Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-02-29
NEWS In RRIEE.

fca was established in East Bridge
water, Mass, in 1877.
"A law has been passed in Waldeck,
Germany, forbidding the granting OF
a marriage license to person addicted
10 the liquor habit.
"A Hartford coin collector has q
cent piece OF the United States coinage
OF 1899, which is considered to be
worth nearly $500.
One more sign of economics OF
progress Is that 1t is contemplated to
make wax candles out of sugar cane.
1t yields cerosin, which has a high
melting point
General Lew Wallace, while IN
Constantinople, became a personal
friend of the present Sultan, and COM
munication between them has been
kept up ever since.
There is a difference of eighty-one
years IN the time which tke Jews
spent in Egypt in the account of Exo-
dus and that of JOsephus, the former
making it period Of 430 years, and
the latter 5ll.
More than half of the area OF
Maine is north of the northern line OF
New Hampshire and Vermont. The
northern part OF the state is farther
Y
Maine is still an unsettled wilderness.
DIR. Schliemann returned to Athens
recently from Ceugo (Cythera), where
he attained his main object of dlscov-
ering the ancient temple of Aphrodite
mentioned by Homer and Herodotus,
but except come Cyclopean walls there
are no vestiges of antiquity,
"A maTung uaUie IN an Eastern
xnvaa tn FaiaR 1aa aef,.
day with the result that large number
of letters, one containing a money
order, were found to have slipped
through a crack and become effectually
concealed.
An inscribed rock has been found
in India, about a hundred yards distant
from one of the five famous rocks
which have craven upon them the
edicts of King ASoka. The inscription,
which consists of ten lines writing, Is
being declphered.
The first silver coin struck in Eng
! land was the ancient silver penny.
| Until the reign of Edward /, it was
marked with a cross so deeply in
dented that 1t could be easily separated
| into two for half pence and into four
for farthings, hence the names.
"A portent of war has frightened
the people of Norway. 1t was mag
nificent meteor, described as being las
large as a child's head" which ap-
peared In the western sky and, in a
semiclrcular course, sunk gradually
below the horizon. Its light was y
brilliant white.
! Statistics show that the consump-
ton of sugar In the last fifty years has
gone up from about fifteen to seventy
pounds per head; of tea from one and
one-quarter to four and three-quaIter
pounds per head; OF tobacco from
eighty-siX hundredths to one and forty
hundredths pounds per head, and 80 on
"A grape grower near Albany pro-
tects his vineyards from thieves bV
! electricity. Wires connected with q
: strong battery are scattered ebcat
among the vines, and the rascal who
gets hold of one hOwls until the master
OF the vineyard comes and takes sat-
isfaction out of HIM with club.
Some little time ago there was a
general rebellion of the host Of women
employed in manufacturing tobacco,
cigars and cigarettes in Mexico against
a reduction of their wages. The women
won. Now comes the news that the
greatest bull-fighter In the country has
given tournament in their aid which
realized S77g.
i The English National Dental hos
pital will hereafter admit women to be
trained as dentists in that institution.
| This is significant gam for women,
| for the English have not been so en-
| cOuraging TO women In dentistry as
the Germans, who employ many IN
the profession.
"A bed in Nikko, Japan, IS eight or
more silk wadded comfoTters piled
upon the floor; upon this very ample
wadded coat IS placed. You slip into
| this great coat, put your arms into
the long sleeves, draw it over you and
sleep. The pillow is a block of wood.
A paper lantern is lighted all night,
for the people are much afraid Of the
dark.
His Majesty Leopold II, King of
Belgium, has authorized a great Inter
national competition in the arts and
sciences to be held in Brussels from
May 3, 1855, to November 3, 1888.
| Special inducements are offered to
American exhibitors, and rewards and
prizes to the amount of 500 600 francs.
besides gold apd silver medals, will be
| given to successful competitors.
The power of The waves In a storm
was shown recently at Bishop rock,
England, when an iron column twenty
three feet long, and weighing 5000
| pounds, part of a new lighthouse be-
ing built, which during a storm had
been left lashed by half inch chain
at each end to strong eye-bolt was
| found tossed up by the waves twenty
feet to the top of the rock, swaying
about like piece of timber. An anvil
weighing 150 pounds, which was left in
| a hole 3 feet deep and only two in di-
ameter, WAS washed completely out
of it.
One of the simplest of barometers
! is a SPIDERS web. Where there is a
| prospect of rain or wind the spider
shOrtens the filaments from which its
web is suspended, and leaves things in
this state as long as the weather is
variable. IL the insect elongates its
threads it Is a sign of fine, calm
weather, the duration of which may
be judged of by the length to which
the threads are let out. If the spider
remains inactive it is a sign of rain:
but If, on the contrary, it keeps at
work during the rain, the latter will
not last long, and will be followed by
fine weather. Other observations have
taught that the spider makes changes
in its web every twenty-fOur hours,
and that if such changes are made IN
the evening, just before sunset, the
night will be clear and beautiful.
! Advocates of cremation have re-
Gently had their attention called to the
feasibility of ncinerating dead bodies
by electricity. The electrical crema-
tory is said to be the invention of a
SIcilian. The heat is generated by a
dynamo of a pattern similar to that
used in the incandescent electric light
system. and succeeds in evaporating, as
II were, the bodies until nothing re-
mains.
Some striking intermingling OF
colors Is seen on some of the gowns
turned Out nv Our hest nOdfsfaa Thus