Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-06-19
News in Brief.

The entire Empire of Persia has
but one vessel.
Stephen 81. t'oss, of Pennington,
Vt, has a violin made by Stainer, the
Tyrolese manufacturer, about 1850.
1T is said that dew will not form
on some colors. While yellow board
will be covered with dew, red or
black one beside it will be perfectly
dry.
Arizona has produced more than
$50, 600, 900 of precious meta's. The
exports of silver have exceeded So
600, 900 year, and copper 81, ,000,-
900.
w. H. Gray, OF the Andover
Mass. Press, can stick type in German,
Greek, Syriac, Turkish Arabic, Samar-
itan, Ethlopic, Hebrew, Coptlc and
English.
The use of telephone bells is about
to be discontinued. They will be SUI
perseded by flash lights from an cleo
trio lamp.
The Japanese begin building their
houses at the top. The roof is first
built and elevated on skeleton frame.
Then 1t affords shelter to the workmen
from storms.
IRENE ndous prices are being paid
in London tor prime poultry. A goose
or pair of ducklings cost guinea
(about S5.25l.
The nursery tricycle. has appeared
in London. 1t contains two seats, one
for the mistress and one for the maid
and her charge, and has two pairs of
pedals.
"A cup of tea and cracker taken
before a hearty meal, if you are tired,
will fortify the stomach for the heavy
courses in prospect.
Henry Graham, of Thurston, Ky,
owns gourd fifty-tivc years old. 1t Is
tlve feet one inch in circumference
and holds one bushel and nine quarts
of oats.
The brain is not affected by the
movements of the body, even though
these are sometimes very violent, be-
cause it rests OF basis of soft cush-
ions between the bones of the spine.
The accidental dropping of "A fale
into the Slated floor of street car
constitutes the legal payment of the
fare.
The sea otter produces the n ost
valuable of all furs. A single skin has
brought as high as S1O0.
A scientist has recently declared
that the average speed of the transmits.
sion of the shock of an earth quake
Is 16, 900 feet per second
Edible sualls to the amount of 23O,-
900 pounds are annually shipped to
this country from France. At the
place of expectation they are worth
| about S4. % rer 100.
Sir b. W. Richardson dictated
to phonograph the whole of his
twelvepage article in the AsclepIad. lt
was set up without line of copy"
Animoslty is mother of invention.
The Kremlin of Moscow contains tn
crowns of Poland and all the othe
kingdoms and princlpalities which
Russia has overthrowr.
The late king of the New England
gy psies lett an estate valued at SIOc,-
OUO.
Peru was named from the River
Paro.
An electric pillow has been invented
in Germany and is SAID to work sue.
cessfuIly.
Frances new cruiser, LIE Friant,
has been declared to be almost an ideal
war vessel.
-Abram Atwood, a poulterer, of
Lewiston, Me-, sold turkey to a
patron, and the latter found in the
fowls crop gold bosom pin worth
twice the price of the turkey.
-Aroon Is still the bone of contan
ton in British scientific circles.
Barley is mentioned on some of the
earliest Egyptian monuments
Perhaps the largest camellia in
existence is at the Pilnitz castle near
Dresden, Germany. The tree Is
twenty four feet hIoh and annually
produces about 80, 900 blossoms.
The hydropbone is simple elec.
tric device which announces to a port
or fleet the approach of torpedo boat,
even if the latter is totally submerged
and, therefore, Invisible.
London prints three new novels
day.
A cat that fell from a Baltimore
telegraph pole broke Its jawbone. Its
owner, Henry ZIegler, who thinks the
world of it, is having set OF false
teeth made, which will patch pussy up
all right
Conscience is spiritual organ con-
trived to check the trespass of