Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-03-05
NO. II.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

I'm England, IN which was a collection
of fine water "olOrs, he finds that some
of the more delicate pigments have be-
| gun to face.
A duck belonging to a ROckland
| Me man was frozen into a pond re-
Gently and was found with Just her
head out OF the ice. The ice was broken
and the duck freed, apparently none the
worse for her night out.
Explorer Stanley refuses to lecture
or talk about his travels. He cannot
be blamed for his silence. 1t would
cost him exactly $500, 600 10 open his
mouth. This means that his publishers
have offered HIM that sum for a DO X,
and he is under contract to put all his
good things into It.
| -Tmleries is derived from the word
| tuile, a tile, because tiles were made on
the spot where the palace now stands.
| Catharine de Medici began the build
ing in 1854, and Louis XIV. competed
it in 1864. The grounds and gardens
were laid out by Lenotre, a celebrated
| gardener.
The weight of the great Greenland
or right whale IS said TO be 100 tons, or
| 220,0U0 pounds-equal TO that of
eighty-eight elephants or Az bears. The
whalebone is such a whale may taken
at 1860 rounds, and the oil at from 40
to 40 tons.
In the year 1889 there were laid in
the United States 300 miles Of track,
which means an investment of $780,
100000. This seems large, but 1t is
estimated that Americans abroad in
1889 spent 500, OO0,0
Gladstone is so years oil, but his
mind and body are in as fine a cOndi-
tion as when he was only three-sc Jre-
HIS voice is still clear and ringing, and
he is never thrown of his guard. He
is tall, slim and bOny has been all his
life fond of healty, out of door eXer-
cises, and to this he attributes his Wig
oIous old age.
| The Bank of California has a lTrge
force of mon at work constructing an
irrigation canal fourteen miles long. to
irrigate a tract of 30. 900 acres that the
bank owns in Fresno county. The
canal Will be sixty feet wide and six
feet deep. This tract of land Will be
cut up in twenty-acre farms and placed
on the market.
| -SnowflaKes the size of the human
hand fell over "A small area in Carson
City, New, during the recent cold
spell. They didn't, however, come
from the heavens, but from a factOry's
steam pipe, whence they emerged in
the shape of steam, being converted
into snow by contact with the cold
air.
| Victor Hugo, when writing
''Notre Dame" prepared on the first
day bottle of ink, the last drops of
which were exhausted with the last
line of the novel; this gave him the
notion of naming the book 1.-THE Con-
tents of a Bottle of Ink;'' he departed
from this idea, however, and made over
the title to Alphonse Karr, who has
sent out several novels under this de
slgnatlon-
| Pontiac, the famous Indian chief,
| during the war which he wa.ed against
the English in 1862 issued promissory
notes OF bills Of credit, written upon
birch bark, to purchase supplies for his
warriors, and such was this chieftain's
reputation for integrity that the
French readily received these bills,
which We're subsequently all re leemed,
In the latter respect being unlike tn,
Continental bills of credit
The hangm IN IN New South Vale.
is looked upon with such horror that
he recently found himself completely
b ycotted on reaching Wagga- Wagga
to perform an execution. The cabmeu
refused unanimously TO drive him from
the Tailwa. station; the porteTs also de.
clined TO carry his luggage, and the
unlucky eXecutioneT was oblige tc
trudge off off on foot, struggling with
| his various traps.
"A letter from Port Spain, Trinidad,
| speaks of the recently discovered cura-
| tive qualities of a plant locally known a.
cousin mahOe, whose botanic name Is
| the triumfetta semitrilObA. In cases
| of dyspepsia, Indigestion and liver com
plants the therapeutic effects of thr
plant have been 5 melting wonderful.
The doctors on the island prescribe Il
| largely, knowing its valuable proper
| ties.
"A French savant calculated the
| time required for A journey around
the earth, and has obtained the follow.
ing results: A man, walking day and
| night, without resting, woul take 42s
days. an express train, A days; sound
at medium temperature32t hours;
cannon ball, pig hours; l ght, little
| over one-tenth of second; and elec-
tricity, passing over a copper wire,
a little under one tenth of a second.
| -Mutilated bank notes 20 the valu,
of half million dollars are frequently
destroyed in one day at the Treasury
Department in Washington. They are
thrown INTO a large hopper and ground
to a pulp, which is afterward sold by
contract TO paper manufacturer, sC
that the dainty sheet of paper on which
a lady writes her invitations may rep
resent what was formerly a hundred
thousand dollars.
| Among the exhibits at the Conven-
| ton of the Western Packers Canned
Goods Association, in Indianapolis
were two cans containing beef soup
part of lot prepar for the United
States navy in 1919. The contents
are supposed to be In good condition
! If not, the fermentation and creation
of gases within would break the seal
The soup to-day Is, therefore Il year,
old"
-Correggio's ''San Giovanni, - cited
IN the biographies catalogues as having
been in church and subsequently lost.
is thought to have been found. a
gentleman bought the picture lately foI
a very triding sum from a poor family
in the town OF Corregglo, and, after
submitting it to experts, il has been
pronounced the real real thing, .
picture of great vigor and spontaniety
and In CorrieggO's best style.
"A blind sculptor, Vidal by name,
Is among the wonders of France. He
is guided altogether in his work by the
sense or touch. a dog, horse, human
face or anything alive or dead he mod
els with as much ease as any OF the