Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-16
NEWS IN BRIEF,


Florida will protect alligators FROM
extinction by law.
There is no such thing at the right
use of wrong thing.
-Foreigh tourists spend about $780,.
OO0, 900 year in Italy,
1t is scientific fact that Cinnamon
are remarkably long lived.
The Oldest existing bank Is the Bar
eelona Bank founded in 1401.
The death rate from apoplexy
highest at Turin. Italy-6l0 In 10000.
More suicides take place on Tues
10y and Thursday than on other week
lays.
Nelson says that for every death
during the year two persons are con-
staptly sick.
There is new rose, an exquisite
blending of pink and white, called
Cupid.
Cathedral dining room chairs are
The kind that compel one to sit up
straight.
"A Farmer in Estele. KY. owns
a young chicken which has four legs
and five wings.
-Sunstroke is more common in the
cities OF America than in those of Eu-
rope and Asia.
Each day some ten thousand strang-
srs.ener London, which is infested by
l2O,C COO paupers.
The white of an egg, quickly swal-
lowed by a choking person, often gives
Immediate relief.
There are more deaths annually
from hydrophobia in Sweden than 10
any other country.
"A hellotrope hedge 200 feet long
IS to be seen on the pre- misses of Ven-
tura [Cal. florist.
during the Franco German war
the Germans lost 263 men from small
pox the French %, 447.
"A recent invention is triple per
which rules the three lines Of a cash
column at one stroke.
1t is said that the thirteen" super
stItlon extends away back to the time
Of King Arthur, 5l6 A. ID.
"A Pottstown Penn farmer keeps
large numder of snakes on his place foi
the purpose of killing rats.
The German Emperor recently is
sued an order against officers of his
army using single eyeglasses.
Many of the mediaeval churches
were originally constructed to serve also,
when occasion required, as foItresses.
1t is now proposed to make the
tro ley do the work that mules have
been accustomed to do for canal boats.
-Thirteen-year-old Mrs. Henry OF
Headquarters, KY, has presented heI
seventeen-year-old husband with TRIP
les.
John Kaufman, a middle-aged
Amish preacher, residing near Elkhart,
Ohio, breaches while asleep or iu a
trance.
The English importers of Austria.
llan frozen meat advise that the aninal
heat should be allowed te escape tetore
they begin to be frozen.
Greek paintings were executed in
llstemper with glue, milk or white OF
eggs and on wood, clay, plaster, stone,
parchment and canvas.
1t is said that dew will not form
on some colors, While yellow board
will be covered with dew, a red OF
black one beside 1t will be perfectly
| dry.
The kudZu vine is probably the
most rapid growing plant i'll the world.
1t belongs to the bean family, and will
easily grow sixty feet tall in three
months.
"A new glass for thermometer is un.
affected by a heat of 1000 deg rees, tbs
ordinary glass being unreliable above
$50 degrees on account OF its tendency
to soften.
| -Lyonet, who spent his whole life IN
watching single species of caterpillar,
discovered IN 1t 1000 eyes. The com.
mon fly has 5000 eyes, and certain but
tertlles % 900.
! Edison is working on a magnetic
ore separator. The only obstacle IN the
way of its success at present is the
necessity OF crushing the ore to very
powder before the sci arating process.
The smokes OF Paris have been
mapped by NJ. Foubert. The prlnci-
pal factory chimneys have been set
down, with circles Of various sizes aud
tints to represent the emission of smoke
from each.
| "A snail cannon, which was cap
tured by Andrew Jackson at New o.
leans in 1872, was presented 10 the
JOhnstown, Pa, Grand Arny post
Memorial day.
| -Thireen tco-operative Quarries, es-
tablished in New England by reason
of the granite cutters strike last year,
are said 10 have turned out $1,000
4 I, - IL Oh. G,va
The moisture in the climate OF Eng
land affects everything SO greatly that
the very rocks grow sOftened and with
ordinary penknives PEOPLE can cut
their initials in all the old bridges and
churches.
-"The Girl 1 Left Behind Me" has
been played and sung in England
since 1850. Its original name was
"Brighton Camp" 1t is an Irish air
but who composed either the words of
music is now unknown.
The largest gold nugget ever found
in Colorado weighed thirteen pounds
| the largest in the United States
weighed Isl pounds; largest in the
world, 223 pounds and four ounces.
An engaged couple of BlueHeld. W.
Va, recently ran foot race. TIE wO
man won, and then refused to marry
her lover, on the ground that she did
not wish to wed en- inferior.
Right at the foot of great glacier
in New Zealand there Is a tropical
growth of plant life and hot spring.
with water Issuing forth at temper;.-
ture OF over one hundred degrees.
A chimney piece carved from wood
over six thousand years cid, has re
Gently been erected in house in Ed
inburg. The wood, an oak tree, was
found in a sand pit thirteen feet below
the surface. 1t was in fine state of
preservation, due to the sand, and was
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