Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-06-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pennsylvania established the first
hospital In America IN 115l.
In Paris the latest fan cy is the cos
iuming of eats and dogs.
1t is said the coming man is going
20 be hairless and toothleSs.
Examination by microscope has
demonstrated that sponges have hfe.
The biggest gold coin in the United
States was the $50 gold slug of Cali
'ornia.
4 New York lawyer is said to have
received 500, 600 for his opinion of the
Sugar Trust.
The scheme for a duplicate of the
Eiffel Tower, in London. England, has
been abandoned.
Two thousa nd two hundred trains
cave London, En- gland, ordinarily every
.wenty-four hours.
Nearly 81, coo year is paid by
;he British Government for the car
:iage of mails by rail.
-Despondency associated with bodi-
allment Is the origin of by far the
argest portion of suicides.
One million dollars of gold coin
weighs 1865 pounds avoirdupois; of sill
yer coin, 5S, ,02O.9 pounds.
OF 305 weather forecasts issued In
Sonth Australia in 1872, $50 were veri-
led and forty were partially verified.
There are over million miles of
telegraph wire in the United States,
.nough to encircle the globe forty
lines.
"A boy was arrested in Philadel-
)hia recently for stealing his sisters
diamond wedding ring the day before
;he ceremony.
"A perfect pearl weighing twenty
even grains was found recently by a
Pottstown (Penn:) boy in a mussel
llong the French creek.
M. OlsZewski, Polish scientist,
las made the discovery that the color
If liquetied oxygen Is bright blue, re-
embling that of the sky.
"A submarine gun has been sue
,essfully trie@ in the Lake of Camo,
Italy, to d.. barge at a depth OF 100
Yards, causing a boat to capsize.
The tusks of -, 90 elephants are re-
Iuired every year To supply the worlds
piano keys and for the making of bill
ldTu bdllS anu hnle ndnultS.
DIR. Fisher, of Breslau, Germany,
IS said to have succeeded in photograph
ng by their own light, luminous bac-
.er a, such "a sometimes abound in de-
composing fish.
Virginia, North Carolina and Ten
lessee raise an average of $4,000
bushels of peanuts year. The annual
value of the crop averaged q, SOC, COO
,or the last four years.
1t is said that the Rhododendron
Catawbiense has escaped from gardens
n Nova Scotia, and is spreading itself
Dy its seeds over the moist rock in the
woodlands there.
"A Parisian camerist has devised a
method of takin; panoramic views by
,ausing the camera to Tevolve on an
axis so that the sensitive paper may
take in" tina horizon.
Among the extinct crabs one has
)een found, known as the pterygo.us,
hat measured nine feet I'm length, and
vas undoubtedly the devastalor of its
kind in the ancient seas.
The cells of the human lungs are
10, 900, 900 in number, covering a sur
ACE from two and a half to three and a
lalf times greater than the whole body
surface of ten full grown men.
In It's native habitat the she'll OF
.he oyster is always little open, and
microscopic, wagng hairs set up cur
rents which carry the food plants to its
mouth, where they are engulfed and
lfterward dlgested.
An Italian statistIcian has calcu-
ated that during the last hundred
Iears $3.50 per ons perished in seven
/ jeen principal maritime disasters, with
put reckoning lives lost in smaller
ihipwrecks and accidents.
Kew Observatory, England, Is about
% undertake the testing of Photographic
lenses, as it has for many years done
that of telescopes, seXatants, serveying
instrument and chTOuOmeteTs.
The roe deer is the smallest and most
learly domestic ited of the three species
which nhabit Germany, 1t is likewise
she most beautiful, anu its flesh Is the
, laintiest vensiOn known TO the eplcure-
Some of the Alaskan natives acquire
very respectable fortunes in the fishing
srade. A Nicholas Bay Indian has been
known TO pay down $1,000 In hard cash
O. lOT DldnhtIS dliu LlibhtLo ioi ohO pOb-
ach.
1t is stated that among the records
! in the Tower of London, a document
was found according to which man
was hanged in the time of Edward L.
for no other crime than having been
caught burning coal.
| Canister shot will not be used in
The French army in the future. The
shells are filed with an explosive made
of chTysclite and a substance kept Sc
cret, and every battery has seventy
five rounds of these prOiectiles.
Gum chewers' cramp is a new ad-
lition to the types OF disease produced
by the frequent use of single group
Of muscles. 1t is a muscular incOrdins-
lion similar to writer's, telegrapheIs',
mIlk-maids' and cigar-makers' cramp.
! -Tabasco sauce is made on an island
In the Gulf of Mexico Of herbs indigo
nous TO the place OF its manufacture.
Its formula is a secret. IL Is shipped
from said island in large quantities to
New Orleans and Galveston, which are
the principal distributing points for 1t
the world over.
! French scientists are pulling over
A spider which was discovered ina cavity
in a stone. IL is estimated that the stone
must be at least 1000 years old. this.
Notwithstanding, however, thespIder is
quIte lively and very youthful in its
antics. 1t is blind and has no mouth.
"A vast "banyan' tree has been
discovered on the tiny Lord Howe
Island, 300 miles from Port Macquarie.
in Australia. 1t covers between six
and seven acres. and is thus inferior
only TO the greatest of those IN India.
You must desire to improve your
heart, and SO become good. You must
desire to improve your head, and 80
become well Informed. But you must
desire first 10 become good. That is
the first and great end of life.
TEE largest dynamite factory in this
country is IN New Jersey. The great
est danger of explosions is ia the