Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-01-14
WINGED MISSILES.

4 and dollars worth OF powder would not
have accomplished what the rain did. The
rock and dirt fell into the bulkhead just
| where 1t was wanted.
The prince Of Wales has become a very
regular attendant at the sessions OF the En-
glish parliament Tho fact IL that the
prince is very much worried about the
chances of the succession in case OF his
| mothers death, and wants to make as
| many friends as possible
In 1854 q Maine man was charged with
! stealing SOD from an exp-sss company.
| The company failed to make out Its case
and had to pay him $1,000 damages but
! only a week ago, after patiently watching
for all these years, they got the drop on
him and he will now 60 to prison.
Walker Fearn, late United States minis
| ter at Athens, states that briRandage no
longer exists in Greece. He says that he
and his daughter and q few friends, un.
| armed and without an escort visited on
horseback the widest parts Of Greece and
met with nothing but cordial hospitality.
Riveting by electricity has been
successfully accomplished. The cold rivet
is placed in the hole, and when heated to
The proper temperature it can be closed by
any Of the ordinary apparatus now in use.
The heating Of q half-inch rivet OF two or
three inches in length takes about half &
minute
The late Henry w. Grady was o great
raconteur. He was master OF dialect
and was never afraid OF giving good story
plenty Of coloring. 1t was considered re-
markable thing In the office OF the Atlanta
Constitution II week went by without a
new yarn from Grady. His stories were
always witty but never vulgar.
Seattle was founded thirty-eiEht years
ago by some thirty or forty men who went
there In the Schooner Exact, which had
been chartered by q party Of California
miners to go to Alaska These young men
were landed at Alki Point and went to the
site of Seattle, which was then An Indian
settlement and mainly q dense forest
The last venture that we read Of in ths
! use of human hair Is q fan valued at $3.50,
says Harper's Bazar. Deft fingers must
have fashioned this unique curiosity, for
what appears TO be costly lace fringing the
sticks il really human hair; baby curls,
like unto fairy thistle down, we doubt not
yielding to the gentle wooing Of summers
softest breeaeA
General Khaireddin Pasha who recently
died at Coustautinopls, was q remarkable
man. He was o Circsssisn and was pur.
chased as q slave sixty years ago by the
Turkish state treasurer. After various
adventures he was made grand vizier by
Abdul, but his tenure of once was brief
The Turks resented his success, and his
downfall was as sudden IS his rise.
A Frenchman at Santa Fe, N. NJ, ha
brought from Paris the secret OF the manu-
facture Of q new and cheap building mater
ial which he is about turning TO Q good
account In Paris he found many large
structures built Of concrete mixture, Of
which volcanic sand is the chief ingred
lent This sand exists in vast quantities
near Santa Fe. The other known inGredi-
ents are lime and water, and the secret is
in the fourth ingredient and ths proper
tionate use.
Stanley says that during his recent Afri
can expedition he camo across a new aud
interesting race of blacks, the Wahoumas,
who were absolutely European In type and
very intelligent They appeared TO be de-
scendants of the ancient Ethiopians, who
settled in some way not known to him in
Equatorial Africa These people never In
,termingied with the aboriginal races, but
kept their blood intact considering the
ordinary negroes beneath them
Pundlta Ramabai, that accomplished
Hindoo lady who is so well remembered in
New York and Boston, has formed club
Of 'king's daughters among her pupils in
India, and says that she already sees the
effect of it in the steadying and strengthen
ing of character in these irresponsible and
undeveloped maidens She has translated
into Maratti the four notices OF the Words
worth clubs: Look up, and not down.
Look forward, and not back" Look out
and not in" and LEND hand"
Among the exhibits at the Indianapolis
meeting of the Western Canned Goods As
sociation are two cans containing beef soup,
part Of a lot prepared for the United States
navy in 1919. They arc owned by William
Daggett Of indianapolis, whose grand.
father was at the head Of Dseeett s. Ken.-
lett Of New Haven, Conn, In the early
part OF the century. The contents are sup
posed to be in good condition; II not the
fermentation and creation Of gases within
would break the seal The soup to-day Is
therefore seventy one years old.
A Cleveland artist says that Q genuine
artist Is very much Like . singed cat He
is better than he looks In speaking Of
artists in general he saws that the artist Of
ability does not differ in appearance from
the ordinary man He says that in Munich
when the student begins to draw from the
antique he lets his hair grow long and car
ries paint box around with him When
he enters more advanced class he cuts
his hair reasonably short and leaves the
paint box at homa When he gets down To
genuine pam ting he wears his hair in the
ordinary style and dresses like the ordl
nary mortal
In recent work On The Physiology OF
Bodily Exercise" DR.. T. A Lagrange saws
that fencing, apparatus gymnastics and
riding school lessons may be safely pre-
scribed for the person whose brain
anguishes for want Of work." But for "a
child overworked at school, for a person
whose nerve centers are congested owing
TO persistent mental effort in preparing
for an examination, for such We must pre-
scribe long walks, the easily learned exer-
Use Of rowing, and, telling bet
ter, the old game Of leap frog and prison
er's base, running games, anything in fact
rather than difficult exercises and acrobat
ic gymnastiea
The force Of an ice shove Il illustrated
by an accident related in q Montreal paper,
when q house and family were swept away:
The man and woman and their two or
three children were N the house, which
was an old French style affair. The house
had foundations and walls three feet thick
in places II was about u o'clock, and the
family were at their dinner, when suddenly
the ice commenced 10 move The upper
Ice struck the s-Atot Of shore Ice and ssnt IL
like a huge knife up the bank, scraping all
before It Before the family had time to
escape the edge Of the knife had struck the
house. II cut 1t clean away and left not o
soul alive Of the entire family. Hardly one
stone remained upon the other, 90 heavy
was the crash Of the Ice upon the house
In 1889 over 5000, 900 kegs of nail,
were made in the United States. Of
which cne-half were OF cut steel, less
than one-fourth Of cut iron, and more
than fourth from wire.