Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-08-17
NO. 80
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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minute.
Canada will make q remarkable
display of her mineral resources at the
Worlds Fair.
1t Is now claimed that NJ. Pasteur
is working on a means for the cure OF
epilepsy, and that he has every hope of
success.
According to the scientist, walk
ing ten miles in line is as exhaustive as
walking twenty miles at a go-as you
please gait.
According to Professor Rogers.
every pound of coal contains dynamic
force equal to the amount of work
man does in day.
-Cirbon is so good a conductor OF
electricity that in the form of coke. it
is used to make an earth connection for
lightning rods.
Experiments toward rust prevention
are being made in all the Australian
colonies, and conference was held in
Adelaide, in March to report re-
suits.
Mr.. Glaisber, when in q balloon,
at two miles from the earth heard a
musket shot and a dog bark, and at
four miles a railway train.
The new science of experimental
psychology aims at measuring the
mental capacities OF men as the an
thropometrist measures their physical
capacities.
with the most powerful microscopes
lie tln tao hot Ia y
minute scales, overlapping each other
exactly like those of a Esh.
There are most beautf full butterflies
! in the Malay archipelago, of an exquis-
| ite blue and other iridescent bues, which
measure eight inches from wing tip to
wing tip.
| The "horn" of the rhinoceros Is
simply hypertrophied bunch of hair.
the horns of lizards and of cattle are
morphologically hypertrophied portions
OF the skin.
| When ripe, the banana consists OF
| seventy-four per cent. of water, twenty
! per cent. OF sugar, two per cent. of
| gluten, and the remainder of mineral
matter and woody fiber.
"A tender-hearted Parisian lady has
made her pet dog comfortable in cold
weather by clothing 1t with an embroid-
cred fur IL ned blanket, and decorating
It's little legs and feet with shoes and
stockings.
| "A solid gold brick, Weighing 800
pounds, and worth Sl5U, 900, will be ex-
hiblted in the Mines and Mining Build
ing at the Worlds Fair by a Helena,
Mont, mine owner.
| -''Prince MIchael," the long haired
leader of the Detroit fanatics, who has
just been sent to the State prison, has
sold his hair and whiskers to dime
museum man for $3.50.
A company was organized at
Phenix, Ariz recently for the con-
struction of what is claimed Will be the
largest reservoir in the world. 1t Will
be sixteen miles long and contain l03 :
05S .040.S 800 cubic feet of water
Every portion of soapstone lost in
cutting Is utilized in other ways. 1t
gives the dull color to rubber goods, Is
used in paper to gaia weight, and Is an
excellent article to use in making fire.
proof paints.
| A remarkable case Is that of man
who was stabbed in the heart. That or
gan was punctured, but yet he lived
and would have recovered had he not be-
come Intoxicated before the wound en-
tirely healed.
An automatically working match
machine has recently been invented,
having capacity Of 10000 sticks a
day, which 1t arranges over a vat
where the heads are put on.
The telephone line over Pixies
Peak, Colorado, is said to be eclipsed
In altitude by line that crosses the
Andes on the Trans- Andean Railroad
at an elevation of about 10000 feet
above sea level.
London has firm of opticians
whose speciality IS the sale Of spectacles
for horses The object of the spectacle
is TO promote high stepping.
There is church in the town OF
Bergen, Norway, that is built entirely
of paper. 1t can seat ], 600 persons In
comfort, and has Deen rendered water
proof by solution of qLicklIme
curdled milk and white of eggs.
Africa is 234 times as large as the
State Of New York. 1t is the most
remarkable of all the countries as re-
spects its animal distributions. Out of
a total of % known species, 472 of
them are to be found in no other coun-
try.
The block which probably has the
largest pop IlstIon of any in tie world
IS in New York, bounded by Avenues
b and @, Second and Third avenues.
1t has a population of $500, or at the
| surprising rate of 100000 to the
i square mile.
In London there is a cripple entire
ly without legs who is said to surpass
his comrades in school in his skill Of
! swimming. He is Furthermore an ex-
, ceIlent runner, moving along rapidly by
means of his muscular arms.
Scientists estimate that every year
layer equal to fourteen feet deep of
the surface of all oceans and their bodi-
es of water is taken up into the atmos-
, phere as vapor.
Experiments In Germany show that
: peat is a good material In which to store
potatoes, turnips, onions and other
similar vegetables. Potatoes, after
= eight mouths. were found in perfect
condition without even having germin-
ated.
Several of the higher apes share will
; man the involuntary habit of blushiag.
Indeed, they seem to possess it TO a
higher degree than we do. for the blush
of an ape extends over larger por-
tIon of the body than that of human
: being.
A WOMAN is the inventor of the
8 s'Coston signals"-a system of signal .
ing with colored lights which is used
a on land and sea all over the world.
!, She is Martha J. Coston of Washing
, ten. While she was very young, her
husband, Benjamin Franklin Coston,
, an officer in the marines and an inven-
; tor, died, leaving her with three little
q children to support. She devoted her
self to the perfection of experiments