Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-07-24
IN BRIEF.

llOu at an Eu9llsu watering pLac4- II
is said that be eats without difficulty
and speaks distinctly.
"A New York jeweler has two Jew
els, apparently diamonds, in his win
dow. with the simple inscription over
them: (which is genulner" Two young
men, after holding a heated discussion
on the question, made The jeweler the
umpire OF a wager. The lStter was
compelled TO acknowledge that both
stones were genuine. It was merely an
ingenious advertisement.
-Twenty-eight iron girIers. said 10
be the largest ever used, will form
portion OF the new American Museum
of Natural History in New y oTk. Each
girder measures about 81 feet in
length. and weighs 10000 pounds.
Great difficulty was found in their
transportation from She river front to
the site OF the building.
"A famous naval dog is attached to
the United States ship Adams. lie be
longs to no one in particular, but u
the ship in general lie has been In
service IN all quarters OF the globe. On
one occasion, when the vessel was out
Of commission for months and repair
ing in the dry-dock, he betool. himself
to the receiving ship, hard 10y, bus
promptly reported for duty when the
Adams was again for service.
The oldest church structure still
standing in North America is believed
undoubtedly TO be the original First
Church erected in SIlem, Mass, ia
1884, and now carefully protected, stIu
standing in the rear of Plummer Han.
in that city. The dimensions, interior.
architecture, and tho material or tins
church all fully conform TO the agclent
records, and amply prove 1t 10 bs the
! original church OF the fathers.
Graham. who intended TO make "a
| trip ~ the Fourth over Niagara Falls
IN his new barrel boat, was Induced L.
send 1t through on an experimental
trip, ballasted 10 passengers weight
| The craft proved 20 have been we'll
| fitted with name-"The Torpedo
for it burs,ed TO pieces in the Rapids
Those who kept Graham from gong
| inside of 1t were promptly convinced
of their unwisdOm, for he says he will
! construct another and go over the Falls
in it.
A number OF Chinese wOrkmen at
Manila tried to see which Of them
| could continue exposed to the sun on a
| plank for tHO hours, the one holding
| out to receive a wager OF SD. Several
made the attempt, but all but one
| quickly abandoned it, This one con
tIued intrepidly. The time counted
| from O'Clock. At halt-past 3 the per
severing competition transferred hIm-
self to the ground. The two hours ex-
| pired, and his companions thought he
was lying down as matter of choice,
but on gong up TO him some time af-
ter they found that he was dead.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital was
| formally opened In Baltimore recently.
1t is said to be the most richly en-
dowed, largest, and best nst.tution of
the kind in the world. It is open to the
poor as well as to the rich. II cost s.. -
| 0O0 900, and the seventeen buildings.
with one or two exceptions, are con
nected by covered passages. Telephones
| connect the different apartments, and
everything about the institution is Won
! derfully complete. There are buildings
| for physicians, nurses and students, as
well as for patients and contagious di-
! seases. The lecture room for clinical
! instruction Will accommodate $50 stu
! dents.
Among the antiquities recently ac-
| quired by the Cnrlstiauia Museum are
some belonging To the middle IRON age,
| found IN two baTT0ws at LaryiX They
| consist of fragments of a lance. a shield
with iron handle, a pair Of shears OF
! SCISSORS, and buckle Of silver, besides
a number of vessels (the most remark
! able of which Is glass beaker, orna-
mented with threads Of glass fused on
| 10 the EXTERIOR, wooden buck ct
| caulked with tar, and many urns.
Among the latter is a large one with
| long neck. The groves in the baUrOws
were made of stones.
Whenever there Is offered In the
| United States a prize open to the whole
country for the family that has the
greatest length, breadth and thickness,
Walker county, Georgia, through the
! Coulter boys, Will be sure to take It, a
| journalist in that State thinks. OF the
six boys, going up by steps and com
mencing at the lowest, James is feet
! 4, Mac feet 8, VIII feet 6, Tom 6
! feet Z, Oscar feet 8 and Richard 8
feet IL. Their weights run from 200
to 262 pounds, making total of 1887
| pounds, and an average Of 229 pounds.
The metric system of weights and
measures continues to grow In favor
| AT a recent meeting Of the French
! Academy of Sciences VI. de Malarce
| reported that in 1887 the aggregate
! population of the countries in which
| the metric system was compulsory was
over 302, 600. 900. being an increase Of
! %, 900, 600 IN ten years. In 1887, in
! countries with population Of close on
/ 81, 900, 600, the use of the system was
! optional; aud the countries where the
! metric system IS legally admitted in
! principle and partially applied las in
! Russia, Turkey and British IndiaJ had
! in 1887 population Of 39j, 900, 900, be
ing an increase Of "a, 100000 in ten
| years.
OF the reported killing Of ''Old
! Clubfoot,' - the terror Of the Sierras, by
| Trapper Hendrix, it is said, this is
| about the ninth time in twice as many
! years that the gratifying news Of BEARS
! death has been announced. As long
! ago as 1871 prOspectJr named Smead
! killed him "a Meadow Lake township,
! Nevada, after a desperate encounter,
and exhibited the skin as a proof OF the
! fact. a miner on Kanaka creek, in
! Sierra county, duplicated the feat six
/ months later. Since then every county
| along the Sierra Nevada ranges has
! periodically set up a calm 10 a similar
| distinction. CluEfO0t has as many lives
as cat, and 1t IS a safe bet that he
will turn up smiling again before the
next State election"
DR.. Mar VOn PettenE01sr and two
other chemists, DR.. AdOlpA Baeyer and
! DR.. 9. Zimmerman are entitled 10 the
credit of having devised the method by
I which the stains have been removed
/ from the new marble statue of LIebig
/ ia Munich somebody dashed a dark