Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-18
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The interest on New York's debt this
ear is $500. .OOO-an Increase Of mOrs
shan $500. 900 last year.
The new coal deposit at Blackwater,
No., twelve miles south of Marshall,
begins four feet from the surface and
8 from thirty to forty feet thick.
Scientists who have made q study
II the eye say that q fash Of light
asting 4O-1, 600. .OOOths Of a second ID
quite sufficient for distinct vision.
Baltimore. as well az Brooklyn. is a
.ity OF churches. each having q greater
aumber In proportion to the population
than any other city In the United
States.
There were 100 inches Of snow on the
ground along the main line Of the
Northern Pacific railroad In the Cas-
eade mOuntains. Washington. the first
week Of this year.
A mess Of eels Weighing 800 pounds
elogged the water wheel which runs
the electric plant Of Riverhead. L. l..
the other night, and the town was In
darkness for several hourA
Indian criminal statistics show that
there 10 one criminal to every 274 Euro
peans, SOC Eurasians, 700 Hindoo Chris
tians and 1851 Brahmins. while the
proportion Of Buddhist criminals Is
only one in 3,7S7.
Lewis Gorsline, Of Ithaca, can Justly
wear the belt as the champion sparrow
hunter Of Michigan. Since June last
he has shot $4,000 of the little pests.
Gorsline has lost his right arm. but
that makes no difference.
Search is being made in the subter-
hanean rooms Of the great Kremlin of
Moscow for the famous library of
Ivan w., surnamed 1.-The Terrible" +"
Eight hundred famous, but lost, manu-
scripts are supposed to be hidden there.
In the Office Of a New York wholesale
dealer In horns and tips there Is pair
Of South American cattle horns that
measure. following the horns. nine feet
from tip to tip. 1t is believed to be the
biggest pair of horns in the country.
Providence, r. l., holds the man who
says that the propulsion Of vessels
over the ocean will be revOlutiOnized
when he gets his pneumatic propulsion
machine to working. A part of the
vessels cargo is to be used as a pendu-
lum to pump air when the vessel pitch
IS.
A society of men of art is being form
ed In Paris, after the model Of the So
ciete de Gems de Lettres, to watch over
the interests Of artists. At the head
of the movement are Tony Robert Fleu-
~. Dubufe. Puvis de Chavannes, Bou-
guereau, Detaille, and Roll. Foreign.
RS will be admitted.
Some years ago the Austrian govern
ment issued a decree by which every
engineer who has driven his engine for
m entire year without accident shall
receive a reward Of 100 forms $50,
and that those who have done SO for
ten consecutive years shall receive 900
forins $500 and a gold medal.
In New York Yvette Guilbert. the
French chanteuse eccentrique, was
permitted to sing her questionable
songs at the Metropolitan opera-house,
but the police raided a Chinese theater,
where performance of q Chinese trag-
edy was in progress, because the play
was mot Of a religious nature"
The British lords OF the admiralty
have decided to proceed with the wOrl;
of building new naval barracks at
Chatham, England. without further de-
lay. The scheme provides not only
for utilizing the old convict prison
building as far as possible, but also
for erecting additional barracks on an
extensive scale.
A bridegroom of 80 was married TO
A bride Of 6S in Meriden. Conn. Each
had been married twice before. A good
deal Of interest was evinced In the
match, and the contracting parties
made public announcement Of a time
a few hours earlier, and got safely and
quietly away.
Evaporated potatoes, prepared in the
same manner as evaporated apples,
are to be put on the market from Min
aesota next fall. Last seasons pota-
20 crop was SO large that many mil
ions of bushels were wasted. and ex-
periments We're made in evaporating
potatoes. The experiments were sue
cessful, and two big factories for pre-
;aring potatoes in this manner are
building.
Hungary will have q millennium eX.
position in 1896. and already some great
schemes are ventilated for that occa-
sion. Albert Huss, an engineer at Buda
resth, has started a company which
will build an immense tower ], ,625 feet
high, which will consist of FIVE sections,
each section being a steel tube 325 feet
'ong
In Vienna, Austria, all bicycle riders
,efore obtaining permission to ride on
The public streets are required to pass
an examination. They are required to
ride between boards laid on the door
without touching the sides or edges
,f them. At the word of command they
must be able to dismount either right,
eft, or backward; until the rider passes
this examination satisfactorily a H.
eense to ride on the public highway ID
refused him.
Something seemingly new in politics
has developed at Elizabethtown, KY.
The Mayor announced on assuming Of.
Gee this year that he would give bis
salary to the city. The city council.
men determined not to be outdons in
patriotism, and voted to allow the
tity to draw their pay, too. While
doubtless pure, their patriotism 10 not
particularly costly. The mayors sal
Try Is s75 a year, and the councilmrn
ire paid at the rate Of 81 apiece for each
meeting.
A nest Of mixed metaphors has been
discovered by the London Chronicle
In the columns Of an Influential con
temporary: France might have bee
I'm the throes Of another presidentia