The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-01-01
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About 800. 600 telephones are in use
in the United States.
A calf without tail has been born
near Knottsville, Taylor county, W.
Va.
During the last eighteen months the
Russian government has expelled 3d.
600 Jews from the empire.
The fastest recorded time made by
an electric railway is about twenty
miles an hour on street car system.
Four telegraphic messages can now
be transmitted over one wire at one
time by using the quadruplex system.
1t is estimated that 250, 900 persons
in the United States are engaged in
business depending solely on electrici-
ty.
About 400 miles of electric railway
are already in operation in the United
States, and many more under construc-
ton.
Over 1,000,OO0 miles of telegraph
wire are in operation in the United
States-enough to encircle the globe
forty times.
More than 40, 600 miles of telephone
wire are in operation in the United
States; over these 1925, 900 messages
are sent daily.
A curly walnut log was sold by a
5000, d. Williamson, of Indianapolis,
being the purchaser.
Telegraphing from moving train is
accomplished through a circuit from
the car roof, inducing current in the
wire or poles along the track.
Five hundred volts of an electrical
current is considered dangerous to hui
man life, but death depends largely
upon physical conditions.
An Ohio youth, who is said to be a
college graduate, wrote short busi-
ness letter the other day in which sew
enteen words were misspelled.
The most widely separated points be-
tween which it is possible to send a
telegram are British Columbia and
New Zealand, via America and Europe.
Judge Simrall, of Louisville, says that
the lawyer who cannot argue an ordin-
ary case in thirty minutes either has
very little in his case or he does not
understand it.
A Tilted Mexican damsel is said to
have gathered her false lovers letters
in a heap, sat upon them and fired
them, and stoically burned to death
upon the unique funeral pyre-
1t is said that the late Mr.. Phinizy, of
Athens, Ca, left in his will clause
that gave 800 to every Methodist min
lister who officiated in his funeral SER
vice. There were thirteen present.
There are four brothers in Crawford
county, Pa, all of whom are stalwart
men and married, and not of whom is
on speaking terms with any of the
others. Property litigation is the
cause.
A Salem county, N. D., farmer, John
Robson, caught strange bird recent
ly. 1t is said to have d face like a
monkey, it is about the size of a grown
fowl and has plumage of wondrously
varied hue.
A physician of Salem, N. j., has a
morning glory growing in his yard that
is quite phenomenon, seed in one
of the blooms having sprouted and
grown vine of considerable length,
on the end of which is another bloom.
The new phosphate company recent
" organized in Florida proposes to de-
velop no less than thirteen thousand
acres of phosphate lands. This is an
industry which has been productive of
very large revenue in South Carolina
for long term of years.
Kansas claims to have the finest col
lection of North American birds on ex-
hibition in this country. In room at
the state capitol building are 1,523
birds handsomely mounted and placed
in glass show cases. The collection is
due to the labors of Colonel N. S. Goss.
In the race with automatic machines
Paris has put herself in the lead with a