Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-11

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Labrador's Fine Berries.
A writer In Outing describes the
raspberries, teaberries,
and bake-apple berries Of
ailly Labrador as unrivaled in flavor.
he bake-apple berry Is peculiar to
although 1t is occasionally
Ound in Newfoundland and Canada.
IS leaf resembles that Of a geranium,
nd the berry, only one Of which grows
II each plant. IS shaped like large
ewberry. When ripening. its color
'hinges from crimson to gold.
1ce-Bells.
Near ShOji, In Japan, there is a Won
erful cavern containing immense
Of Ice which never melts
way. In one place in the cavern huge
.icles. depending from the roof. have
ormed upon the floor beneath them,
trough the slow dripping water. a
core Of great hollow cylinders, some
( which are five feet in height. look
lg like inverted crystal bells. When
hese are carefully struck they give
Ong-l like notes.
When Solid Iron Floats.
Experiments lately made in England
how that If a ball Of solid iron Is low
red into a mass of liquid iron by
leans of a metal fork, the ball at first
inks TO the bottom with the fork. But
1 a few seconds 1t leaves the prongs
nd rises to the surface, where 1t con-
nues 10 float until 1t melts. The ris-
ig is explained by the expansion Of the
al, due to heating, whereby 1t be-
Dmes, bulk for bulk. less dense than
le molten metal
Bicyc!es in War.
The recent bicycle trip Of Lieutenant
Wise from Sackett's Harbor, on Lake
ntario. to New York City is regarded
$ a practical demonstration of the
reat value of the wheel for conveying
ispatches in war; Lieutenant Wise
'de an 1872 pound wheel. and carried
load equivalent to the heavy march
* order equipment of the United States
rmy for Il distance of about 400 miles
yer ordinary roads, part of which lie
mountainous country. He per-
,rmed the trip In 81 hours, but six
ours were lost In repairin. a broken
ushins.
Ancient Carvings.
In a recent lecture Prof. f. W. Put.
lm described some Of the curious and
ingenious carvings made
I human bodies by the mysterious
ound Builders Of the Ohio valley.
skill was exhibited in the
Of lines forming the heads
I'D faces of men and animals intermin-
ed, In q most Intricate manner, with
designs. In one case the
nes picturing a human head were
ade to form parts Of two other heads,
le above and one below; and upon re-
,rsing the figure. more heads were
scernible In 1t.
The Longest Of Tunnels.
At present the longest tunnel in the
orld u that which carries the St. Gott-
ard Railway through the mountain Of
70 same name in Switzerland. Its
myth Is about nine and one-Quarter
lies; but 1t Is to be exceeded in length
? the Simplon tunnel, also in the Alps,
e contract for the construction Of
hich has recently been made. This
Ill be Q double tunnel, twelve and
miles long. North-bound
aims will run through one Of the twin
nnels, and south-bound trains
rough the other.
Phot0EraphinE tho Invisib1e.
A few yeaU ago 1t was found that
some Of the photographs Of the moon
ade with the great Lick telescope in
alifornia the forms Of huge craters
ere visible where, with the eye alone
piled to the telescope, no craters
uld be seen. They were like skeleton
ltlines showing through sort Of COW
ing spread upon the lunar surface.
ecently this Photographic revelation
the invisible has been brought much
.arer home, If the report is true that
Manchester, England, q photograph
an apparently healthy and clear
inned child showed in the negative
at the skin was filed with eruptive
ots, and within three days the child's
ce was actually covered with the
mples Of ''prickly heat" A similar
geographic revelation Of oncoming
,allpox is said to be on record.
The SUMS Electric Power.
Little Mercury, the nearest planet to
e sun, exhibits certain minute irregu-
rites In its motion, which led the
eat astronomer, Leverrier, TO believe
at there was an undiscovered planet
arer the sun than Mercury, to whose
the peculiar motion Of the
tier was due. Later astronomers
We been unable to find Leverrier's
pposed planet, and other explana-
ms Of Mercury's Irregularities have
en- sought Not long ago Professor
suggested the possible ex-
enee of a ring Of little bodies revolv-
2 around the sun Getween Mercury
d Venus. More recently Monsieur
in France, has raised the
estion whether electrical repulsion
I'm the sun may not be the cause of |
irregular movements. In
pport Of this idea the fact is recalled
At evidence Of the suns exercise of
oellent force, probably electrical, is
by the phenomena Of comets
Is.
VulcanizinE Wood.
Wood is artificially colored by using
, vacuum tO vithd rq w ito f7rpid i,icoc