Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-01-24
NO. 6.
NEWS IN BRIEF,

cakes.
The worlds sugar plantations pro
duce every year 100000 tons OF
sugar.
Flax is first mentioned in connec.
ton with Hebrews at the exodus, b.
g. 1891.
American pumps are known in Chi
na and Japan, as well as in parts of Eu-
~Ope.
The best whispering gallery is il
the dome of st. PauPs Cathedral, il
London.
A year on Jupiter is equaI to eIever
years ten months and seventeen days
~ our globe.
Russia raises 1860 pounds of grlir
and tifty-One pounds of meat to each
'uhabitant.
In garden at Lexington. Fla
there are said to be 122 different varie-
ties Of roses.
The first oratorio mentioned il
medieval chronices was presented in the
we fth century.
A Russian scientist has succeeded IL
trnclog all mans diseases to the fact
hat he wears clothes.
Clement Spelman of nottingham
was buried upright incased in a pills
u Narburg church.
The largest room in the world nm
broken 10y pillars is a drill hall in ST
"etersburg, G2Uxl5O feet.
Black walnut sawdust, caramel anC
roasted and Drowned horse liver are
used to adulterate coffee.
The surface area of the moon Is sric
to be fully as great as that of Africa
md Australia combined.
Among other articles made from
cottun-ssed oil, once regarded as USE
'ess, IS artificial Ind a rubber.
There are forty-eight distinct dis
eases of the eye. No other organ of
'be human body has so many.
In the Ashantee army the officers
occupy the rear, so as to cut down the
'oldiers who try to run away.
The proposed Hoboken On. J.,
Bridge will have a single span of $3.50
seet-the longest il the world.
With load of 400 pounds a came.
can travel twelve or fourteen days with
ut water, going forty miles a day.
In the year 76) A. u. Peps Pau,
l. sent the only clock in the known
world as a present of Pepin, King of
trance
-Russian woman and japanese mel,
are pronounced by those competent to
Judge tho best of the worlds workers
With the needle.
In Corfu rheets of paper pass 70.
money; one sheet buvs one quart OF
r1ce, or twenty sheets piece of hemp
10th.
p. sfs..a sto,,,,,s r, tho form, or rst,,,,,.
envelopes were Il ell bv NJ. de Velav..r.
who owned private post in the civ
# Paris in the reign of Louis XIV.
Thu I,+,.t o,,,I,n,t;,, of tbo r.;.
,biob nsnoIIr. fn1inrs C-root bat,Ia 80 -
that it Is caused. not 10y the smoke.
but by the p1rspirition of the sol
Tiers.
A ,,o,. sr.t.,r, r,, r,,,i,.,. ,.,r-,r...
,oroI.nstio, Gf c,aI i rand.rel nns.,-
HE has haon .5,-,tal Inv the y. .,rtb ,i,.r.
nan Lloyd and the Hamburg Amer
2aa Companies.
The orc,io.t dantb recorda,I cr
Lake NlicIi ,nn is s7b f.at or nib mt
one sixth of a mil. III. m-au Il .,.t
Is about 30 ieet, o-e one-siNteenth Il
nile.
The flea is covered with armor..
nlates very h ,rJ and overIarnin, e,cb
other. Each Is set with spikes. and
bends in conformity with the move.
Qents of the body.
A repres ptati,u of the b,gprne g,
founl in tn, rIinS of FARSI, ,Tus
instrument was n use 200 wears he
Iore me Cn'l' ian era anu It's origin Is
'niNIo"n'
The speed OF the tastest r-Ily '
| tram Is only Ht'Ie more than onehhil
the velocity OF the golden eagIe night,
the bird having been known to make
~ --'-'e' POI -io'.
1t Is s@id that on account oil thu
size ana attractiVehesS Oh tne sum- ii
man OF 100 pounds Welght removed u"
the surface OF that orD from th plan l.
would up the beam at no less ihau
London electrical supply hrms are
not only lending ont electrical coo slhg
stoves to customers but are prepar' Il 10
supply n separate meter and charge
| IA rates for cooking
The number OF notes coming mt,
the Bank of England for redemption
every day l. abont $1,000, and % 100
are destroyed every week, or sometnu5
Ike lS,OyO,O0U every year.
The largest engine is at Frielrns
! vile. Penn; its driving wheels art
! fbirtv-fve feet in diameter, the cyl.
| indaT is lIOinches. and it raises 1900