Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-04-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fir is stronger than oak.


Peanuts yield a superior oil.
There are thirty species of tobacco.
! Tobacco grows wild in some parts
! Of Texas.
London has about 178 rainy days in
year.
in Japan editors must be twenty
one years old.
Italy exported 10000, 600 dozen
eggs last year.
! Canada forbids the adulIeratien Of
cheese, and Canada is right.
Three out of every 135 English
speaking people have red hair.
The mildest day England has seen
for tifty-two years was last Christmas
! 1t would take a snail exactly four
I cen days, five hours, to travel a mile.
; -Drovers say that a sheep weighs
. more lying down than when standing
up.
The best emeralds found in the
! United States come from North Caro-
| lima.
Legal executions in Mexico are by
shooting and take place in the prison
yard.
Mrs. Lucinda Perry, of Upton, Mo-,
has married widower with nineteen
, children.
The Georgia thumper" grass.
, hopper has wing spread equal to that
Of a robin.
China is the most ancient Empire in
. the world and contains one-fifth of the
human race.
1t is said that the human haIr vii
turn white during violent emotion if the
hand is LAID upon it,
In Royal Aquarium of st. Pc
tersbarg, Rome, are fish which have been
on exhibition for $50 years.
In fourteen States and Territories
of the Union marriage between first
cousins Is forbidden by law.
! Letters are still occasionally recei-
we'd at the Marshfield Mass Postofflce
, addressed to the hon. Daniel
Webster.
-ThIrty-two kings and princes have
| born the name of Albert. 1t Is of
Anglo Saxon derivation, and means,
all bright.
Tip Van Winkle" has been on the
stage for sixty-five years. The first
play was produced at Albany, n. Y.
/ May 2G, 1923.
! -Amog the authors who produced
/ some of their best work while in prison
/ were PoetLius, Cervantes, Raleigh,
! NoItlire and Selden.
I
| "A Florida horticultural saws scur-
, pernOng vine can be made to cover ten
acres of land if started off properly
when it first begins to run.
! Catherine the great of Russia was
, very intemparate, aud constantly
! dreaded lest her face should become red.
She rarely appeared in public after it
! did.
! What is supposed to be a meteorite
has been unearthed Mt Windsor, Conn.
1t is about 81 feet by ?! feet and is
, eighteen inches thick, with a knob on
one end.
: The most absent minded man in the
3 world has been found at Geneseo n.
/ He went to his telephone the other day
in one of his abstracted moments and
4 rang himself up.
/ In the West India Islands, Nubia
and the Soudan whistling trees are
found. Peculiar shaped leaves and
pods, with split or open edge, gives
the wind a chance.
The Excelsior" the largest dia-
. mond in the world, Is kept in safe in
the Bank of England. 1t is too big and
and too valuable for use, and therefore
. remains locked up.
during the Civil War the Union
blockading fleet captured or DESTROYED
735 schooners, 155 sloops, 262 steamers
and 40 other vessels that were attempt
ing to run the blockade.
"A root of cassava that measures
seven feet in length and n sweet potato
twenty inches in circumference are two
products from the farm of II. a. Lusk,
near St.Andrew's Bay. Fla.
The statue Venus de Milo, regarded
as the type Of perfect womanly beauty,
was found at Milo, one of the islands
of the Grecian Archipelago, by peasant
while digging at the roots of a tree.
-Georgc Babbitt, of WaveIand, Ind.
was deaf and dumb for five years. A
fall lately caused q serious accident to
bis arm and leg. Since then he can
talk and hear as well as he ever
could.
Charles B. Carey, of Boston, is the
first to utilize aluminium for legQins.
He had a pair made of the metal, and
to test them tramped through the
swamps of Floridn, infested with
venomous snakes. They were fang
proof
"A millionaire of Vienna has left
provision in his will for the constant
illumination of the vaul wherein he
now lies. An electric light Is to be
kept burning for a year, and even the
coffin is to be lighted in the interior by
electricity.
during the siege of Sebastopol the
batteries of the allied army threw into
the besieged city over 30, 900 tons Of
shot and she'll The cost of the
artillery firing and the value of the
guns ruined and condemned is esti
mated at $12, 100000
Before he died MIR. Dorsey, an ex-
inmate of the Connecticut State Prison.
provided turkey dinner for the convicts
on each anniversary of his birthday.
These occasions are events in the prison,
and last week 339 guests in stripes sat
down to the dinner.