Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-06-27
News in Brief.

Italy has 27c,0 inmates of the
poorhouses.
illuminating oil is made from grape
seeds in Italy.
There are only forty miles of rail-
road in China.
1t takes an orange two years to
grow and ripen.
The almshouses of France have
29O, 900 inmates.
Berlin charity hospitals receive an
annual subsidy of $3.50, 0C0.
-Pliny, in the first century, was the
first writer to describe the diamond.
During the Franco German war
the French lost %, 499 men from small
pox.
The avarage cost of criminal prose.
cutions in England at present is Sl65
each.
The farmer in Japan who has ten
acres of land is looked upon as q mon
opolist.
The pearl is only carbonate of lime,
is readily effected by acids, and burns
into lime.
The Greek Church employs two rings
in the marriage ceremOny-oneo of gold,
the other of silver.
Nine lambs on the farm of Rowan
Dant, of Raywick, Ky, are covered
with natural red wool.
The annual army expenditure OF
Greece is $4,000, 900 drachmi. A
drachma Is twenty cents.
There are 100 students t.nins .he
course of electrical engineering ut the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
The earliest advertisement iu an
English newspaper was the notice of
the theft of two horses Ill the London
Impartial Intelligencer in 1913.
There is a remarkable burning
spring" in Lincoln County, Kentucky,
which regularly OverflOws its banks
every afternoon at 4.30 o'clock pre-
cisely.
The city of San Salvador, capital of
the South American Republic of the
same name, is called Swinging Mat"
on account of its Lumer Gus earth
Quakes.
Waynesville, Pulaski County, Mo-,
has only $50 people, but it is one of the
most intelligent and best read towns in
America. 1t takes thirty-nine daily
newspapers.
There is a snake in India which is
said to possess the peculiar power of
producing insanity In any person who
looks INTO its glittering eyes for more
than ten minutes.
One of the oldest tunes in the world
Is said to be the air sung to the words
I'VE wont so home till morning.
1t is known to date back to the time
of the Crusaders.
-Ernestine Dittmar, proprietress OF
boarding-house in Milwaukee, Wis,
has entered suit against Ludwig Carl
yoltb reCht to recover thirty years
board bill. The amount ciRimedIs Sj2S2.
"A 17I-pound trout, is said to have
been the largest fish ever caught in the
Iruckee River, was hauled out of that
stream by a lucky angler near Reno,
New, the other day.
There are four round churches in
England. Northumberland possesses
one; Little Maplestead, in Essex, an.
other; the Temple Church, London, is
the third, and Holy Sepulcher, Cam
bridge, is the fourth.
Excavations in Babylon have
brought to light number of bricIs,
the stamps on which prove them to be
at least 1000 years old. They appear TO
be as good now as when they were
first baked.
Indians believe that typhus feveris
conveyed from one person to another 10y
a flying demon, who selects dark nights
for his visits and waits until the inten.
ded victim Is alone. The fever is said
to develop within twelve hours.
The cats-eye stone, now priZed as
an ornament, is very different thing
from the ancient cat's-eye or eyestone
of India, an agate cut 80 as to show the
so-called eye or eyes. 1t is supposed by
some that this latter was used as money
in parts of India four centuries ago.
Mrs. Sarah Howard, OF Houlton,
Me-, has tanned two muskrats SO that
they come into the house and eat out of
the cats dish. Tabby seems willing to
give up part of her milk, and is as kind
to the muskrats as if they were kittens.
Joseph Baker, a white-hGired man
of seventy, who has spent nearly all bis
life in prison, says he wants to end his
DAYS in the State Prison at Waupuu,
Wis, which he declares to be the most
comfortable" institution of its kind in
the country.
Oliver Ames, Jr., of Boston, Las
built what is said to be the finest dog
kennel in the United States. 1t cost
$4,000, is thirty-fve feet long is lighted
by ten windows, and the interior i:
finished in hard wood, polished and
shellacked.
The famous Darlington butter,
made in Chester County, Pennsylvania,
by the old Quaker family of Darling.
tons, has sold for 81 apound for twenty
years. The supply is limited, and new
customers have to wait for old Gus.
toners to die before they can get any
butter.
Tho Oldest inhabitant of Berlin,
Germany, is matchmaker named J. Ii.
Hagemann. He was 102 on March %,
still goes about tho house, and his
appetite is excellent.
The body of an unknown woman
was found on Boston railway crossing
recently. A man who positively iden.
tilted the body as that Of his wife and
arranged for its burial, was greatly
surprised later on to find his wife
home and alive.
THE devil is a living lie, and he
makes his followers just like him.
UNLESS man has poor health, he