Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-05-02
NO. 90.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Silk is woven by electricity.
Aluminium does not rust or tarnisil-
There are IS, 900 kinds of postage
stamps.
A British peer cannot resign his
peerage.
-Italic type was first made by Aldus
about 1476.
Tho United States contain 15l,
$50 street cars.
-Sun-exposed trees have their lar.
gest limbs on the south side.
There is a prospect of steam turbine,
beng applet to torpedo boats.
The steam engines of the world to
day give $4,000, 900 horsepower.
- hIna's national hymn is SO Ions
that people take half day to listen to
t.
Gas pipes of MANILA paper coated
with asphalt have been used success.
tully.
- More than 10000 Hindoos have
been inoculated for the prevention OF
ulera.
-Zoologists say that all known specie
Of Wild animals are gradually diminish.
ing in size.
= Switzerland has more post-of1iceA
in proportion to population than any
other untry.
III earth's lowest poly Of water /.
the Casl ian sea, which has been sink.
ing for c. INJURIES.
A large meteor fell near Atchison,
Kan, and people for miles around
Vent looking for 1t.
-To prove he had n large mouthl
Columbus, Ohio, man inserted a billiard
ball. A surgeon cut it out.
4 map of America, by Columbus
has been discovered. 1t represents
This continent as part of Asia.
Immense as the bulk of Jupiter Is
1t makes a complete turn on its axis in
triile less than ten hours.
The French systems OF weights is
pretty nigh universal in all countries
other than English speaking.
The inventors in Chicago are quar-
reliing over the ownership of an ap.
pardtus for the TRANSMISSION of blood.
Cakes of tea in India, pieces of silk
IN China, salt in Ably ssinia and Goldfish
IN Iceland have been used rs money.
OF 1000 men who marry, 332 marry
younger women, $40 marry women of
the same age, and SO marry older
women.
". II. Faulkn-r, of Henderson, n,
c., The father of eighteen children,
h1s forty grandchildren and is not yet
an old man.
The Red Sea is so called because il
is literally covered with minute red
animalculae; the water itself is of a
clear bright blue.
Alta masquerade in n New YorL
suburb recently man who appeard as
Father Time carried a lawn mower in
stead of scythe.
According to careful es Inmates,
three hours of close study wear out the
body more than a whole day of hard
physical exercise.
Over The door of general store il
Plneville, Ky, there used to be a sign
r aiding: Pistols, collins and dime
novels sold here"
Opticians say that the eye can de
tect the color produced by aiding but
one-millonth of gramme of fuchsine
70 a glass of water.
There are several factories in India
an one. at least, in Europe, that at
Mannheim, Germany, where butter is
made from cOcoanuts.
The Thirl United States Cavalry
rode $4,000 miles last year on the bor-
der, one company, Troop G, accom-
pll'hcd eli h!y-tive miles in one day.
"A gray fox on a West Chester, Penn
fam Is on terms of friendship with
lot of young beagle dogs and frequent
" sleeps in the same rem with them.
-Itaiiln fire engines are supplied
with hose fitted with electric wires, so
that the fireman handling the hose can
communicate with those at the en-.
gine.
The statue of Benjamin Franklin
Which stood in front of the Electric
Building at the Worlds Fair has been
presented to the University of Penn
sylvania.
-Le-oh-ta- Wan. nah. wah nah. or
The Maid with eys That Kill" a half
breed Sioux has changed her name TO
Mrs.John Jones. She married an
Indian agent.
Observation recently made undel
the auspices of the Austrian Government
prove that there are places in the Med
lterranean Sea that are over three
mics deep.
In Irwin County George, a mule
ran away with Mr.. Franklin Hammond,
threw him from the wagon and broke
his les That Is the eighteenth time
she same leg has been broken.
Express freight cars are TO be used
for carrying merchandise on the cleo
trio line between Albany and Troy,
y. Y. They are the first of their kind
20 be used IN this country.
Investigation of raindrops leads to
the conclusion that some of the large
drops must be more or less hollow, as
they fail when striking to wet the
whole surface inclosed within the
irOp.
Opals are so sensitive that exposure
to moisture or heat, or even atmos-
pheric change, sometimes ruin them.
John Hammer, a Chicago electrician.
has invented an electric vapor lamp.
1t involves an entirely new principle
and makes a light dozen times more
brilliant that the present electric
ights.
-Gurlt has collected figures which
show that there is one death to every
5000 administrations of chloroform;
while with ether there is only one fatal
case in 1902. Ether is dangerous to
the lungs, chloroform to the heart.