Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-06-13
NO. 26.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Every trade in Chino has its rat
ron saint.
Wife selling is still common IL Ceo.
raj Russia.
in Germany they are said to weave
, jy electricity.
Tanned turkeys can be trained k
aunt wild ones.
! Fishes can be frozen hard without
osing their vitality.
-Easter will not again como in
March during this century.
Eclipses OF the moon were seen by
daylight in 1866, 1868 1880.
The medicine known rs metalli gal
hum Is worth Sl01,O a pound.
More than 20, 600 tons of candy is
'aten IN the United States annually.
-Shakspeare's plays have been trans
nted into Japanese and produced IL
Hokio.
China has an academy of manners
that prescribes etiquette for the whole
"mpire.
The fashion of wearing snake skins
tor necktles is said to be growing in
baltimore.
More than two million sacred I'M
tges called ikons are used in Russiq
avery year.
In China when n pupil is reciting
ais lesson he turns his back to hg
teacher.
-Cheapside, London, sold the other
lay at n price equal to $3.50 per super
fcial foot.
Garments taken from Egyptian
mummles have been found to be dyed
With indigo.
The lightning discharge nets power
fully by induction on all conductors
in its vicinity.
.--Arithmeticil notation by the nine
dlglts and zero was used in Hindostnr
u the sixth century.
1t is rare thing to find in any
part OF China a man over twenty year
II age who cannot read or write.
The manufacture of Greek antiqui.
ties his been regular business II
southern Russia for twenty years.
The Mohawk indians will not allow
so much rs blade of grass TO grow
upon the. graves of the1r compau.
ions.
Some lorg leasehold property n,
Cheapslde, London, sold the othe: day
Mt price equal to $3.50 per supertciI
foot.
u'bo T,c1 P;l,1;oo1 ,,,-,,y-.,. r 1t
making Is in Genesis. The crhDnClo lists
place the date of this reference at Is.
2,247.
The East India Company, the most
powerful corporation that ever was
came INTO existence the last day Of IT,,
wear 1909.
In the British Museum thcra is
collection of musica compositions, bot
vocal and instrumental, attributed tt
Henry VIII.
A crane, measuring eight feet from
tip to tip, was killed the other day ncnr
Bloomington, ind. it has been stufret
for museum.
The Chan-Santa.C Cruz Indians in Yu-
catan have never been conquered. M
white has ever seen their city, which IL
defended by swamp.
The eight flowers most priced by
the Japanese are the IN orning glory,
apricot, CHERRY. wistaria, peony, iris
lotus and chrysanthemum.
The word hairbreadth, now usal
for an infinitesimal space, was once n
regular measure. 1t was the width Of
sixteen hairs laid side by side.
The NeedIemakers' society was
formed at Nuremburg ia 1870. The
eyes Of the needles were made by loop
ing the wire at the head of the needle
Cotton and cotton weaving were in
trOduced into Europe by Alexander
the Great, who sent the material. 1he
seed and the workmen from Per-iu
and India.
Three fine specimens of Wisconsin
timber wolves, captured by James
Hall of Washburn, have been added to
the TeXtor collection of live animals ai
Milwaukee.
DR.. Fletcher of Cincinnati, in
proof of his theories of "tooth grating,
implanted some dog teeth firmly ia
the leg bone of goat and caused then
to grow there.
Lamb hashed with bananas is one
# the breakfast dishes which often
sgure 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 year they abstain from
food for seventY-fve days.
1t is SAID by experts that practical,
even-tempered men usually write a
plain, round hand, in which every le:.
ter is legible, and that more ambition,
men write hastily and carelessly.
New York grows worse and worse
Ia its absue OF the title of Professor
There are now not less than three
bootblacking cellars, the head of wh1cI
calls himself Professor on his signs.
Conductors on the Broadway cable
cars, New York city, nre not permitted
to turn in any smaller coin than a
nickle. For that reason they are unusally
friendly with newsboys, whose creates
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