Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Ihe anchors or the Campanla
weigh 81 tons each.
The Chinese live longer than peo-
pie OF any other natior.
The Union Pacific Railroad crosses
nine mountain ranges.
The railways of America employ
over 2,OCO,G0 men,
The score OF baseball game at
Brenham, Tex, was Ill to IL.
An Indian who calls himself mo
Shirt" is on his way to the East.
Tho first recorded observatory was
on the top of the temple of Belus.
The Colossus of Rhodes was cast
in over loo pieces ard fitted together.
Successful experiments have been
made in burning brick with electricity.
On an average, the letters received
By the Emperor of Germany number
700 a day.
The gigantic statues of Rameses in
Egypt were placed in position by roll
ing them along g eased pllnks.
1t IS reported that the eagles alGng
the ocean coast OF the Stale OF wash
ington are being extermlnated.
There is about four hours and for
ty-fiye minutes difference IN time be-
tween New York aud Liverpool.
Professor Lippmann has succe- d>d
in photographing simultaneously all the
coloIs of the rainbow on lager Cf al
bumen.
The United States has laI nine
capital cities since the Revolutionary
wHr broke ouE. Three wers in PenO-
Sylvania.
"A luminous idea for the employ
ment of luminous paint: Use it for
the names of streets and the numbers
| Of houses.
-Aluminnm can be hardened by ra-
pid COOLING in water, more especially If
it be alloyed with a small percentage of
titanium ar tungestsn.
The first bridge builder was the
spider. and the ropes and stays of the
| spiders web are always attached WILD
geCm trical accuracy.
There are two places in London
[ where c!ergymen can buy sermons
| printed. They cover all subjects and
can be had for every season
Both the Kurds and Cossacks be-
.ieve that Mount Ararat is guarded by
an UneArlhly being, and that no man
can ascend the peak and live.
Chinese women devote very little
| superlluous time TO hairdressing. TheL
tresses are arranged once a month, and
! they sleep with theif heads In boxes.
| Nothing is wasted n China The
| stones OF various fruits and the shell
! OF nuts are cleaned, dried and carved
| into ornaments of the most graceful
lild.
Tile AIctc whale never migrates
to the south ward as most species Oi
whales do, because of its inability to
1--we in the heated waters of the south.
eIn sea.
-Thunderstorms are more frequent
in Java than IN any other part OF the
world, there being an average Of nine
ty-seven days of each year upon Which
they occur.
Several obseIvent ladies have dis
covered thst vegetarians have clear
compleXiors, and have either renounced
the use OF meat entirely, or partake o.
it sparingly.
Miss Revere, great-granddaugh
ter of the Revolutionary patriot, lives
IN SomervilIe, Mass. She Is fifty years
oil, rather small of physique and gray.
IA red.
Mrs. Alice lie PIongeOn, who is al
present residing in Brooklyn, is the
only woman who has lived among th'
deserted old cities in the forests o
YucatAn.
bombay has sorosis and a cooking
class. Recently at a competitive exam
ination over 100 Parsee girls cooked
long list of Indian deliclcIes 10 shOv
their proficiency.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward says mOIesty
a guard to virtue, and that quiet,
transformations, gentle women rarel'
pass through the experiences which at
tack the ambitious ones.
The three essentials fer pleasant
room, says Alice Donlevy, are space.
The OppO5 te of crowd anu clutter; form.
lie opposite of chaos and confusion
gnd color, the opposite Of black.
The late female can lidate for May
or CT Topeka, Kan. Mis-. Anna Potter
is alleged to wear a calico dress and
bIogan shoes, while her fingers and heI
ears gIsten with 5000 worth of dis
mOnds.
The smallest tree in Great Britain
crows on the summit of Ben LomOnd,
Scotland. 1t ID the dwarf Willow.
which Is mature when it attains tn
heighth OF two inches.
Sir John Lubbock, who once kep
q Qr6en bee for fifteen years, declares
that test proved that the eggs Were as
fertile at that age as they were twelv'
years before.
Generally speaking We say that tn,
curvature of the earth amounts tx
about 7 inches to the statute mile; it il
exactly 4. 80 inches, or 1862 inches 70
geographical mile.
"A new substance called valzin II
now being manufactured il BerlI1, Ger.
many. under patent, and 1t is claimed
to be 200 times sSeeter than sugar,
and free from certain objection abv
properties of sacchaTin.
The Health Department of Nev
York City has paid $500 for portable
disinfecting machine. 1t is drawn by
horses, and can be taken in front OF ar
Infected house to disinfect clothing,
Bedding, etc.
The much-disputed question as t.
The source of the Congo River in Al
rica, has at last been settled by the Bel
gian explorer Delcommune, who found
it in a mountain chain south of Lake
Tanganyika.
Marital Rights.
1t was on train going through
Indiana. Among the passenger,