Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-03-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

( The world now uses 13, 600 kinds of
postage stamps.
The engines OF first clsss man-of-
war cost nearly 100000.
The golden-crested wron is the
( smallest bird in the world.
There are now 1000 miles of elec.
trio railroads in this country.
| Children plants and animals grow
more rapidly during the night.
Now Jersey manufactures more silk
than any other State in the Union.
The Dutch Government eventu.
ally own and entirely control all its
railroads.
/ The assessed valuation oil the United
States, according 70 MullhaII, is S65,-
coo, 100000.
A year on Jupiter is equal to eleven
Years, ten months and seventeen days
on our globe.
Three hundred and sixty mountain
IN the United States are over ten thous-
and feet high.
When oxygen is in a liquid state it
Is strongly attracted by powerful
electro magnet.
Stag from blast furnace is pulverized
and used for fertiIizing farming lands
IN Germany.
Il he largest coast light in the United
states can be seen twenty-eight miles
in clear weather.
There are in FIarida GOO'OOO cocoa
nut trees, whose fruit Is all sent to the
New York market
The fruit crop of this country, most
" devoured at home, is valued at
$40, coo, COCA year.
The surface area of the moon Is said
% be fully as great as that of Africaand
Australia combined.
A Russian scientist has succeeded IN
tracing all mans diseases to the fact
that he wears clothes.
The tongue of the toad is attached
to the front of its jaw and hangs back
wrrd instead of toward
Among other articles made from
cotton seed oil, once regarded as uselss,
is artificial India rubber.
Florida oranges are being shipped
to Europe, where hitherto the Italian
fruit has reigned supreme.
There are forty-eight distinct dis
cases OF the eye. No other organ Of
The human body has SO many.
Two hundred and eighteen thousand
tons of phosphate have have been mined
IN South Carolina during 1898.
The beef extract factories in South
America make one pound of extract
from thirty-four pounds of meat.
George Goodle, who recently COM
bined in Texas the ministry and
burglary, has given up and is resting
IN prision
There are fifty miles Of electric
railway and 1000 telephones in use IN
Grand Rapids, Mich, a city $4,000
Inhabitants.
Water alone has been known to
5us tain life fifty five days. If only drv
food were taken, death would result
IN quater of that time
"A cubic foot of new fallen snaw
weighs five and one-half pounds on the
average, and has twelve times the bulk
Of an equal weight of water.
1t is strange though true. that in
Asia and Africa, where grass vii not
grow, the most beautiful flowers and
shrubs flourish to perfection.
"A deposit of iron ore has been dis
covered nelr Chipman, New Brunswick
Specimens are now being tested
with view to working mines.
The latest explanation of the rain
winch usually follows a great battle Is
that it is caused not by the smoke,
but 10y the perspiration of the sol
diers.
A new system by which smokeless
C c)mbustion of coal Is rendered possible
has been adoptep by the North German
Lloyd and the Hamburg AmericanCom-
panies.
More than 5o,OO0,OOO rounds Of
chewing tobacco are made every year
in St. Louis, whicn claims to be the
greatest manufacturing centure of to-
bacco in the world.
London electrical supply firms are
not only lending out electrical cooking
stoves to customers but are prepared
to supply a separate meter and charge
half rates for cooking.
-Kentuckey which passed a game law
before there we're five hundred people
in the then territory, Is still Mt it. 1t
is now illegal TO hunt on any inclosed
land without permission.
In filing band saws, tie a strihg
where you begin to file, and then you
can tell when you get arouud, and
therefore all the teeth will be sharp
and you will uot file any of them twice
p. Silvert, of Dohlen, Saxony, pro
poses the manufacture of glass pipes
by rolling down molten glass in
groves or flutes, and using a core 10
the formation of the pipe or
tube.
DR.. O.V Thayer, of San Francisco.
has successfully used the solar cauterv
burning glass-in removing facial
of the skin of large arsea
slso in removing tattoo or India ink
marks.
Machine-Made Pictures.
Place between two sheets Of glass
some sticky substance, printers ink
Tor preference, and press the plates