Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-02-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

thS Slllcu OtdlSS.
Mr.. Gladstone owns the largest
lead pencil In the world.
The grocery clerks of Fort Wayne,
Ind, hayeorganized union
Electric motors are being intro
duced on the underground railway in
London.
The Eolian harp receives its name
from EolOus, the god or ruler of the
wind.
The African laborer who eats the
kola nut earns twice as much as the alb
stainer.
"A branch thirteen inches long,
from a Michigan orchard, contained
forty-tvo apples.
Under the PENNSYLVANIA laws it
costs a man sixty-seven cents every
time he swears.
There is waterfall of 24OO feet in
the Alps in Switzerland, said to be the
highest in the world.
1t is believed that the hollyhock
was brought TO Europe from China as
early as the year 1873.
An Indiana Doctors son was kick
ed to death by hOrse-making the flfth
child OF his lost by accident.
Some interesting experiments have
recently been made in Denmark In fell
ing trees with gun cotton.
Attempts are now being made to
perfect sy. tenn OF preventing incrusta-
tion In boilers by means of electrical
action.
j. B. Hawkins, member-elect of
the Legislature of Tennessee, is Presi-
dent of the Chattanooga Blacksmith's
Union.
"A naturalist claims to have discov-
cred the only fIes water sharks known,
in Lake Nicaragua and the river ap-
proach to 1t.
The British Admiralty engineers are
conducting experimental ninety-six-
hour runs of boilers under forced drsught
at Portsmouth.
Sir John Lubbock kept queen bee
for hfteen years, test proving her eggs
to be just as fertile at that age as they
were twelve years before.
Experts say that as far as freproof
floors are concerned alternate LAYERS OF
plank and cement form the most impen-
etrable OF constructions.
The largest barometer yet made
has been put in working order In the
Saint Jacques Tower, in Paris. 1t is
forty-one feet five inches high.
"A sawmill foreman has invented
HnUlpn for. lnaninrr fha ri nT
the band saw by causing a spray OF wa
ter to constantly play on the blade.
An electrical furnace has been pat
ented in England which Is SAID to have
given excellent res ults in the series or
tests to which it has been subjected.
Prince Mohammed Burhaneddin,
the tive-year-Old son Of the Sultan, has
been enrolled as a seaman on board Of
the Turkish frigate Orkanie.
Stanley has become a member of
the English society for physical re-
search. He Will find much more dark
LESS there than in Darkest Africa"
"A bank known as the United States
Bank was established at Philadelphia
in 1871, together with the national
mint, which issued its first coin Ia
1892.
An important manufacture of but
ter from cocoanut mi is growing up
in Germany. COcoanuts for the purpose
are imported in large numbers from In
dia.
-Creosoted wood has been found to
have such excellent lasting qualities that
its economical properties have suggested
its use for permanent haulage, roads,
hatchways, etc., in cOlllenes.
"A San Diego county (Cal..) horti-
cultu rist is going to graft the many live
oaks on his place with chestnutS, which
he has learned will succeed well on oak
trees.
Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts, who
lives now in Spencer house, London, is
said to receive as many offers of mar
riage as any widow in the British met
ropOlis.
Mrs. John d. Rockefeller, wife Of the
Standard oil millionaire, is one of the
most modest and unpretentlous of wom-
en-. She is active in good works Of many
kinds.
The foreman Of one of the largest
barber shops in New York City in
authority for the statement that more
men part their hair in the middle now
then ever before,
The custom of christening ship
by breaking bottle OF wine over her
bow at the launching is traced back to
the pouring out of libations to the gods
practised by Greeks and Romans.
The Confederacy issued eleven
kinds of postage stamps. They are all
il unused, worth double their face value.
The ten-cents blue stamp Of 1868, If un-
used, brings 50. 90, or If used 81. so
I'm Paris there are professional
trunk packers who can be hired to pack
trunk artistlcally, folding expensl We
gowns and other garments in tissue
paper and slowing away delicate brio
a.brac in the safest way.
! "A man in Fort Wayne, Ind, was
of shoe. In twenty minutes he had
been committed for grand jury action,
and in forty-hve minutes he had begun
serving a sentence in Jail.
"A Canadian clergyman has advanced
the theory that the walls of Jericho fell
from the blowing of the keynote by the
horns of the Desiegers, just as bridges
have been known TO col apse from the
rhythmic tread of soldiers feet passing
over them.
You occasionally meet rich man
who says the greatest happiness is found
In poverty; and YOU occasionally 70
member that all men are liars, too,