Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-03-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Greeks had the grip 47o years
B. Q.
Two ounces of ottar of roses repre-
sent the refined product OF a ton OF
rose-buds.
An establishment for canning wild
geese is to be constructed in Alaska.
-Germnium is worth sixty times its
weight in gold.
"A light steel telegraph pole has
been patented by Wisconsin man.
To extinguish an oil fire, bran or
any kind of mill feed will be found ef-
fective.
The s'heavIest" woman in Europe
has Just died In Bavaria. She weighed
500 pounds.
Sixty gas motors were shown at the
last Paris (france) Exposition. In 1868
only three were exhibited.
"A telephone wire has Just been
completed between Melbourne and
Adelaide in Austrlis, a distance of 500
miles
"A curious fact, common to Eng
land, France and Germany, is the spec
ial severity of the grip epidemic at the
seaside.
An Athens (Greece) student asserts
that HippocrateS and Galen used anti
septic dressing for wounds.
"A few years ago the Belding Bro
theirs, SILK manufacturers of NoTthamp-
ton, Mass, sunk well at their silk
works to the depth OF 37C0 feet without
obtaining water
-Hot water taken freely half an hour
before bedtime is helpful in the case Of
constipation, and has most soothing
effect upon the stomach.
The mean descento of the Ohio River
from the junction of the Allegheny and
the MonOngahela to the Mississippi is
about 81 inches per mile, the distance
being 975 miles.
"A Connecticut judge fined man
SO for disturbing the slumbeT of a
olice officer by practicing on tho cor
net.
There are IA great gates to the Es-
curial, the palace of Spanish kings, aud
the building is lighted by ITO outer and
1853 inner windows.
The proposed ship canal between
Philadelphia aud New York, it is esti-
mated, will cost S12, COJ, 600, and would,
1t is thought, be IemuneTatlve-
During a recent Thunderstorm in
Maine the skin of a boy who was
struck by lightning turned a dark
purple aud has remained SO ev
since.
The domesticated Malay cat has
tail that is only about one-half the
usual length, AMI very often 1t is tied
by nature in a sort of knot that cannot
be stTaig htened out.
The latest whim for the owners of
dogs is TO make them wear shoes in the
house for the purpose of protecting the
polished floors, They are made OF
chamois with leather soles.
The smallest constituency repre-
sent 4 in the National House of Rep
resentatiVes is that of Bartine of Ne
| vada, and though IL embraces the en-
tire state, it contains only 45, 76l MEM
| beTs.
Two fish hooks made of the pearl
| oyster shell of the Indo-Pacific Ocean
were recently plowed up on the north
shore of Lake Ontario. They are said
|
| those of the anCients of Polynesia.
| "A faint impression of the enormous
| value of the exhibits at the coming
! Worlds Fair may be gained from the
/ fact that the com mission will carry in
surance on the bu ildlngs and contents
to the amount of ov Ell 500, OCOUG0.
There Is a rosebush at H Hildersheim,
in Hanover, that was planted more
than l l,O0Oyears ago by Oharlemange in
| CONNIE mOTatiOn of visit made by an
Ambassador from the Caliph HarOun
al Raschid, The bush is now twenty
six feet high.
There is an annual Feast of False
| Faces among the OnOndaga Indians
ii Northwestern New OTk, that fol-
lows some weeks after the White
Dog Feast" The faces are mostly
wooden masks made by themselves,
but are not old.
-COhasset, Mass, boasts d school
marin who has taught in the sams
sohoolroom in That town for seventy
two consecutive terms. Almost every
man and woman in the village has
been TO school to her. She is now
taking her first vacation.
"A California prune grower has re-
fused an offer from Bordeaux
(France) finn for his pTune crop III
sacks. They would of course be re-
PACKED and shipped as French prunes.
But the Californian means to improve
his style of packing and make the profit
himself.
BY the subsection of ordinary ar 10
a pressure of seventy-fve atmospheTes,
or 1921 pounds, with condenser kept
at minus 130 degrees centIgra-e, air
has been reduced 10 liquid form, and
the liquid, when allowed to evaporate,
produces, it is said, temperature OF
minus 200 degrees centigTade. This Is
within seventy-three degrees of abso-
lutte zero.