Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07
NO. 8.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-filberts came from Greece.
-Quinces came from Corinth
The cantelope is native of America
English locomotives have no bells.
Melons were found originally in
Asia.
Sage is a native of the south of Eu
rope.
There is no in the Hawaiian al
phabet
Tricycle. cabs are Milan Italy
novelty
Europeans every year eat $40, 600
tons OF beef, mutton and pork.
The average trip around the worIl
comprises about % 000 miles of travel.
One county in New Jersey sends TO
New York ten carloads of lettuce
day.
France and Italy raise $4,000 bush
els Of chestnuvs for home use and cX-
port.
france and Italy raised $500 ',G2)
bushels of chestnuts for home use and
export.
The American peoplein 1892 drank
the decoction from 60, 700, 900 pounds
of coffee
Russia raises 1860 pounds of grain
and fifty-one pounds Of meat to each
lnhabitant
The United States are said 10 have
14O, 900, 900 geese of the kind which are
used for food.
The tomato is native Of South
America and takes its name from
Portuguese word.
The diamond mines of Brazil have
yiel led over 5000, O0J carats of stores,
valued at 800, GOO. 600.
England is first mentioned In his
tory as a tin producing country, and
its tin mines are still worked.
So widely prevalent Is the opium
habit in China, that seven natives in
ten, it is said, are addicted to it.
Some southern cities attribute the
introduction of mosquitoes to railway
cars, especially the Pullman sleepers
In many parts of India oxen still
serve as carriers of merchandisn, aud
buffaloes are kept for milk and plough
ing.
The sapphire which adorns the sum
NIT of the English crown is the sane
that Edward the Confessor wore IN his
ring.
Alaska, with its islands is said to
have a coast line of %, OOJ miles, equal
in extent to the circumference of the
globe.
Tho early English and French kings
took ''moneyers" with them on their
travels, who coined money rs it WIS
needed.
Hanging, drawing and quartering
were inflicted in England on William
Marise, n nobleman's son who had turn
ed pirate
The first tunnel for commercial
purposes was executed by NJ. Riguet,
in the reign of Louis XIV, at Bezier-
es, France.
The onion was almost an object of
worship with the Egyptians 2OOO years
before the Christian era 1t first came
from India.
Why birds don't fall off the roost
Is because they can't. When they sit
down the muscles of the lower leg
must contract
On some parts of the coasts of
France when the wind is east the mist
that appears bears with it IL very mott
ceable perfume.
Mary of the caves discovered IN
New Mexico and Arizona contain hu-
man bones and other evidences
occupancy years ago.
-Latreilie once cut off the antennae
nf on1 ifc
IDENTIFY omIassionating its suffering,
anointed the wounded parts with
drops of fluid from their mouths.
The Bank of England DESTROYS
about 350,On0 of its notes every week TO
replace them with freshly printed ones.
One evening in each week is set apart
for the making of this expensive bon
fire.
The kreuzzeitung saws that the
building of the new German EveDgeh-
cal Church at Jerusalem is the first step
towards the projected establishment Of
a German evangelical bishopric in that
city.
The largest building stones are those
used in the cyclopean walls of Baal-
bee, in Syria. Some of these measure
sixty-three feet IN length by twenty
six in breadth, and are of unknown
depth,
A new way to serve raw oysters is
in tall, handled tumblers. \ dressing
of pepper and salt, lemon Juice and
Worcestershire sauce goes with them,
and they are picked out with the long
oyster fork.
The oldest fire engine company in
the country Is claimed to be located Mt
Mount Holly, n. J. 1t is call ed the
Relief Fire Company and has had
continuous existence of III years.
Mrs. John j. Aikens, of PniladeI.
phia, has the pen with which Robert
Parkes, of England, inscribed the
pames of the children who afforded
the first Sunday School in the world,
ll3 years ago.
The value of land in Great Britain
rose enormously during the Canadian
an American wars of the last century,
and increased still further during the
French wars owing to the demand for
grain and its advanced price.
Canon Fnrrar says thst the present
statistics show that the number of
births in the richest districts of Ken
sington. London, are tenty per 1909
every year, while the number of births
IN the poorest districts OF Fulbam IS
forty-eight per 1000.
-Ouiy on two occasions has England
gone to war to aid weaker Nation.
The first was when Elizabeth seut an
expedition 10 the relief of the Dutch
and Flemings to help them against the
encroachments of Philip ii. Of Spain.
The second was the war of Greek inde-
pendence in 1927.