Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-05-13
REMARKABLE FACTS.
Every One OF Which You Will Fine
Most Interesting.


Most Interesting.
One hundred and seventy-five NIL.
lion cells are in the lungs, which
would cover a surface thirty times
greater than the human body.
Tie gold beaters of Berlin, at the
Paris exposition, showed gold leaves
, SO thin that it would require 2S2, OOC
to produce the thickness of Z single
inch, yet each leaf is so perfect and
/ free from holes as to be impenetrable
to the strongest electric light; il these
leaves were bound in book form il
would take $1,000 to ill the space CT
ten common book leaves.
The hottest region on the earth is on
! the southwestern coast OF Persia,
where Persia borders the gulf of the
same name; for forty consecutive days
in the months OF July and August, the
thermometer has been known not 10
fall lower than 100 degrees night or
day.
A bundle OF spider webs not larger
than Il buckshot and weighing less
than one drachm would, ifstraightencd
out and untangled, reach a distance oil
$50 miles.
On dark nights a white light can be
seen farther than any other color; on
bright nights red takes the first place.
Sweden is perhaps the most Protest
ant country in the world; OF a popula-
ton OF 6 millions there are only 1000
Roman Catholics, the remainder of the
population belonging almost entirely
to the Lutheran church.
Vegetable flannel is textile material
now largely manufactured in Germany
from pine leaves; the fibre is spun.
knitted. and woven into undergar-
ments and clothing OF various kinds.
Twenty-one observatories are now
engaged in the International uEder-
taking of photographlng the entire
heavens; each observatory will have
to take about 700 photographs in the
zone assigned to it, and it is hoped 70
finish the work in three or four years.
In water in which vegetables have
been infused. the microscope discovers
animalculi so minute that 100, 900 of
them would not exceed in bulk a single
mustard seed. and these infinitesimal
creatures are supplied with organs as
complete as those of the whale or
elephant
OF 13 million barrels Of salt annually
consumed in the United States Michi-
gan furnished two-sixths, New York
one-sixth, ten other salt producing
states one-sixth and two-sixths are
imported.
The city OF Chicago In its present
boundaries contains 173 square miles.
England is the greatest pin max ing
country in the old world; its prod uct is
about so, 900, 900 pins a year. and Bir-
mingham is the center, with an outturn
of 81, 900, coo.
Tax stamps have been established in
Switzerland TO enable the poorer
classes to pay their tixes in small in
stallments; the taxpayer can buy week
ly a few twenty-five or thirty centime
stamps, and so gradually clear of his
debt TO the government
The longest reach Of railway without
a curve is that OF the New Argentine
Pacific railway, from Buenos Ayres to
the foot of the Andes, for 2l1 miles it
is without a single curve, and has no
cutting nor embankmcnt deeper than
two feet or three feet
The average pulse in infancy is l20
per minute; in manhood, 80; at 60 years
60; the pulse of females is more fire.
quent than OF males.
NOt luCluuluS hldShd, DFdZll is larger
in extent than the United States, it
possesses within its limits an area of
3, ,2S7. 964 square miles. with popula-
tion of 12,33S, 375.
Postal cards are made at the rate OF
1000 per minute.
The amount OF coloring power stored
in coal is such that one pound OF the
mineral yields magenta sufficient TO
color 500 yards OF flannel, aurine for
l20 yards of flannel, 27 inches wide,
vermilline scarlet, for 1850 yards OF
flannel, alizarin for 255 yards of Tur-
key-red cloth.
1t is calculated that range Of noun
tains consisting OF l76 cubic miles of
solid rock falling into the sun would
only maintain the heat for single
second; mass equal TO that OF the
earth would maintain the heat for only
ninety-three years. and a mass equal
to that Of the sun itself falling into the
sun would afford 80 million years OF
xun-heat.