Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-09-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

weight IN food day.
An iron railway lasts sixteen years;
a steel one lasts forty.
One man out of every four Is trou-
bled with defective vision.
Guinea pigs allowed to roam freely
in house will keep away rats.
Horses are said to be particularly
fond of the skin of the banana.
"A barber in Brooklyn, n. Y, gives
free shine with every shave.
Electricity trave about 10000
miles a second faster than light.
"A Western paper says warm weather
accelerates the growth Of whiskers.
The total tonnage launched in Great
Britain in 1898 was 300, 142 tons
Kansas farmers have discovered that
kerosene will kill chinchbugs- the
corn.
young chicken which has four legs and
five wings.
The letters in the various alphabets
of the world vary from twelve to 2O2
in number.
Among the industries of the United
States that of paper making now holds
fifth place.
"A Texas man was driven insane by
swallowing live frog while drinking
from a spring.
The common frog can change its
color, to some extent, in harmony with
its surroundings.
France has more persons over sixty
years of age than any other country;
Ireland comes next.
BY means of the electrical current it
Is now possible to produce n higher
temperature than ever before.
1t is stated that the effects of i'm.
| prisOnment are far s,verer, bodily and
| mentally on women than men.
A bit Of chewing gum lodged in the
throat OF four year-old girl IN Fargo,
! North Dakota, and caused her death.
"A thousand millions OF the animal.
culae found in stagnant water do not
collectively equal the size of grain OF
sand.
Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, was
discovered in 1909 by hunter named
Hutchins, while in pursuit OF wound
ed bear.
Glass bricks arc on exhibition at
the Worlds Fair. They are intended
Tor buildings wherein great light is
needed.
I'm severe paroxysms of coughing
from whatever cause, tablespoonful
of glycerine in hot milk or cream will
give speedy relief.
1t is estimated, from the census Of
1890, that the insect pests cost the fruit
growers of the United States about 81,
100000 year.
In the twenty years that have
elapsed since the close of the Franco
Prussian war Europe has doubled her
military strength.
More than half of the marriages iu
Kansas last year were OF colored people,
although this race constitutes only one
twentieth of the population.
Most of the buffalo bones are shippd
to the East, where they are converted
into bone charcoal, which is used for
tiltering in the sugar reineries.
A botanist has found by experiment
that there are grown in the country six
teen species of trees which, when thor
oughly soaked, will sink in water.
Although worth $50, OOO,O 900 at the
time of his death, Leland Stanford bor-
rowed money all his life, and said that
he could have proftably used more.
Wool warehouses in Bradford, Eng
: land, are being fitted with ectric cranes
supplied with current from the city
: mains Hydraulic cranes were former
ly used.
\ pneumatic bumper, to be used on
trolley cars, to knock careless pedestri.
ans out of the way without serious
! hurting them, has been contrived by
. Baltimorean.
) A new thing in the surgical wor d is
) curious brass button recently designed
! by surgeon for the purpose OF joining
together two ends of an intestine that
has teen cut.
-Telephonemeter is the new instru-
: ment that registers the time of each
J conversation at the telephone from tho
4 time Of ringing up the exchange to the
: ringing-off signal.
I The financial crisis III Spain has Sc.
I riously reduced railroad traffic, SO that
!. nearly all lines are badly crippled, and
/. some have been forced to offer new is
I. sues of bonds on the market.
n +. G.. 'Plummer, civil engineer,
! SAYS that Mount Tacoma is fifteen thous.
q and feet high, Just one hundred and two
a feet higher than Mount Whitney, sup.
:. posed to be the highest in the United
!. States.
a During the last Paraguayan war it
a was noticed that the men who had beeu
4. without salt for three months, and wht
i had been wounded, however slight, died
of their wounds because they would not
), heal.
}. "A boy at Rockland, Me-, had been
a informed by his mother that a pail
a which stood in the sink contained mi
!. crobes. A short time afterward the lud
a was seen fishing in the pail, presumabl,
]. for microbes.
O 1t is learned from London that Sc.
i dan chairs are about To be reintroduced
: in England.
Z Pail Mall, the famous locality in
: London, it is said, is SO called, from the
y fact that in earlier times it was an alley
for tennis playing, and took Its name
from the name by which the mallet wa
known-pell nell or PAIL mall.
, Persian newspapers are not printed
from type. When the reading matter is
:, ready it is passed to a scribe, who make
= 4 clean copy. From this Il beautifully
written fine copy is made by hand
> writing expert, and this is finally exact
4 y reproduced by lithography.
2 The world loses nothing when :.
g bad man dies, no matter how much
q money he was worth.
:. II is poor policy to hire a man Z"
watch bank who believes that stea,-
ing chickens Is right
THE best places in Heaven are for
those who are willing to have hard
r time on earth for Christ
= THE dismal man generally looks ;
!, though he would like to put an iroI
roof over the sky if he could
u We are washed in the blood of
!, Christ only when we believe that