Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-01
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
-Terrapin c5st 500 L dozen.

-Terrapin c5st 500 dozen.
An acre grows 500 mulberry trees,
Nero kicked his wife, Po1en 10
. lea tn.
: -Richarl II. is supposed to have
been stabbed 10 death.
J --Lepe de Vega was twice married
and both times happily.
The imitation amber Is Just A. good
as The real.
-Thiit teen hens in Niles, Mich, laid
1859 eggs In 1891
/ Philadelphia has I3O, G94 pupils in
her public schools.
In battl. only one ball out Cf
eightyfve t tkes eTecr.
/ The En roror OF China orders 2OC0
Tsirs of b % S at time.
! The British Museum contains the
frs; envelope ever made.
New York City, has fewer alleys
than any other city iu the world.
I The Egyptians kneaded their bread
in wooden bowl with Their feet.
-BaDanas are gradually becoming a
popular fruit In England.
-Tbe great aqueduct which supplied
Carthage with water was seventy
miles long.
-Gunters chain used IN measuring
land. was invented by Edmund GuL-
ter in 1906.
The MInot Ledge Ii shthouse is OF
granite, height 80 feet, the lower 40
being solid.
/ There was a mediaeval association
of eng gineers called the "Brethreu OF
the Bridge"
led roots is growing near Atchson
Kan,
Tame sheep we're brought to His
PAMELA by Columbus on his second
voyage, in 1872.
Finland has Just been celebrating
the 25Oth anniversary of the establish
meut OF printing in that country.
The Bombay Sorosis of Bombay,
India, belongs to the Feder alton OF
Womens' Clubs.
A Paris sculptor says that the day
will come when women will be
ashamed of too small hands.
Queen Elizabeth is said to have
had 3rO4 dresses III her wardrobe at the
time of her death.
The first woman lawyer ever sworn
In as member Of the bar, in Tennes-
see, Is Mrs. Martha u. Strick'a and.
| The st. Gothard tunnel is nine and
one-fourth miles long; begun, 1870;
Ope ned, 1881.
According to Corvissrt, the normal
pulse rate Of Napoleon Bonaparte wus
lnIer forty beats IN the minute.
Miss Virginia Fair, daughter of the
late Senator Fair, is very young, very
musical and a great hGi ess.
The buttons OF the wedding dress
Jf a New York mlllIOnaire's daughter,
recently married, cost 500 each.
The wine list Of Sardauapalus has
just Leen found Oh iefr,. Gotta tablet,
and contains ten kinds.
The Egyptians and the Pl9 licians
are joint claimants for the honor of tie
invention of water craft.
The best road, according to Paris
Ian experts, for hardness and unwear-
able service, is made OF volcanic sco-Ia.
I'm Japan, if a woman is not mar
ried by Gel tain age, Tie authorities
pick Mt a man whom they compel her
to wei.
DR.. Thomas Pugh in three DAYS
killed 256 parIrldgees, eighteen rabbits,
and tTJ wilt turkeys near Oxford, n.
G., recently.
Pearls enclosed in a box containing
piece of the root OF the ash are
claimed to never loose o e iota of III cir
pristine beauty.
A woman in Chic has a churn
which has Teen IN her possession for
ti'ty-Gve Years, and winch has made
over SO 600 worth of butter.
The violin upon which the wedding
march was played at George Washing
tOl's marriage has come into posses
sion of the Sudbury (Penn.) Musical
50 citty.
Miss Jennie Rockefeller, da lighter
OF John ID. Rockeieiler, the standard oil
magnate, plays the violjncello with
great skill.
The first private gymnasium
preparatory school for universities) for
girls in Germany, is TO be opened at
Weimar.
A wedding notice in Maire paper
the other day ended with the words:
No cards, no cake, nobOdy's busi-
uess."
The girls OF Tasmania are world
( removed for beauty and there Is no
doubt that they have no peers south of
the equator.
"A number If leading women OF
Kansas City have agreed not to wear
out doors any dress or garment that
does no. miss the ground 10y at least
three inches.
Ia Iies' clubs N London grow in
number ard lLcre ease III size, yet they
are very little heard OF. One of the
largest, tho Sommerville, has over 600
mem beIs.
Harrison Shearer, Of Valparaiso,
Ii d., claims 20 have found an elk hora
in he hollow of tree, where he sup
poses It TO have been for 100 years OF
more.
-Tramps Crept into the elephants
room at Newcastl, Penn, where
menagerie is wiutering, one cold night
recently. When the keeper arrived the
elephants We're having more fun than
the tramps, who suffered severely from
their rough handling, CT trunking.
AT the Royal Library, in Berlin, is
collection of the ear trumpets and
other instruments used by the great
composer, Beethoven, in his futile at
tempts to overcome the deafness which
assallen him I'm 1897 and rendered him
incapable of hearing for thirty years,
until his death.