Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-03-21
NEWS III BRIEF.

rom Greece.
J The membership of the Primrose
League has reached 1,160, SCI.
} -"Use boiled water to mix bread"
says an expert on sanitary cooking.
The Island of Ceylon is the most
remarkable gem deposit in the world.
The hog packers of this country last
year killed and packed 20,9l2,000
, hogs.
] The Cars new yacht, the Standard,
is to costSl, go, eco, and Will be finished
in 1895.
The American breath is annually
scented with 100000 bushels of
onions.
One district in Tennessee exports
annually over 10000 quarts of black
berries.
"A speck of gold weighing a millionth
part OF grain may be easily seen by
the naked eye.
In Italy last year 10000 tons of
! cheese were devoured, with 10000
tones Of coflees.
-Pious Russians do not eft pigeons
/ because of the sanctity conferred on the
dove in the Scriptures.
! The first sea fight mentioned in his
d tory was between the Corinthians and
| COrcyzeans, b. G. 663.
The boo tree in the sacred city of
, AmarapoOra, Burmah, is said to b the
oldest tree in existence.
The lady life insurance agent" is
B becoming one of the features Of
business life in London.
The population of India is very
dense, there being go people to ev7ry
/ square mile of territory.
/ "A maid of honor to Queen Victoria
, receives $1,000 Year and has thirteen
weeks of attendance at court.
Livery circular printed in Mngde-
burg, Germany, must be approved by
the police before distribution.
The first screw line-of-battle ship
was the Napoleon, French built IN
lSi9, 100 guns, 600 horse power.
The total number of American news
papers has grown from 5319 to 10000
during the past twenty five years.
Tho river Jordan, from its rapid
fall, takes its name from the Hebrew
word 'yarden, meaning descent.
-Mercator's protection, which Won
derfully simplitled the science OF nav
igation, was made public in 1863.
Chicago street cars carried 94,OOO,-
OG0 persons during the six months of
the existence of the Worlds Fair.
An island in CaEco Bay is inhabited
only by a pack of raYenOus dogs which
have almost degenerated into wolves
The wine cellar of the British House
of Commons is 100 feet long and gen
orally contains about S15,OOJ worth of
wine.
The water that pcurs over the falls
of Niagara is wearing the rock away at
the rate of five yards in four
years.
Arrest before trial was not custom
ary in Athens, and a citizen would
generally escape trial by going ito
voluntary exile
More beer is drunk in Munich than
in any other town iu the world. A
quart and q half per day is the average
per head OF the population.
A man at Stamford y. Y, has the
watch Major Andre offerd as ransom TO
his captors. He has documents to prove
that It IS genuine.
4ALOo NIlC llNGultt III 1 I'll. NoLll-
petent authorities now declrre that 300
are made during the hours Of every
working day in the year.
Henry Hover, a Washington N.
I. constable, IS six feet four auI one
half inches tall, weighs PSI pounds
aud Is a Samson IN strength.
Between Paris and Berlin mail mat
ter Is now transmitted In thirty five
minutes b. the pneumatic process,
which Is found most advantageous.
The japanese believe that their en-
perOrs are descendants from the gods,
the present mikado being the 121st in
direct line from the heavenly being.
"A representation of the bagpipe
was found IN the ruins of Tarsus. The
instrument was in use 1900 years
before the Christian era and its origin
is unknown.
The bank of Venice conducted its
dealings for 600 years with such honor
that in all that time no hostile critie eism
or condemnation of its methods has
been found.
Alter riding on carouselI at
Alexandria, La, recently, an aged
cOlored women dropped. dead
{ Physicians pronounced her death due to
the excitement.
Tho United States has 1855 light
houses and beacons; 81 lightshlps;
1O7 fog signals vOrked by steam; 1S7
by clock work; 1,761 river lights and
4, 2S6 buoys of various kinds.
( -Ear-lopping was of three degrees.
For minor offenses The lower lobe was
taken off for graver, the upper half;
for ofTenses still more serious, the
whole ear was shorn away.
Only four mayors in Britain are
known as Lord Mayor-those of Lon
don, York, Dublin and Belfast. The
proyosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow
are entitled Lord Proyosts.
. For thirty years a mountain ash tree
has been growing from a narrow lcdRf
of sandstone on the steeple Of the | nj
tartan Church in Utica, NY. The
tree is now 10 or 16 feet tall.
/ A farmer near Shepherdstown,
/ Penn, raised stalk of cabbage with
one huge head in the center and
/ eighteen smaller ones around 1t.
: The were about the size of a quart
measure and perfectly formed.
When the Duke of Monmouth was
! executed for treason his duch,s4
/ ordered every oak in the park to he
cut on the fatefuI morning, The new
growth, belonging to Lord Edbury, Is
ore Of the finest forests IN EritaID