Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-01-16
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

To suffocate frog it is necessary
only to prop its jaws so that Il cannos
shut.
1t is said that the husks OF Cape
gooseberries, when dry, MAKE exec
| lent yeast.
The largest apes have only sixteen
ounces of brain; the lowest men have
thirty-nine.
| The head of the rattlesnake has been
know to infict a fatal wound after be
ing severed from the body.
Long forehead with spherical knobs
in the upper part indicate genius, per-
tinacity without decision, GOODNESS.
varied by fits of impetuosity.
A larger proportion OF children sur
yive their first year OF existence n
, Dublin, Ireland, than IN any one o.
the twenty largest towns OF England
! and Wales.
| Taking the average depth OF al
oceans to be three miles there would
| be salt stratum $50 feet thick ovet
| all the surface now occupied hy ocean:
should the same evaporate.
Doctor Assman and Doctor Boen:
have arrived at the conclusion that
most persons struck by ighning, anc
to all appearances dead, could be re,
called to life by applying the method
| Of artificial respiration in use Tor re
suscitating the drowned.
A railway carriage cooler has been
invented by guard on the MidlGuo
Railway. It consists of apparatus :oI
COMPRISING air during the travel -,
of the cars, and regulated adjustment
allows the compressed air to expand "i
intervals into the carriage.
A good fire extinguisher may bo
made with chloride Sof lime, twenty
parts; common salt, five parts; and
water, seventy-five parts. Mix well
and bottle. In case of fire throw tn
bottle so as break it inthe location OF
the fire and it will put it out.
| In the Spanish province OF Geronr
fairly pure type of the dwarf race OF
Morocco and the Atlas has been traced.
These people average about three and
half feet in height, and are other
wise characterized by a yellow skin,
broad, square faces, Mongolian eyes
and red hair of woody texture.
Professor Semmoia, of Italy, has
used the electric battery with splendid
success in cases of chronic lead-pols-
oning. Based upon the well known
fact that electricity promotes assimila-
tion, he used the battery and found
that under the influence of the current
the lead residue was thrown OF and
passed away with the secretions. At
the end of three months nearly all his
patients could be dismissed as cured.
| In support of the modern theory
| that sound does not consist of given
number of countable wavebeats, a
we'll known writer adduces the fact
that a plate of iron, even an inch
thick, when used as the diaphram OF
4 telephone, will respond to and trans.
NIT perfectly the sound vibrations of
the human voice, result which is al
most inconceivable to be supposed
could be effected by mere mass vibra'
tion.
A great many farmers, particularly
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, en-
courage the presence of snakes in their
neighborhood on the theory that they
destroy vermin. Naturalists are now
agreed that they do injury by devour-
ing toads and frogs, those animals be-
ing more industrious destroyers of
vermin than snakes. In some of the
Southern States black snakes are kept
in barns in the hope that they vii
catch mice.