Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-06-06
NO. 25.
News in Brief.
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-Taper betting las been invented.
Italy has 27O, ,OCO inmates of the
Joorhouses.
The almshouses of France haye 290,-
300 inmates.
Some Australian gold veins are 130
eet wide.
-OnIy about 60OO stars are visible to
the naked eye.
Mountaineering on stills is the latest
ad in Switzerland.
There are 1000 species of fishes,
me tenth of which inhabit fresh water.
Scientists are of the opinion that
Iome icebergs last for two hundred
Tea;s.
The farmer IN japan who has ten
Icres of land is looked upon as mon
opolist.
India has u, ,0OU, 900 who can read
md write out of population of 246,-
)00,0 900.
1t is pointed out that one-legged
nen usually grow fat possibly from lack
of exercise.
Spoons of wood, horn, metal or stone
have bee n made in every country from
prehistoric ages.
There are eight edible and twelve
poisonous varieties of mushrooms in
the United States.
Mine lambs on the farm of Rowan
Dent, of Raywick, Ky, are covered
With natural red wool
The annual army expenditure OF
Greece Is $4,000, 900 drachmi. A
lrachma is twenty cents.
In the parrots beak both mandibles
lre movable-a popularity unknown
IN other species of birds.
"A section OF California tree sent
o the British Museum, London, is l33J
1ears old, according to its rings.
-Iank clerks IN Germany receive
rom Sal to Sll00 salary. For the first
ihree or four years they serve without
pay.
An eminent anatomist says that
more of the i'll health of women is due to
heir habit of cramping their feet than
S relZed.
james Sample Walker, one OF the
most noted scouts of the plains in the
'arly days, died at Stockton CCal) re
,ently.
Plenty of water is reported to sup
ply good level for the proposed canal
between Lake Superior and the
Mississippi.
There are 1877 pound of salt in
on OF water from the Dead Sea. In TIE
Atlantic the amount is eighty. one
pounds to every ton.
The oldest ar chitectural ruins in the
world are believed to he the rock cut
emples at Ipsambul, on the left bank
If the Nile, In Nubil.
There is n remarkable burning
Ipring" in Liucoln County, Kentucky,
which regularly overfows its banks
very afternoon at 4.30 o'clock pre-.
'isely.
The city of San Salvador, Capital
)f the South American Republic of the
lame name, is called the Swinging
Mat" on account of its numerous earth
luakes.
-Greek and Roman doors always
opened outward, and when man was
passing out of a house, he knocked on
he door, SO as not to open it in the face
of n passer by.
There is a snake in India which is
Iaid TO possess the peculiar power of
producing insanity in any person who
ooks into its glIttering eyes for more
than ten minutes.
-WaynesvilIe, Pulaski County, Mo,
nr,l,r En l,,t nf
the most Intelligent and best read
towns in America. 1t takes thirty nine
daily newspapers.
The oldest inhabitant of Berlin,
Germany, is q matchmaker named J.G.
Hagemann. He was 102 on March %,
till goes about the house, and his ap.
petite is excellent.
"A 17t-pound trout, is said to have
oeen the largest fish ever caught in tho
Truckee River, was hauled out of that
tream by lucky angler near Reno,
New, the other day.
Near Brenham, Texas, lives n man
who has only one eye; the strange
eature of his case being the fact that
he pace where the other eye should
be is black, and has been SO from
birth.
-L.ass&qsr's s famous old church Mt Wit
enberg, Germany, which the Emperor
lad restored and reconsecrated in 1892,
las been wrecked again by the hurricane
which swept over Europe q few days
'ecently
Ono of Russia's m arriage customs
+ the bride and bridegroom to
.ace rapidly down the aisle as soon as
he bridal procession enters the church,
because of the belief that whichever
places the foot first on tho cloth in
front of the altar will be master IN the
household.