The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-03
COLLATED FACTS.

HORSE leather is largely used in Ger
many for making boots.
The Royal Palace in Amsterdam Is
supported on 13, 695 piles.
ALGEBRA originated about the middle
of the fourth century of the Christian
era.
MAN is the only living creature that
can walk or stand erect in q perfect
manner.
ALTHOUGH the aborigines of America
had $50 languages, thread of connection
runs through them all.
LOWER CALIFORNIA, which belongs to
Mexico, is bleak and almost barren
country, but little populated.
The first dissection Of the human
body for promotion of the cause of science
took place at Alexander, Egypt, S5 B. G.
FIFTEEN thousand persons were killed
or injured by the fall of an amphitheatre
at Friden, near Rome, In the time of
Eiberius.
On Prices Hill, Dorchester, near Bos-
ton, stands house built in 1910. It is
still occupied by the descendants of the
builder.
as many as 657 rounds in two minutes.
The Martini Henry rifle has fired 25
rounds in minute.
TIE Roman Colosseum was able to
scat 1922 spectators. In its center
was an arena 281 feet by 176 Its height
was $50 feet, and it was covered with an
awning.
AMULETs of stones, metals, strips of
parchment, animal preparations and
other articles have been worn by those
who believed in their ability to charm
away sickness, withcraft and other evils.
The Anaconda of South America is
sometimes over 80 feet in length, and is
called the water serpent from frequenting
swamps and rivers. The natives kill it
for an oil which is obtained from its
carcass. r- 60. - ,- fs...
In the skeleton of an adult there are
about 200 bones, but in the child they
are more numerous, for in the process of
bones originally distinct become fused
together.
MANS spinal column is very power
full structure, being able to hold up not
only the weight of his head and body,
but of all the burden which he puts on
the shoulders or back or takes in his
hands or arms.
AMURATH w., Sultan of Turkey,
captured the city of Bagdad, in 1888,
and disgraced his victory by slaughter
ing 80, 600 Persians in cold blood. He
died at the age of 20, after a life of al
most perpetual inebriation.
RFLED guns have pretty generally
surpassed smooth-bores in the arma-
ments of all civilized nations. Elongated
projetiles, which are impeded by the
resistance of the air much less than
spherical ones, being in all cases EN-,
ployed. .-..-... -.
The awkward Mexican language when
literally translated makes some serious
showings. For instance. the Mexican
says 'I-fesh-eat'' as single word, or if
he wishes to emphasize, 'I-it-eat, the
flesh" Or, "I-it-turn-give, the bread,
my son, j" for 81 give my son the bread. 3"
AMURATH or Murad l., a Sultan of the
Turks, 1360-S9, was a great statesman
and conquerer, but was SO destitute of
literary culture that he signed his treaties
and State papers by dipping his hand in
ink, and impressing the mark of three
fingers together, with the thumb and
forth finger at a slight distance at each
side.
MACHINES in a watch factory will cut
screws with $50 threads to the inch-the
finest used in the watch has 25O These
threads are invisible to the naked eye,
and it takes Ia, 900 of the screws to
weigh pound. A pound of them is
worth six pounds of pure gold. Lay one
on a piece of white paper and it looks
like a tiny steel filing.