Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-01-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Cardinal Wolsey was the SOD of
butcher.
The greater part of the ocean be1 is
pitch dark.
The raven has been taught to re-
trieve most ere jitably.
The latest fad in Partisan society /.
the decorated shirt front.
Claude Lorraine, the italian paint
er was bred pastry cook.
There are at least ten million
nerve fibres in tle human body,
Fish have no eyelids and necsss-
arlly seep with their eyes open.
An orange measuring foot in cir.
cumference has been found in StaTke,
Fla.
Executions are public in Ecuador,
and the musket is the Instrument OF
death.
Dublin is better provided with open
spaces than any other town in the Uni
ted Kingdom.
One dog Of the Convent of st. Ber-
nard Is said TO have saved more than
forty human lives.
The blood of clans, Holsters and
nearly all other inveTte brates contains
40 red cells but only white.
"A pension has just been granted to
an Oregon man who is a veteran Of the
War of 1o12. He IS 102 years old.
There are a hundred cha 7ces hat any
boy or girl win be struck by Iightn ng
for every one chance OF having hydro
phobia.
a novelty of an electrical exhibition
at Frankfort. Germany, Is to be the
transmission of 500 horse power toa dis
tanee of 1z0 miles.
BY a new device, pieces OF metal
may be shaped with great rap p.dity By
being forced under dies while rendered
soft or elastic by an electric current.
BY electrolysis OF a fiuvoride In
molten state. N. MiIat extracts 2I.5
grammes of aluminium for an sxpend-
iture of one HORSEPOWER hour.
Chinese pheasants were introduced
into the vast forests of Oregon ten years
ago, and now it is estimated that there are
LOO 600 of them II the country.
The use of electricity for slaughter
ing hogs is proposed. It's claimed that
the current will not only kill the hogs,
but Will XII trIchn8 at the same time,
A luminous crayon has recently
been invented to enable lecturers to
draw on the blackboard when the room
is darkened for the use OF the lantern.
One cause given for the failure or
the peach crop in Delaware and Mary-
land is that the elements of the soil re-
quired by the peach have been exhaust
ed.
"A French electrician has construct
ed a Wimshurst machine, having twelve
glass discs, each 29t inches in diameter.
the machine will give a sparkl64 inches
long.
--Theloveliest summer resort on earth
is probably the plateau Of Newera Ella,
the Kings Summit" as the natives
call it. in the highlands of Southern
Ceylon.
-Therapidlty with which tie hawk and
andmany other birds occasiohly fly ispro-
badly not less than at the rate of 16l
miles an hour, when either pursued OF
pursuing.
Lemons originally came from In
dia. They were used by the Romans
to keep moths from their garments, and
In the time of Pliny were considered an
excellent poison.
-Swirts and swallows fly every year
from England TO Southern Africa and
to the Moluccas, and the rest ess. wan
dering flight of various oceanic birds is
still more surprising.
-''Better late tEan never" was used
over three hundred years ago by Thorn
as Tucker in his "Fiye Hundred Points
Of Husbandry." Later on Bunyan used
it in his ''Pilgrim's Progress"
justices of the peacs were 1rst sp-
pointed in England by Edward III. In
the year 1927, and IN 1861 they were
empowered to try felonies, while tlIoiI
wages were fixed by Richard II. in
1889.
1t is interesting to know that their
hair which waves from the helmets Of
| French dragons is the real article, be
ing the product Of Chinese and Tonk'D
skulls. 1t IS finer aud lighter thon horse
hair
According to Captain Wissmau, of
the African exploring party, tile para
disc of birds seem to have been found
on the shores of q lagoon communlcat-
ing with the eastern extremity OF the
Albert NyanZa.
! H. G. Angel, of Weatherford, Tex
| as, was In good health on a recent Sun
day, but he told his wife that be woUld
die on tho fol owing Monday night,
lie made his Will, attended TO his busi-
ness Monday rs usual. and that night
lay down and died.
Several factories have iust been
started in England for manufacturing
tea from hops, aud the demand is said 10
lie greater than the supply. The facuI-
ty has discovered that the lupulin Of the
hop counteracts the excessive tannin of
the ordinary tea.
IF. Heap, keeper o. the Glendale
| National Cemetery, near EicAInOnd.
| Va, has desk, made III 1910, which
has teen in possession of the Heap fam
lily, of England. 1t 10 said TO have been
/ used by Oliver Cromwell III le47 43
! when fighting Charles /. 1t il Of antique
oak. beautifully carved and highly pol
ished.
"A lady returning to her home Ia
Curson's Mills, Mass, Was greatly as.
tonished to see = live picaerel Weighing
| about one and one-halt pounds drop Ii
the road at her Feet. Looking, che dis
covered hove ring about tie sIot n large
| American eagle, which hal evidently
secured the fish from one of the neigh
boring brooks.
The hump on tho back OF the
dromedary is an accumulation OF pec-
uliar species Of fat, which is store Of
noiurishment benehcently provided
against the Gay Of want, to which the
animal is often exposed. The drome-
Diary or camel can exist for long period
upon this hump without any other food.
John Bancroft, man who was
tramp eight years ago. and who diei re-