Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The tea trade of Japan is instant.
ly increasing.
There are 1000 women to every 94s
men N England.
Iron Is to be made at Chattanoozs
by an electrical procesS.
| An elephant larger than Jumbo has
been captured In Africa.
-Habitual divers in Salt water oftsa
have Inflammation of the eyes.
London theatre going is said 70
have declined to a remarkable q.
tent.
The great contractor, ThomA
Brassey. made nearly 1000 miles Of rail-
ways.
M. Glsmmarian, the French as-
tronomer, declares that the climate
OF Europe is growing colder.
Recent researches show that person.
having tendency to gout improve more
rapidly by abstainiug from fruit
"A japanese recommends cleansing
the hands with tartrate of ammonium
to avoid poisoning from white lead.
-Four different mountain peaks in
Idaho are from thirteen To twenty thres
feet lower than they were fifteen yearI
ago.
"A meteorological station Is to be g.
tablished at liberia, Palestine, a placs
6S2 feet below the level of the MedItsr.
anean Sea.
| The largest steam hammer in this
world is in this country. Its weight Il
125 tons, and is used in forging armoi
plates for our new navy.
Electric heating is promised as on,
OF the new uses of electricity, and Q
company has been organized IN Chicago
to introduce the system.
The idea of establishing an observs.
tory on Mount Blanc, Switzerland, has
been abandoned. The ice was tunneled
100 feet without reaching the rock.
In the last ten years the railroad
system in Mexico has increased from 500
TO 6000 miles. and fully 1000 additional
miles are contracted for.
In the 60 100000 letters that reached
the dead letter Office last year there wa
money amounting to S2S, 642 and checks
and notes of the value of S1,471.,
| 81.
The United States has more miles
of railroad than all European countries
combined. The mileage in this ooun.
try is 1876, 81! miles, and in Europs
154, 713 miles.
Besides the large planets which re.
volve about the SUD, over $50 other,
have been discovered and catalogued,
and science Is daily adding to this
list.
French scientists assert that the
Eiffel Tower causes electrical disturb
ances and that the climate in Paris hH
been much worse since the tower wA
builr.
M OF lZewsA has found that liquid
oxygen instead of being colorless, has 4
bright blue color. He concludes that
the blue of the sky may be due to the
airs oxygen.
n new style OF pllice patrol-wagon
which Chicago is about to adopt |.
completely inclostd, resembling some.
what an ambulance, except that it has
a window in the side.
A Partisan electrician has succeed
ed In forcing vlOlets by the aid of hii
battery, and recently sent a bunch of
these fledglings only four hours cid to
the Empress Eugenie.
1t is now the intention of Euro
pean engineers to store the waters of
the Nile to such an extent as to enable
greater extension Of the cotton and
sugar cane crops in that region.
DIR. Pinel, of Paris, has found thai
hypnotic patients obey the photograph
as readily as they do living speaker.
He, therefore, discards the whole
theory of animal magnetism.
A ctropp ripd 20 ha
tion OF dew. by keeping the air well
mixed. and leaving no part of It In con-
tact with the ground long enough to
become cool and deposit moisture.
TO determine whether the Joint Of
a sewer pipe leaks or not, wrap it with
a piece Of white cloth saturated with q
Of acetate of lead. If It leaks,
the cloth will become black.
-Humbolt calculated the mean hysl
Of North America to be 749 feet above
the sea, and he found that in 4, 500, 600
years the whole of North America
might be worn down to the sea level.
Coal equaljng that of the finest LIE,
high Valley grade has been discovered
In Brazil, the veins being from four to
twenty-five fest in thickne IS. Fns min
are situated at and near Sonora.
Canada only lacks 237, ,OOO SQUARE
miles 10 be as large as the whole copti-
nent OF Europe; it is nearly thiI ty times
as large as Great Britain and ireland.
and Is 90, ZOO square miles larger than
the United States.
The survey for an observatory upon
Mount Blanc, Switzerland, was recent
" made, and as soon as 1t Is shown that
IRON columns, can be sunk through the
ice cap forming the summit. plans for
.he observatory will he prepared.
Peter johnson, of Dassel. Mimi,
thinks he has discovered the long lost
art of tempering copper. He and Nile
Nelson, machinist, want to organize
4 company 10 build factory in Mime
ipolis. The new process will make
copper as hard as STEEL
1t is customary now TO mount cleo
'rio light pr iectOrs on rails running
usually over the bridge or
end of the poop. The railsare
'unk so rs TO bring them flush with the
ieck. When not in use the projectors
Ire run in beard and protected better
rom the weather.
AS instances of longevity in birds
while in state of captivity, Nature,
'eports the death of European crane
which had lived nearly forty three years
n the London Geological Gardens.
This is exceeded, however, by the case
IT black parrot which died in 1884,
lftsr having lived ifty-four years in the
2egent's Park.
How few there are who estimate
right the power of kindly word and
leeds; and yet what mortal being has no
t some time or other felt their benefit
md swee:ness2 Bow many a world
worm and crime-hardened heart has
,een softened into penitence and ten