Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-10-14
NO. 43.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| at Is p; men 90.
Apples are as profitable crop in
| California as oranges.
The Chinese do not permit their
women to be photographed.
The average worklngman wears out
| five ounces OF muscle day.
The Vatican at Rome contains POS
s,aiTcases and 100 different rooms.
The cost of burying the late Grand
Duke Nicholas of Russia WAS $500, 900.
The latest humanitarian proposI-
tion is to chloroform criminals TO death,
"A Maine woman, when she wishes
to ell beans, runs them through the
clothes wringer.
"A peach grown at Sylvania. Ga,
weighed IS ounces and measured 1a
inches in circumference.
An English scientist has inventeds
machine which makes the footsteps of
fly distinctly audible.
The sun was free from spots on I75
days in the year 1890, as compared with
211 days in 1889.
Pure chIoroform, something hithsr.
to unobtainable, will now be made by
NJ. Plctet, a chemist OF Geneva.
One of those rare freaks Of nature,
pure white deer, was seen recently by
Iarty OF sportsmen IN Maine.
Labor can change five pounds Of pig
iron worth five cents into l10, 200 steel
watch springs worth s1.15 per DOZEN
Sic, 90 SO.
An Atchison (Kan. man who has
sent 50 bill to England in an envelope
for the past twenty years, says he hsi
never lost dollar.
Recent experiments show that if the
tassels are removed from growing
corn before pollen is formed a much
larger amount of grain will be pro-
duced.
Waste Stag from the basic steel
works is now used extensively as q
fertil zer. Such Is the demand for Il
in England that its value has advanced
from GO cents to Sc 80 per ton.
Six miles off the Ladrone Islands,
in the Pacflc Ocean, Russian vessS
took sound ngs recently and found Q
depth OF five miles, the deepest spot yet
found in any ocean.
In some German schools orden
have been given recently that, owing
to the danger of the spreading OF
tuberculosis; the dust must hereafter
be removed from floor and furniture
with wet rags.
William Allihone, of Punta Ra,sa,
Fla, has an alligator which eats up the
refuse OF the Allibone household, and Ii
a better scavenger than the average gar
bage man.
"A citizen of Macomb, ILL.,, has i'm
ported three partrldges from India for
breeding purposes. 7 hey are small and
very gamy birds, black and brown In col
or, and are very productive.
An author in a recent manual on
horsemanshlp has succeeded In putting
INTO print the peculiar cluck used Id
starting horses, which is made by thrust
ing The tongue against the roof OF the
mouth. He spells 1t xix"
"A statisticlan has computed that
a man might add $500 year TO his in
come by saving the clippings Of his hair
every time it is cut and having 1t man.
ufactured into soft pillows, mattresses,
etc No hair is so soft as that Of hu-
man beings.
The well-knOwn periodic comet of
Encke was discovered on recent
morning at Lick Obs rvatory in Can-
fornia by f. f. Bernard. 1t is very
faint and is following closely the path
predicted for it by DR.. Barklund.
Another series of experiments IN
tea culture is to be made by the De-
partmeut of Agriculture, this time 1T
Los Angeles, Cal, and the United
States Minister to China has been asked
to provide the seed.
Red stockings are generally color
ed from matters of anilIne which oon-
tain large quantities of antimoniac pro-
ducts. When persp1rng. this matter
becomes soluble, enters the pores Of the
skin, and produces a violent rash.
Empress Frederick, of Germany, Ia
fascinated by the genius of II. Rider
Haggard, and by way of returning the
compliment he has dedicated his last
book to her.
The prettiest royal girl in Eastern
Europe is said to be the Princess Helene,
of Montenegro, who, 1t is reported, Is
the allotted bride of the heir apparent
to the Russian throne.
Diamonds were worn by every lady
present at the opera IN London on the
night when the German Empress was
there. The German Empress and the
Princess of Wales alone mixed pearls
with the bTilllants.
Elizabeth BIsland, who made the
flying trip around the world, has become
engaged to a New York lawyer of re-
pute named Wetmore and Is coming
home from London In October. The
wedding will take place In November.
"A process has been invented for
waterproodng clothes by dipping them
in chemical mixture which does not
injure velvet, plush or any fabric, even
those with nap But for some reason
or other it has never come into very
general use.
The Sultan has made trouble for
himself by interfering in the fashions
of the day. He has issued decree pro-
hibIting the ladies of Constantinople
from perambulating the streets in Paris
costumes that they have adopted of late.
-Artesian well boring is a new in
dustry in the Republic of Nicaragua.
The usefulness of these wells cannot be
calculated. Every year thousands of
cattle die for want of water. Agricul-
turists in general, and coffee planters
especially, suffer much for this neces-
aEy. Only very few coffee planters
have water sufficient to wash their ber-
ries, and washed coffee brings al
ways from three to four cents more
in the market than unwashed.
Electric light has been employed
advantageously on board of West H.
dian steamer crossing the ocean to keen
alive and flouTishlng certain plants
which were being transported for ac-
climatiZation.
Blue Wing, great 3-year-old of
former days, from the turf standpoint,