Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-04-20
NO. Is.
NEW 5 IN BRIEF.

II he firsa horse railroad was built in
1926 27.
"A Ca'asauqua penn man roasts
and eats cats as his only meal.
Queen Vietoria's cook ge's $500 a
year.
Thirteen tons of postage stamps are
said t. have en- sold in New York
City last year.
CONDENSED milk firms an Import
, ant ltem in the supplies of the average
winter resort hotel.
ALL the quicksilver produced in the
United States comes from California
and one mine in Oregon.
-Ebony is plentiful enough In some
! parts of Mexico to be used for fire.
| W, cd.
The paper tree of the South Seas il
a kind of mulberry, with an inner
! bark OF peculiar delicac7 and softness.
-CalItronia has ten peaks over TO-
900 feet high, and scores of high water
falls, glaciers and big trees.
John Carney, Kansas farmer, re-
Gently plowed up gold ring which
his dau ,slter hal lost seven years PIE
vious.
The trouble in lighting by storage
battery heretofore has been the great
weight Of the batteries and the cost Of
charging.
1t appears that the electrical smelt
ing furnance. sometime since invented
In England has given very satisfactory
! results IL working.
Marching Is hard work. Accord
ing to the SC enlist, walking ten miles
In line is as exhaustive as walking
twenty at go-as-you-please gait.
-GrasshorpeTs attain their greatest
size in South America, where they
grow to the length of five inches, and
their wings spread out ten inches.
The first telegraphlc instrument
was successfully operated by 5. F. B.
Morse, the inventor. in 1885, though
the utility was not demonstrated to the
! world until 1912.
"A penman of Vienna, Austria
once wrote 400 Hebrew letters on q
single grain of wheat At another
time he wrote Hebrew prayer on the
tuBe Vi d NlSllluS CdEd.
1t Is a matter of record that Is, $40
dollars were coined in 1904, yet only
eight samples are known to exist, and
| those that are in good condition are
valued at $1,000 each.
-Subterrane all fires III the coal de
posits of Wyoming, which have been
raging for twelve years, recently gen
Grated gases which exploded and dis
placed 80 acres of surface.
A scientific statistician has figured
1t out that light travels more than H.
000, 900 times as fast as an express
train rushing along at the rate OF sixty
miles an hour.
Almost any pace in the Sahara
desert one can find glass sticks or tubes
from one to three feet in length, caused
by lightning striking the pure sand and
instantly converting it into that fragile
substance.
The La Plata was discovered BY
Juan DiaZ de Soils IN 1916, who took
possession OF tie country for the crown
of Spain. BuenOs Ayres was founded
by Don Pedro de Mendoza, who be-
| came governor IN 1888.
! -Circassian boys and girls may stil
! De bought IN ConstantlnOple, Turkey,
| at fair prices. This is due more to the
! fact that their parents are eager to
sell them than to any real existence OF
| slavery.
There is man llvicg in Calhoun
! Ga, 20 years O'd, who boasts that he
aFU.g p
/ suit of clothes, white shirt or any store
clothes in his life, or wore collar OF
necktie.
1t Is to Italy tnat the world owes iti
| Ice cream, though doubtless Italy got
the idea from tie sherbet of the Per
slams. The peddlIng OF penny ices has
long been distinctive industry Of Ihi
Italian peaSantry.
| The Ph9nicians were acquainted
Vi b the use Of extremely hardened
iron properly speaking stee0, as theh
| numerous and beautiful works in oTGa'
mental metallurgy, and the cutting
and engraving of precious stones show
1t is interesting to learn that in the
| Ninth entuTy European Kings wore
| wooden shoes. In those days, in fact
monarch did not possess One-hali
the creature comforts and luKuries
that the hImblest peasant can now OBJ
| ain.
The Grand Duke Paul of Russ'S
carries his bed about with him wheE
he travels, not as in the case of Queer
| Victoria because she prefers iI tC
offers, bit because he Is 50 tall that he
cannot sleep in q bedstead Of ordinary
proportions.
1t is recorded that in the time o.
King William IL there occurred In Eng
land a wonderful shower Of stars, which
''seemed to fall like lain from heaven
An eyewitness seNlng where an aero
lite fell, cast water upon it, which wsi
raised in steam with great noise q
boiling"
Figures furnished concerning the
salt product of tie United states make
the reduction duIlng the year 1891
10, 229, 69l barTels. About fourteenth:
of this is from Michigan, fouT-t 1nths
from New York. not quite one-tentt
from Kansas and the remainder from
Ohio, West Virginia. Louisiana, Utah,
Nevada and Texas.
| One OF the earliest accounts OF
star-showers il that which relates how,
in 472, the sky at Cons antinoI le, Tur-
kew, appeared to be alive with flying
stars aud meteors. In some Eastern
annals we are told that in October,
1902, "he stars appeared like waves
upon the sky. They few about like
grasshoppers. and were dispersed from
left to right"
In ireland fsvOrite remedy fol
every kind of internal pain is hot vine
gar punch: indeed, vinegar taken either
cold or hot is CO lsidered almost speci-
| &c for everything. 1t must be COM
forting in some casesi 1t is much used
| FOR a ..snneeZ1n1 Oh the hart which Is