Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-08-12
NEWS IN BRIL-.
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A foot since 1852.
A fish with two tails is the chief
curiosity at Madison, Penn.
compress d coal-dust is coming In.
70 extensive Uss III France.
Brass bands are not allowed TO play
IN the streets of Nashville, Tenn,
Ten days per annum Is the average
amount of sickness in human life.
There are about fourteen hundred
places worship in London, England.
An electrician predicts that cleo
trical fireworks will soon supersede those
now used.
Many of the big paper-mills have
turned out paper belts said to be super
or to leather.
"A wool of good quality is said to
have been made from the ibre of the Dir
by the aid of electricity.
The maximum safe velocity of cast
ron hy- wheels should not exceed the
rim speed of eighty feet per second.
OF sos weather forecasts issued in
South Australia in 1890, $50 were veri-
ied and forty were partially verified.
Tile juice of a half lemon In tea
sup OF strong black coffee, without sug-
ar. Will often cure sick headache.
The very art of life. as far as have
been able to observe, consists In forti-
tude and perseverance.
Francois Coppee, the French auth
or, is fond of cats that surround his
1esk and nibble at his pen when he
writes.
1t is stated that coffee Is a germI-
eide, the bacili of cholera and typhus
having been destroyed by the infusion
Of coffee.
The skin of boiled egg Is the best
remedy for boil. Carefully peel IL.
wet, and apply 10 the boil; 1t draws out
the matter and relieves the soreness.
VIII, Ii your face and ears burn SO
terribly bathe them in very hot water
as hot AS yCu can bear it. This will be
more apt to cool them than any cold ap-
pllcatlon.
rain Is to be made In Kansas. Balloons
illed with hydrogen and oxygen gas will
be sent up and be exploded by electGici-
lty.
Thunder storms are gradually do
creasing IN number In the larger towns
Of Natal, South Africa, according to
the Superintendent of the Natal Ob5er.
yatoTy.
The King of Ashantee is allowed
1888 wives. Many of them are the
daughters of the chief of tributary tribes
over which the King has jurisdiction,
and are sent to him as hostages.
A Parisian camerist has devised q
method of taking panoramic views by
causing the camera to revolye on al axis
so that the sensitive paper may take
In" the horizon.
The compounding of locomotives
Will soon he gone into on large scale,
and triple expansion engines will soon
be adopted In the larger manufacturing
establishments.
The breaking weight of q bar of
iron one foot long and one inch square
Is 57Sl pounds. A piece of seasoned
hickory of the same Dimensions wouli
break at 270 pounds.
The chimney Is a modern affaiI,
being not yet seven centuries old. 10
the thirteenth century chimneys were
allowed on religious houses, manor
houses and noblemen's castles.
"A tailor of Koenigsberg, Germany,
| demonstrated an enormous muscular
power before the class of students. With
one hand he lifted a heavy chair, on
which sat q 2O0-pound student, from the
floor to the table.
"A young lawyer of Savannah, Ga,
swan across the Savannah River dive
times one day last week for a wager of
$50. The river at that point Is 205
yards wide and twelve feet deep. Fully
| 5000 people watched the performance.
"A Philadelphia company recently
made fiy-wheel which weighs 180 900
tons. 1t Is twenty-five feet in diameter
| eighteen inches thick, and twenty-eight
inches wide. 1t will be operated by a
5000 horse power.
| "A lobster has been caught In Pen.
| obscOt Bay which weighs twenty-five
pounds. Its size has procured for it a
certain immortality. In place of being
eaten it will occupy shelf of honor
among TIE exhibits of the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington.
! More than 40 different appllcs
Liops of electric motors have been emu
merated, and the numbers still increas-
ing, The sizes of the motor range from
those having the power of mouse up
to one of 5000 horse power, which Is In
operation near London.
| Experiments with electric motors
In elevaiing and depressing heavy guns
and turning them in the right direction
have been made in France. A saving
of time was effected. The three Chilian
warship5 building in France will lie pro.
vided with such appliances.
| "A German biologist says that the
two sides Of face are never alike In
two cases ont of five the eyes are out OF
line; one eye is stronger than the other
i'll seven persons out of ten and the right
ear is generally higher than the left.
| In Sweden an improved quality Of
glass for use in microscope and other
| fine lenses is secured by the addition of
PHOSPHORUS and chlorine. Absolute
transparency. GIeat hardness, and sus-
ceptiSility to the finest polish are thus
obtained.
-Chatin has proved that a par4si e
growing on plants of the S rychnos genus
contains neither strychnine nor bTuc ne
u6 luAoltbAo StO"ihS hpoh blO Jun
does not contain the blue tannin OF the
latter, but exc cuslvely green taunIn.
In like manner the other parasites are
shown not TO absorb the peculiar pTIn-
ciples OF their hosts.
A German hiolJgist says that the
two sides of face are never alike. In
two cases out of fiye the eyes are out OF
line; one eye is stronger than the 9th r
in sew n persons out Of ten and Il :"
right ear is generally higher than the
left.
COLONEL +. \. BARKsDALE, advertis-
ing agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, is prosaic man of business
at his desk, but out of his Office he is
natural wit and is very clever at re-
partee. He shines at his best at the
dinner table when the latter courses