Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-11-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

stamps.
There are over 1907, 900 pores in the
human body.
There are always ), 5e9, ,0ee people on
the seas of the world.
The word boss comes from the low
Dutch, and has the same meaning as in
English.
Tbs st. Gothard tunnel, in the Alps,
Is twice as long as ths Hoosac-over
nine miles.
The inventor and founder OF the uni
versal language Nolapuk Is Rev. DR..
Johann Martin Schleyer.
Gold can be pouded 1900 times thinner
than printing paper. One ounce OF it
Vii cover l46 square feet.
4 chair 12O years old is in use In an
Office in Spring City, Penn, and it Is
said to be just as good as when It was
bought.
The material Known to Americans as
canton flannel Is in England called
swans down, and American muslin is
known III England as calico.
A duck with four feet is curiosity
owned by James Stewa t, or the Ork
Road, opposite Guiford, Nd. When
swimming 1t uses one Of its legs as
rUdder.
-Merino sheep were introduced into
England by George III. in 1TS5, but
they neN or became popular there. The
demand IN that country for mutton was
too great.
When a steamer passes over the Port
Huron mich. tunnel the noise Of the
wheel can be readily heard in the hole,
which Is at least forty feet under the
water.
"A six-pound bunch of grapes was
picked from vine at Stockton, Cal,
recently.
"A Missouri peach has been found
that measured eleven and One-Ialf inch
es and weighed thirteen and one-g uayteT
ounces.
"A fir tree was cut in Washington
State that scaled twenty thousand hve
hundred feet. The cop log was not
counted.
The old leaves on a horse chestnut
at Harrisburg have disappeared and
new blossoms hsve Appeared.
Into a peach tree on his place a:
Napa, Cal, Rev. Richard Wylie has
grated different varieties Of stone
fruit until now he gathers from it al
monds, plums and three kinds of
Vea-hes.
The longest day of this year has
nineteen hours Of daylight at st. Pete s..
burg, seventeen hodrs at Hamburg. 16s
at London, fifteen hours at New York,
and 81 months at SpiJzbergeu.
AT one time General Custer tanned
a tiny field mouse. and kept Il in large
empty inkstaud on bis desk. 1t grew
very fond of him, AMI ran over his
. eat and shoulders and even through
his hair.
The fastest time from New York
to San Francisco WAS made in 1876,
when jarrett * Pa meT' IS special train,
carrying their "HenTy W company,
ran from Jersey City to Oakland ia So
hours 50 minutes auI 10 seconds,
During the time Of the old Roman
Empne the dead bodies of all except
suicides were burned. The Greeks
sometimes buried their dead in the
ground but more generally cremated
them il imitation OF the Romans.
"A new material called rubber vel
Nt- ID LlHLlC " blil .4AllE LlgFf'AEAE GU ACls
of any color over n bier cloth while the
latter Is hot and oft. The result .ooks
like felt cloth, but elastic, waterproof
and exceedingly light.
There is as yet no satisfactory
machine for cutting cOrnsti Ks in the
field. Selfiindiug Te1peTs are used in
some local. les 10 G I the smaller var
ie,ies Of corn but for larye, fully matur-
! do,
In some ninety species Of plants
growing both on the coast, aud II the
interior Of France, Pierre Lesage has
found that proximity to the sea causes
a thickeuing OF the leaves. Artidcially
salted sou produces the same result.
Several doctors have sent by the
Russian Government 70 Asia Minor to
test by experiment the treat nent of
cholera with the f rbubia Sumbul q
plant growing in Turhestan and pos
sessing anti sTasmOdic properties.
-Experirre1ts, it is announced, are
being conducted IN the channel near
Folke stone, England, for The purpoa q
of testing the Eeologlcnl structure Of
that portion Of tie sea bed uIOu which
II has been proposed tOcynstru.t q bridge
across the straits.
"A young woman at r 1chester, Can
ada, sstOnishe5 strangers 10y the wealth
and luXUriance OF her rdVenhdjr. she is
five feet two inches high, buthev tresses
are seven feet six inches long. She says
her hair gives her no trouble aud she
doesn't know what headache IS.
In the days of Columbus, learned
men boldly asserted that if a ship should
reach India she would never get back
again, because IN 7 tundity Of the globe
would present a kind Of mountain, up
which It would be impossible o sail
with the most favorable wind.
There are two cha acter II .c5 Of the
aTis ocratic toilet. Easy fitting gloves
and long shoes with sensible heels. only
the raw element of society sQu-ezss her
hands in patent fastened gloves aud
pinches her feet in narrow So es 70 steep
{ heels.
Elizabeth Comstock, the Quaker
preacher, now aged and inhrm, living
at Union Springs, y. Y, has IN her Life
time visited l22, ,O0D prisoners. l95, 90
sick and wounded sOlileTs, IS, 900 In
mates Of pOOrhOu5es and almshOuses on
both sides Of the water
"A young Turkish woman, ten years
an inmate of seTagliO says: OF our
old customs, as vel as Of our old faith,
very little remains, and it is only in the
lower order or the most secluded harems
that some vestige Of them can be found.
at ConstantinOple women hardly hide
their faces"
The preservation of rails in use Is not
the result Of vibratory motion, or of an
electric action due T. the passage OF the
trains, but the formation OF magnetic
oxide, produced by the compression of
the rust on the metal. The rails are
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