Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Glue from whale refuse is anew ar
ticle of commerce in Russia.
There are 1O1 life prisoners in the
Kentucky penitentiaries.
The new gold fields in Western
Australia are said to be overcrowded.
French statesmen have offered 81, ,0OC
reward for the best athletic game.
1t is reported that $40, 600, ,0O1 Of
British capital is invested in Paraguay.
The French army maneuvers this
year will be on a greatly extended
scale.
"A Russian scientific expedition will
shortly leave st. Petersburg for Abys-
sinia.
Austria now requires Russian Jews
to hold a special concession to trade IN
the country.
-Bismarck's IS candidature for Geese
temunde, it is said, Is embarrassing to
the German government.
1t is stated that the French govern
ment will reconsider the whole question
If betting on horse races.
In the Argentine Republic the Presi-
dent has recommended an export duty
| una hlgner import duties.
Russia will check German immi-
grafton at the south, and will curtail
privileges of Germans now there.
"A stenographic instrument used by
the Italian Parliament is capable OF re-
cording $50 words a minute,
"A rich deposit of mercury has been
.ound three feet below the surface at
Mantche, near Wippach, Austria.
"A drunken man picked up on the
streets of Seattle, Wash, recently had
S14, ,OO0 in his coat.
The financial panic Buenos Ayres
is about over. Radical changes in bank
government are to be made.
| The Khedive's proclamation of gen.
erdl amnesty to the SOudanese was
hailed with much rejoicing at Suakim.
The question of paying members OF
Parliament for their services is now be-
Ing widely agitated in Great Britain.
"A bush fire in the Lismore district,
| Victoria, Australia. swept over tract
40 miles long by 3 to 10 miles wide.
About $4,000 sheep were burnt.
! Rev. c. l.. Norton, a minister Of
/ ScottsbuTg, Ind, walked 25 miles re-
Gently preached two sermons, married
two couples and ate two wedding din
ners.
| Canon Farrar continues to "speak
right out in meeting" about the sins and
wickedness of fashionable life in London
Some of his marks Int many exposed
nails on the head.
The Car has presented the Shah
with 80 kirghis horses, of the purest
breed, and a modern battery of artillery
with four guns, which are being con-
veyed to Teheran under an escort Of
Cossacks.
The hourly rate of water over Nj
Igara Falls is 100 coo, 900 tons, repre-
senting 5000, coo horse power, and the
total daily production of coal in the
world would Just about suffice to pump
this water back.
"A special kind Of paper has been in
vented, which, it is alleged, is absolute.
| ly impervious to water, and will even
stand boiling. The water-proOfng can
I be carried out either after the paper is
made or during the operation of making
| it.
The brightness of the moon is not
30 very much greater than the bright
ness of the same area of sky. The total
light of the full moon can be compared
with the total light of the sun, though
it is very difficult problem. and the
result will be that the sun is as bright
as 6SO,G0 full moons.
On shipbOard pumping, ventilating,
-,ftlng or hosting, may all be performed
by the use of electric motors. On the
latest French warshIps all big guns are
manipulated electrically. Electric mo-
tors are row made which will work
with their armatures in the water.
The first application of traction by
Electricity having a really practical
character were made in Europe at the
Berlin Germany Exhibition in 1879.
An electric tramway was there exhib-
tied constructed by the firm of Siemens
Halke, the action of which left
nothing to be desired.
What is alleged to be ''the first gun"
made for the COnfederacy is now In pos
session of Mrs. ii. I. Miller, of Chatta-
nooga, whose father made 1t at Holly
Springs, Miss, in 1861. 1t origin
ally had rIeed barrel, and is still In
good condition"
John Mcnamara states that he
Nth others has discovered cure for
consumption and cancer, which he has
offered to the Queensland, Australia,
Government, for e25, 900. He is now
erecting plant capable of turning out
sufficient of the alleged cure for treat
ment of 10000 patients.
An electrician who has made a
.pecialty Of spectacular electricity says
the day is not far off when electrical
fireworks Will supersede those now used.
He declared that for comparatively
moderate outlay he could arrange an
electrical display that would last for
many years. and could be repeated az
often as desired. 1t would comprise
rockets, Roman candles, wheels, Mia
CARA Falls and all modern pyrotechnI-
cal effects.
One of the crew of the Life Guard at
.5hinnecock, Long Island, picked up on
the beach the other day, "a Mexican or
Spanish dollar, bearing an almost oblit-
Grated date, 179i." Captain Carter
thinks the COIN came from foreign
bark, wrecked in the Delgbborhood
seventy years ago"
The Buchanan CGa.) Messenger
say: "Our foreman has quit the use of
tobacco. that is, he totally abstained
from the use of it yesterday, and is tap
ering off to-day with chew of gum and
a package of cigarettes. With such a
beginning, he will be tapering of to-
morrow with plug of tobacco"
AT Watering placein the Pyrennes
the conversation at table turned upon
wonderful echo to be heard some dis
tance off on the France-Spanish 'front.'.
er. 1t is astonishing" exclaimed an
inbabitant of the GarOnne ''As soon as
Won have snnkan Won hear disfinnIIu fha