Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-01-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Six and a half tons of diamonds
have been taken from the African
mines within few years, and yet some
people cling to Rhinestones."
"A richly cut, solid glass bedstead
has been recently made at a Blrming-
ham, England, factory for a Calcutta
millionaire. The king Of Burmah also
has one.
"A physician has discovered that
the older a man grows the smaller his
brain becomes. This explains why the
young men know everything and the
old men know nothing.
Nevada is about as proud over the
fact that a big vein OF fine anthracite
coal has been struck, as it is of It's
silver mines. There's about as much
money IN the cCal, too, as in the silver.
The Alaskan Indian is pre-emi-
nently the dude of his race. lie is al
ways clad in handsome furs or blankets,
and carries a walking-stick which is
often a beautiful specimen of elaborate
carving.
Mosquitoes in China have very
poisonous sting. In Tientsia hospital
there were at one time last summer a
man with an abScess in his face and
another wi-h biood-pOIsOning from the
bite of the insects.
The congregation in "A Bloomfield
(N. !. church "a night or two ago was
startled by strange animal observed
walking about among the chairs. The
visitor was run down and killed, when
It was found TO be an opossum.
An electric motor car is to be run
eXperimentally on the Tenth avenue
ter. Should it prove able to cope with
the heavy weather, it is considered
likely horses Will lie dispensed with in
the spring.
A weeping rose tree in a garden at
kOosteren, Holland, is so large that
thirty performers lately gave a concert
under It's branches. 1t is 60 feet IN
circumference, ami l. has been esti-
mated that IL had 10000 roses at the
time OF the performance.
Mrs. Nancy Honaker, of Floyd
county, Kentucky, is the owner of
mule which has been a resident of
that State over sixty years, and she
knows not how much longer. The
animal served Through the war and
was in some hot battles. He is still
capable OF good service.
To determine whether her two
canaries possessed the sense of color,
a Chicago lady placed before them two
bathing cups, one of ordinary white
ware, the other of cOlored glass. After
moments hesitation the birds
plunged INTO the culOred cup, and
have since refused to bathe in any
other.
"A postage stamp exchange"
which was lately held in "A restaurant
on the LeIpziger Strasse, Berlin, is re-
ported to have been cOmr'Hta s'--
cess. Il was fTequented a
stamp collectors, and theDIs
large. 1t Is already propC1ock
brokerage system for three
foreign collectors. feet
Tho new Maine = track
children less than II piece
work IN the mills, an" anu
all between the ages
nave at least sixteen. discOy-
each year. has incjxtra issue
ance at the sc'iUoLs 1uncing the
also increased the alyictory at
remarkably, as the IN was won Znts
find when they take thtin was spera-
tIve5. ok
While number of Indians were
taking ride on tie platform OF a mail
car near Pocatello, Utah, recently, the
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skins was stunned 10y all the others.
The grimaces of disgust bestowed upon
the Ostracized member OF the party led
To an investigation, which revealed
that the lonely one was tramp DIS
gulsed as an Indian in order to get free
| transportation.
In Algeria there IS a small stream
which the chemistry of nature has con-
yerted into true ink. II Is formed by
the union of two TlyuletS, one, of
which is very strongly impregnateG
with iron, while the Other, Ineandering
through peat marsh, imbibes gallIc
acid, another ingredieT% in the forma-
tion of ink. Letters : d other manu-
script matters are salts -actorily written
with this singular natural compound
of iron and gallic acid.
An Orange Heights CFIa.) woman
turned her horse out in the pasture
the other afternoon, and was locking
at it rs 1t fed, when II disappeared
right before her eyes. When she
reached the place where tue animal
had stood she found that the earth had
sunk eight feet below the surface. The
horse was got out none tie worse for
the adventure, but why the earth gave
way has not yet been explained.
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to have been suggested by the surface
of an elephants tooth, which consists
OF lntermingled layers of hard and soft
material, so that the process of wearing
always produces a series of ridges upon
the surface. The new system Of pay-
ing Is the Idea OF Mr.. Ranyard. the
English astronomer, and comprises the
use OF blocks having alternate hsr4 and
SOFT layers, such as Portland cement
and mixture of sand and cement.
which are set upon edge so that the
edges OF these laminae form a wearing
surface. The blocks are made four
inches high, and may be worn TO less
than an inch without becoming smooth.
like granite blocks.
Some very singular electrical phe-
nomena were observed recently, on two
very dry days, at a printing office in
MainZ, when the whole establishment
seemed to be converted into a huge
electric battery. Electric sparks sew
eral centImeters long could be drawn
with the fingers from all parts Of the
printing machinery, Just as may be
} done from charged electric machine.
The action of the sparks became so
pronounced that the layeTs-On and
takers-of refused to work, as burning
sparks were emitted every time the
machines were touched with the hands.
The phenomena lasted for two days.
AT the distribution in November,
! 1887, of the annual ''prlzes of virtue, -
awarded by the French Academy, the
Montyon prize of 1000 francs WAS given
to Jean Ado!phe Delannoy, a Calais
pilot, who has twenty-one times risked
! his life in saving shipwrecked crews.
In one case. in 1867, twelve English
sailors had launched the lIfebOat and
; attempted to rescue a crew in danger,
and Were unsuccessful, all of them pei
ishing; but Delannoy and six comrades
reached the vessel Just in time to see il