Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-01-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.

An electric bicycle, to run upon Q
wire. is one of the newest wheeling in
ventions-
DIR. Sequard claims that his elixir
has cured lntermitten fever neuralgia,
rheumatism, insomnia and leprosy.
According to Dr. Alfred Carpenter,
Of 72I 900 children born in England In
1888. 10000 died before the close Of
the year.
Trees do not suffer from electric
lights, as has been supposed. DR..
Siemens Is said to have proved that the
electric light really aids vegetation.
The Kentucky Constitutional Con-
vention has decided in favor Of per-
miiting ministers to become Guberns-
torial candidates.
Professor A. L. Garner of Roanoke,
Va, declares that monkeys have a
language with fully developed gram
mar and he is studyingit it.
The Emperor andEmpress Of Rus
sia will celebrate in 1881 their silver
wedding at st. Petersburg. There are
to be festivities vn scale OF extraordi-
nary magniicence.
observations at the Berlin postoffice
show that underground wires are much
less liable than overhead lines to dis
turbance on account Of magnetic
storms.
1t is said that the hop vine is the
best substitute for rags in the manu-
facture of paper. The vine pulp pos
sesses great length. strength, tiexibllity,
and dellcaey.
Tf hoo 81 "a
be possible to take from section OF the
River Negro lakes. occupying about
nine square leagues, upward of two mil
lions of tons of salt.
AN inventor is trying to prevent
railway collisions by constructing an
apparatus that will give warning OF
locomotive engineers when their trains
get too near one to the other.
The new Masonic Temple In Chicago
H., will be in effect q monument three
hundred feet high and l70x140 feet at
base summit.
Brazil is larger than the United
States but In the whole twenty States,
which make up the Republic, there are
not as many people as we have in New
York and Pennsylvania.
Recently published statistics show
that Of the l99, ,473 nou-commissioned
officers and men in British army, 49,
973 belong to the church of England
and 31,27S to the Catholic church.
The mathematician of the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette says that the
consumption of Malaga grapes has in
creased 100 per cent. in this country In
ten years. AS matter of fact, insists
the Detroit Free Press, it has increased
400 per cent. as custom house figures
prove.
The wholesale price Of whalebone is
now $40, 900 ton. A project is on foot
to organize whaling expeditions from
Australia to the AntartIs seas, where 1t
Is believed plenty OF whales are TO De
found. Its an almost untouched whal-
ing ground.
Superintendent Byrnes, of the New
7 York police force estimates that 1000
men mysteriously disappear from public
view every year, but upon investigation
being made 1t is found that 995 OF them
have either gotten into trouble with a
woman or are short in their accounts.
The latest style of horse shoe for cav
airy horses on the Content is made from
layers of paper, glued together, and sub
jected to hydraulic pressure This is at
tached securely TO the hoof by gutts
percha, and. being very elastic, permits
the expansion of the hoof.
"A new operating table for veterin-
ary surgeons Is so made that the top Of
it can be moved by a powerful crank,
and be made 10 stand on edge on the floor
at the side of the table. The animal Is
led alongside, and, while standing on
It's feet, is firmly lashed to the top, which
Is then tilted into place again.
-"Sundown Doctors" is the appella-
tion said to be applied In the city Of Wash
ington to class of practitioners who
are clerks in the Government offices,
and who have taken a medical de-
gree with view to practiclug after
the hours of their official work are
over.
Machine guns, having the electrical
attachment for firing, require one less
man to handle them, while the gunner
can train and operate the gun at will
by simply touching an electric button.
I'm Sydney, Australia, an assistant
of the geological commission has dis
SONCLCu hO" W bhOJOSldpu
a great distance. He has gotten an
impression OF landscapes at a distance
of sixteen miles, and made clear pic
ture.
In photographing projectiles in mo-
tion no results of any Importance are
obtained till the velocity of the shot ex-
ceeds that of sound. But at higher
speeds a wave of compression is found
preceding the bullet in its flight. The
shape Of this wave is hyperboloid of
revolution, with the apex some dis
tance in front Of the shct. Behind the
projectile there is conical wave formed,
the angle Of which isless the greater the
velocity.
One of the po'n 'nts especially noted
by military Observers during the re
cent maneuvres abroad, where smoke
less powder was used, was that in q
clear atmosphere, unobserved by the
smoke of battle, all bright accoutre.
ments were seen at a great distance,
thus showing the positions of the various
hodies of troops.
Relief from the buZZing and inter-
rnptions which try the patience Of per-
sons using telephones is promised by a
system now being tested at Providence,
r. l, Two wires are used. one of cop
per, the other of iron, and ii is claimed
that the liability of induction is rem owed
entirely.
There is not in the world so toilsome
trade as the pursuit of fame; life con-
cludes before you have so much as
sketched your work.