Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-05-22
News in Brief

Only one-half of children borD
each the age OF seventeen years.
The growing of corn may be heard
lirect by means of the microphone.
| "A Stanish Me- man has nearly
finished a robe made wholly of cati
| ,kins.
-Itis estimated that gold in circula
ears.
| The average wheat yield in Eng.
land Is said to be thirty SIX bushels to
he acre.
| Coal tar is the latest Partisan
remedy for all the ills. 1t Is taken il
;be rough.
On a summer day the average
healthy adult perspires about twenty.
s,ght ounces.
Germany reports ESQ instances OF
suicide among school children during
he last SIX years.
w. G. Eagan has given a collection
If 10000 rare fossils to the Chicago
academy of Sciences.
Thomas A. Edison has again se-
cured control Of the phonograph anc
will further improve 1t.
Pigs haves real affection for people
they know, and in several recent casee
AVE acted as watchdogs.
The oldest National flag in the
world Is that of Denmark, which has
been in use since the year 1919.
Among the eighty six plans sent
in for tb g new Egyptian Museum, At
Cairo, are several from America.
Human Hair varies in thickness
from the two hundred and fiftieth to
the six hundredth part of an inch.
Friendly societies in England have
agreed to pay indemnity t. all mem.
,ers who may be injured at football.
The valuation Of the labor of OUT
hens in eggs and spring chickens is
avery year estimated at $500. 900, OO0.
Light and power are now trans
,ardino, Cal, q distance of thirty
niles.
-Lenenhock and Humbolt both say
that q single pound of the finest spi-
der webs would reach around the
world.
Twenty seven knots per bour is the
guaranteed speed of the new British
;orpedo boat destroyer Jonus, just
suu ched.
"A number of ply sIcians declared
that nuclein, the recently discovered
iuld, will create a revolution in medi-
al science.
The Siamese have great horror o,
I'D numbers, and were never known
10 puth, 7, 9 or ii windows in q house
" temple.
An English inventor has devised an
auto matte air brake, in which the
weight of the train supplies the power
0 set the brakes.
Sea anemones have been known 10
ave for three or four years without
any nourishment save what they ex.
ract from the water.
In parts of Maine the inhabitants
;ecnre the crop of marsh grass by
waiting until the marshes freeze owe,
md cutting 1t on the ice.
The grand international woodon-
eg race at Nogent sur -Marnc, in
veteran of the CrImean War.
Illinois produces S27A, 600, 200 farm
products; $145, 10000 gram; $50, ,OOO,.
200 live stock; $27, ,OOO,oO dairy, and
i26, 900, 0CO hay aud potatoes.
- The City Architect of Boston ad-
Sises that his office should be
abolished and its work done by .
Il;
"A copy of the Aitken Bible the first
Bible IN the English language printed
IN America, was sold In Boston by
'uction a few days ago for 5000.
-Vesuvius and Etna are never active
It the same time. The period of
greatest violence with one Is that Of
greatest quiescene with the other.
Tho Hungarian of three centuries
ago was entitled to wear one feather In
his cap for every Turk he killed, hence
he phrase in common use among US.
The diatoms, single celled plants OF
she seaweed family, arc SO small that
5000 of them laid end to end scarcely
suffice to cover an inch CT space on o
-ule.
"A cats head has o regular partition
wall projecting from Its sides inward
considerable distance, an excellent
provision against conclusion of the
'rain.
frogs and toads are OF inestimable
benefit to farmers and gardeners; each
creature Is estimated to devour every
season fifty seven times Its weight OF
insects.
The cravat was originally q large
shawl worn around the neck, not for
show but for comfort, by a nation of
Eastern Europe called tie Cravates,
v Croats.
The greatest geysers IN the world
are in the Yellowstone park. The leo.
land geysers are trivial IN comparison
With them, either in number or in Ill.
tensions.
The smallest known species OF hog
the pigmY swine of Australia. They
sre exactly like the larger brethren in
every particular except size, being
1ct larger than good-sized house
At
Tarrlng and feathering was once q
egai punishment for theft. 1t is said
20 be found in the statutes of both
England and France about the time OF
The Crusades.
Boo, the exclamation used to fright
an children. is n corruption of Bob,
ihe name of a frm us Gothic General
1t has been use a. a terror word for
many centuries.
Gently Rebuked.
She-May l suggest an occasions
change in your style of dancing7
He-Certainly; what change do yW
desire?