Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-04-11
NEWS IN BRIEF,

-Aentucky Is nrst IN tobacco.
Connecticut has 1000 farmr.
Red Is the Chinese lucky color.
-Neince is built on eight i5lauds
-Pekin, China, has 10, 900 police.
The Isle of Man las no pawnshop.
California stands first in gold aLd
grapes.
The Union Pacific Railway crosses
nine mountain ranges.
More people die in spring than in
any of the other seasons.
-Furlong was g furrow-long, or the
length of plowed furrow.
Brandy is a contraction of the old
English brand wine, burnt.
-Russian farmers hold an average of
twenty-seven acres to each family.
Blankets were invented by Thomas
Blanket, who made them in Bristol IN
1910.
The blood rose is found only in
Florida in an area five miles in
diameter.
Wolves have been killing sheep st
great rate in parts of Minnesota not
very remote.
There are HOG savings banks in
France with depositors to the number
o, 6,173,Oj4.
Kid gloves are sewed with cotton
thread, as it does not cut the kid as
readily as silk.
-Eufaula, Ala, has a curiosity in
the shape of chicken with three bills
and three eyes.
There are 1920 counties IN tho
United States named after the Futher
of His country.
In the year 1920 England coined
tin shIlliugs, each having a stud of
copper set in the centre.
The Roman architects used to put
empty jugs in the walls of theatres
to make them more resonant.
So far as can be discovered, the
first use of an iron roof was on bull
ding erected in Ohio in 1868.
Moscow is said to have I70G big
bells, " the smallestof which weighs
5000 pounds, and the largest 4i3, 772.
At the beginning of the eighteenth
century people were hanged in Great
Britain for the illicit manufacture of
salt.
There are over GO1O person fed
three Times a day at Dolma- Bagtch
Palace while the Sultan of Turkey Is
there.
Since the repeal of British naviga
ton laws IN 1919 British shipping has
increased seven times faster than the
population.
lee artifcially manufactured by the
use OF chemical mixtures is not late
idea by any means, the invention dat
ing back to 1873.
Peas ami beans cooked in hard water
eontai con. ming lime or gyrsum will not
bUli tender, because these substances
harden vegetable cnseine.
The two highest inhabited spots on
earth are Arevlchiary and Mucapata,
mining camps in the Andes. The
former has an elevation of 1850
feet.
"A rabbit was recently killed near
Jefferson City, No, which had the
form and features of rabbit but was
apparently wearing the skin of
Maltese cat.
An authority IS of the opinion that
the natives of MashOnaland are all de-
sccnded from a commercial people
who, some 5000 years ago, penetrated
from Arabia.
The wonderful miniature watch of
King George Ill, which was kept for
years as a curiosity IN the Kensington
Museum, was about the size of one of
our silver dimes.
M. Austin, of Livingston County
Just dead, was seventy-four
years old, never was ont of the State,
never was shaved in a barber shop,
never ate in a hotel, and was never i'll
until Just before his death.
The Oldest mathematical book in the
world Is called tle "Papyrus Rhind.
1t Is in manuscript, of course, and wa,
written by one Ahmet, an Egyptian,
who lived IN the year 1000 b. Q. The
book IS now in the British Mu-
scum.
Cardinal Mezzofant, the most re-
markable linguist the world has ever
known, is SAID to have been able to use
every word of any considerable impor-
tance N over 100 different languages,
and to have been able to carry on a
in forty-five or fifty
others.
y murderer in Alabama fled the scene
of his crime Soon after, man of
the same name and appearance, lnclued-
ing peculiar scar, was positively
identified as the murderer, found
guilty and sentenced to death. Be-
fore the fatal ample evidence was
furnished proving that he was at work
in Tennessee at the time CT the murder.
A widow in Vienna, having asked
whether she would be allowed to pre-
serve the ashes of her husband in an
urn in her apartment, has been told by
the Government that this could not be
permitted. The minister responsible
says the custom, if 1t became general,
might lead to strange eccentricity
and superstition.
In the brave days of Queen Eliza
beth the handkerchief had a senti-
mental as well as useful mission. In
that day Tiny squares of finest lawn
finely and delicately wrought and
edged with gold lace, we're made
purposely for ladies to give to their
lovers, who wore these tokens neatly
folded in their hats.