Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.


one cubic foot of water.
A seventeeu-months-old baby of
Fairbanks, Ne, can whistle a tune.
The first electric machine, a globe
of sulphur, was made by Guericke in
l647.
On the night of April 10, 1850,
there was q "heavy shower OF suails'
near Tiflin, Ohio.
The pointer inherits his nose from
the bloodhound and his other qualities
from the bulldog.
The f-st bricks madein this co n'ry
were manufactured by the Virginia
settlers IN 1912.
1t has been calculated that 500 shots
were fred for every wounded man
during our late civil war.
The apple has larger proportion
of phosphorus Than any other fruit, and
is, therefore, an excellent brain food.
The first iron ship was launched IN
1880; now the carrying power of the
worlds iron shipping exceeds 36, 0OO,-
eco.
Up to 1874, of S244OOO, 1000 gold
and silver produced in Navada, the
Comstock lode produced S16O,OOO,-
OJO.
The Emperor Hadrian, when dy ing,
composed that beautiful address to his
soul, which Pope translated into Eng
lish.
Gold has been found, though not
always in paying quantities, in every
states in the United States except Della
ware.
The naval warfare of the world was
revolutionized by the battle between
the Merrimac and Monitor, March 9,
1892.
The life-saving service on the Brit.
ish coasts was established in 1924, and
has been the means of saving 3i,Oi3
lives.
-Etienne Jodelle was the father of
the French theatre. His first play was
CLEOPATRA, " presented on the stage in
1852.
The average cost of building an
English ironclad is S2IO per ton;
French, 1915; Italian, $3.50; German,
$500.
Diamond cutters IN Holland have
succeeded in cutting stones so small
| that it takes l,5OO of them to weigh a
karat.
-CorneilIe died in the most bitter
poverty, unreleved by many whom
during his days Of prosperity he had
benefited.
! in Mexico there is not one wagon
factory. Every man makes his own or
! gets it from neighbor or another
country.
In 1910 the Dutch owned and oper.
| ated one-half of the worlds shipping:
I now they own about one per cent. OF
the whole.
Watts patent for a steam engine
| was issued IN 1896. The steam engines
! OF the world to-day exercise 80, Oy0. 600
horse power.
! The blast furnace was devised IN
| 1912. In 1890 the United States alone
made 100000 tons of iron and 1, 277,-
! O00 of steel.
The wind blowing at the rate of
I nineteen miles an hour excrts a pressure
of but one and four fifth pounds to the
square foot.
. Matches were first invented in 1889.
and it Is estimated that 100000 "A
day are burned by the people of the
United States.
The newspapers report the striking
of a gas well near Portland. Ind, the
daily output Of which is over SIX mill
ion cubic feet.
There Is a little town named Mark
neukirchen in Saxony, where nearly
every inhabitant is engaged in their
manufacture of violins.
At the present day most heavy tun-
mel work is done by machine drills,
driven by compressed air. which also
serves to ventilate the works.
The Simplon Road, from Switzer-
land to Italy, was built by Napoleon's
engineers in 1907; over 10000 work
men were employed at one time.
The electric railway has penetrated
even the fastness of the TyrOlese noun
rains, a road 27 miles long being pro
iected between Riva and Pinzolo.
a new glass for thermometers Is uu-
affected by heat of l. 0OOO degrees, tho
ordinary glass being unreliable above
$50 degrees on account of its tendency
to soften.
-Saccharine has a rival. A new sub
stance called valzin Is now being
manufactured in Berlin under pat
ent, and is claimed to be 200 times
sweeter than sugar, and free from GER
tain Objectionable properties of saccha-
rine.
"A japanese novelty is "gIass pa
per- which Is said to combine won
derful transparency with unusual
strength and tenacity. The material
for making it is furnished by Japan
ese aquatic plant.
Hallway mathematicians calculate
that train which can speed at the
rate of eighty five miles aud hour
would require from seventy two to
seventy-fve seconds in which to "pull-
up" or come to a standstilI. 1t would
require nearly mile in which to stop.