Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-24
SELECT SIFTINGS.

At London q telephone costs $50 a
year.
It would require II, 900 microbes to
form procession an inch long.
There are tides in the Mediterra-
mean Sea, but they are very small
The catacombs of Rome contain the
remains of about 5000, 900 people.
A convict in the Vernon State Prison
received S12. 900 for a piece of real es-
tate few days ago.
The most remarkable springs in the
world are in California; they produce
sulphuric acid and ink.
Greek temples erected in honor OF
the superior deities were always un-
covered or open to the sky.
The smallest bird is the West India
humming bird. Its body is less than
an inch long, and weighs but twenty
grains.
A set of false teeth, around which
oysters had formed, WAS unearthed by
dredgers near Moorehead City, on the
Gulf coast.
A man at Charlestown, Md, has just
been convicted under the law of 1923.
His offense was working on Sunday.
The Judge reserved sentence.
The whole of Manhattan Island was
purchased from the Indians for sixty
Dutch guilders, "some of them," 1t is
said, "being of doubtful metal. :"
Aunt Eunice Conrad, who lives in
Pendleton County, West Virginia, is
116 years old She is a widow of a
soldier of the war of 1912, and draws a
pension therefor.
The oldest member of the PhiladeI
phia police force, Daniel Kendig, is
eighty-two years of age, and still does
duty as a guard at the Mayors office.
He is as vigorous as the average man
of fifty.
In the basement of the Bank Of
England, London, is the barracks
wherein half hundred soldiers are
auartered from o'clock every evening
until Z o'clock the next morning for
the protection of the bank.
There were ninetyfive words in the
original cablegram, the famous despatch
from Queen Victoria to President
Buchanan. Owing to a defect of the
wires the transmission of the message
consumed twenty-four hours.
The heads of persons beheaded for
state offenses were formerly exposed to
view upon long poles on London Bridge.
The last head so exhibited was that of
venner, the fifth monarchy zealot, be-
headed in the reign of Charles II.
There has been discovered German
! book printed at Philadelphia and dated
17O5, twenty years after the settlement
, of Philadelphia's suburb of German
town and thirty years earlier than the
date hitherto assigned to the first
printing of a German work in Phila'
delphia.
About the year 1867 the beats and
calls of the drum, then used in the ser.
vice, were put into apermanent shape.
| The tattoo, or beat of the drum calling
soldiers to their quarters at night, was
once called 'tap-too," from the Dutch
word signifying emo more drink to be
tapped or sold"
! Crinoline dates from the days OF
Queen Elizabeth and survived until the
Commonwealth 1t appeared again in
1711 and was enlarged in 1744 and con-
tinued to the end of the century. 1t
was abolished by George ~. From
1856 to 1866 it fiourished in all its glory
and attained its largest dimensions.
/ A dog that sucks eggs can always be
cured by boiling an egg very soft, then
placing it, as hot as boiling water can
make it, in the dogs mouth and slam
ming his jaws together, SO as to break
the egg in his mouth. No matter how
long he may have been addicted to egg
sucking, one dose of soft boiled eggs
will answer for the remainder of his
days.