Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-07-11
NO. 80.
News in Brief.

--Sciat,ca most frequently occurs be
tween the ages of 20 and 30.
Evidences of sun worship are founo
in the mythology of every land.
The assessed valuation OF the
United States is S65. COO, 900, 900.
Iceland has fewer cases of phthisis
than any other country on the globe.
In the Paris hospitals over 20 pei
sent OF the typhoid cases Prove fatal.
-Scarlatina is most fatal in London.
where 4SO deaths in 1O, 900 occur from
it.
During the Franco.German wal
she French lost %, 499 men from small
pox.
in England the aristocracy yearly
spends several million dollars on jew
elry.
In 1916, sou, 900 persons died of the
plague ut Bagdad in less than nicety
days.
The United States army is said to
aave over 1000 cases of scurSy every
year.
In Damascus. drunken men ar.
called victims of "the English dis
ease."
Over fifty per cent. of the clses OF
:roup in Sweden and Norway are
fatal.
OF every 100 cases of cataract, fifty.
Jour are males and forty-six are fe-
males.
The offspring of single fly In one
,ummer, if none are destroyed, may
number 2,SOO,GOO.
The first paper ever made in the
world was made by wasps. They used
It for building nests.
Several large finds of the old siIve:
,Oins have been recently made near
Bayreuth, in Bavaria.
Over ninety-three million pound.
ii licorice root were imported into this
ountry during the year.
A railway tunnel under the Eng
lsh Channel was projected IN 1863:
charter refused by Parliament.
The "digue," or breakewater OF
Jherbourg is one of the boldest en-
yineering feats ever perfor med.
The average weight of fleeces pro
iuced in the United States has doub-
ed within the last twenty five years.
A Partisan lady has been fired S1t
md condemned to pay $40 damages to
lodger for calling him an anarchist.
Swords equally as fine as the fn-
nous blades of Damascus are marufac-
tured in Bhutan, State in the Hima'
layas.
Jonathan Hulls in 1886 made h
small steamboat. 1t failed to work,
but had all the germs of Fulton's later
invention.
AT an auction sale in Chicago n few
laws ago an inIai1 ivory table, which
cost 81, 600 in China fifteen years ago,
sold for ST..
-Cymbals' are believed to be among
were used in Egypt at least 1000 years
before Christ.
Over 100, 10000, copies o.
hc Bible have been printed in $50
different languages and dialects during
this century.
james Watt was an inventor from.
The moment he was intrusted with the
! repair of piece of costly and intri-
.ate machinery.
"A flag carried in the war OF lS1a
s a relic priced by Mrs. f. G. Biount
of Waynesboro. Ga. The flag bears
only fifteen stars.
The germ of the guitar is found il
ihe warriors bow, the string of which
gave sonorous twang as the arrow
sped to the mark.
-Cocoanuts and the nuts of the ma
1ogany trees are often cast ashore ON
the cost of England, unimpaired by
their long journey.
Alaska is large enough to contain
treat Britain and ireland, Germany,
France, Greece. and Switzerland with
some room to spare.
The oldest architectural ruins in the
world are believed to be the rock cul
temples at Ipsambul, on the left bank
Of the Nile, N Nubia.
The hand-splnning, with spindl.
md whorl, is the same the world ovel
md indentical with that shown in Egyp-
tian paintings 800 years old.
"A British clergyman wife has per.
ormed the pathological feat of com
piling o grammar and n dictionary OF
the Congo dialect of African speech.
There Is q remarkable burning
spring" in Lincoln County, Kentuck v
which regularly overfiows its banks
| every afternoon at 4.30 o'clock pre-
cisely.
-Waynesville, Pulaski County, Mo.
d, las only $50 people, but it IS one %
the most intelligent and best reno
=, towns in America. 1t take, thirty mine
daily newspapers.
"A bear weighing 800 pounds wa.
aptured near Mount Pleasant, Mich
It had q trap weighing twenty fl vt
pounds attached to one foot. The trnl
was very old and very rusty.
Indianapolis Ind. health officer
lave been ordered by the State BoarG
20 vaccinate all persons who have no
been vaccinated within seven y ears, t,
| prevent the spread of smallpox.
The largest oil PAINTING IN the worIc
one of the Tintoretto, entitled Para
disc" 1t is thirty three and hall
feet in height and eighty-four feet il
width, and may now be seen in til,
Doges Palace, Venice.
Large Price for a Cup Of Water.