Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-05-09
NO. 2l.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Paper pencils are the latest.
Silk is woven by electricity.
Cotton grows wild in India.
Homer mentions locks and keys.
A dogs tailor fourlshes in Paris,
The India cable is 81, 90 miles long.
Japanese farm animals are shod
with straw ardals.
The African King Prester John
never had an existence.
"A rock on the top of Alpine Peak,
IN CalIfornis, spouts electricity.
-Moravian missionaries have been
maintained IN Labrador since l76O.
Visitors to the World'sFair, Chica-
go, left 1000 umbrellas behind them.
"A Swiss electrical firm are to es.
tablish a central station at Cairo,
Egypt.
Greek ladies had steel and brass
mirrors, parasols, fans and smelling
bottles.
Sandwiches made by machinery are
the result of labor saving device jusi
invented.
Tho Western Union Telegraph
Company consumes 100, 900 enye.
lopes year.
One of the small hamlets on Grip
pie Creek, Col, is very appropriately
called "Crutches.
Russia raises 1850 pounds of grain
~ g a.
Inhabitant.
In France the doctors claim on the
estate of a deceased patient has pre-.
cedence over all others.
Tho horseshoeing smith first ap.
peared in Germany, where iron shoes
were fist used for horses.
Bullets poisoned with infectious dis.
case germs is the latest fendish i'm
provement in the art of war.
A Gagged canary in New London,
Conn, after watching the antics of q
free crow, committed suicide.
Rome was supplied from twenty
four large aqueducts, which brought
5O, OO', 600 cubic feet of water daily into
the city.
In the British Museum, London, &c.
cording to the catalogue Just issued,
there are 2700 complete Bibles in ali
languages.
Nicotine is present in about p per
cent. in the ildest Havana tobacco,
and ranges up to y in the stronges!
Virginia.
An Indian named Kimotah, who
lives at Fort Smith, Ark, has horse
that is within fraction of nineteen
J ands high.
Eight colored women entered a
''nail driving contest" the feature of
a church entertainment IN Baltimore
the other week.
Tho best pearls are peri city round,
the next best are pcar-shaped, and
egg. shaped ones are considered the
most inferior.
One part of Lake Ronkonkoma,
Long Island, has never been fathomed.
Two hundred feet of line have failed to
find bottom.
The women in the middle ages al
ways parted t. cir hair with small
dagger. When not in use it was car
lied IN the girdle
In what are called ''looming mir
ages" distant objects show an apparenC
extravagant increase in height without
alteration in breadth
-Cival engineers say the wings of
the butterfly display the greatest posi-
BILE hghtness combined with the great.
est possible strength.
1t is said that the laurel and sun
flower, planted in the garden of
damp, house will change its atmos-
phere from moist to dry.
1t is stated that railway train
traveiing at the rate of one hundred
miles an hOnr could not be pulled up
in distance less than two miles.
Drunkenness is ver' rare in Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, the cause being that
the people drink coffee to tho almost
entire exclusion of alcoholic beverages.
-Dijon, France, has poplar tree
with a record that can be traced to
722 A. d. 1t is 122 feet high and
forty five feet in circumference at the
base.
Artificial wood for furniture, roofs,
insulators, ETC., is now made by burn
ing magneslte together with wood,
shavings, sawdust, cotton hair or
wool.
After riding on n carousell at
Alexandra, La, recently, an aged
colored women dropped. dead
Physicians pronounced her death due to
the excitement.
-EGr-lopping was of three degrees.
For minor ofIenses tho liver was half;
taken off; for graver, the upper lobe
for ohenses stll moro serious, the
whole ear was shorn ava.
Coin collectors regard the collecting
of old Greek coins as their most formi.
dable task, net because of their rarity,
but because fully 1000 independent
cities had n distinctive series of coins.
Mr.. Niger, living on a farm near
Auburn, Texas, has a natural curiosity
"a tree-legged calf ono month old,
which goes round as well as If the
right shoulder and leg had been de.
velop;d.
"A Kansas tramp offered to volk for
his board and clothes on farm, made
love to the farmers old maid sister,
consented to marry her if she would
have all her ugly t-"th pulled out and
ran away after she had done SO.
Presidential Boards
The men who wear nustaches will
rejoice at the return Of one of their