Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-04-13
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Every ton Of Atlantic water, when
eyaporated, yields eighty-one pounds
of salt; a ton Of Pacific water seventy
nine pounds; Arctic and Antarctic
waters yield elghty-five pounds to the
ton, and Dead Sea water 1877 pounds.
An electric company proposes to run
trolley cable along the Champlain
Canal. between West Troy and White
hall. for the purpose Of driving canal.
boats. The power Is to be supplied to
motors. which Will take the place OF
mules or horses In hauling the boats.
Photographs have recently been sue
cessfully taken under water at q dis
was carried by diver. the light was
supplied by an electric lamp carried In
the divers headpiece. The experiments
were carried out in the bay of Rio d.
Janeiro, Brazil.
A German firm, It II reported, haa
placed upon the market samples Of
pure ingotin, derived from coal tar.
which promises to supplant the yege-
table indigo. as other dyes have been
supplanted by the same source. Vege-
fable indigo Is consumed to the extent
Of $15.OOO,OOO. chiefly derived from
India.
The number Of asteroids discovered
up to the present date is 423. A num-
per of these small planets have not
been observed since their discovery and
pre- practically lost. Consequently 1t 10
bow a matter Of doubt. until the ele-
inents have been computed, whether
he supposed new planet Is really new
Or only an old one rediscOvered.
What Is believed to have been the
largest snake ever contained In the rep
tile house of the London Geological
Garden died there last November, after
having lived more than twelve years In
captivity. 1t was python from Ma
lacca, and measured a trifle more tina n
twenty feet in length. Its principal
food was ducks. and It was fed, usually.
once a week, although sometimes 1t re
fused food for a month.
AS a rule the scent of flowers does not
exist In them as in a store, or gland,
but rather as breath. an exhalatio
While the flower lives II breathes out
It's sweetness. but when 1t dies the fra
GRANGE usually ceases TO exist. The
method of stealing from the flower its
fragrance while 1t is still living is no
new thing, and it is not known when 1t
was discovered that butter, animal fat
or oil would absorb the odOr given OF
by living flowers plac near them, and
would themselves become fragrant.
Vice President Schoonmaker. of tbA
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad, has
a private car which Is fitted UP in a nov.
el manner. ALI It's chair cushions and
bed mattresses are constructed on the
pneumatic principle. At night the seat
cushions are emptied Of air. folded and
packed snugly away, and the larger
cushions for the beds are brought out
of their place of conceaiment in the
sides Of the car, and pumped full. 1t Is
said that these pneumatic cushions
greatly reduce the jar Of q railway
Journey, and that in time they may
cause a revolution In the building Of
,alace and sleeping cars.
Most of us no doubt have experienced
the discomforts Of being seized with a
it of coughing or sneezing at the most
inconvenient times and places, and II
Is not usually supposed that any exer-
else Of the will power can be made ef-
ficient in checking either a cough or q
sneeze. DIR. Brown-Sequard, however.
In one of his lectures. said that cough.
Ing can be stopped by pressing on the
nerves of the lips in the neighborhood
Of the nose. Sneezing may be stopped
by the same means. Pressing In the
neighborhood of the ear may stop
coughing. Pressing very hard on the
top Of the mouth is also a means OF
topping coughing.