Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-04-25
NO. l9.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Underground photography is ad-
vancing.
-Lond n has about IT'S rainy day
in a Year.
For the will and not the gift makes
the giver.
Some wish they did; but no man
dlsbelieves.
In China the rollin; of tea leaves is
done by hand.
| -Canad forblds the adulteration of
cheese AMI Canada Is tight.
| 1t would take snail exactly four
tet Il day., five hours to travel mile.
When aman dies in France the irst
ii that must be paid is the doctors.
= In Berlin the police arrest ople
who play the piano after 10 o'clock at
night.
-Pekin, China, is surro nded by q
wall fifty feet hi h and forty feet
! thick.
! The mines tributary to Butte City,
| Montana, have an output of S23, 900, 900
year.
On the plains of Mamre there is an
| oak under which legend says Abraham
rested.
In her half century's reign, Queen
Victoria has worn her crown but twenty
| times.
The diamond mines of Brazil have
yielded over 10 .0O0,0O0 carats OF
stones.
The United states uses nearly ore
half OF he quinine pro luced in the
world.
-Th, best ,mera'ds found IN the
UnitHd States CO ne from North Caro-
lin
-Lega executi, Ms in Mex CO are 10y
s; ooting and take place in the rson
yard
- In 1916 Francis I. gave his Queen
the oquivalen of SIG, 900 Of our mo ey
to buy her hat.
China is in most ancient Empire
in the world and C ntains one fiftn of
| the human lucc.
The first law degree S believed 10
have been conferred by the University
OF IaT.s III ili9.
The mi imum fixed for marriage
in Spa tn was thi ty for man aud
| twenty for woman.
-Crucifxion is the method OF sacri-
flee adootCd in the Benin country on
the west coast of Africa.
In the days of Rome's greatness
many of the Senators had incomes as
large as $500, COO a ear.
In fourteen States and Territories
Of the Union marriage between nrst cou.
sins is forbidden by law.
in the Royal Aquarium of st. Pc
tersburg, Rome, are fish which have been
on exhibition for $50 years.
-Theophilus Bland, of Pitt County,
North Carolina, has seven sons each of
whom weighs over 200 rounds.
-Thirty-two kings and princes have
born tie name Albert. 1t is of Anglo.
Saxon derivation, and means, ''all
b light.
Tho Suez Canal is eighty-eight
miles long and reduces the distance
from England to India nearly 1000 miles
Tor ships
AT Salisbury, Austria, man was
kept prisoner in n cellar for fifteen
years, during which he never saw
a hun an face.
-Atherstone possesses the largest Jug
In the world. 1t was made fifty years
ago, holds $50 quarts, and is so large
that Ia man can stand insld. of it.
Farmers along the Cornish coast in
England, are using sea sand as bedding
for cattle IN place OF straw, which the
late draught has rendered so expensive.
One of the most thoroughly orig
nal works in English is "Bedlam,"
play in twenty-five acts. 1t was written
by Nat Lee which confined in q mad
house.
"A cotton vest made from piece of
cloth woven ia years ago is owned by
John b. Perry, of Dawson, Ga. The
cotton was woven by Mr., Perry's great
grandfather.
The public library of Easthampton,
Mass, has been presented with q wed.
ding dress over 100 years old. The
garment is of ''changeable silk" and
weighs less than eight ounces.
-Yynacio Garcia, of Buena Vista,
Cal, Is ll3 years of age, as is shown
by incontestible records. He is erect
and strong and has the full use of his
faculties He settled in Los Angeles in
1875.
: In Scotch asylu n there is a wo-
men whose oae form of insanity before
she was incarceratei consisted OF having
her horses shoes of solid gold with Did
nails, each set If shoes and nais cos
ting $500.
One of the most famous mountains
IN a very mountainous country is
lhrrghalten in Norway. From one
side Of this big natural elevation to the
other there isa great hole-a sort Of
tunnel, provided by nature.
Rome was supplied from twenty-four
4 large aqueducts, which brought 3d.
COO,OOO cubic feet Of water daily into
the CITY.