Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-06-03
POPULAR SCIENCE. '

Cork is about tha most buoyant sub.
stance.
The microscopists say that mosquito
has twenty-five teeth.
Yawnlng is caused by deficiency IL
Che air supply to the lungs.
The carbons of electric arc lamps are
aow being made of powdered graphite,
instead Of coke.
Scales are now 1ade that will weigh
he flame OF a idle or the smallest
strand of hair plucked from the eyebrow.
In England farmers always soak their
seed in bluestone Of vltriol to prevent
smut and rust. A pound of vitriol to
four bushels of wheat Is the proportion
used.
Variations in the size of raindrops are
attributed to atmospheric disturbances
and to the height from which they fall,
those from high altitude being much
the smaller.
The new screw propeller of English
origin has two fiat blades in the usual
form, but the remaining two, which are
opposite each other, are looped, SO that
they form practically a revolving figure 5.
The platinum beds in the Ural Noun
tains in Russia are the only ones IN the
world in which that metal is found in
grains. In several places it is to be found
imbedded in the hard serpentine rock,
but only in the Ural in grains.
A recent invention is a new type Or
refrigerator car that can be run for twenty
days without re-icing. 1t is charged
with ice and certain chemicals, the COM
bination maintaining freezing temper.
ature during this long period.
It il said that q really indelible ink
and kind of vinegar can be produced
from the juices contained in the banana
peel. The fiber of the peel, it is said,
can also be utilized in making cloth of
great strength and remarkable beauty.
An Ottawa (Canada) electrician claims
TO have discovered a process for utilizing
electricity for light, power or heat, 50 as
to abstract the heat from cast iron blocks
until they are reduced to the temperature
of ice. He claims that this can be done
at q price to compete favorably with the
latter.
London scientists have recently de-
monstrated that the purest air in the
cities is found about twenty-five feet
above the street surface. Heretofore 1t
has been thought that the highest floors
in tenement houses had the best air. The
investigations above referred to show
that the healthiest apartments are those
ON tho third floor.
Paper teeth are now manufactured b5
. Lubbock dentist. One set has been il
use thirteen years and is as good as ever.
A goose with three wings is the cnoic.
est fowl In the flock of Mrs. Samue
Lutz, Of Worcester, Montgomery County,
Penn.
The staple of food for the 500. 900 na-
tives of Natal and the Zulus alone ii
white corn. 1t is ground into a coarse
meal and boiled with water, making or.
dinary porridge.
The chips from gallows upon which
several persons had been hanged was one
of the items of mediBval nateria medica;
these were thought to be especially
valuable in treating cases of Obstinate
ague.
G. W. Zinn, of Ivorydale, near Gu
cinnati, Ohio, was afraid that people
wouldn't believe him the owner of twin
puppies without any fbrelegs, so he had
an affidavit made out and five neighborS
swore to it.
It is customary throughout Spain for the
walters OF cafes to fill glass vine or
liquor SO that it over;lows dpOn the
saucer. This custom, IN wIich it is de.
sired to show an appearance of liberality,
Is called the .footbath."
The title OF Prince is almost as CON.
mon in Russia as that of Colonel in this
country. A Prince Krapotkin is cab
man, q Prince Soloyko1 is a market
house porter in Moscow and a Princess
Galitzkin is al eguestrienne in a cheap
circus.