Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-05-20
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SEWS IN BRIEF.
Metal shingles are heTa.

"A railroad car registers tue COuul-
tiCn OF the road.
A sheet of Plate glass is 36S square
feet, 12S inches.
1t has been recently discovered that
Shakespeare never speaks a good word
for dogs.
"A lamp that burns cologne and filings
delightful scents is a new thing for the
boudoir.
The Duke of Wellington was born
at DUNCAN Castle, County of Meath,
Ireland, In 1869.
"A saw has been designed for cut
ting iron, mild steel or other metals of
fairly large sections.
All the bridges over the Erie Canal,
at Rochester, n. Y. ARE to be operated
hereafter by electricity.
"A Spanish potato, raised at Clark
vile, Ga. this season, was four feet
and eight inches in length.
"A West Philadelphia poet In his
latest effort attempts TO make ''tobog-
gau" rhine with ''oh, come againl"
"A postmaster in Texas committed
suicide the other day because he had
been indicted for stealing forty cents.
An alderman in Janeville, Wis,
has been fined S25 for allowing
chicken fight in front of his place of
business.
There are now 1854 compound lOcc-
motives at work or building, 523 icing
in England, 330 in Germany and eight
in North America.
AT Kingston, Jamaica, oranges sell
at two cents per dozen, and tananas
are so plentiful that the owners are
glad to get rid of the fruit at any price.
The steam hammer used in forging
the armor plates of Bethlehem, Pa. has
a plunge equal in weight to l25 tons.
The anvil that receives this blow
weighs 400 tons.
"A volunteer vine at Hanford, Cal,
yielled forty-two monst rous pumpkins,
and another viue thirty. The product
of either vine would make a good
wagon load.
William Fowler is the name of an
eight-year-old tramp now in MemT his,
Tenn. lie began to travel when barely
six years old, and has been all over the
country.
To prevent the evaporation of water
in fire pals it has been suggested that
fifteen to twenty drops of oil will form
a coating sufficient to obviate the difi-
Guilty,
There has been invented machine
for cutting tubes of paper for pill-box-
es The operations are all automatic
and the work is said to be rapidly per
formed.
-Proprietors of the Pullman car in
vention report that paper car wheels
have run 400, 900 miles under their cars,
while the average running power OF an
iron wheel is but $4,000 miles.
During magnetic storms earth cur
rents on the Br tIsh lines of telegraph
have been known to attain the
strength of forty miIliamperes. This
is stronger than the usual working cur
rents.
The only man tried, found guilty
and executed for treason during the
existence of the United States was
William B. Mumford, in 1862. The
execution took place In New Orleans,
under an order of Major General Ben
jamin +. Butler.
The British soldiers life at Indian
frontier stations cannot be altogether
happy. One noon recently the Their
IN meter re yistered ninety-fOur degrees
at the Gnatong fort in Silkkim. That
night it fell TO seventeen degrees above
zero,
In shoe ting at wild reese on the
wing, the gunner has to hold about
eight feet above the leader if he wishes
to hit him, and even then he isapt TO hit
the fifth or sixth in one string and see
him strike the ground IN his fall at a
distance of three or four hundred yards
from the stand.
American shoe machinery has been
introduced IN Leicester, England, and
has created considerable interest among
the manufacturers. A writer In a
Manchester paper says that ''Ameri-
cans are miles ahead" in shoe machin.
cry.
Louis Cyr, the strong man of Canada,
twenty seven years old, al a recent ex-
hibition at Lewistown Me, } picked uI
barrel of flour with one hand and
put it on his shoulder. BY his famous
up ward back lift, be raised a platfor u
weighing 261 pounds, on which stood
twenty men whose combined weight
was 1890 pounds.
The South Kensington Museum IL
London has obtained from Siz Tgt
Castle, in Westmoreland the oak liniu q
of a room which dates from the time oi
Elizabeth. 1t is l20 feet long and Ii
feet high. The panels are inlaid witt
[ holly wood and ebony and divided BY
4 pIlasters- The ceiling, panel ed and will
] pendants, is also present.
Fish are attracted by the electric
I light, the same as insects and b Tds
q and it has been found that the placin.
J of an electric lamp o. high rover II
the sea, even at part rot frequenteC
by fish, causes members of the GLn!
tribe to flock in great numbers.
Lima (Ohio) oil is being used sue
cessfully in a number of Plttsbure
: mills and factories. Rolling mill own
ers favor it because it does not oxid u
the iron, and for that reason 1t
thought that natural gas VII soon b.
superseded by it. The oil is shipped from
; the field in tank cars, and q mUvemen
Y is on foot to build pipe line to tha
c city.
DIR. Armand Jeauoutot, a younI
physician of Paris, Is the latest In th
field as consumption cure discoverer
His cure is by inhalation. His appara
Il tus consists of small tubular bras
't boiler, connected with brass pan wit
a lid, when in operation. from un
der the lid escape vapors which sprea
" about the room, one OF the parts o
} which is prussic acid.
The Mickey Breen Mine, in the Ours
r (Col.) district, has been sold toa Frenc
company for Sl,30O0OO.
In Great Britain there is one elect0
q to about six of the population; 10 Be
pium only one to about forty-siX.