Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-06-22
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NO parental care ever IallS TO the lot
Of a single member Of the insect tribe
In general, the eggs Of an insect are
destined to be Matched long after the
parents are dead, SO that most insects
are born orphans.
A magnetic survey Is to be made OF
Prussia, on whose coast regions mag
netic measurements have been carried
out by the imperial naval authorities,
The stations will be twenty-four miles
apart and the cost $12,5OO.
In some Of the latest fiat or apart
ment houses the occupants are spared
the trouble of handling or looking after
Ice. A refrigreating plant Is provided
for the entire building and run by the
engineer. and pipes are then laid to
each refrigerator.
Electric-light baths are becoming SO
popular at Vienna institute that hun
dreds of patients have to be declined
for lack Of accommodations. They are
said to be good for the cure Of rheuma-
tism, asthma, anaemia, nervousness
corpulence and gout.
A Boston man, who refuses to accept
the modern process Of photography rs
an improvement, Is still taking daguer-
reotypes, as he has been doing for fifty
years, saying that they remain the
most correct likenesses yet produced.
and that he does business of sufficient
volume to warrant his sticking to his
hobby.
The consensus Of opinion regarding
the origin of the migration Of birds Is
that 1t began during the glacial period.
The earth being then covered Mt either
end with a cap of ice, all life was con
fined to a belt In the center; but the Ice
receded little at certain seasons. leay-
ing an uninhabited space that afforded
the quiet and seclusion that all the
higher animals seek during the breed
ing period. The birds went there ac-
cordingly to rear their young. and. as
the ice receded further and further.
they migrated further and further.
The Academy of Science at Montpe-
lier, France, recently employed an In
genious device to test the alleged pow
er Of a young woman to tell the con
tents of unopened boxes. The commit
tee, appointed by the academy to make
the test. took Photographic plate. and
exposed 1t in a camera rs II for an or
binary picture. Then the plate was cut
in two, and one-half Of 1t. carefully pro
tected from the light, was enclosed
with other objects in sealed box. Al
ter the young woman had described
the contents Of the box the committee
developed the two halves Of the plate
That which was In the box was fog
ged," showing that 1t had been exposed
to light, while the other half developed
a perfectly clear picture.
There Is In the constellation of the
Great Bear a famous little star which
has been called runaway" because
Of the extraordinary speed with which
1t Is moving. But it is SO far away that
the effect Of its motion can only be
tions. Prof Simon Newcomb has
said of this star. which bears the name
1880 GrOOmbridge," that the united
attractions of the entire known uni
verse could not have set 1t going with
such velocity, and would be unable t,
arrest It. Now Professor Kapteyn an
nounces the discovery of a telescope
star In the southern hemisphere. in the
constellation PictOr, which appears tt
ME moving considerably faster yet
What It's real velocity Is, however. car
only be told when It's distance Is
known