Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-03-28
NO. ID.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


delaware has no State prison.
French lovers have a sealing wax
code.
The first English theatre was built
in 1915.
The Hinalayas have been seen 23l
miles away.
A ton of dimolds is worth
S35, 200.
The oldest collection of poetry is
the book of Psalms.
Out of every 1000 births in Eng.
, land twelve are twine.
The deepest startesian well is at Pots.
dam, Germany, $500 feet deep.
Some magb ogany trees in Hondurnr
are worth from 50, 500 to $500 each
/ One pound of sleeps wool is capa.
BE of producing one yard of cloth,
Person of weak iat,!Jcct are apt to
succumb to acute diseases Of every
, kind.
The Singalase, after extra citing the
honey from the bee, eheF up the insect
Itself.
Detachable heels for boots and
shoes are a recent invention of an Eng
lishman.
Il woman of Spring Hill, No, has
bake a loaf OF bread from yeast thirty
/ years old.
Three million American citizens OF
over thirty years Of age were unmar-
red in 1890.
There is man in West Virginia
who writes his name thus: Llewellyn
Phtholognyrrh.
+ "A sevenicen-year-old 81 mt in Aus.
tralia measures eight feet 81 inches and
weighs 300 pounds.
Roman treaties, lnws and public
documents of importance were written
IN tablets of brass.
-Thelongest wire span IS a telegraph
wire over the river Ristuath IN India
Itis over 6,O00 feet.
1t will cost S35, ,OGI, 25769 to run
| the government OF New York city
| during the coming year.
The tongue of the toad is attached
to the front of his Jaw and hangs back
ward instead of forward.
"A photograph caGega has been spe-
ciilly devised for registering the dis
tance Of lightning flashes.
The bank oIearinss of ST. Louislast
year amounted to Sl,139,Olf, 29I
against 81, 23l, 27l, 953 il 1892.
-Shigaken, Osaka, japan, claimes to
have a dwarf thirty-siz years old who
is only seventeen inches in height.
The root of the talIow tree of China
| produces oil, the lark of the famous
rice paper" and the berries tallow.
A rattlesuake killed by James Ora.
lam of Columbus, Ind, measured nine
fostin lergth and had thirty nine rattles.
One of the earliest shipwrccks re-
corded in this country was that of a
Dutch vessels on Sandy Hook in 1920.
For bleeding at the nose DIR Hut
Crimson recommends plunging the feet
and hands in water as hot as can be
borne.
Vessels of 2, 900 tons carry seven
| anchors, four of a maximum weight OF
| eighteen tons, with about 800 fathOms
Of cable.
An increased impulse to fax culture
in Scotland seems likely to be given by
the invention of machinery for scutch-
ing the fax.
Before the Mohammedans took po-
session of Arabia nine-tenths Of ali fe-
male children born were Immediatly
buried alive.
The burning of Mocsow by the
Russians in order to drive out the French
caused an estimated loss of over
S12} 100000.
An armIess boy cf Middletown
Conn, named William Mylehreet, has
! completed the painting of wagon. His
feet did the work.
-Apig 10 months old that measures
six feet long and weighs nearly 500
pounds IS owned by Wiley Neville OF
Brassville, n. q.
The earth, travelling st the rate OF
! 1000 miles minute, passes through
/ $50, 900, 600 miles of space in tie
course of a year.
If human dwellings were construc-
! ted on the same proportIonate scale as
the ant hill of Africa, private residences
would be a mile high.
"A Newark, N. j., inventor has
produced n street-caI fender which en-
able him to sand on the track anb defy
the trolley iuggernaut.
From a lobster farm at Southport,
Me-, twelve mills in extent, one mill Il
of the crustaceans Rre annually shipped
TO all parts of the world.
The gigantic earth wormswhich infest
the river banksin Gippsland, Australia,
often grow to be SIX feet long and from
one to three inches in dia.
ameter.
What is believed to have been the
llrgest mu e ever reared in America
was sold in Kansas City in 1888. 1t
was 1S2 hands high and weighed 1875
! pounds.
When Lord Palmerstone was buried
in Westminster Abbey, London, the
officiating clergyman threw into the
grave several diamond and other rings
as a peace offering.
So great is the echc in one Of the
rooms of the Pantheon, at Rome, that
the striking together of the palms of the
hands is said to make a noise equal tC
that of twelve-pound cannon.
/
Not Born to Die That Way.