Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-02
NO. 33.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

taissrs.
The Chinese hand Is small, slim and
with !quare PHIL rnges
-Vandyke Brought poltra ture to the
highest degree of Perfection.
The best specimens of alabas;er
carvings have been exhumed at Nine
Veh.
The bones or tombs of over 200
giants have been found in various parts
IF Europe.
-Plirius says that 400 years were
spent building the temple of Diana at
Ephesus.
The average length of life is grea-
Ter IN Norway than in any other COUP
try on the globe.
"A tree thirty feet in diameter was
found recently in grove in SumtU
county, Florida.
One square foot Of glass will lose AS
much heat rs six square feet OF twelve
Inch brick wa :.
AN ordinary day coach weighs
about 200 pounds; Pullman sleeper
weigh about "A 900 pounds.
There IS about four hours and forty
i've minutes difference In time betW cen
New York and Liverpool.
"A map OF the smokes of Paris has
been recently prepare by NJ. F0uHert
Of the Tour ST. Jacques.
The first nickel-steel crank ever cast
IN this country was turned out recently
1t the bethlehem (Pa Iron Works.
"A dollar loaned for 100 y-a-s Anu
pounded at twenty four per cant. will
amount in that time to 81, 55l, 799, 4O4.
-''Chump" is not pew wor !, as Sir
Philip Sidney used ''chumplsh" in the
tense Of ''sullen" over 800 years ago.
A luminous idea for the emplor-
ment of luminous paint: Use it fer tn
names of streets and the numbers Of
| houses.
| Most students of plant structure
maintain that leaves spring du, city
from the node with which they seem
connected.
AT the bottom of the ocean the tenn.
perature remains practically constant
at any one spot throughout the whole
Of the year.
The snowfall in the Rocky Noun
Lains along the line of the Can .disn
Pacific Railway during the past wiLte'
vas thnty one feet.
| Aluminium can be hardened hy
rapid cooling in water, more espeCi NV
If iC lie alloyed with a small percentage
# titanium or turg 'sten.
"A copy OF the first dictionary, made
by Chinese scholars in the year ll09 B.
| g., is still preserved among the archives
# the Celestials.
The very first pages of human Li;-
tory, the annal of the Egyptians, r.
cord that the progenitors Cf our rsce
we're worshipers of the dog.
"A deer was chased by dogs through
the main street of Mays Landing, \.
J., recentlj. 1t jumped gainst picket
fence and died OF Its wounds.
| "A Georgia man who crossed Il
stream In his buggy, a few days age,
found, after he had crossed, that nine
pound fish had jumped into his buggy.
One Congregational church in Hon
| olulu raises annually S35, 600 for IC-
llgIous, educational and missionary
purposes-an avreage Of SO per mem
her.
! Aluminium is found combined with
1875 other metals. 1t is found in every
known country on the globe and con-
stltutes the larger part of the esrth's
"rust.
: The largest spider of the world is
the migale OF Central AmericI, which,
with legs extended, is sometimes fifteen
feet in diameter. 1t preys upon birds
and lizards.
The only two foods which contain
all the substance necessary to human
life are said to be milk and the yoke OF
eggs. y man can live IN health or
these two foods.
A well has just Eeen cleaned out at
De Kslb, Mo-, for the first time in
twenty years. In the mice lineOu+
collection OF hardware wLi:h h II ac
cumulat6d were found four revoIyers.
The much -dIsputed q lestion a5 u
the source Of Congo RIVER In Africa,
has at last been settled bY the Belgian
explorer DolcOmmune, who foun 1t il
a mountain chain sJuth OF Lake Tai
ganyika.
| Scientists are OF the opiniOn tina.
Avery's land, situated in the delta
of the Mississippi, is composet below
the top soil entirely of salt. The salt
occurs in more or less transparent
masses and is quaTried for export
"A Int of Information that the Algo-
maniac may like to ponder over is the
fact that TO display a crest on station
ary and plate nEngland Jsts each fami-
ly tax of So Year and about 4J, 700
persons pay it.
"A submarine vessel named Gus.aW
Zede has been laurc ched at TOulOn,
France. Its movements re eUbls thOse
Of swimming whale. 1t is easily -uh-
merged when required and Ii nsvti
experts present declared II cCmplet,
| 'uccess.
In a paper recently contributed to
the Royal Society of LO..dOD, ID ctOr
Bristowe endeavors to show tLa, the
supposed increase In cancer is only ap-
parent, being due to improve d dag
COSTS and more cireful certlfication of
The cause OF death.
Ia the reign of Queen FL zlbeth, II
bad fish was sold to the poor, the knav-
ish fishmonger was d2coia ed with 4
necklace of his unsavOry commodity,
and was then perched on a stand in
he market.
I'm India huge funnel Of wicker
work Is planted in a stream below l
waterfall, and every funny cTes uru
coming down drops in o 1t, t water
ssraining out and leaving tn: iI,pv
prey IN the receptacle, all rt ady TO E
ga hel ed ia.
IHE man who breaches the reL!
| gospel OF Christ will give emphasis L
| 1t with his life.
THE rest OF Christ is only for those
who can be happy without haviu?
their own way.
GOD never stops trying to I.Se an
| earnest man because he now and theu