Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Romans etched their public rso.
'rds on brass.
The Chinese do not permit their
women to lie photographed.
The Fails IN the United States
rould go around the earth twelve times
There are Is, coo brass bands In thn
ountry, with 10000 performers.
Within the last decade 5,245. sac
'oreigners have come to our shores.
Every year layer of the entire sea
iourleen teet thick, is taken up into ths
clouds.
-Seawee1 Is now made into a tough
paper, which takes the plaos Of window
glass.
A Circasslan mothers first care is e
promote the growth Of her childreuf
.yelashes.
FLORISTS are said to add perfume b
flowers by dipping item In some fra
grant essence.
There are about $4,000 arrests each
year In Paris, and Of those arrests thirty
i've are aSsassins.
The underground system Of teIe
graphs OF the German Empire has O
total length of 5000 miles.
Platinum and silver can each be
drawn into wire many times smaller
than human hair.
"A dozen church organs III New
I or k ci are now supplied with wind
by elecuic motors.
"A Blilgeport Conn. mechanic hn
Invented new method Of adiu3ttns
propellers for ocean steamers
1t seems not unlikely that electric
lty will be applied to smelling furnaces
in the near future.
"A petrified man, seven feet long,
and weighing 600 pounds, has been dis
covered In a Colorado canyon.
An orange tree in Polk County,
Florida, has yielded from twenty-five
to fifty boxes Of fruit yearly since
1856.
Into the streets OF Denver, Col,
S25, coo. 600 In gold and silver coin are
shoveled from the mountains every
year.
-There are five women and one man
living at 162 Amherst street, Toronto,
Canada, who sleep every night IN theiI
respective collins.
-Darmio persimmons Weighing
eighteen ounces have been growE on
the place of Colonel Church, Just ssst
Of Orlando, Fla.
Practical New York dairymen
claim it has taken at least ~ IL pounds
Of milk on the average this season to
make pound Of cheese.
-Geoloeis,s have proved that the
diamond mines IL South AfIi:a are
situated in vents or cLimueys varying
from 70 to 1900 feet III diameter.
Manpfacturers are bsginnino 70 In,
troduce electricity mo their factories
as motive power by suodividing Is
into units.
"A very extensive domestic industry
in Russia consists of the manufacture OF
wooden spoons, which are made to the
extent Of 800, 900, ,00J annually, mostly
Of birch.
The average pulse IN infancy Is one
hundred and twenty minute; in msn-
hood, eighty; at sixty years, sixty. The
pulse OF females is more frequent than
that Of males,
The prod Of metal a'uminun
by electroysiS at q cost little above
that of tin IS what some French chem-
lists are sanguIne of being able to ac-
complIsh.
The 301th asteroil was discovered
on Octobsr 81, 1890. The first was dis
covered January lst 1871, and the lit
has been iucreased by about 100 IN the
;ast ten years.
DR.. Stephen II. Emmons, the in
ventor Of the explosive ''emmonsite,
has given di ectIons for an aluminium
bronze gun at the Pittsburg Reduction
works. The gun will have
a range Of fifteen miles.
"A petroleum engine has beer intro
duced In a lighthouse in Scotland for
working the siren of the fog signal ap-
paratus recently Installed. The result
Is said to be excellent, giving security
aud promptness.
"A golden eagle weighing 95 p und:
was killed a short time ago on the Sis
seton reservation, Montana. the bird
stood three and a half feet high and
nine feet from tip to tip,
Nickel was first obtained as metal
In Germany about 1151, but the ore had
been previously known to miners, who
called 1t kupfernicSel, or old nick's cop
per, for the reason that, though Il
looked like copper ore, no copper ore
could be obtained from 1t.
Siam, country with some 5000, ,00e
and an area nearly as great
as that Of the vast empire of Texas
with Vermont and Massachusetts added
Is 10 break ground In January for iri
6rst railway, which Is to be Ito misa
long.
The Chinese on the Russian frontiss
are restoring the Notifications Of tbs
town of Kuldj', An enormous fortress
Is nearly finished, with mud and clay
walls, % feet high, 25 feet thick and
BIS feet IN length, with moat z feea
deep and ID feet broad.
The Egyptian papyrus is an aquatic
plant, having stem from three 70 si1
feet high. Its soft, smooth HoW er- stem
afforded the most ancient material from
which paper was prepared. Its Towering
stems and leaves are twisted into rorea
and roots, which are sweet, are used a.
food.
I'm the most fourishing perioi cf
Rome, under Vespas an. about 7 E-
D., 1t had population OF / 81 600; 1,
335 a . D., it had 30 900; in 1877 only
II, 900; under Leo X, $4,000; in 1891
about %, ,0C0; in 1871 it rose to2 4, 900;
in 1881, 3JO, 90, and In 1850 more than
All, 900.
a short time ago q colorel man at
Ca, was mangled by cir.
cular saw which cpt two inches into
his brain, and two ounces of brain
were removed. Particles Of the skull
bone were taken out deep in the brain
His nose was cut of, and it was
exp cted he would die. Now he Is
uau and abla fO ha ahout