Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-03-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.


"A locomotives strength equals thai
of 900 horses.
A mountain of sulphur has been
disc 0vered in California.
-Turniptown. Ga, mas gourd with
handle i've fe long.
-AmerIcan looms are being extens.
lvely used III England.
"A Norfolk (Va.l woman has given
birth to nine sets of twins.
Every year 1000 children are born
In the wOrkhOu es in London.
"A recruiting sergeant says that few
men have legs of equal length.
There is man seventy seven years
Did studying at Harvard College.
In France and Germany horses are
uow vaccinated for the glanders.
The temperature or man is ninety.
eight degress; that OF fish seventy seven
degrees.
Dried fish was formerly and is still
to some extent a medium of exchange
In Iceland.
The London Gazette is the Oldest
English paper. It was first published
November 7, 1865.
Sugar made from charcoal is SOC
times sweeter than ordinary cane sugar,
but it costs $40 pound.
Southern Missouri has an an amin
al that combines the peculIarities of
dog, lynx and hyena.
1t is estimated by scientists that
Color ado's cliff dwellers existed 10,00C
years ago.
Owing to its extensive use in electric
appliances the price of platinum has ad.
yaHced fully 100 per cent.
1t is proposed TO unite all the islands
of Japan by a system of submarine
tele ,raph cables. The estimated cost Ia
s., 900, 900.
One of the Paris (t'rance) restaur.
ants has introduced colored walters, all
Of whom, according to correspondent,
''speak excellent French"
The frog, owing to its peculiar con-
struction, cannot breathe with ths
mouth open, and would die from sutto-
cation if it were open forcibly.
Wild clover Is said to be a delicacy
among certain tribes of American In
diaus, Who devour it with all the relish
that a Frenchman does salad.
"A woman and her two sons have
just matriculated in the Kentucky Un-
iyersity, and expect to take the entire
college course III the same classes.
john Allen. a C lOred man, who is
SAID to have had the biggest feet ever
seen in Iowa, died re entity at Fort
Dodge. He wore No. IL shoes.
"A smokeleSs fuel call ''massute" il
bsiuy used on the st5Im rollers In
Vienna, Austria The fuel is compos
ed of the liquid residuum of petroleum
rehnerieS.
The Tasmanian caves, of which
there are large number, are lit In
singular manner. Millions of glow
worms hanging to the walls and ceilings
furnish the illumination.
-Noswithstandingt the sze, strength,
and great vitality of sharks, they are
extremely susceptible TO cold weather,
aud will die at temperature thai
would not iDjure the smallest fish north
of Maryland.
/ Experiments made with oil and
various other substances have shown
that oil alone will give the greatest heat.
1t has been lOpted for the boilers OF
heblg pumping engines at Brilliant,
near Pitt5burg.
The remarkably beautiful green
color of some preserved beans and otheI
vegetables is said to be obtained bJ
boiling the vegetables in copper vessel
while an electric current is passed
through it.
Sir Robert 5, Bal, astronomer TO
val for Ireland, predicts that within d
few thousand years a sheet of ice 10JG
feet thick Will advance ever the fairesl
portion of our gOble, p.oNlng uQ al
vegetation and leaving desolaIiOn fol
ceDturIes.
The heat conducting qualities of
the metals range as follows: Silver, 100
copper, Is so; gold, 50, 20; ahnealed
aluminium, 1887; unannea1ed alum.
mum, 81 90; tin; 1850; iron, IL so; steel
II 60; lead, $50; platinum, $40; bis
muIh, so.
Il he broken idol that stands at the
corner of the plaza at Granada, Spain,
known as the PiedTd de la BOca, or the
stone with the mouth, always has its
mouth stuffed with flowers whenever a
revOluli III Is pending, and during earth
quakes people have been caught wor.
Shipping it.
Professor Al thur Auwers, the we'll
known Berlin astronomist, has now
completed the calculations based on the
observations in GelmIny of the transit
OF Venus in 1852. He finds that the
earth is about 90. 043 074, miles distance
from the sun, and that the parallaV
OF the sun is $500 seconds, with an
error of three-hundredthS of second
at most.
The surface of any given quantity
of gold, according to the best authOri-
ties. NAV he extended by tile hammer
3lO.SI4 times. The thickness of the
metal ti'us extended appears to be no
more than tie 500, 020 part of an N ch.
Eight ounces of this wonderful metal
would gild silver wire Of sufficient
length to extend entirely around the
globe.
Albert Edelman, of New York
City, has applied for patent on what
seems to be a wonderful discovery. II
is a chemical process whereby liguile,
which is coal of later stage than the
anthracite or bItuminous article, may
be transferred into servicable fuel.
This can lie sold. he says, at 81 a ton,
and VIII equal our present coal
MISS CHARLOTTE Nj. 1oNGE, the
writer, recently subscribed SlO,OOO for
buil1ing missionary college at Auek-
land New Zealand.
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