Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-02-11
NO. 8.
NEWS II BRIEF.

| O"ucIly only eats TWO meals DAY
land they are light.
In bats the heart is aided by rhy-
hmic contraction of veins In the wings.
Daniel De'oe, author Of Robinson
Crusoe." was hOsier and the son of a
butcher.
The one part of the world in which
40 native pipes and no native smokers
lave leen found is Australia.
The largest bear skin in the world
s IN Kansas City, Mo, taken from an
animal weighing 2S00 pounds.
There Is an Old school house at Pown-
Ill, Vt, ill which President Garfield and
Arthur acted as teachers.
The New York Central Railroad
has twenty-six women employed as Sta
ion agents, 1t is said.
The heirs of a wealthy Austrian
have given Sis, 900 to found school of
housekeeping for girls.
"A velocity of about six or seven
miles second would suffice to carry q
Dolly away from the gravitstion Of the
,arth.
1t Is asserted by Lien of high pro.
.essional ability that, when the system
needs stimulant, nothing equals cup
If strong cofree.
The total production of steel rails
1t all the mills in this country for the
current yeas will probably run 400. 900
IONS ahead of 1SS9's figures.
Within 62 years Mexico has had 81
Presidents, one regency and one empire,
and nearly every change OF government
has been effected by violence.
"A Pennsylvania convict recently
escaped from the state prison. Alter
trying liberty for short while he re-
turned in disgust to his cell
In Belgium the white insulstors on
telegraph poles are SO frequently broken
hat graylsh brown ones are being used
70 re place them.
The welding of the spokes OF met
illic wheels to the hubs by means OF
electricity has recently been proposed
and a process patented.
AN English geologist predicts that
within fifty years CONFUSION of nat
IRE will sink the whole Of New Zealand
dfty feet below the surface Of the sea.
Want of wholesome and adequate
food docks one-quarteT, one-third OIL
one-half from the natural term of the
Industrial force for all those who come
20 mans estate.
The submarine war boat has led To
The flying of balloons from war ships.
A balloon lowering over a ship can dc.
lect every movement Of submarine
boat coming In the attach
When the chickens first begin "
move in the egg, just before Matching,
she mother hen sings to them low,
grooming song, very sweet, and never
heard At any other time.
There have been during the hun.
1red years OF its organization only fifty.
three Justices of the Supreme Bench OF
the United States, and twenty Of thess
have lived TO be over seventy,
In his message TO the Legislature
Of California, Governor Waterman re.
commends an appropriation of at least
81, 900 600 to display the resources OF
California at the Worlds Fair.
The Hatfield Mccoy vendetta.
which has been quiet for some months,
has broken out again in Logan County
W. Va. near the Kentucky line. In a
recent fight between adherents of the
respective faction six men were killed
1t has been proposed to make the up-
per half of war balloons of very thin
steel and the lower portion OF ordinary
balloon material, the whole 50 con.
structed as to hold hydrogen instead OF
ordinary gas.
Data of the trials of three large
steamers, showing the comparative Of
large and small screws, show that pro.
pellers Of small diameter have in each
case proved the more economical and
effective, both increasing the speed and
decreasing the coal consumption.
California diamonds are crystals OF
quartz, the most abundant of all min.
erals. They are sometimes cut and set
by jewelers., and sold as "white topaz"
but oftener as California diamonds.
"A salt lake has been discovered IN
Persia, the waters of which are salteI
than those of any lake in the world.
According TO consular report, the
proportion Of salt IS nearly twenty-five
per cent.
There are but two ways by which
one can hear animals really converse.
One is to listen to them when they are
not aware of your presence,saIways Q
difficult feat; the other is toEin thsiI
entire love and confidence.
The gardener of the Kew Gardens,
Epnlopd affar nurnornus faIIt,roa ba.
at last succeeded in growing the Coco
de Mer, or double cocoanut, which Otter
obtains a height OF $50 feet, with
smooth trunk about foot IN diameter,
The question has arisen, whether
Polynesian architecture is of Asiatic OF
south American origin; and It Is thought
that the preponderarce Of evidence Ia
In favor Of the Asiatic theory. Indeed
1t seems probable that the American
continent was influenced bV the same
migration from Asia which gave the
copper-colored race 10 Polynesia.
The first electrical production OF
music is credited to George Breed, Of
the United States Navy, by whose
method the passage of broken current
over a conductor in magnetic field
gives musical tones Of varying pitch
and volume.
The word Oregon is said to have
been derived from Spanish word sign,
flying wild thyme, so called on account
of the herb found by the early explor-
era Credit of discovery Is generally
given to Captain Gray, of Boston. in
1892.
The pupil OF the eye Is incsssantly
lashed.
There are thousands and thousands OF
wives and mothers In New York who
make ends meet by sewing on overalli
that pay seveDty-Ave cents, shirts sixty
cents, vests ninety-fve cents, trousera
s., flannel shirts 81 dozen. They are
obliged TO find their own thread for the
overalls and shirts and carry ths work
to and from the shop.
A new variety Of sea gull bas made
Its appearance on tie New Jersey coast.
II is darker than the Old kihd, and e o