Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-01-25
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Fielding, the novelist, married hi.
maid servant and was miserable.
-Swelen has larger area of wood
land than any other country in Europe.
/ Electric omnibuses are to be iDrto.
juced on Liverpool street, in London.
ThackerTy and Di, kens were unhappy.
The CITY of New York cares roI
| $1,000 lunstics at cost OF S625 900 9
| year.
Millions of butterflies are eaten
every year by the Australian abort
gines.
Several Thousands of hair pins, IL
many S yles, have been recovered from
Pompeii.
The weight required to crush a
square inch of brick varies from 1900 te
4500 pounds.
AT the beginning OF the Eighteenth
Century all European armies had pom.
| toon trains.
-Leouard Getchell, OF Winslow,
Mains, owns a wallet which he claims
Is ITO years old.
-Roebling's railway bridge at Mag
ara has a span of s31 feet, with afty.
nine feet detection.
Many Canadian papers are now
boldly advocating political unioP
With the United States.
1t is said that more murders occuI
in Paris in six months than in London
Serlin and Vienna in year.
-Le Petit Journal of Paris has q
sale of nearly 1,250,0O0 copies daily
Who would not like to own it2
AT the present moment the police
systeD, in all its branches, costs Eng.
land close upon $50 900, 900 year.
The electric car is literally astonish.
ing the natives of Singapore, India
They call it the wind carriage.
The people in certain parts Of Ger
many say that the devil invented
brandy, citing legend 10 prove it.
"A fve-cen postage stamp issued In
Alabama during the Confederacy was
sold IN New York City recently foJ
$3.50.
The tallest man In the e.. A. r. is
William p. Royne, Of Green County,
Pennsylvania. His height is sever
feet.
--Tiburzi, an urcaptured italian
bandit, who died OF old sge recently, Is
said to have been sentenced TO death 81
times.
The rice crop in the South this
Iear is reported to be exceptionally
laTg>. 1t is estimated at $4,000, 600
pounds.
Greek dandies, like Alcibiades, al
lowed their hair to fall on their shOul-
ders and at night rolled The curls round
stick.
-rEe United States imported over
81, OOO, 900 worth of peas and beans In
1891, and nearly S3,OO0,0O0 worth o.
potatoes.
"A fruit grower, of Windsor, Conn,
las barrel Cf Russet apples of the
crop of 1891, which have been kept In
cold storage.
On Phil9 delphia's police force is a
man worth StJO, 0O0, whose income is
about $4,000 yearly, outside OF his $50
week salary.
Monaco, with It's territory OF eight
square miles and its standing army of
126 men, proposes to have a universal
exp sltiOn IN 1898.
-Nalentia, the Spanish theologian,
died of gIief because he was accused
by the Pope of having fa,s. fed q pas.
age in ST. Augustine.
I'm the House of Representatives
the man with the largest name is
Archibald Henderson Arlington VIII
liams, of North Carolina.
The fleece of ten goats and the
work of several men for half year are
required to make genuine Cashemers
shawl yard and half wide.
1t is expected that 10000 carloads
Of exhibits will be received at the
ground of the Worlds Fair between
now and the FIRST of May.
The post-office and telegraph Office
at Lexington, Miss, are in charge of a
woman. The chief express agent and
her two assistants are also women.
A Kansas farmer who had had
much trouble in shipping Eggs at last
succeeded in getting a consignment de-
liverd in good order by marking The boz
Dynamite
The English Court Of Queens
Bench has decided that grocers may
weigh paper with tea, Coffee sugar,
aud such commodities without being
guilty of fraud upon the purchasers.
An advertisement for school
teacher in an Indiana paper reads as
follows: ''He must be man sound in
body and inte lect, not afraid to use the
rod. Wages $40 per month and toard
around"
1t has only been eighty-one yean
since the first tomatoes were introduced
In America. The original plant was
cultivated as a vegetable curiosity at
Salem, Mass.
--Of Rsop, the "fsbulist," 1t is writ
ten that he was person OF extremely
luxurious tastes, and that he orcs had
served at a banquet a dish Of singing
birds at an expense Of $4,000.
a strong decoction OF chestnut
leaves used as wash for parts which
have become in6ame1 by contact with
ivy-rhus poisoning-is likely to relieve
all distressing symptoms within twenty
four hours.
What tale satisfies might unfold
In New York last year one thous md
four hundred men secured divorces
from their wives on account Of drunk
enness. and during the same year over
twelve thonsan wives secured divorces
FOR the same cause.
Tn rarest feeling that ever lights a
human face is the contentmen: OF
loving soul.
Our Summer is a few days longer
than the astronomical Winter, which
arises from two causes. First, the
earth during the Winter Is travelling
over the smaller half of its orbit; and
second, its motion in that period of iu
orbit is more rapid.
Historically it has been an almost
universal practice since the lime of the
Dutch to extend East River to Throg's
Neck, and this practice has been uni
fornf, followed nv tho Toast Gnryav