Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-05-21
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NEWS IN BRIEr.

cumference at a distance of six feet
from the ground. This would give .
diameter of about 60 feet at that point.
The first Young Mems Christian
| Association in the United States Army
has recently been established at Fort
ress Monroe, Va. Although only two
months old. it now has eighty IN
/ bers.
The art of making red glass for
! church windows, as practiced IN the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, was
lost for long time, and was only re-
covered in 1926. The modern product
is still inferior TO the ancient.
The English army IS in a state of
discomfort because some London
! theatres refuse to admit non-commis-
stoned officers in uniform to those parts
of the house where full dress is re-
quired.
All of the bank note currency of
the Italian government is engraved and
| printed in the United States. The
notes are neat, but small, resembling
somewhat the fractional notes issued
In America IN war times.
"A petr,fi tree nearly 4 feet
through, with roots extending over
about - square feet, was found re-
Gently IN a coal mine at Osndbruck,
| Germany, and has been set up in the
! Berlin School Of mines.
One of the largest forests in the
world stands on ice. 1t Is sii uated be-
tween the Ural and the Okhotsk sea. \
well was recently dug in this region.
when il was found that at a depth of
llO meters the ground was still frozen.
The gravity system supplies New
! \ ork city with water, except the high
er portions, which are supplied from a
reservoir at High Bridge, into which
cIotOn water is forced by steam pumps.
Boston is supplied by "A like system
Though Grant and Lincoln were
both from Illinois, they never met till
Grant went east to take command of
tie Army of the Potomac. 1t is also
stated that they held full and free con-
versaiions with each other but three
times.
Thirty years ago Adellna Patti was
appearing in Italian opera, and the
casts included sometimes Nine. Gaz-
Zaniga, as well as herself, and Brignoli
was N the company. The admission
IA es ranged from p cents to Sl.50 for
the bes. seats.
"A new museum VIII soon be started
III Paris to be known as the Museum
| of the French Army and to comprise
ancient uniforms, equipments, arms
and everything relating to the history
of the French regiments. An enor-
! nous amount Of material has already
| been ecuTed.
~ woman III Americus, Ga, is
using lamp chimney that she has used
daily for th- past eight years, and she
expects to use it for many years yet.
She says that sh- boiled IT in salt and
water when It was bought, in 1882,
and no matter bow large a flame runs
| through IL, IL wont break.
What is said to be the largest shad
ever caught ab We Ii ,ewatcr in the
| Delaware river WAS recently caught in
the net of William Smith, an old fisher
man, at the Lambertyille, \. j., FISH,
cry. 1t measure, 81 ches in length.
s inches IN breadth, AM inches IN
thickness. and weighs l3! pounds.
-ThIrty- seven French soldiers, un-
! der command of a captain, lieutenant
and Sub-lleutenant. are said to have
marched from their barrdck at Nannes
! to a railroad station twelve miles dis
! taut in one horr and fifty minu es, TO
salute a gene al whose train Was to
stop at the station. Not man fell out
on the march.
Paris public schools are over
! crowded, AMI the authorities prOpOs.
| TO help TO remedy Tire difficulty 10y for
bidding the Attendance at them of
children OF foreigners. The, are Co.
O0U foreign children IN the city, and at
lea-t 500 of them are getting
French education free at the public
schools.
-RutherforI B. Hayes, who served
under the late Gen. Crook during the
war, in tender tribute TO his memory,
says: NO statesman or philanthTopist
i'll his closet has framed theories for
uplifting the red men more worthy a
! just, generous and powerful nation
than the piact.ca. me sures Which Gen.
| Crook devised"
In 1904 there were thIrty-five
translatIons of the Scriptures in exis-
! ter ce. Since the formation of the
! British and Foreign BIbl. society in
that year ten miiiiuus of IA uey have
been eXgended Ia tie work OF circula-
ting the Bible, and there are now,
counting dialects as well "a languages,
! lures.
The largest advert isement in the
world is that of the GiuSgOU Ne,C8, cut
IN the shape of flower beds on the side
of hill back of Ardenlee, Scotland.
| Tie words Glasgow News can be
seen and plainly read distance of four
miles; the length Of each letter is 40
| feet; the total length of the line 323
| feet; the area covered by the letters IA
| $40 feet.
The deepest lake in the world is
I Lake Baikal, in Siberia. Its area of
| over 300 square miles makes IL about
! equal 10 Erie in superficial extent; its
! enormous depth OF between 1900 and
| 4, 800 feet makes the volume or its
waters almost equal TO that Of Lake
! Superior; although its surface is 1850
feet above the sea level, its bottom is
nearly 3 200 feet below it.
The dagger with which Ravaillac
| sssassinated Henry W. of France has
been found 10y Berlin antiquITy. lie
/ bought a curious thick cane from a
/ peasa {, and on examination the stick
proved to be hollOH and to contain an
ancient poniard and tiny snuff box. In
| the latter was paper stating that the
owner OF the stick had carried off the
historical dagger from the Paris Palais
| de Justice in 1915.
Pure cellLlose gives traces of sugar
at the ordinary pressure. At higher
! pressureS the quantity Of sugar in
| cTeases, but at 20 atmOspheres it is con-
verted into hydrOcellulose. Wood is
| attacked by water at the ordinary
pressure, but the action reaches It's