Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

pers.
What will the crinoline do in ham.
mock time?
A machine picks 1000 pounds ot
cotton a day.
In the Austrian army suicides av'
erage 10000 year.
Chicago expects S2OO,OO0,O00 from
Worlds Fair visitors.
Rooms in New York hotel cost
from 81. so to 800 day.
There are 27O liquor license appi
cants in Montgomery county.
Three thousand marriages are per
formed every day all over the world.
Scores of hogs are dying in Butler
township, Luzerne county, OF cholera.
A leopard recently shot in Bengal,
had killed st various times l54 per-
sons.
Frozen frogs fell by the hundreds
during recent snow storm in Ful,
ton county.
On an average dozen farms are
sold by the Sheriff of Bucks county,
every month.
Until this winter it is sail that no
wolves have been seen in Misslchu-
sets for half century.
Lafayette college students were
fined $50 each fo- tearing down sign
boards in AIlentown recently.
General Algyr conversed with
Warner Miller the other 2av, by tel
ephore over SEQ miles Of wirc.
While shovelimg snow from a roof
il A.lantown, ex-Chist OF no.ic'. ia,
cob Erjg leii and broke his neck.
Clay almost snow white and good
material for ware has been discover
ed in Penn Argyll, Northampton Co.
lee carried away a portion of the
Susquehanna river dam near Column.
bia, aud now shad will be able to get
Up that stream.
{ "The pieasantest way to take cod
, liver oil, says nm old gourmanj, sis
/ to fstten pigeons with it, and then
! eat the pigeons"
! In China wealthy people buy their
coffins long before they need them,
and exhibit them as ornamental
pieces of furniture.
The heeces of ten goats an1 the
work of several men for half a year
are required to make a genuine cash
mere shawl yard and half wide
Since the great earthquake of 1891
lilo and 2O26 shocks have been ex-
perienced in Nagoya and Gilu re.
spectively, two provinces in Japan.
DR.. Gatling's newest gun fires
1000 bullets a minute. It throws
out the balls faster than two mel
can shovel them into the magazine.
A scientific journal says that india
rubber street pavements have proved
successful in several large European
cities. The edges should be OF gut,
ta percha,
Since the death of General Beau
regard, General Kirby Smith is the
only surviving officer of the Coufed
crate army who attained tho full
rank of General
When a man eloped with Briggs
wife, he exclaimed: well, 1 can't
blame him, poor fellow! 1 was aw
fully infatuated with her mysel
fonce. Boston Trar script.
Under Henry V an act of parlia-
ment ordered all the geese in Eng
land to be counted, and the sheriffs
of the counties were required to
furnish six arrow feathers from each
goose.
A lasting machine that enables one
operator to last 5000 pairs of shoes :
week, is one of the latest thincs in
labor saving machinery. 1t tackles
everything, from light feminine foot
gear to the heaviest brogans.
Miss Gertrude Peters of Whining.
ton, Delaware, was caught whiIa she
was stopping, in the belt of n knit
ting machine in hosiery factory in
that town, and she was only saved
by the prompt shearing of her locks
From the Chester News.
The piano is becoming the favor.
ite instrument in Sunday schools
These are strongly objected to by
the old-timers, however, but without
good reason, as the piano has now
been made upright.
The ceming total eclipse cf the
sun of April 16 will be seen to best
advantage from the French colony Of
Senegal. Accordingly an English
contingent of observers is going out
there to work with the French as
tronomers.
While working in the belt and nut
works, at Lebanon. Pa, Edward
Schultz was caught in the neck bv a
hugh iron hook attached to a wind
lass. He was jerked high in the cir
and his throat was slit open to his
chin. He will likely die.
The three Oldest known pieces of
wrought iron IN existence are the
sickle blade that was found bv Bel.
zohi under the base of Sphinx in
harnae, near Thebes; the blade
found by Colonel Vyse imbedded in
the mortar of one of the pyramids.
and a portion of a cross-cut saw,
which Mr.. Lsyhard exhumed at MIN.
rud-all of which are now in the
British Museum.
alexander Corrie of Rober tsdsle
is IN the county Jail for shooting Miss
Annie Watkins, of the same place.
Dir. Corrie and his brother GEORGE
were somewhat under the influence
of liquor at the time, and, like drunk.
en- men occasionally do, show erea.
bravery and monkey" with revolvers.