Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-01-11
KEW S IN BRIEF.

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Just praise is only debt. but flattery
pre-, ent.
"A single grateful thought is the
most complete prayer.
There are nearly ten million varie
les of insects in the world.
The interest you IN others take,
hat interest they will take in you.
Variations IN atmospheric pressure
app ar to have powerful effect upon
The mind.
business dispatched is business well
lone, but business hurried is business
III done.
. Platinum may have existed some
lime as liquid before taking the crys'
alline form.
Some of the railroads are now
Employing electric shovellers for excs.
Vating purposes.
The object of punishment is pre-
Sention from evil; it never can be made
lnpulsive to good.
After the passage Of the cape Gin.
Iamon, vanilla, CLOVIS nutmeg and
pepper came into use.
The State of Washington is one OF
she heaviest consumers of condensed
milk In the country.
In the Eleventh Century both
english and French dandies covered
heir arms with bracelets.
The Sandwich Islanders become
hilarious on the Juice of a vegetable
resembling the beet root.
Everywhere the flower OF obedienc.
intellig nee. Otey a man with cor
iial loyalty and you will understand
aim.
The death rate of British soldier
n India is only fifteen per 1000 now,
where in 1859 1t was sixty-nine per
1000.
The accuracy of surveying IN an.
:ient engineering is marvellous, con-
s'dermg the Tudeness OF the instru-
ments.
, fleetwood, Penn, claims to have
Iuince which weighs twenty-eight
ounces and measures sixteen inches in
circumference.
/ "A shoemaker In Berlin, Germany,
las invented an artificial sole of stone
or use IN shoes. 1t is elastic and
,asy on the feet, and is calculated to
asst for years.
An instrument will be used at the
lew psychological laboratory at Yale
College, capable of measuring time TO
/ Ol OF second.
The light gwen by an ordinary
coal gas flame is due to the presence OF
carbon particles in highly heated and
glowing condition.
Experiments in towing barges OIL
annals 10y means of electricity have been
made on one of the canals In France on
he sunk cable plan.
European savants declare that the
)uzzing OF a hy, when heard through
he mtcrophonr, sounds like the neigh
ng of horse in the distance.
The French Society of Hygiene
las appointed commission TO report
IN the system of smoke consuming
:himneys in use in several manufac-
iuTes in bell,n-
The New York Sun Building is pro-
rided with the largest thermometer in
Existence. 1t has dial forty inches In
lameter, so situated as to be in plain
rev of passers-by.
So remote is the planet Neptune
rom tie sun, its mean distance being
!,745, 99S, 0C0 miles, that the tempera-
iure is estimated to be 300 deg rees be-
ow zero.
M. Turpin, the inventor of the ex
jlOsive melinite, who is now undergoing
i've years imprisonment In France,
:laims to have finally solved the prob
EN- of aerial steering.
The Philadelphia and Reading
2aIlroad has given an order 10 the
Baldwin Locomotive Works for fifty
lngInes, one-half OF which will De com.
DUunj, with WootteD boilers.
"A new invention Is a saw-horse
With toothed dog holding the piece OF
timber In place, the device being p!v-
)te1 at the cross legs and operating
lnder spring tension.
"A Berlin physician, DR.. We'll, hal
.Tected some remarkable and rapid
.ures of diabetes by using a decOcuOn
If huckleberry leaves, obtainable in
rug stores as pilulP myrtelli Jasper.
The only specimen of fossillzed Oh
certified cave man ever found In the
United States was that discovered by
IN exploring party at Craighead Cave,
lear Monroe, Tenn, in 1892.
"A very curious experiment has
.ecently been made by Professor Spring
which SEEMS to indicate that metals
nav exist in a gaseous state at temper
ItuUes below their melting points.
There is a certain place on the
arth, In northern latitude, where,
.bough the days and nights (eTen when
Ihortest) consist of several hours, yet IN
hat place it is midday or noon every
quarter of an hour.
Experiment has demonstrated that
6hen the land in the Snake River Val
ey, Idaho, Is lrri gated, wheat YIELDS
orty bu bels, oats seventy-fye bushels,
barley forty-five bushels and potatoes
80 bushels to the acre. Alfdlfa yields
hTee crops In season.
"A Brunswick Ne. man recently
aid for suit of clothes with 1000,
which weighed twentY-one pounds.
Mrs. William Wood, the wife or
,rominent farmer died at Martins
lille, Ind, recently. She was married
VLeu fourteen years old and though
Inly thirty-nve when she died, she
lad been a grandmother for two
ears.
"A Jimmy, such as burglars use
simply a short crowoar. A sectional
immy is une in sections of, say on,
DOT In length, which are screwed to-
,ether to make it OF the necessary
ength. One end of this jimmy is
urned up little more than the Ordin-
lry crowbar. The jimmy is an exam
pie of simple lever.
"A German doctor Of reputation
)rescribes alumInum as a cure for
rheumatism. a finger ring made or
his metal, Joined with another, gene
rates gentle current of electricity.
,ure.