Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-06-24
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Two persons die every second.


"A machine makes 2000 corks an
hour.
The warmest place in Europe Is said
to be Malaga.
The great Lick telescope reveals
about 100, 900, 600 stars.
There is an average of 1884 ties to
mile of Railroad in this country.
-Snails lave a sort OF ribbon with
which they rasp their food as with .
file.
In New York, Irecently, the oath Of a
SICK person was taken through the tele-
phone.
A sensational novelist in New York
turns out four novels year for $20,-
600.
Gath says that nature seldom ar.
fords man more than one chance in
his lifetime.
Excellent wool has been made
from the fibre of the tir trees by means
of electricity.
One person in every ten who died
IN New ork in 1889 was buried In
Potter's Field.
Palmetto is claimed to be the onl,
''ScN eAthN - IAtoA luc
o. the dreaded teredo.
i he plug hat is said to be rapidly
replacing the native hesdgear among
the mandarinS of China.
In Europe steel-tIred wheels fol-
railroad cars are used more generally
than i'll the United States.
-Pennsylvanla h law which pro-
vides line of sixty-three cents per
word for swearing profanely.
TO effect the respiration Of a carp.
49, arteries, vessels, veins bones.
valves, ETC., are necessary.
"A German professor claims to have
discovered the bacteria which causes
badness 10y destroying the roots of the
hair.
The maximum power of an electro
magnet Is proportional to the least
sectional ea OF the entire magnetic
circuits.
With an electro-magnet mechanical
actions are produced at distance un-
der control by the agency OF electric cur
rents,
The magneto-motive force equals the
product of the number of spirats and
the number of nmperes of current null
tiplIed by 1257.
The Bank of Scotland issued one
pound notes as early as 1904, aud their
issue has since been continued without
interruption.
Moss agates frCm Wyoming have
been introduced in some OF the new Jew
elry, as have also the almost ruby-red
garnets from Arizona.
There are in the United States 20
Fathers Murphy, 50 Walsh, 80 O'ReII-
ly, 90 O'ConnOr, so Kelly, AZ RYAN, 46
O'Brien, 33 Brady, and 80 Fitzgerald.
"A comparatively small dynamo may
be arranged TO light greater number
of lamps by the use of an accumulator
that can be obtained from the machine
direct.
Sir William Thomson condems the
single-wire system of electric lighting
on shipboard, on the ground that, in
spite of every care, tue compasses are
affected.
Recent explorations in Greenland
have developed the fact that north of
the seventy-tifth degree tie land in the
valleys is covered with ice 5000 10 5000
feet In thickness,
"A monument is to be raised In
Plague, Bohemia, TO the memory OF
John HuSs, who was burnt at the stake
in l4l5 and WI ose ashes were thrown
into the Rhine.
The first railway postoffice. the par.
ent or the present fast mail system, was
organized on tie Chicago and North
western Railroad in August 1864, on q
fast tram running between Chicagoand
Clinton, la.
-PIofessor Elihu Thompson wears a
unique watch clam, the links of which
are welded by electricity. In part OF
the chain links OF gold and platinum
alternate. Other links are made otsec-
tions of these metals.
Asphalt paint Is rapidly coming In
to favor for ironwork. Its oils are not
volatile, as is the case of the various
coal-tar products, and 1t is this perma-
NJ mt character of the material that is
the s. crec of its value.
Anal, sis of individual beets indi.
cate that maturity more than size, de-
turmines the sugar contents of the beet.
n high weight Of leaves, as compared
with tn roots, was no evidence of high
er sugar content. butrather the reverse.
The works of watches are now pla-
ted with palladium, which Is a winter,
lighter and more fuslble metal than
platinum. About one-seventeenth of Q
grain of palladium will. by electrical
deposition, coat the works of an ordi-
nary watch.
In vestitule car recently invented,
Instead of the folding doors and the
usual iron gates that are so likely TO i'm
prison passengers in case of an acci-
dent, there are doors that slide into the
car, and which leave the platform un-
Il he heat produced from the lighl
of FREELY is only one per cent, of an
eqral amount of candie-light. The
bugs highs is produced by chemical
action, as 1t is increased by putting the
fly in oxygen and diminished In an at
nOsphere of nitrogen.
Two marked improvements have
recently been made in the use OF gas
for lighthouse illumination. One is a
process Of enriching gas made from
ordinary cooking coal by the addition
Of hydrocarbons and heated air, the
other ts-the new dioptric lens.
1t was long thought that the water
from melted snow was the purest of all
water. This Idea has been proved in
as the reverse is true. Snow Is
really purifier of the atmosphere, at
tractiug to 1t, as it falls, various i'm
purities; and these are found In the
The size of an adult Englishman's
head is said to average No. Z. The heads
of Portuguese average from 81 TO Z;
those of Spaniards are a little larger,
and those of japanese exceed the En-
glish average. Germans have round
heads, Malays small ones.
Germany has 5,500,0 900 working wo-
men. England 4,000,u01, France g.
$50. 600, Austria 3, 3,00O. 0C0, and AmerI-
ca 2, 200, 900, including all occupations.
No less thin IL, 900 young girls and
homeless, friendless, help'ess