Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-03-07
NO. y
NEWS IN BRIEF,

fumes
A Maine man makes leather of cat
fish skins.
Every man carries IN atmospheric
pressure of Is tons.
A boy is Saco, Ne, recently ate two
pounds of honey at a sitting.
A goose thirty SIX years old is owned
by farmer at ElHcott City, Nd.
-Laundrymen say that lots of folks
beside students keep shlrt-cuff memo
randa.
-Ccmpresssd air motors are to be
tried IN Wi!kesbsrre, Penn, as a troll
ley substitute.
There are more deaths annually
from hydrophobia in Sweden than II
any other country.
The bedrooms of several British
hotels are now being fitted up with
automatice gas fires.
The largest European city park is
in Denmark. It is called Deer Park,
and contains 4, 200 acres.
Several Shanghai chickens. Will
fifteen toes are the boast of George Il.
Ball, of PeTrydale, Canada.
The combined lenghth of the worlds
telegraph lines would encrclc the
globe about 80 times.
A man who can speak six languages
recently applied to the corporation OF
Cardiff, Wales, for poor relief.
In the rivers on SuIinam there is q
fish that has four perfect eys, TWO on
each side of the head, one above tie
other.
AT the New York Cancer Hospital
they claim that the virus of eryslpelGs
will cure csncerous tumoIs by injeC-
ton.
Eugene Baldwin, of Montreal, has
a wind wheel which, with dynamo and
batteries, furnishes light in hi,
house.
"A single days fog in London has
| brought into the pockets of one gu.
company no less a sum than sixty thou
sand pounds.
The mushroom lies for days and in
dry times for weeks, just under the
surface, fully developed. waiting for
warm, damp night.
Justice Schenchel, of Baltimore,
decided-recently that eating peanuts
! in church was a crime and fined two
negroes so for committing such an
| Otfense.
Excavations in Palestine go to show
! that the hot-air blast furnace, which
has been credited to be the invention
of Nelson in 1928, was used 400 Year.
before Christ.
The Hollanders drink more tea an6
coffee than the people of any other ma.
| tlon, their consumption of these erti-
! cles reaching 240 Dances for each in.
habitant every year.
The reading of romances is forbid.
! den by the Koran, hence popular talel
are never put in writing among No
h8mmedans, put are passed from Ons
| story teller 10 another.
! The cOpious rains and warm weather
which followed the great drought II
England led to the production Oi
second crops of Strawberries, rasp,
berries, and even apples.
! A root of cassava that measure,
seven feet in length ana sweetpotatC
/ twenty inches in circumference are
| two products from the farm of H.A
Lusk, near st. Andrews Bay, Florida
Philadelphia has some long streets
/ Second street, 10 miles; German.
| town and Ridge avenue, 10 miles
| Broad street, % miles; FraUl ford ave.
nue., s miles; Fifth steet, q! miles
Market street, 81 miles.
/ Soils that are formed from sedi.
ments, the settings in water, are
called alluvial; those that are formed
from the decomposition of vegetables
L.
of our uplands, are called colluyial.
J Sir James CrichtUn Browne, the ex
pert on brain diseases, asserted in I
/ popular lecture that insomnia Is no
: attendant with such disastrous conse
i tquences as is commonly supposed.
/ "A servant of London naturalist
! whose collection contained one Of the
I few extant perfect eggs of the cNtinc
! great aux, recently dropped and BROKE
the egg while showing 1t to a visitor.
! -CamphOr trees have been planted al
, Sanford, Fla, aud give proof of adap
! liability to soil and conditions. Tins
! is the indentical camphor tree from
/ which all the camphOr of commerce il
! obtained.
Not only has petroleum for fuel
I DeGn HuODltI On llHuN lOCOluOilNt1 OF
! the Great Eastern road, in England
but experiments are also being made
! with it in somc of the great Lancas
hire cotton mills.
| In France they are making much
! ado over a circular saw. with dim ond,
set in the teeth, for cutting stone. II
is a good thing, but the idea origin.
ated IN America and was patented here
! nearly thirty years ago.
! The connection between coal smoke
! and London fog was again demonstrat
| ed during November when the all
was unusually clear, apparently IN
consequence Of diminished combustion
! OF coal following mild weather.
The average life Of an American shiT
is IS years; Of an English %; Of q
Scandinavian, 80.
1t has been proven that tie use Of
glue was known $500 years ago. 4
| sculpture of Thebes as early as the
! third Thothmes, who is SAID t. have
| been tho PharOh Of the Exodus, rep
resents some carpenters applying V.
neering with glue.
A new surgical instrument Is an ar,
rangment Of magnetic needles in E
foil covered glass tube. Il loc Jt,s
| particles of iron or steel in the body,
| and is capable of detecting piece Of
| wire an eighth of an iGch long Ut ols.
f; tance of six inches.