IN Japan e1
e cept between husband and wife, no
: even between a mother and child, NJ
g shaking of hands in salutation. If on,
e we're to offer a kiss to a Japanese mar
b den she would probably think she was
Il going to be bitten.
:. The young dandies of the Latir
& Quarter of Paris wear tall stovepip,
{ hats whose brims have an exaggerated
!. downward droop, and whose higl
II crown has what an artist would call a.
4 s'entasis," or decided convex curve.
: "A coon. with leather strap around
: its neck, which was lost by a younl
:; woman at Chester, W. Va, about fiji
II teen years ago, was found the other da.
" by a hunter in the woods near Chester
e The animdl still had the leather cola
\. Tound its neck.
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n Quarantine.