Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-10-02
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| A Maine physician preScrlDeS TOT
nervous exhaustion tomcod chowder,
and the patient must capture his OVID
cod
Atlanta, Ga, is the only city in the
| United States that has a house con-
! structed wholly Of paper from founda
ton to chimney.
A petrified frog, found in an Elmira,
n. Y, stone quarry in 1888 was two
feet and eight inches in length and
weighed over 100 pounds.
Tin is said to have been discovered
in Huerfano County. Colorado, in bet
ter paying quantities than any other
place In the United States.
| r. II. Freeman, of Toomsboro, Ga.
once kept a moccasin snake, tightly
sealed up in a bottle, for two years
without food or water, yet 1t lived and
grew fat"
In 1899 the cost of the election In En-
gland was f95S. 800, an average of
little over shillings a vote. In 1874
each vote cost IA to Is shillings, and iD
1859 over fl.
| The amount Of New England rum
I, sent from Boston to Africa has decreas-
ed in the last two years from 1,02o,226
gallons to SCI. .265. The cause Of this
decrease is not given.
The very largest "standpipe" in the
| United States is at the corner of Sew
enteenth and Crocker streets, Des
Moines, Iowa. 1t Is 135 feet high and
twenty odd feet in diameter.
| The French Government has pur-
chased for the Luxembourg gallery
landscape. Summer" by Maurice Cul-
len, a native of St Johns, Newfound-
land. 1t was exhibited at the Champ
de Mars salon.
| The Louvre has recently become the
possessor of n valuable Greek inscrip-
ton found in the neighborhood of Djer-
ach, in Syria. 1t contains portions of
an ancient law concerning vineyards
and their protection against thieves.
! The Italian Naval Committee Is said
TO have examined and reported favor
ably upon a new type of armor-clad of
the first class. The plans, by Signor
Brin, are said 70 be entirely different
from any existing, either in Italy or
abroad. The chief characteristics are
very high speed and the submersion of
very nearly the whole body of the YES
sci.
The cleaning Of mems straw hats,
Gays the New York Mail and Express,
by means of a whirling wheel, soap,
water, brushes and hot irons, is spread
Ing to all parts of the city, and where
there We're only a few places down
town early in the summer they can
Inow be found on most of the busy busi-
ness avenues and streets as far north
as 125th street.
An item of Rubinstein's will set aside
sum of money the interest of which,
latter accumulating five years, was to
form q prize for the best piano con-
lrerto. condition of the bequest being
THAT 1t should be performed for the first
time in public by the composer himself.
The first of these competitions will take
lplace in Berlin this week, the next in
Vienna in 1900, and the third in Paris
in 1908.
The Secretary to the Austro-Hunga-
lrian Chamber of Commerce has In
formed the world at large that a great
Exhibition will be held at Buda Pesth
Inext year in commemoration of the
foundation of the Hungarian kingdom
under Arpad. 1000 years ago. The ex-
lhibition will be on a scale of great mag
lnificence, organized under the auspices
l,f Francis Joseph, apostolic king of
Hungary.
Waterford Is almost the only town
n Connecticut that, after calling a
Injecting to vote on taking advantage
|,f the law for improving highways,
1as decided against going on with the
lwork. The meeting was held Wednes-
I1ay and several speeches in favor Of
load building were made, but the sentf
lnent of the meeting was the other way
lind the proposition was voted down
10y an overwhelming majority.
John Norton, who Is % years old, has
aved all his life in his house near Com
lpounce Lake, Connecticut, and, al
Though he has been in sight of both the
Northampton Division of the Consoli-
dated and of the New England Rail-
lcoad, never rode in a car of any kind
until recently. The old gentleman is
hale and hearty, with all of his facul-
lies keen and alert, and has a good
prospect of living to be 100. He seemed
70 enjoy his ride very much.
A mortgage was put on recordagainst
The First Baptist Church of Cincinnati.
lit Is in favor of Rev. G. Lockwood,
who is about to retire from the pasto-
rate, and his wife. The church owes
Mr.. Lockwood 1000 salary, and Mrs.
Lockwood the same amount, as money
borrowed for some church improve
nents. The mortgage Is to secure these
llmounts. This church Is the oldest
l,ne Of the denomination in Cincinnati
The agricultural ants" of Sonora,
Mexico, are said to plant fields Of
grain and regularly harvest their crops,
upon which they depend wholly for
'ood. In fact should the crops fail,
hey would perish of famine. On the
,ther hand, the cereals that they grow
have been specialized by cultivation,
ike the wheat and other grains Of the
human husbandman, and. 1t is stated,
would quickly disappear II the insects
neglected to attend to them.
/ It is not generally known that the
roung fat fish have an eye on each
! side Of the body, and that it Is only in
the adult stage that the eyes are both
on one side. There has been much dis
.ussion among scientific men as to the
node in which the change takes place,
but in the floupder the eye has been
) observed to travel over the ridge Of
the head, while In some other fish It
passes directly through the soft tissue
Of the young fish to the other Iside.
A remarkable coincidence is.noted in
ehe family of Mrs. Matilda Craig, who
lnyes near Sand Hill, Ky. She il the