Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-06-14
NO. 26
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--rhe United Sta IS have 43 O01. OHt
'herp.
: -Umbrellas were imported FROM
Gnnit in 1772.
Chinese botanists can grow oaks in
Lhimbles.
LAS wear our railroads carried GOO
900, 900 people.
-Nalis were first made in RHODE
Island in l77T.
Geese in migrating often travel
ovei 6OOO miles.
/ The average height of tie eIephan.
is Nil e teet.
! 4 single tobacc plant will produce
go 0)0 seed.
AT tie equatOr the average annual
rainf"ll is 100 iEcaes.
: - The earth receives only one tw
blilionth heat of the sun.
A t'aSpoonful ~ microbes contains
over 0O0,0 in iyiduals.
-Botan!st, say that there are upward
of 90 900 varieties of plant.
! The wiil-o'-the-w wIsp is caused by
the decay OF vegetable matter.
Vegetarians say i I9 a POI u'ar fal-
lacy tha neat Is needed fer sire 9Th.
-R vers hold In suspension over one
hundredth OF their volume fsOlid mar
ter.
An oak tree nearly five centuries
old was recently felled near CasTletcn,
Ind.
DE La Reyniere's "Almanach des
Commands" is the most famous cook
book.
France has three dvnamI te factor
les which produce over 100000 dyna-
mite cartridges year.
Berlin, Germany, has the widest
train roof on the COntinent-that at
Anbalt station. which IS 19S feet Eve
inches.
The Fijian-.believe that the souls
of ali people OF marriageable age VII.
die unmarried can never ent=r into
heaven.
SO dense is the W tier in the deepest
part OF the ocean u At an ironclad, Z
( it were TO sink, would never reach tn
bottom.
"A writer calculates that it takes
eight times the strength to go upstairs
that Is required for the same distance
on the level.
Doctor Eugene l.. Crutchfield, of
Baltimoi e. Md, has recelyel the gold
metals of the Society of Science, Let
ter and Art of London.
-Peach-stOnes are used as fuel il
California. They are supplied b,
ranpfpr, nd hrip- t,a.r. fnY,
"A wave quarter OF "a mile i'll
breadth and forty feet high IS not
sensibiy felt at depth of 22O fathoms.
| The remains of a race of lilliputlans,
believed to he the ancestors of the
Mexican Aztecs, have been unearthed
in East Tennessee.
An agency for the sale of exclusive
recipes for soups, sauces and entree-
( has been opened in Paris by Il 'retired
Chef"
Hash must have been an invention
of the old Romans, for 1t Is related
( that they mixed all sorts of meats and
pounded them into pulp"
The phenomenon OF fphOsphorescence
is not universally understood. Objects
! possessing this property absorb light
during the day aud emit it at night.
Doctor Sievers, of Glessen, has re-
! ceived grant of $1,000 from the liam
burg Geographical Society for explora-
/ tions in the Llanos of the OrinocO.
-FuIgurites, or lightning tubes,
caused by the lightning striking in
sandy soil, have been found i'll New
Mexico thirty feet long.
The first Sunday school in New
York City was started about 1916 by
| Mrs. David Bethune and Mrs Mary
Mason.
The largest Gothic church in the
world is Cologne Cathedral. Its fOun-
dation stones were laid III l24S, aud
the edifice was com pleted In 1881
"A kite string 1000 feet long Olew
and lod ged against the rigging of the
1 Baltimore schooner Souther when it
was IN the Atlantic thirty-fve miles
/ from land.
1t is calculated that on bright
summer day there are raised into the
! air by evaporation from the surface OF
! The Mediterranean $3.50 600 tons of
/ water.
J Gable dispatches are generally re-
ceiyed at the rate of twenty 10 twenty
dive words m mute. An expert te.eg-
rapher of land line seLds about for y
words in that time.
1t has been estimated that a bell
Of commOn size, whose scunl Ould
penetrate "a distance of three to five
miles on shore, could II submerged IN
the sea, be heard over sixty miles.
The Mariposa (CI. Big Tree grove
has Ar Dig trees The laIgss is "a
feet in diameter. Through a tunnel
or hole cut in one IOur-hOrse stage is
driven daily.
Luminous earth worms have re-
Gently been seen near Richmond and
other parts of the Thames Valley in
| England. But it is pointed out that
: these phO,phOrescent .annelids are not
uncommon, having teen described by
Grimm as eIrly as the year 1910.
! The human body contains $50 bones
and 500 muscles; the heart beats
seventy times minute, displacing sch
time f, rty-four grtmmes of blood. Al
the blood passes thTought the heart in
l three minutes.
The ancient Romans made the
i kitchen one of the chief rooms of the
! house. 1t was paved with tiles, while
the walls were hung with pictures ard
! otherwi e decorated.