Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-08-19
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

- uc duIu1O lGluplc III Call Lake
holds ten thousand people.
The twenty-thIrd ward In Philsiel-
phia is larger in area then the city Of
New York.
An idolt collector in San Francis
co, who has just died, had collection
Of i've hundred little gods.
Liquid chlorine Is now supplied IS
an Article of commerce by a chemical
establishment on the Rhine.
"A spirograph for drawing spirals
aud volutes in a simple manner as one
draws circles has he n devised in Paris
Boston has two more banks than
New York. PittSburg has two more
than Chicago ami thiTty-two more than
Phila 'e.phis.
The Manila hemp plant, which Is
very similar to the banana, is found to
thrive best in soil composed of decayed
vegetable matter.
The sun is tremendously large. Ii
as equal TO 800 600 earths, out owing
to its small density its weight equals that
of only S32, 900 earths
-Strychnine has been found to in
crease the amount of gastric Juice sec
reted in the stomach, the general scIdi-
ty and the quantity OF free acid in the
secretion.
Recent German tests have shown
chat the loss iC weight of steel tails
from wear and TuJting is in about an in
verse proportion 70 the tensile strength
of the metal.
Among French dairymen the use of
not water for milch COWS is growing in
favor. 1t is alleged that one-thIrd more
milk Is yielded than when cold water Is
given.
"A valley more wonderful than the
Yosemite, except in the matter of water
falls, is said to have been discovered
IN Kings river cannon, above ths far
famed I osemite.
The Bible of Martha Washington,
which was bought by Mitchell, of New
York. at the sale of the Washington re-
lies in Philadelphia, has passed foI
50, 90 into the collection of G. f. Gun
ther, of Chicago.
A piece of fine property was sold in
st. Louis recently the owner of which
Is native of and resident of Johannes
berg, Natal, South Africa. The deed
was made at that distant point and WAS
written in Dutch.
A Camden (Me. lady who pledged
herself to earn a dollar in some unusual
way for church carpets carried out her
contract by digging worms for her
brother-in,law to use for bait on his
fishing expeditions.
The Rev. DR.. Breckenridge, vino
fell dead at the last Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly IN Detroit, Mich, had
$50, 900 insurance on his life. HiJ pol
icy expired the day before his death
and he renewed it by telegraph.
The largest telescope lens evel
ground IN this country is now in cOuIse
of polishing at Greenville, Penn. 1t
measures thirty and one-half inches In
diameter i've and one-eiyhth inches in
thickness.
The application of the microscope
TO machine shop practice, for the pur.
pose of proving whether surfaces are
true, is pronounced by experts as being
the best method of obtaining accuracy
thus far suggested.
An apparatus for testing the smell
ing capacities of individuals was recent
ly exhibited in Paris 1t is said to de-
teTmine the weight of odorous vapor
existing in given quantity of afr. The
invention is called the olfactometer.
"A man named Jones, of Cardiff,
Wales is said to have patented sewing
machine without shuttle or bobbin. This
thread is supplied directly from two
ordinary spoOls and sews through the
assistance of rotary looper.
The death of Albert Hamm, the
oaTsman, at the age of thirty-One,
revives the question Of the hsalthful-
ness of athletics. Hamm's death was
the result of hemmOrhage of the lungs,
and it is believed that overtraining
caused 1t,
Excessive moisture of the hands I.
a dlsagreeable trouble for which the
following Is said to be a remedy; Tine
ture of belladonna. half an ounce; eau
de cologne, four ounces. Rub it upon
the hands several times daily.
--Moulds for casting iron can orly be
made in sand. Iron and other metallic
moulds chill the iron, and 1t does not
I'll well. The great heat at which iron
melts will burn any other material, Oh
Will stick so as to break the mould.
1t is reported from Colorado tnlt
two miners have found the famous
: lost vein," for which prospectors have
BEEN searching for years. 1t Itconsists of
six-inch streak of almost solid silver,
est mated to run froM Sl5, 900 to SIS
600 in value per ton.
History says the ancient Greeks
usei olive leaves for ballots, and the
Australian voting system is a revival
of the practice IN Rome 20 % year ago.
History repeats itself. Modern improve
ments are often only the revival of
an ancient vogue of some sort.
"A Liverpool man has invented sn
electric organ with many move features,
He does away with stOp-Rnobs, a toucl
of the button instantly putting the stop
in or out of operation, BY the action
of the ''transpOsing switch" the music
as it is being played may be transpOsed
to higher OF lower key by the action
of the electric current.
Slate is extensively used for cleo
tric switch boards, and although It is
liable to fracture. yet an electric con
structiOn company recently drilled H.
600 quarteU-Inch holes in a slab five
eigths of an inch thick and containing
but twenty-five square feet Of surface.
One Of the novelties at the st. Pan
cras Exhibition. LOnd n, lately was
a sausage machine, driven by electric
motor. In conjunction with this ma
chine it has been proposed to employ
an elec rlc heating attachment, where
by the savory dish can be delivered
cooked
1t will cost 80, AIS ,5i7 to run the
city of BROOKLYN during 1892. THIS is
at the rate or Sl1 for every man, woman
and child in the city
"A successful exhibition Was given
In Philadelphia recently, of the systeB
of storage batteries for propellinZ ass
enger railway cars, introduced by Mes
srs. Wright & Starr. A special feat
ure OF the new system is the rechar ying
of the bate cries by a retrOgrade move