Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-08-31

Fish, rs a rule, increase in weight
and length every year UP to their death.
From the cochiueal insects are obtain
ed the gorgeous carinines. the crimson.
scarlet and purple lakes.
Matter weighing one pound on the
moons surface IL transferred to the
earth would weigh six pounds.
According to the computations OF
Prof. Hams the black race embraces
about one-tenth Of the living members
of the human species. or one hundred
and fifty million individuals.
In the great volcanic district Of Ice
lnnd there is a whole mountain com
posed Of eruptive ciays aud pure white
sulphur. A beautiful grotto penetrates
Polar bears have beep known to live
In captivity for 4 great number of
years. Two are said to have been In the
Biological Gardens for twenty-thrce
Years and thirty-fou years. respec-
lively,
The normal pumping capacity Of the
heart is seventy strokes a minute, that
Is, 100. 500 strokes in twenty four hours.
by which 1t sends about forty thousand
pounds of blood through the lungs and
body.
Sir Benjamin W. Richardson consid
cred good slcepers as the best possible
patients, certainly the most durable. He
says: Il would always rather hear that
sick person had slept than that he
had taken regularly the prescribed
medicine during sleeping hours"
The hierogiyphic writings from
which some persons suppose an al
phabet was derived were in use at least
three thousand years B. c., but the re-
Gently discovered Inscriptions at the
city OF Nipur. In Assyria, carry back
the origin of writing to a point seven
thousand years B. G.
At the Geological society's meeting in
London last April Prof. II. 9. Seeley ex-
hibited the upper bone Of the leg, or
paddle, Of a plesiosaurus which had
been almost completely turned into
opal. the mineral having replaced the
substance Of the bone. The fossil was
found in an opal mine in New South
Wales. The plcsiosaurus was long
nccked inhabitant Of the sea In the
age Of the Great Reptiles, or Jurassic
Of thirty feet.
1t is said that lightning may be recog-
nized at n distance of two hundred
miles when the clouds among which 1t
plays are at a high altitude. but that
thunder can seldom be heard at great
er distance than ten miles. The sound
| If thunder is also subject to refraction
by layers of different density In the at
mcsphere. as well as to the effects Of
sound shadows" produced by hills
and other interposed objects. These are
among the reasons for the existence Of
the so-called "sheet," or SUMMER"
lightning, which seems to be unattend.
cd by thunder.
Dr. ]. II. Gladstone. discussing at the
Royal Institution the question Of the
metals used by the great nations of an
tiquity, said recently that gold was
probably the first metal known to man.
because II is generally found native.
The oldest metallic objects to which
| we can assign a probable date were
| found IN royal tomb at Nagada in
Egypt. supposed to have been that Of
King Menes. In one Of the chambers
were some bits Of gold and a bead. a
button and a fine wire Of nearly pure
copper. II the tomb has been properly
| Identified, these objects are at least
$500 years old. Nearly all the ancient
gold that has been examined contains
enough silver to give it a light color. 1t
was gathered by the ancients in the bed
| of the Pactolus and other streams of
Asia Minor.