Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-22
NO. IA
NEWS IN BRIEF.

propelled
-whaleback boats are lighted BY
electricity.
Asphalt navements were first laid
In Paris in 1854.
The best insect destroyer ia hot
alum water.
-One-fifth OF the coal mined Is lost
Ia culm aud refuse.
The longevity of trees is much in
6ueDced by climate.
TIE notation system Of writing
music was invented In 1910.
The desh of the oyster contains
abont ninety per cent. of water.
During the years that henry VIII.
reigned ~ 600 thieves were hanged.
"A Sedalia (Mo.) preacher sdver-
tises "goOd music and short sermons."
There are runy 100000 species
Of insects known to the entomologists.
Astronomers claim that there are
II, 800, 900 comets in the solar system.
A body weighing 10000 pounds at
the tQ"ator would weigh 10,O3l pounds
IL London.
!! The swords OF Dspascu, were
wo;ld-!am"us five hundred years before
the Christian Era.
Alum mum pencils are being man.
. ufacturt Il n Germany fJr use as subSti-
+ tutes for slate penc is.
To make ice by artificial means re-
quires one ton # coal TO produce from
hve TO ten tons of ice.
"A dozen bee trees In New Madrid,
Mo, wera lately tapped, and yielded
6O0 pouuds of wild honey.
For the destruction OF microbes
Cinnamon is said to De as effective, if
not as quick. as corrosive sublimate.
A large sewing machine, Weighing
three and one-fourth tons, is in use in
Leeds, Engian It sews cotton belt
Ing.
The avarage weight If the Chinese
h' ain is sal to be heavier tLan the
average weight OF the brain in any otG-
er race.
Hard coal loses eight per cent in
weather. Soft coal loses twelve per
| cent.
Considerable attention is now
being paid tn the chemistry OF the pig
| ments of insects, especially OF butter
flies.
Sixty miles an hour Is a common
speed, AMI a Tate of forty or fifty mrles
! is attained d sily on almost every rail-
way IN The country.
The newly discovered form of car
| bon u .ffers in several f its properties
from graphite, and has been called pro-
visionallg ; Up little.
The el, ctrlc capstan is now largely
! used on docks and in railway and other
yards where ready power is required 10
move cars, In place of switching en-
| gineS.
Over twenty years ago Meldola OBJ
served thaG the yellow pigment of the
/ sulphur yellow butterfly was soluble in
water, and shovel that its aqueous
! solution had an acid reaction.
| -ExperIu ents have shown that a
pumpkin will lift two and One-halt tons,
provided tie Wi hit ia placed so as to
interfere with She growth and develop
ment of the vege a lie.
The temperature of the Medjterra-
nean at 30 tathoms is ahoIt ifty-six
degrees, and 10 change is found in
goirg To the bottom which IN places
reaches depth of 1900 titboms.
M Chappuis's proposed electric
railway through the Slmplon Pass IS
| a.
wou d greatly reduce the Instance be-
tween Italy and n Irthern Europe.
! The cost of the observatory which
is now being built on the to- OF Mont
Blanc, SwitZeI land, is tstimated al 500
OU0. Part of the building Is 10 be
made available for guides and tourists.
1t is claimed that over $50, 900, 900
has been invested in the phosphate las.
iness Of the South, and that tbs busi-
ness has been overdons, at least tempo
rdrIly.
There are now go Osages and
they ave to their credit in tn United
States Treasury about $40 ,000. o. o, own
1900, 100 acre of ex elIent lsuu aud do
NO, owe a cent. Their iLc'me per
Capita is fifty five dollars Ter gu rter.
AT Cherbourp. France, an electric
| al CAME is IN successful operation 1t
will run for twelve hours at The rate OF
nearly eight knots an hour.
Genuine volcanic dust has been
found in Kansas ard the Indian Terri
tory. There Is del. .osit near Galena,
in the T II nttcry, which Is said 70 be
meny feet in thick ness
"A fossil elephant has been found
ten kilometres from BIloude, In France,
on tie slope of an OLD volcano, the Sen
eze. II is the skeleton OF an elephus
meridionalIs, and IS nearly entire.
The l,test methed Of decorating
metals makes the working out of most
beautiful and artistic designs possible.
The means Uy which this is affected
are t etching s.d oxidation Of the
metal.
"A level head is possessed by q Ger.
tain young man ID Winan a., Ind. he
love d two girls equally well, aud both
of them I'D It, d Lin. He set them 10
cooki' < a dinner, each IN turn, In his
presence. re married the one who's G
dinner he pref-rred.
There mas peSh ploNeu up IN An
drew G, unity, Missouri, an ancient
Roman sword. 1t is repOrted, which Is
be. .ieved to have belonged o soue me ~
her of De Soto's exped ton, who were
explo ing In thar part of the country III
the middle of the Sixteenth Ceatu.y
-PerfoI mances at theatres OF ancIen
Greece sometimes lasted Twelve hours
Sven o'clock in the morning was The
me for tue raising Of the curtain, so tC
speak.
"A pistol ball was recently re-
moved from the right thigh OF mar
which hal been there since 1864
The bali, 1t is said. had gravi atet
about a foot and half through The
| flesh In tue last tweuJy-nine Years.
"A couple of pheasants joined aftel
he y,aannsr nf fiaa Slantps.. twins wprs