Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-01-17
NO.5.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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don't be chronic growler.
- There is sometimes danger In not
getting scared soon enough.
The wrinkles of the heart are more
tndelible than those of the brow.
Canada had $50 different kinds of
potatoes on exhibition at the Worlds
Fair.
More people are poor on account OF
bad management than on account OF
extravaganza.
Professor Thomson has allowed
an electrical current of a million volts
to pass through his body.
The regular mining of precious
metals IN Siberia began IN l704, silver
being the first found.
The Australian gold is finer than
hat of California, having a quality of
twenty to 23.3 carats.
-Four fingers were used for the
marriage ceremony of Mary Stuart to
The unfortunate Darnley.
About sixty per cent. of the copper
produced IN this couI tryi comes IRON
ihe Lake Superior region.
The number of criminal convictions
N Great Britain has declined thirty
'even per cent in twenty.tw years.
There are every year in Australia
1900 arrests for crime and misde-
neanor, and over 1000 convictions.
The most extensive cemetery is il
The catacombs of Rome. Over 6,0OO,-
DO human beings are there inferred.
-Massachus it's has more incOrpora.
ted cities of more than IL, 900 inhabl.
!ants than any other state in the Union.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom
to prefer censure which is useful, tc
praise which deceives them.
"A single steam shovel in the Lake
superior region mines loads on the
cars IN single day 3,4OO tons of iron
ore.
More than one-half the persons
charged with murder in this country
n 1892 were under thirty years of
age.
Afghan chroniclers call their pc o.
pie Bani-Israel, he Arab for children
81 Israel, and claim descent from Saul,
the first Israehtish King.
"A difference between knife blade
losing its temper anda woman is that
the former is becoming duller and the
after more cutting.
There have been more remains of
mastodons and other extinct man.
moths found in Ichtucknee river,
Florida, than in any other stream III
the world.
The Maldivian islanders always eat
IN the most room, and carefully private
close the doors and darken the windows
that they may be unobserved.
1T is estimated that under favorable
conditions a heavy clap of thunder
,an be heard distance of 27 miles.
Lightning is visible five times as far.
MIR. Holland of the Geological Sur
vey of India, after two years investi-
cation, has come to the conclusion
that the geology of Madras has hith-
srto been misapprehended.
"A remarkable archaeological discov
cry is announced from Treves. In ex-
,avating the old Roman walls close 10
The Moselle a complete Roman pottery
establishment was discovered.
SO rapid is the production OF ship
rivets that one train of rolls feeds four
machines. which turns out sixteen tons
Of rivits in three shifts of eight hours
each.
Owing to the recent coal strike in
England, the Great Eastern Railway
Is fitting mp twenty-five locomotives
with liquid fuel apparatus to burn
crude oil or tar.
Babies and young children dressed
in white are thought by medical men
TO be more susceptible to colds and
infectious diseases than those clud in
dark, warm colors.
An authority on weather declares
that tornadoes are most frequent be-
tween noon and o'clock, ald that
the ralniest hour of the day is 1 O'Clock
in the afternoon. This is the report
of a meteorological expert.
The first souvenir Columbian
half dollar which was purchased by the
Remington Typewriter company, has
been presented to President Higinbo-
ham of the Chicago exposition.
The famous Lion brewery at Mu-
uich has a hall that will hold 4,UOC
guests placed around little tables,
where they can enjoy the celebrated
brew OF the place while listening to
the bands.
The historical collection of the Bal.
timO and Ohio rail- DAD, illustrating
the development of the locomotive,
and which was exhibited at the Worlds
fair, has been offered to the city OF
RaItiupra NV President SNbarlaG T.
Mayer.
The idea of an ancient tropical
contin mt at the south pole uniting
South America, Madagascar and Aus
tralIa is arousing considerable interest
and discussion in scientific circles.
When the French crown Jewels were
inventoried in 1871 there were 9544
diamonds, 5C6 pearls, 230 rubies, I37
sapphires, $50 emeralds. seventy.one
topazes, three amethysts and number
of unclassifed stones.
1t has just been ascerta1ned that the
working of the electric railway in Lon.
don can positively be felt as far away
as the north of Norfolk, the motion
being conveyed by the telegraph wires
along the whole distance-about 12O
miles.
Machine oil in France is supposed
10 he the finest purified olive oil. AT
Belford the other day a number OF
soldiers were made violently i'll by
using some of this "olive oil" on salad.
1t was found to be mineral oil, made
of petroleum.