Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-11-01
ST. JACOBS OIL pERFne4 eaAkeH eS;5z a
Burns, Bruises, Scalds,
Cuts and Wounds,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The glow worm lays luminous eggs.
Banana -four has been produced ii
small quantity in some parts Of Australia
Nutmees in the quantity of two o.
three drachms will cause both stupor and
delirium.
OYSTER shells laid on the hot Goals IN
a stove or range will loosen clinkers on
ne firebrick, SO that they may be easily
removed.
Numerous experiments to determine
the best fire resisting materials Tor the
construc lion of doors have proved that
wood covered with tin resisted the hre
better than an iron door.
The main elements in the makeup oil
the world are oxygen, nitrogen, hydro
zen, chlorine, carbon, fluOrine, phos-
phorous, silicon, sulphur, aluminium
calcium, copper, iron, lead, potassium
and sodium.
Oysters come nearer to milk than all
most any other common food material
As regards both the amounts and the rel
ative proportion OF nutrients, the food
values of equal weights of milk and oys-
tiers being nearly the same.
1t is somewhat singular that, notwith'
standing the great advances made in
chem s.ry aud metallurgy, no other more
satisfactory silver alloy has yet been dis
covered for coming and other purposes
than the alloy used 500 years ago.
The best lighted city in E rope is
Milan. American machinery only Il
employed in its two central stations. A
curious feature of the system of distri-
button is that the wires, instead of being
carried on poles, are suspended from the
brackets under the caves OF the houses.
In summer q. Paris the SIene delivers
to the two parts Of the br!d5 5e Pont.
Neui about a hundred cubic inches OF
water every second, moving with force
of $500 horse power. Every hour
go, 900 cubic metres of water pass un-
der the arches of the bridge, or S,6iJ,-
OU0 cubic metres IN day.
A Roman has fred King Humbert
a novel instrument of warfare. This Is
projectile, waich on being shot from
a cannon and striking au object will
produce luminous disc of 100, ,00J
candle power, aud thereby expose to
view an euemy's position by night at a
distance of from three to four miles.
A miniature thunder factory has been
coustruc Ell for the science and ait de-
lar;nents at South Kensington, Eng
land, with plates seven feet in diameter,
which. it is believed, would give s2lrAs
thirty inches long, but No L yien jars
have been found 10 stand tue charge, all
being pierced Dy An enormous tensio on.
NJ. BpGr,!elles, CAief Engineer OF
Freuca lighthouses, has perfected sys-
ten by which be can project force Of
$500, ,O00 candles by means of four lenses
instead OF twenty -four, as previously,
and by novel system of rotation make
the flash every twenty seconds. This,
the inventor claims, is the finest result
yet achieved anywhere.
Electric light baths are among the
latest inventions. The necCs AIRY parts
of such a bath are a cabinet which Will
incIose the entire body except the heal,
and fifty electric lamps of sixteen cand
power, or ITO volts, arranged about the
body in groups, with a separate switch
for each group. The light is thrown on
a sectiou at a time, making the patient
frisky and browning the skin like az
ocean bath.
c. C. Jennings, formerly Superin.
teudent of the Brush Electric Light
Company of Buffalo, n. Y, has pat
ented system of telephone communi-
cation, by means of which barbed wire
fences caa be utilized between railroad
stations, farmers houses and large
ranches. The patent involves the use of
a portable trsu.mIt.er or telephone,
which can be attached to the barbed
wire at any point, and By waich mes
sages can be received or sent to railroad
stations or other plsces at which there
are regular telephones.