Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-12-13
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Ocean cables stretch 120, $50 miles.
Every town In Mexico has q publ
bath house.
They refoot stockings In England q,
. small expense.
A horsefy will live for hours after it,
bead has been pulled off.
Vino is frequently used instead oil
water in Spain in mixing shoe blscking.
An Alaska Indian declares that within
a year he has seen live mastodon run.
uing wild.
More mushrooms are raised In the
vicinity Of Paris than in any other place
In the world.
Brussels, Bslgalm, boasts OF . clock
which is never uouad BY human hands.
Wind power does it.
Thorghat;en, the famous Norwegian
mountain, has hole extending entirely
through it from one side to the other.
Many of the most sppetizing soups
thes delight the palate of man are said
to have been invented in the middle
sges.
The Normans who conquered England
shaved the face and the back of the
head, so that Hsrold's spies declared
they were an army of priests.
There is a tribe in Central Africa
among whom speakers in public debates
are required to stand on one leg while
speaking and to speak only as long as
they can so stand.
Rabbits ara becoming q serious nuis-
ance IN some parts Of Kansas. Barber
County pays a bounty of five cents each
for rabbit scalps, and about 5000 scalps
have been paits for there since last Octo-
Der.
Mscsrlay. the English essayist, tool
his = Jay dinner alone at coffee house.
After dinner he would build pyramid
D: vine glasses, which usually toppled
over. He would pay for the broken
glass and go.
The Athenian Archaeological Societ,
has carried out some excavations on the
site of ancient Corirth, which have
resulted in the discovery of consider
able building belonging TO the Sixth
or Fifth Century, B. c.
When COW is two years old a wrinkle
begins to form at the base of her horns.
At three years this wrinkle is fully de-
veloped. When she is five years old an
other will form, and after that one will
form each year. Thus her age can be
discovered.
Two cows, the property of Hill Cos
ellow, of Windsor, N. c., were found
lead with the neck of one fast between
he horns of the other. 1t is supposed
hat they were fighting, and, being
:aught in the above position, broke ono
mothers neck.
Tom Malana broke 1000 glass balls In
orty-four minutes at Rockford, ILL.,, the
bther day. He stood thirty feet from
he thrower aud his feat breaks the
worlds record. Old marksmen say
dalana il the steadiest man with rife
hey have ever seen.
Naval officers who find that them
yloves grow mouldy when their ships
IRE in tropical seas will be interested to
earn of Admiral Crosby's device for
Ivertine mildew. He placed his kid
gloves in an air-tight preserving jar,
md discovered that thus they retained
heir pristine condition.
A steamship flying at its masthead
broad pennant of "burgeo" of red with
. blue border, bearing in its upper left
lan1 corner blue eagle with a shield
lpon It's breast and bunch of arrows in
,ne claw and an olive branch in the
other, is conveying the United States
nails, under new laws which give our
shipping lines fighting chance for their
existence. This is the design of the
'Ocean mail burgess" selected by POST
qaster General Wanamaker.