Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-08-24
GLEANlNGS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.

A HoUSE-DooR letter box which is so
arranged that the postman as he in
serts the mail mechanically and auto
matically rings bell. is new inven-
ton.
| PHoToGRAPHING under water has
actually been carried out, so it is said.
Experiments were made in 1889, in the
Mediterranean, to ascertain how far
daylight penetrated under water. In
very clear water, near Corsica, and
eighteen miles from land, the limit OF
daylight was found by means of ph o.
tographic plates to be 1880 feet.
A TOOL has been recently invented
that may be attached to any drill press
for boring any geometrical figure, such
as round, square, hexsgon, octagon, tri-
angle, diamond, star, oval, half round,
etc. 1t can be fitted to bore any shape
of hole having straight sides or curved
sides, or both. Any machinist of ordi-
nary ability can successfully use the
tool.
The oldest of the Dutch journals ha.
passed its 226th university, and the
publisher has issued to his subscribers
| copies of the first number of that
journal as it appeared on January s.
1856. 1t is said that the earlier copies
of this paper were carefully consulted
by Macaulay in preparing his celebrated
history.
ONE of the hottest regions in the
United States is along the line of the
Southern Pacific railroad, in Arizona.
At Bagdad, in that Territory, the ther-
mometer has been known to stand as
| high as 140 in the shade for days in
succession. The ticket agent at Bag
dad says that he has seen the mercury
standing at 128 on the cool side of the
| depot building at midnight.
TIE common school children OF
Athens are taught ancient and modern
Greek, French aud sometimes English.
Their ''readers" are the classics of
their own country, and while they are
still children they are familiar with
Homer, XeIophon, Herodotus and the
dramatists. Their nursery tales are
the myths of Hellenic literature.
BELEEK WARE is no longer made in
ireland. 1t is the thinnest "china" in
| the world, and Queen Victoria drinks
her tea from Beleek cups. A cup and
saucer of Beleek ware is suitable
wedding-present. What Is called
Beleek ware is now made at some of
the potteries in Trenton, New Jersey.
1t is expensive, as there is so much
hand-work necessary to impart to it
the delicacy of the famous Irish ware.
In the new British Pharmacopoeia
the metric weights and measures will
be lopted, to the entire exclusion of
the English weights and measures
hitherto used there and in the United
States.
| STATISTICS of the Custom house at
| San Francisco show that the sum of
$3.50, 900 was collected last year as the
| duty on importations of smoking
opium, at that port alone, with the
tariff at Sl2 pound. This means an
Importation of 81, 900 pounds.
ONE of the natural curiosities of
Asia is the Great Salt Desert of Persia
1t Is many miles in extent, and is a
solid incrustation of salt several feet
thick.
The latest architectural novelty in
Chicago is a book shaped block, twelve
stories high, to be known as the Mer-
camille Register. "This book will have
steel bindings. with terra-cotta trim.
minRs.
In the kingdom of Poland there was
formerly law according to which any
person found guilty of slander was
compelled TO walk on all fours through
the streets of the town where he lived,
accompanied by the besdle, as sign
that he was unworthy of the name Of
man.
A discharged apprentice 10 Vienna,
| Austria. reyenxed himself the othe