Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-05-16
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NEWS IN BRIEF
mosquitoes do not bite,

Male mosquitoes do not bite.
Every trade in China has its patron
saint
Wife selling is still common in Cen.
tral Russia.
In China when pupil is recitirg
his lesson he turns his back to his
teacher.
! Garments taken from Egyptian
mummIes have been found to be dyed
with indigo.
The Chinese claim to have pos
sessed the art of enameling metals from
at least 1000 b. @.
The lightning discharge acts power
fully by induction on all conductors
in its vincinity.
-Arithmetical notation by the nine
digits and zero was used in Hindostaa
in the sixth century.
| When lightning strikes the Sahars
desert it vitrites a small portion of the
sand, making sort of glass.
1t is rare thing to find in any part
of China a man over twenty years of
age who cannot read or write.
The manufacture OF Greek antiqui.
ties has been regular business ID
southern Russia for twenty years.
/ Leather trunks for transporting
clothes were made and sold in Rome
as early as the time of Julius Caesar.
Moorish POTTERY: and vase makers
werebrought. to Italy in 11I5, in order
to teach the trade to native workmen.
There Is on exhibition in Madison
Ga, an egg that weighs 3! ounces,
and measures ST inches the longest.
way.
The sun throws vertical rays on the
earth's surface only upon an area equal
to about thirty-ive square miles at one
time.
The first Biblical mention of brick
making is in Genesis. The chronolOgists
place the date of this reference at b. @.
2,247,
Some long leasehold property at
-Cheapside, London, sold the other
day at price equal to $50 per super
ficial foot.
: -Phidlas understood the art of sof-
tening ivory so as, from a single tusk,
to produce plate from twelve to twen-
ty inches broad
The greatest natural cold known is
estimated at los degrees below zero, the
highest natural temperature Is in
Egypt, III degrees.
ALI true fish have kidneys when
In the lsrval state, but these either be-
come atrophied or are absorbed be-
fore the fish is full grown.
The Chan-Santa.C Cruz Indians in Yu-
catan have never been conquered. No
white has ever seen their city, which is
defended by swamp.
J The word hairbreadth, now used
for an infinitesimal space, was once
regular measure, 1t was the width of
sixteen hairs lade side by side.
The Needlemakers' society was
, formed at Nuremburg in 1870. The
eyes of the needles were made by loop
ing the wire at the head of the needle.
Houses which are damp because of
proximity to undrained land, NAV be
rendered more habitable by planting
the laurel and the sunfiower near them.
"A butchers union was incorpora-
, ted by Nerva, and splendid marble
! abattoirs were constructed. Ne.O
built a meat market as large as the Col
| liseum.
Professor Edmund Frenzy, who
| died in PARIS several weeks ago, is the
| man who startled the world some years
since by his artificial production of
rubies.
Cotton and cotton weaving were in
| troduced into Europe by Alexander
the Great, who sent the material, the
seed and the workmen from Persia
and India.
The heart of a man struck by New
Jersey train at Bound Brook, was
found on a cowcatcher of the locomotive
at Allentown, Penn, some seventy
| miles distant.
DR.. Fletcher of Cincinnati, in
proof of his theories of "tooth grating,
implanted some dog teeth firmly in
the leg bole of goat and caused them
to grow there.
Lamb hashed with bananas is one
of the brC Cakfast dishes which often
figure on the menu of the mort famous
restaurant in New York. 1t tastes bet
ter than 1t sounds.
In Boston book store is displayed
the sign: Germs sold here-germs
! of thought; of philosophy; of logic,
but you cannot be trusted, else we
would be busted
The sect of Jains, in India, are the
champion Iong-distance fasters. Fasts
of from thirty to forty days are COM
mon, and once a year they abstain from
food for seventy-five days.
1t is said by experts that practical,
even-tempered men usually write q
! plain, round hand, in which every let.
ter is legible, and that more ambitious
men write hastily and carelessly.
New York grows worse and worse
| in its absue OF the title of Professor.
There are now not less than three
bootblacking cellars, the head of which
calls himself Professor on his signs.
The manufacture of Ikons, those
sacred images so universally yenerated
by orthodox Russians, is one of the
largest household industries of Central
Russia, where 1000, 900 are turned out
every year.
Let him who regrets the loss OF time
make proper use of that which is to
come in the future.
Impiety is the greatest of indisore.
tons.