Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Thesewing machine is only forty-four
years old.
"A church In Reading, Penn. boasts
that 1t has just paid off Its debt in S0,-
600 pennies.
The height Of the tower of Babel as
completed by Nebuchadnezzar is gen.
elally given at 660 feet.
"A New York leather firm Is about
to start kangaroo fam at Warning
ton, York county, Penn.
In Mankato, Mimi, milk is deliv-
cred in pint and quart bottles instead of
being peddled about towns i'll big
cans.
The medical faculty of Yale Col
lege was SO founded in 1873, tie theo-
logical In 1922 and the scientific in
1S46.
The falls of Niagara carry down
10, GOO, 900 cubic feet of water per min
ute, equal to about 5000, 600 horse pow
er.
There are cat collars in trade made
of a braided pattern In blue beads for
white Angoras, and garnets for the
graceful throats of tabs and toms.
-WhalebOne is found in the mouth
of the Greenland or right whale, where
1t forms the substitute for the teeth, of
which otherwise the animal is desti-
tute.
Louisa Bankburr, domestic who
dwells in Buffalo, n. Y, devours near
ly q pound of soap day, and has gained
nearly twenty pounds i'll weight since
she began to indulge in her singular
taste.
The Periscians are the inhabitants OF
the polar circle, whose shadows, during
some portion or the Summer, must i'll
the course of the day move entirely
around and fall toward every point OF
the compass.
"A new machine makes paper boxes.
1t has recently been found that GER
tain fungoid growths have the power OF
removing gold from water containing
it in suspension.
CONTRACTS for the new Cuuard
steamships of the Atlantic service stip-
ultte that they must make not less than
twenty-five knots an hour.
1t is stated that as Il result OF the
recent experiments several Italian war
ships are to be altered to enable them
to burn petroleum i'll their furnaces i'll
stead of coal.
-Celluloid In solution is now being ex-
tensively used as a lacquer for all kind4
OF fine metal work and AS wood vaI-
nish with results that are said to be su-
perior to the old methods.
"A little armadillo, the mullta, Of
, Uruguay, is mentioned as the living
representative Of those antediluyiah
giants, the mylodon, mastOdOn, mega
gatherium, etc.
From the source of the Missouri 10
the mouth of the Mississippi the distance
| is 4l94 miles. The lower Mississippi
from the mouth of the Gulf of MeX'c"
is 1886 miles in length. Tie Amazon Is
$500 miles in length.
"A Connecticut boy Is famous Just
now because he has tin whistle one
and a half inches in diameter aud sew
eral inches long in his stomach. He
swallowed the toy while playing on H..
Occasionally the return OF the swul-
low or the nightingale may he some
what delayed, but mo sea fowls may b-
trusted, 1t is said, as the almanac itself
Were they satellites revoling around this
eIrth Their arrival could hardly be more
surely calculated by an as rouOmer.
General Du Temple, wu Sc death
in Paris is announced, obtained his gen
erals star In curious way. He nas d
Captain in the French navy in 1870,
and was accidentally gaZ tied General
by Gambetta, who miStOOk him Tor his
brother-also naval captain.
Two citizens Of Palmyra. Me-,
hQua had an nnarEals "A t-lA
days ago u contract was drawn up be-
tween them that in future they would
have nothing to do with each other.
During the Illness of the late En-
peror Frederick, Of Germany, it became
so much the fashion to consult DR. No
rell Mackenzie that his professional in-
come rose to an average OF Sl-UJ day.
Some of the conspicuously painted
milk wagons of Brooklyn, y. Y, bear
a new label. One slde panel has tie i'll
scription: "Sterilized milk, guaranteed
absolutely pure and free from germs"
We makes some very fin razlrs at
the present day, but we cannot make
any finer steel than that contained N
the Damascus swords and knives which
the ancient used several thousand years
ago.
ALL the mechanical powers, the
screw, the lever, pulley. incline plane,
wedge wheel and axle were known 10
the aucients and used in everyday Lille.
They were expert builders, as existing
relics testify.
The Ural Mountains, in Russia,
were anciently the subject OF various
myths. The Slavoniaus who, Ia the
eleventh century frequent y visited the
region Of the Ural for trade. described
them as mountains reaching the sky,
intersected 10y terrible preciplcss, and as
being inhabited by population Of cave
dwellera.
Observations seem to show that
decrease 10 the earth's latitude is inpuo-
gress, implying an alteration i'll the di-
rect of the earth's axis. The luctus-
ton is thought to be due to minute
oscillation caus3 by some changes IN i'll
ternal wars of the earth.
Cotton in the Southern S ates Is plant
ed after the last frost in the s Tiug aad
Is picked in July, August ana Septem-
Der. 1t is not native plant OF Ameri-
ca. There is not month In the year
where cotton is not picked somew here
on the ODE.
"A colored woman named Caroline
/ Jenkins, living near Houston, Texas. Is
a veritable Samson. -Four police Offic-
ers went to arrest her, when she took
them one by one, threw them out Of I. q
house and locked the doors upon them.
She can break a half inch rope with ease
by stretching it from hand TO hand.
When wise man said, Discretion
Is the better part of valor, " all the cow
ards in the world found d motto for
their caps.
There is quite a difference between q
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