Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-15
NO. 13,
NEWS IN BRIEF.

In battle only one ball out OF
,ighty-flve takes effect.
The British Museum contains the
, irst envelope ever made.
! Nice, plump diamond back terrapin
low sell for 500 dozen.
-Stem-winding watches were invent
ID by Noel In the year 1871.
/ New York City has fewer alleys
han any other city in the world.
! The Egyptians kne idsd their bread
n a wooden bowl with heir feet.
"A hundred years ago the best
oysters were sold at i've for cent.
! A live co tonwood tree with petri-
led roots is growing near Atchison,
Kan.
! -Tane sheep were brought to His
JaniCl4 by Columbus on his second
voyage, in 1893.
! -Gunter's chain u2ed in measuring
an was invented by Edmund Gunter
IN 1606
In Russia the principals In a duel
,artake of breakfast together before
gong out to fight.
! The Sultan of Turkey has issued
evised edition 0f the Koran, adapted
20 his own views.
"A Darien (Gll colored man claims
co have gathered 900 lemons from one
tree recently.
An average of &c. coo letters ere
posted without addresses in England
,very day.
One factory in Frederick county,
Nd, put up 4, 900. 900 cans of corn and
teIns this season.
In Fresno, Cal there is said to lie
factory for the manufacture of petri-
ded human cOrpses.
The long-eared Jack rabbit of the
oralries is appearing in great numbers
in Southern Missouri.
In the French army there are four
living generals on the retired list who
were born in the last century.
-Ruskin has the finest collection of
Illuminated misSals In the world
numbering about 1900,
AT dinners and banquets in Queen
Eiz.beth's time each guest brought
his own individual spoon.
The record for shorthand writing
s 3l5 words minute, made in NUvem-
ber, 1891, by Chicago man.
FINLAND has just been celebrating
che 25Oth anniversary of the establish
ment OF pri.ting in that country.
Europe consumes upward Of S30,-
900, COZ worth OF gold and silver annually
for plate, jewelry and ornaments.
! seven American Presidents have
died in the month of July, and IN that
month Garfield received his fatal
wound.
Mrs. Le Grand Cannon, of New
York City, has a diamond tiara which
is consldere one OF the bandsomest IN
America.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid's boudoir is
all n white and gold, with panels OF
satin cloth and a mantel OF onyx, inlsid
with gilt.
Tennessee is supposed to have been
named from Ienas See, one OF the chief
villages OF the herokee Indians, which
was located on the banks of the renpes-
see.
Harrison SheaTer, of Valparaiso,
lnd., claims to have found an elk horn
In tue hollow of d tree, where he sup
poses 1t to have been for 100 years or
more.
An Indian potentate, the Maharaja
of Bettiah, has engaged the service OF
an Euglisn woman physician for his
: woman's hospital.
baroness Hirscb, the wife of the
keT-philanthropist, Las been struck
uyif tnnpIrA 81
TALLY paralyzed.
Several American remedies for
cholera are advert zed In Hamburg
papers, and are highly recor mended"
by tie local druggists.
During the Eleventh Century a fash
ION of euibroi dering the 4ulTials o the
name and the family arms on tie gar
m nts began In Italy and spread all
; over Europe.
An old English "manner book"
: says: "a lad, should dip only the tips
OF her fingers III the sauce bowl, and
s, ouId not let food fall out OF her
mouth en- the tablecloth.
1t is now announced that old news
papers are the best possible material
for wrapping up clothing, as the print
err Ink on them is deadly poison to
moths and their lava.
Trad emarks, 1t appears, are tbous-
ands of years old. Babylon, it is re-
corded, had property symbols, and tile
, Chinese CLAIM to have had trademarks
more than 1C00 years B. q.
Mrs, Frederick Vanderoilt's bou-
doir aboard the Copqueror, the yacht
. which is soon to cruise IN southern seas,
is finished in rose pink SATIN and ma
=, hogany.
1 Miss sidnhy Randall, of the Gaorg-
IN Normal and Industrial COLLEGE,
7 Junior Class, has been appointed posi-
master of The House of Representatives
of Atlanta at 81 day.
4 -Crisfield, Nd, is interested in the
! operations of a stranger who has bought
!, seven Islands to IA Sc delicacies foT
mark et-fish, soft-shell crabs aud per
haps terrapin among the possibilities.
Joseph Eslick, Of p Pelena, Montana,
-, found a live frog recently twenty-three
Iept be'ow the surface of the earth in a
miniature chamber COZ tanning appar-
emily no communication with the out
!, side world.
= The Seabury Hose, at Wood hurry,
Conn, known as the birthplace of TIE
American Epls opal Church, vas pur
chased by the LitcAfield archdeacOnTy
some weeks ago.
r The cheapest dress made by
Worth, the Partisan milliner, even If
D OF cotton. does not st less than $40
: and this he calls his ''pauvrette COS
7 tume''-the poor girls dress.
Lillian Russell, the singer, has a
e face preparation for which she PAYS 81
d uouDd. To 1t she attribIteS her well
: kept skin. free from wrinkles and good
] complexion.