Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-07-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

/ Australia is now shipping eggs te
the British market.
"A 24-story building of steel is being
planned for in Chicago.
-Wagner's operas had SS3 perform.
ances in Germany during 1890.
The eschscholtzia has been adopted
as the State flower of California.
True bony teeth are peculiar to
animals which have backbones.
"A new motor, utilizing ordinary
gas as well as petroleum, is announced
A hitherto neglected source OF
wealth to Minnesota is the fax and
hemp crops.
Baron de Rothschnd has a collect
Ion OF postage stamps that is valued al
SO 900.
| All northern and central Alaska Is
eminently adapted to the raising of
reindeer.
Since 1871 the Congregational
churches in England have increased
from 1869 to 473O.
A large amount of railroad building
In West Virginia is promised during Tho
next SIX months.
The area of South America is near
ly 1000, 900 square miles, and the popu-
lation about 29, 600. 600
"A farmer near Mooresvllle, Ind.i
has sIx-legged calf. 1t uses all its
'egs in walking.
There are nearly 1900 more female
than male teachers In the Missouri COM
mon schools.
In New York city they have assG
Citations of men who do not drink dur
Ing business hours.
Prussia has on'y 1862 citizens who's,
annual income exceeds S25 600. and
| l2,52l whose income exceeds 5000.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy has or.
tered that 200 soup tickets be distribut-
ed daily in her name TO the poor III
Rome.
-LOndon's street accidents from fast
driving have caused the suggestion thar
no driver be allowed under Is years of
| age.
The foreign trade OF China during
1880, despite the great decline i'll opiunl
and tea, shows a slight increase over the
previous year.
Plural marriages were forbidden
among MormOns in future by decree
of the President of the Mormon Church,
published October 6, 1890
There are nearly 5000 dialects and
800 languages. The Bible, or New
Testament, Is published in 250 languag.
es.
"A tell-tale clock in connection with
the London-Paris telephone keeps the
record of seconds while the patror
talks.
The citizens of Athens, Ga, bed
seech their council to pass an ordinance
for the muz2lng of cats. The animals
IRE too noisy % nights.
| "A plow that was lost in the Cheboy-
gan River, Michigan, by the upsetting
OF a canoe more than four years agoj
was fished up recently.
| Recent developement IN chemical
science promote belief IN the existencd
or elementary forms of matter not YET
actually observed.
| "A new railway appliance enables
the conductor to signal TO the engineer
accurately and promptly by means OF
compressed air. 1t is trigger detIce.
| In France successful experiments
have been made with sulphate of iron
and with sulphate of copper, lime. and
water as spray in preventing potato
disease.
| "A Limoges firm has introduced
new process of firing porcelain by means
! Of petroleum or residuum oils, which,
give a very pure heat without smoke OF
fumes.
by a new device. pieces of metal
can be stamped with greater rapidity
| by beng first rendered plastic by aU
electric current just before the stoke Of
the dies.
| The erosion of big guns il thought
10 be largely due to ignltlug slOw-burn,
Ing powder at the base of the charge
whereby the bore receives triton from
the hard unburnt portions of the pow
| Ter.
! The manufacture Of starch from ar.
rOw-rOot is new and thIiviT < industry
IN Florida. The raw material Is found
in abundance I'm Dade County.
| "A native of Syria who is now ia New
York has invented process for manu-
featuring silk from the leaves and twigs
of the mulberry tree without the aid a.
| silk worms.
| An Irish-AmeI ican Ia Newark, n.
j.. , was let off from punishment in court
! recently for thTashing Il foreigner who
disputed his ass ertiOn that the United
States was the best country on earth.
The Island of Hawaii, tie largest
in the Sandwich group, is constantly
Increasing in size, owing to the ever
flowing streams of lava, which run
out to the sea and flow over and make
! the shores of the island overhang the
main stem of the formation.
Professor Lewis Boss read paper
recently in Washington ID. O., before
the National Academy of Sciences, In
which he said that the average speed OF
the stars through space is twenty eight
miles a second, while that OF our sun Is
about twenty-five miles a second.
Johns Hopkins University, Of
Baltimore, Nd, is about to re-establish
its marine laboratory in the West In-
dies. 1t had heretofore been a valuable
aid I'm the teaching of science. The Un-
iversity of Pennsylvania is about OPEN
ing marine laboratory at Sea Isle
City.
Women are said to be very easy
subjects for hypnOt sm, especially those
past forty years of age. Little women
With black eyes, abundant black hair,
and their eyebrows, are more favorable
subjects than pale or lymUhatic ones,
and nervous women are seldom brought
under The hypnotic influence.
Tine most elaborate dental apparatus
known belongs TO the sea-urchin, whose
Jaws are composed OF forty pieces, uloy-
ed by forty separate muscles.
Professor Barnard has brought ont
an ingenious device for discovering
comets, based upon the principle o.
the selenium cell