Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-12-06
NO. 81,
NEWS IN BRIEF

lie little toe is sad to Re dis9p.
pearing from the human foot
In 1872 the whale fishing was be-
gun by vessels from Nantucket
Schools at Oxford were established
by Alfred the Great about S7l.
About third of the houses in
this country are lighted by gas.
Hard times have notably affected
The attendance at Vassar College.
"A spiders eyes are not in his head
bnt in the upper part of the thorax.
The Tartars take man by the ear
to invite him to eat or drink with
them.
An electric locomotive for work in
rolleries has been put to service in
Germany.
The longest animal know to exist
IS the roequal, which averages 100 feet
IN length.
"A quarter OF each geueratian IS
said to die before reaching the age of
seventeen.
"A long. strong thumb always indi-
Gates great will power aad force OF
character.
"A locomotive requires fuel and la
bor to the amount of SO, ,0C0 in the
cource of a year
-Thelongest trestlewOrk in the world
is the bridge over lake Poutchartraiu,
New Orleans, La.
-Arithmellcal notation by the nine
digits and zero was used in Hiudoos'an
in the sixth century.
In 1852 hooks on geometry AMI
astronomy were destroyed in England
as savoring Of magic.
The children of the Aitutaki ISL
anders are born with the left leg an
inch shorter than the right
There are no italics used in the
biblical translation until the time of
the KING james version, 1911.
The first attem- to give regular
instruction to the deaf and dumb was
made by Spanish monk in 1870.
The earliest known bank was one at
Babylon, b. c. 700 managed by Egihp.
1t received deposits and issued drafts.
The woman Of Iceland have had
municipal suffrage for more than twen.
ty years. They are now eligible to
municipal offices.
The Cossack soldier in the winter
time Is oblidged to sacrifice every other
consideration to that of resisting the
deadly cold of the steppes.
No representation of the face of a
man was ever stamped on a com until
after the death of Alexander the Great,
who was regarded rs divinity.
Cutting off the hands and feet rs a
punishment was practiced in every
country in Europe hut Eng and two
centuries ago.
An English wetchmuker exhibits an
| engine of l22 distinct pieces not in
| Guiding thirty-Jhree bolts and screwsL
which could be hidden in ludys
thimble.
| A man in Washington County,
| Penn, has bantam rooster that is so
familiar with cat that it can get on tie
felinc's book aud crow without the cats
taking any notice to it.
! The brides cake OF To-Day Is n re-
lie of ROmman custom. At Il Roman
marriage the bride was expected to
prepare part, at least, of the we'd
ding feast with her own hands.
Everglades are called by the Indians
"grass water Low tracts of land in.
undated with water and interpersed
with patches of high grass, peculiar to
the Southern States, are known as
Ieverglades.
-Tavernier saw IN India a diamond
Of l0i carate, whose center was so foul
I -,
it was cut open it yielded eight, carats
Of filth, like that from the bottom ot
a dirty pond.
"A package of gold coin worth S3S7
and wrapped in an old stocking or
woollen cloth, a relic of the Johns.
town Penn. flood, was found by
workmen in the river bed near that III.
fated city the other day.
The British Government report OF
an investigation into the epidemic of in.
fluenza of the past four years regard:
the proof OF the CONSCIOUSNESS of the
disease as overwhelming and that it Is
not transported through the atmosphere
! A stream near Tucson, Arizona,
petrifies all soft substances thrown III
an to it. 1t is the great Colorado'potatC
| beetle belt, and at the time OF theiI
migrations thousands of them strike
the water and are converted into solid
stone.
! When the first Bible was printed in
America it took three years to print
the Old Testament When the revised
version of the New Testament was tel
egraphed to Chicago, in 1881, it was
put in type and stereotyped in twelve
hours.
In the Cascade mountains is the
Great Sunken lake, the most deeply
sunken lake in the world. 1t is fifteen
miles long and four and half wide.
1t is 1900 feet down to the surface OF
the water, but the depth of the water
| is unknown.